Mention Books As One Second After (After #1)

Original Title: One Second After
ISBN: 0765317583 (ISBN13: 9780765317582)
Edition Language: English URL http://us.macmillan.com/onesecondafter/WilliamForstchen
Series: After #1
Setting: Black Mountain, North Carolina(United States)
Books One Second After (After #1) Download Free
One Second After (After #1) Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages
Rating: 3.93 | 47339 Users | 6333 Reviews

Ilustration In Favor Of Books One Second After (After #1)

New York Times best-selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real ... a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages ... A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe, and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future ... and our end.

Declare About Books One Second After (After #1)

Title:One Second After (After #1)
Author:William R. Forstchen
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 352 pages
Published:March 17th 2009 by Forge Books
Categories:Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Thriller. Adventure. Survival

Rating About Books One Second After (After #1)
Ratings: 3.93 From 47339 Users | 6333 Reviews

Comment On About Books One Second After (After #1)
Forstchen started with a fantastic premise, but unfortunately the book failed to live up to the idea. The author apparently did not learn the lesson of Writing 101 that you need to show, not tell. Perhaps it was the historian coming out, but Forstchen took amazing events - battles, plagues, life and death - and rather dryly recounted them. He missed out on so many opportunities to really wow the audience with action and suspense. Also, the characters were almost insufferable. The good were too

5 things I hated about "One Second After" - 1. Every important adult male character is either military or ex-military. Seriously. As a bonus, several minor characters that are merely alluded to are also ex-military. (For example, at one point we learn that a pharmacist's husband is an ex-ranger and insists that she keep a gun at the pharmacy. Good times.)2. As others have pointed out, the author doesn't know the difference between of and have.3. Much, perhaps most, of the action happens "off

I understand the well-done and well-meaning low reviews my fellow bookworms gave this novel. Many points I agree with. To be honest, I almost clicked three stars myself. However, reading "One Second After" was not about entertainment for me. I wanted to learn.Oddly, the premise of this book - an EMP (electro magnetic pulse) shutting down the world's grid - came to my reality when all the high power solar flares were coming towards earth in early March 2012. Solar flares can cause the same

Preachy and abrasive, I imagine this book would only appeal to hard core fans of the End of the World novel. If the following bit of dialogue turns you off, please don't attempt to read this book:"Charlie, Americans were so damn unprepared...we spent a helluva lot of time wringing out hands about global warming and that wasn't even true. Just last week we were worried about basketball playoffs, now men are taking arms over a slice of bread. It reminds me of the Civil War. Also that movie,

Imagine this: One day out of the blue....no forewarning....everything stops. From simple things like digital watches to the most complex such as the entire power grid....everything shuts off. Gone. No power. No cars. Airplanes drop out of the sky. No communication. No weekly grocery deliveries to stores. No refrigeration. No restocks of drugs at the pharmacy. No nothing. All gone. What would happen?A friend recommended the After series to me because it's set in Western NC where I live. It made

Interesting speculation on an instant low-tech future. Very sympathetic characters. Assumes the coalescence of rather large political groups in the immediate wake of disaster in contrast to some kind of organic growth of smaller primary loyalty groups. Assumes the continuity of nation-states... Treatment of the die-off is enlightening; it suggests we don't have a healthcare problem, just a deathcare problem: lots of nonviable people if we are plunged back into the past technology-wise.

A movie based upon the novel One Second After by William Forstchen would look a lot like Red Dawn, or Cormac McCarthys The Road or Mel Gibsons Road Warrior. An Electromagnetic Pulse is set off over the United States and all electronic chips of any and every kind are rendered inoperative. The author then demonstrates in blunt and terrible fashion what this means: within a few days people are starving, the seriously ill are dying and law and order has collapsed, and it just gets worse from there.