![]() ![]() It’s the farmers and the young college students (presumably biology majors or similar) who can identify natural food items in nature. Who are the people that become useful when everyone is turning on one another to covet the food, water, and shelter needed to survive? It’s the militias who become the ones to protect the community. ![]() Yet there is also a theme of community, Art pointed out, and how a community comes together in a time of tragedy. There is cannibalism and savagery as food becomes scarce. ![]() ![]() There is a descent into chaos as people are forced to go without the technology upon which we have become so reliant. Much of what happens is perhaps predictable. It is a story, he writes, “I hope never comes true.” citizens might respond when an EMP knocks out all electronics. This is a fictional story of what happens after the United States “loses a war that sends our nation back to the Dark Ages… because of an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP).” The story is fictional, but the weapon – the EMP – is real. This is interesting because Adrian described One Second After as basically a story along the lines of The World Without Us but we are still here. Eight of us turned out to discuss William Forstchen’s One Second After! There is only one other time we reached that level of attendance, and it was in October 2010 when eight of us discussed Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us. ![]()
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