Happy Thursday everyone! Welcome back to Books from the Backlog, the weekly linkup I'm taking part of which is hosted by Carole's Random Life in Books. This is a great way to put a spotlight on books that I've had sitting on my shelf for awhile. I don't know when I'll get to my weekly featured book, but I hope to some time hopefully soon. In honor of SciFi Month 2026, a celebration of all things sci-fi and it's hosted by Lisa @ Dear Geek Place, Imyril @ There's Always Room For One More, Annemieke @ A Dance With Books, and Mayri @ Book Forager, all of my Friday Book Snippets posts will be featuring sci-fi books that one day I hope to read
This Week's Neglected Book:
Published: 1984
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Sci-Fi
My Copy:
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 515
Where I Acquired It: A thrift store
Summary (From Goodreads):
The unthinkable happened five years ago and now two writers have set out to find what's left of America.New York, Washington D.C., San Antonio, and parts of the Central and Western states are gone, and famine, epidemics, border wars and radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between.
It was a "limited" nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers' communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization.
Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, old friends and writers, take a dangerous odyssey across the former United States, sometimes hopeful that a new, peaceful world can be built over the old, sometimes despairing over the immense losses and embittered people they meet.
In an eerie blend of fact and imagination, Strieber (author of "The Wolfen" and "The Hunger") and Kunetka (author of "City of Los Alamos and The Atomic Age", "1943-1945" and " The Years of Risk") cut through the doublespeak of military bureaucracy and the rhetoric of the 1980's peace movement to portray America after Warday.
Why Did I Add It?
I randomly spotted this at a favorite local thrift store and it really caught my eye. Plus, all books that day were on sale for only 25 cents.
Have you read this or would you read it? Would you recommend it to me? As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!
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