After: First Light
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3.7 • 186 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“Always surprises and always entertains.” -Jonathan Maberry
AFTER: FIRST LIGHT
The end is just the beginning.
When NASA scientists detect intense solar activity, the warnings go unheeded. Soon communications fail, power goes out, and the world's technological infrastructure collapses.
But the solar radiation has also inflicted an unpredictable change--a disruption in the impulses of the human brain. Billions die. And they may be the lucky ones...
Prequel novella to the After post-apocalyptic series. Look for the other books in the After series, The Shock, The Echo, Milepost 291, Whiteout and Red Scare.
Scott Nicholson is the international bestselling author of more than 20 thrillers, including Stoker Award finalist The Red Church, The Harvest, and Drummer Boy.
Customer Reviews
After First Light, that’s right!
I have already read the first book in the series and thoroughly enjoyed it, but was always wondering how did they get there...what was the background? Questions answered! ENJOY!
Too short, too much crammed in.
The ideal for the book was quite good: an apocalyptic solar flare disables all electronics causing a world wide collapse of society. However, I think that 90 pages is too short, not to mention it seems the author is cramming too much into one short book at once. Add to that the overly political views. I believe that politics should be present in a book, as it adds to realism and allows the reader to relate to it; however there is way too much political views being pushed in this book.
As such, I give it one star.
Prequel
Although short, this story fills in two of the blanks in another After book. It explains the origin of the zapheads and how the electronic world died. There is a lot of discussion of various theories on what happened to the world mixed with graphic details of what zapheads do.