Warday
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4.1 • 48 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Five years after a "limited" nuclear war, two survivors journey across America. They — and you — will discover what is left of our way of life: the depth of the devastation — and the hopes of a new society desperately struggling to be born.
From Edward Kennedy to Playboy magazine, readers have praised Warday as an absorbing, suspenseful novel — and an important book for every American to read.
"A first-rate novel, as real as snapshots of tomorrow. And as scary." — New York Daily News
"Haunting … horrifying … engrossing … an all too believable look at what could be the future." — United Press International
"Disturbingly plausible … its vision of postnuclear chaos exceeds 'The Day After'." — Newsweek
"Imaginative … entertaining reading." — Boston Herald
"Frightening … controversial … a futuristic thriller." — Chicago Tribune
Customer Reviews
Good read, Hasn’t Aged Well
I first read this when it was first published. The Cold War was fresh and nuclear destruction a possibility. The book was a warning of a possible future for us to avoid . Since we have long gone past the date of “Warday” in our real world , the technology referenced in people’s personal lives in the book no longer apply today . By 1988 we were using Macs in college, not Apple IIs, LISA computers from Apple were dead, the Space Shuttle Enterprise was never converted for space flight and they were all retired, Star Wars anti missile technology is developed in the book but even today in 2019 seems farfetched. That being said, due to it’s aging, the book has changed category genre to the alternative history genre such as “Man in the High Tower”, (e.g. What if the allies had lost WWII). It’s still a good read of a different sort now and captures well the mood of people of those times. This book is so ripe for an update to present times. If so, it has a big potential as a miniseries! The original book had a few maps that seem to be missing from the digital version. Not critical to the plot but good references.
A little taste of apocalypse: brilliant.
This beautifully written, exhaustively researched work is second only to "On the Beach" as a chilling preview of nuclear war. Like OTB, it emphasizes the overwhelming horror not by focusing on the hellfire -- though that is told in clinical detail, as well as sketched with deft brushstrokes, as in the endless rumbling thunder of dying cities hundreds of miles away -- but more often by examining the mundane, the billions of microscopic yet fatal cracks in the structure of a society that, while outwardly recovering, is as doomed as the ambulatory yet "triaged" victims with lethal lifetime radiation loads. By having the nuclear attack apparently so limited, this tale enormously amplifies its terrifying warning -- catastrophic as it is, this is just a tiny fraction of what such a war could be. And it adds a jarringly personal note, by placing the authors themselves, and their families, at the center of the tragedy.