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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...more
Published March 17th 2009 by Forge Books
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PixellleIn addition to Revolution, there was a very good post-apocalyptic 2006 TV series called 'Jericho.' It's about the people of a small town in Kansas, in…moreIn addition to Revolution, there was a very good post-apocalyptic 2006 TV series called 'Jericho.' It's about the people of a small town in Kansas, in the aftermath of a limited nuclear attack on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States. They are totally cut off, and struggle to produce electricity, heat, food, shelter and medical care, and to deal with refugees. I thought it was a great mix of interesting characters and ideas, very well written. I recommend it.(less)
BobbyIt was a three page short story entitled 'The Last Testament' written by Carol Amen. Great movie starring Jane Alexander!
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Feb 27, 2010Timmy rated it did not like it
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 scr...more
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 scr...more
Feb 13, 2010Melissa rated it did not like it
It's too bad this book is so poorly written, because the premise is pretty cool. The slipshod editing - you may think you're saying 'must of' because that's what it sometimes sounds like, but you're actually saying 'must've' and any editor with an actual job should know this. The ridiculous characters - most of all, John, the hero who has it all. He's a professor, a doctor, a colonel, owns one of the only running cars left in America that the mayor apologises for asking to borrow, has a little b...more
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 reacti...more
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 reacti...more
This book was possibly the worst book I have ever read and my objections go far beyond the story line. The writing style is tedious and lazy -- how many times were the character's responses to a conversation 'what?' or 'damn?' But what I find most disturbing are (1) the delusions of grandeur evident in the introduction and postscript, (2) the obvious parallels between the author's real-life ego and the book's protagonist, and (3) the complete lack of introspection the characters have about their...more
A movie based upon the novel One Second After by William Forstchen would look a lot like Red Dawn, or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road or Mel Gibson’s 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...more
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...more
Oct 13, 2016Catriona (LittleBookOwl) rated it really liked it
I really enjoyed this! The premise seems so plausible and that was what made this so scary. My poor heartstrings too, I felt so strongly for the characters!
I did feel a little disappointed when some of the action was skipped over and happened behind the scenes. Felt a little cheated a couple of times when this happened, but overall I was really captivated.
I think that with listening to the audiobook I didn't pick up on as many grammatical errors than others did when reading the physical book. Ob...more
I did feel a little disappointed when some of the action was skipped over and happened behind the scenes. Felt a little cheated a couple of times when this happened, but overall I was really captivated.
I think that with listening to the audiobook I didn't pick up on as many grammatical errors than others did when reading the physical book. Ob...more
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, Indepe...more
'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, Indepe...more
Mar 13, 2010Corinne rated it did not like it
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 g...more
Jun 02, 2011Mike rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Do you rate a book only on the quality of the writing or on how it makes you think after you finish? This gets 5+ stars for provoking serious thought while the writing itself was just okay. Short recap: one spring day, 3 nuclear weapons are exploded over the US, generating an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP), frying everything digital. One second everyone is living in the digital wonderland of today and the next they are back in The Middle Ages, although that will take some time to become clear to e...more
Nov 28, 2013David rated it really liked it · review of another editionRecommends it for: preppers, end-timers, people who have got nothing in their cupboards but a few cans of soup
Shelves: contemporary, survival, audiobook, post-apocalyptic, war, thriller, technology
As much as I like post-apocalyptic novels, zombies, aliens, and supernatural horrors are entertaining but not scary, because we know those types of end-of-the-world scenarios are not going to happen.
One Second After manages to be scary because it sounds very plausible. In fact, William Fortschen supposedly wrote this book in part to warn Americans about a threat he believes has been overlooked and ignored — hence the foreword by Newt Gingrich and the afterword by a military officer, both warning...more
One Second After manages to be scary because it sounds very plausible. In fact, William Fortschen supposedly wrote this book in part to warn Americans about a threat he believes has been overlooked and ignored — hence the foreword by Newt Gingrich and the afterword by a military officer, both warning...more
The premise of the story is that an EMP (electronmagnetic pulse) is created by the detonation of 3 nuclear bombs above the earth's atmosphere, which renders all electronic, digital, computerized elements in the infrastructure of the U.S. inoperable, which leads to a complete and total breakdown of life as we know it. OK. Now we know. Author's mission accomplished.
From a literary point of view, this scenario could have been rendered as a gripping human interest story in microcosm, but instead the...more
Apr 16, 2016From a literary point of view, this scenario could have been rendered as a gripping human interest story in microcosm, but instead the...more
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really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: 2016, library, hoopla, audio, post-apocalyptic-dystopian
This book is intense, heart-wrenching, and not for the easy-queasy!
It is basically two books:
1. An essay on everything our society would deal with in a post-apocalyptic scenario
2. How a small community in North Carolina deals with that post-apocalyptic scenario.
The detail from the 'essay' is well researched and thoroughly broken down into a plethora of possibilities. Every element is terrifying and it is amazing how we are only the loss of a few resources we count on every day before we could be...more
It is basically two books:
1. An essay on everything our society would deal with in a post-apocalyptic scenario
2. How a small community in North Carolina deals with that post-apocalyptic scenario.
The detail from the 'essay' is well researched and thoroughly broken down into a plethora of possibilities. Every element is terrifying and it is amazing how we are only the loss of a few resources we count on every day before we could be...more
May 02, 2017Tulay rated it liked it · review of another edition
Informative.
Apocalyptic thriller chaos and death. Has many good information about what to do. If this series was a movie for TV, maybe more people will watch and learn something. Newton Gingrich wrote the forward, government, especially this one won't do anything to prepare for a EMT attack.
Apocalyptic thriller chaos and death. Has many good information about what to do. If this series was a movie for TV, maybe more people will watch and learn something. Newton Gingrich wrote the forward, government, especially this one won't do anything to prepare for a EMT attack.
Feb 04, 2013Sarah rated it did not like it · review of another edition
I'll start by saying I don't think I am the target audience for this. The target audience are military, patriots, members of the gov't, and WASP males. This is a piece of propoganda aimed at lobbying people to take precautions against an EMP attack.
---spoilers below:----
This is the story of a man living in a small town in NC with his family when an electromagnetic pulse attack transforms the USA into a postapocalyptic country.
That said, here are my issues with the book:
-While there are plenty of...more
---spoilers below:----
This is the story of a man living in a small town in NC with his family when an electromagnetic pulse attack transforms the USA into a postapocalyptic country.
That said, here are my issues with the book:
-While there are plenty of...more
Apr 20, 2009Nick rated it it was amazing
Alas, Babylon has been updated for the new millennium with this novel. I strongly recommend reading this from a quite realistic 'what if' scenario. It was a 'read in one sitting' novel, well crafted technical thriller around a significantly under-rated national risk. The author clearly put a great deal of personal passion into the novel, which shows through in the writing quality and intensity of characterization.
Nov 13, 2013Emily rated it did not like it · review of another edition Shelves: unlikable-main-character, audible-sale, agenda-on-the-sleeve, southern, post-apocalypse, boys-club, dialogue-sounds-like-poop
This ain't my first time at the apocalypse rodeo. It's not even my first EMP-apocalypse book, so all of this 'OMG! No electronics!' is somewhat old hat, which means that this book has to stand on its own merits, which are negligible. The dude claims he was inspired by one of my PA favorites, Alas Babylon (please do note the diabetic daughter), but sadly One Second After has none of its charm and verve.
My very first issue, is that in a PA book, you want that moment when the crap has hit the fan,...more
My very first issue, is that in a PA book, you want that moment when the crap has hit the fan,...more
Mixed results in some ways, but overall this is an important book.
Numerous grammatical errors. I blame both author and editor a bit in this area. They are not disasters, but certainly should have been caught: 'He wished he would of...', 'the apples were growing too slow.'. These are not colloquialisms; they are errors.
Multiple typos can be found in in Kindle edition. For some reason on a few words you will find space characters inside the words, as if there had been some software-generated hyph...more
Numerous grammatical errors. I blame both author and editor a bit in this area. They are not disasters, but certainly should have been caught: 'He wished he would of...', 'the apples were growing too slow.'. These are not colloquialisms; they are errors.
Multiple typos can be found in in Kindle edition. For some reason on a few words you will find space characters inside the words, as if there had been some software-generated hyph...more
Perhaps this novel could be made into a drinking game. Whenever any character talks about “being Americans” or breaks into patriotic song, take a drink. That would make reading this book much more manageable. The main character is a pompous, self-appointed hero who cannot refrain himself from describing the tightness of various women's blouses. Sadly, this is in line with how most women are viewed in this book; there are some strong women but most are in caregiver roles while the men make the de...more
Jan 30, 2019JuliOne Second After Book Online
rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: read-audiobooks-2019, backlist-read-2019
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 t...more
What would happen?
A friend recommended the After series to me because it's set in Western NC where I live. It made t...more
May 24, 2018Elizabeth Sagan rated it it was amazing
Good, scary and heartbreaking. I really enjoyed it, it reminded me of The Stand.
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BUT WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH ALL THE SHOULD OFs AND WOULD OFs?!
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And there were just too many 'We are all Americans', 'This is still America, for God's sake'.
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Other than that, absolutely lovely.
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BUT WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH ALL THE SHOULD OFs AND WOULD OFs?!
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And there were just too many 'We are all Americans', 'This is still America, for God's sake'.
*
Other than that, absolutely lovely.
Nov 24, 2012Winston Smith rated it did not like it
I didn't enjoy this book at all. It was easy enough to read, but huge sections of the book seemed to be dedicated to the protagonist explaining things to the other, poorly defined characters. It was almost like reading a briefing note, or an informative pamphlet. It was entirely “tell” instead of “show.”
Second: the protagonist was a HUGE hypocrite. This would be fine, but at no point in the novel does he, or anyone else, ever realize that he has this character flaw. On multiple occasions through...more
Second: the protagonist was a HUGE hypocrite. This would be fine, but at no point in the novel does he, or anyone else, ever realize that he has this character flaw. On multiple occasions through...more
To show you how bad this book is, I will write my review in the style of the author.
Reading, going through pages and pages, could of been at the beach, should of saved my money, but then again, like back in 1988, when I read The Stand, I thought I might enjoy this book. Characters talking, no object, subject or verb, no action either damn it. Just prepositional phrases and run-on sentences in abundance, not an editor in the damn place, needed a cigarette to get through the pain, eleven left. So...more
Reading, going through pages and pages, could of been at the beach, should of saved my money, but then again, like back in 1988, when I read The Stand, I thought I might enjoy this book. Characters talking, no object, subject or verb, no action either damn it. Just prepositional phrases and run-on sentences in abundance, not an editor in the damn place, needed a cigarette to get through the pain, eleven left. So...more
Although fiction, this book is a very believable & terrifying account of how life continues and changes after an Electric Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon is set off over the USA. According to the forward, this weapon actually does exist and destroys all things run by electricity which makes the story all the more frightening. Think no communication/cell phones/computers, no vehicles produced after the late '70s, no refrigeration/air conditioning, no ability to produce basically everything that w...more
Jun 10, 2016Jim rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: 2fiction, 3series, 1audio, scifi, apocalyptic
There's a lot wrong with this bit of fiction. It starts out with an introduction by Newt Gingrich, is too realistic, & the dog dies while the hero lives. Please! Kill off the hero or wipe out a town, but don't kill a devoted dog. Still, with all those evils, I had to give this book 5 stars & I have to recommend it to everyone.
I read this without expecting much. No, I was prepared to disdain it completely when I saw people comparing it to On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned t...more
I read this without expecting much. No, I was prepared to disdain it completely when I saw people comparing it to On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned t...more
Feb 16, 2017Blaine DeSantis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Some books get a 5***** rating due to their shear literary greatness, others because they are genre leaders, but the book One Second After gets my 5***** rating due to the sheer realism of the book, and the extremely possible doomsday scenario it sets forth.
America, without even knowing it, was under attack when a nuclear missile explodes in the atmosphere and 'one second after' all electrical power is lost in the country. It is a doomsday scenario that is, unfortunately, all too possible and c...more
America, without even knowing it, was under attack when a nuclear missile explodes in the atmosphere and 'one second after' all electrical power is lost in the country. It is a doomsday scenario that is, unfortunately, all too possible and c...more
Feb 04, 2015Johnny rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Eye roll after eye roll. Read this because of its interesting premise and its location in Western NC. Mistake. Only the author's military characters are portrayed positively, women and 'hippies' are described as basically worthless human beings, the main character is a hypocrite of the highest order, almost the entire book plays out in conversations between military characters (classic 'telling, not showing' writing mistake), and there's no attempt at character development whatsoever in an end o...more
Feb 13, 2011Robin Cicchetti rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction, post-apocalyptic, death, family
This book pressed all my crazy buttons. As a liberal Democrat I am seriously ready to buy a gun, start stock piling food, medication, and have actually been searching survivalist web sites. I am terrified.
Set in a bucolic little mountain town in North Carolina, this is the story of the United States that starts the second after an EMP attack. This is a real scenario, based on real science. Small nuclear bombs launched just above the atmosphere send an electromagnetic pulse that utterly and irrev...more
Set in a bucolic little mountain town in North Carolina, this is the story of the United States that starts the second after an EMP attack. This is a real scenario, based on real science. Small nuclear bombs launched just above the atmosphere send an electromagnetic pulse that utterly and irrev...more
Feb 14, 2019Jill Hutchinson rated it it was ok
Somebody find me an editor and grammarian!!!! This book is so full of errors that I was put off immediately. Sometimes a couple of editorial mistakes can be forgiven but not at this level and surely the author knew better......didn't he?
The EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) is unleashed by China(?), N. Korea(?), the Middle East(?) on parts of the United States and everything immediately comes to a standstill. The story takes place in a small town in the mountains close to Asheville, North Carolina, w...more
The EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) is unleashed by China(?), N. Korea(?), the Middle East(?) on parts of the United States and everything immediately comes to a standstill. The story takes place in a small town in the mountains close to Asheville, North Carolina, w...more
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.
May 29, 2009Sandi rated it One Second After Free Pdf
it was ok Shelves: lemmed, library-books-returned-unread, post-apocalyptic-dystopian, sci-fi
I decided that I'm going to send One Second After back to the library after having read only about 1/3 of it. It's not a supremely awful book, it just feels like I've read it before. It doesn't seem to have any new ideas in it and it definitely doesn't present the post-nuclear attack scenario in any way that it hasn't been done before. In the case of this book, the nuclear attack is one that is focused high enough to do no damage to people or land. There won't be any nuclear fallout. The attack...more
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William R. Forstchen (born 1950) is an American author who began publishing in 1983 with the novel Ice Prophet. He is a Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina. He received his doctorate from Purdue University with specializations in Military History, the American Civil War and the History of Technology.
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- Burroughs, William S. - Breakthrough in Grey Room (Spotify)
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- Harding, Samuel - The Story of the Middle Ages (iTunes)
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- Jobs, Steve - Stanford Graduations Speech, 2005 (YouTube)
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- Kaufmann, Walter - Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)
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- Also see version read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)
- Macauley, Thomas – History of England (Librivox)
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