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In the Drift
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In the Drift
The meltdown at Three Mile Island created the death zone known as the Drift, where the sky burned dark blue and pink, and where boneseekers destroyed bodies within. Two-headed monsters, dog-faced boys, mutated vampires and other undesirables were thrown into the Drift. Now, they're coming out.
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(first published 1984)
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May 13, 2013
Elliott
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What began as an interesting premise was then diluted into a very dull fix-up of interrelated stories all taking place in a world where the crisis at Three Mile Island was not averted and the plant melted down taking out a good chunk of Pennsylvania with it. The uninhabitable zone is the aforementioned "Drift" of the title. Swanwick sets his story approximately 100 years from the meltdown and his cast of characters include mutants, city workers, and regular citizens dealing with a world changed...more
May 04, 2009
Psychophant
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This is Swanwick's first novel, but we can already see both his strengths and weaknesses. His strength in making unforgettable characters and settings in a few paragraphs, and his weakness in weaving the story through more than a few pages. So we get a episodic novel, more like three short stories with connecting chapters than a true novel.
Atomic catastrophes are now a past fad, but I am old enough to remember how worrying it was at the time. The story reads as a precursor to the Fallout series...more
Atomic catastrophes are now a past fad, but I am old enough to remember how worrying it was at the time. The story reads as a precursor to the Fallout series...more
Read it in 2000. Enjoyed it to some extent. For a detailed presentation, please visit my blog: http://tesatorul.blogspot.ro/2013/04/....
A gripping dark tale of life after a nuclear disaster. Harsh realities befall the characters and one characters journey takes a dark twist.
Jul 27, 2011
Justin Smith
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Enjoyable blend of alternate history and SF. Three Mile Island went into meltdown 100 years before and changed The US forever. Now nothing more than a 3rd world country, The US has been broken into separate states surrounding The Drift. A radioactive wasteland that was formerly Pennsylvania, is now a haven for mutants and outcasts.
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Mar 24, 2013
Frau_zebaoth
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Feb 11, 2013
Melbourne Bitter
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