The Problem With Gas-Powered Vehicles in a Post-Apocalyptic World
These PA stories have all missed the biggest reason why that abandoned car, will NOT be drivable (without a lot of help from the writers of that story)…Hint: It's not the battery!
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Mar 13, 2021 03:19PM
Yes, I'm just listening to The Passage by Justin Cronin, I read it years ago but am enjoying it being read to me, but..they find some old vehicles and are driving them although they haven't been touched for 90 years.
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Old wrote: "Yes, I'm just listening to The Passage by Justin Cronin, I read it years ago but am enjoying it being read to me, but..they find some old vehicles and are driving them although they haven't been to..."Woody Allen's Sleeper (going back to 1973) even made a joke of this, when his character (asleep for 200 years) finds a VW bug in a cave and starts it right up. More contemporary writers didn't seem to get the message.
Although a fine read, books like The Passage prompted my distain for this form of poetic license. But that's me. As long as this type of sprint from reality doesn't drive you out of the story, stomp on the gas pedal and don't look back.
