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On a darkling plain: A novel
Book by Dodson, Daniel Boone
381 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1976
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October 12, 2011
Sometimes you have to recommend an older book that has really stuck with you. This is true for Dodson's visionary science fiction novel, published in 1976 in which a (then) freak weather pattern causes a massive temperature rise across North America blowing the power grid. In New York City, high rises are abandoned, the social order breaks down, gangs roam the streets and a man and woman struggle to survive amid growing lawlessness. I first read this some 30 years ago and the story stuck with me ... and I have been recalling it more often as our weather patterns get increasingly strange. Could it happen? More and more it seems so. Highly recommended if you can find it.
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