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Deathlands #52
Zero City
A FUTURE CONDEMNED
The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses called villes, policed by stonehearts called sec men. One of them is a warrior survivalist named Ryan Cawdor, believed to possess pre-apocalyptic knowledge that holds hope for a beleaguered future.
A PAST FORSAKEN
Hungry and exhausted, Ryan and his band emerge from a redoubt into an untouched predark city, and uncover a cache of weapons and food. Among other interlopers, the city is guarded by huge winged creatures, protecting the grisly secrets of a nearby barony. Holed up inside an old government building, where Ryan's son, Dean, lies near death, Ryan and Krysty must raid where a local baron uses human flesh as fertilizer...
In the Deathlands, evil is unstoppable.
The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses called villes, policed by stonehearts called sec men. One of them is a warrior survivalist named Ryan Cawdor, believed to possess pre-apocalyptic knowledge that holds hope for a beleaguered future.
A PAST FORSAKEN
Hungry and exhausted, Ryan and his band emerge from a redoubt into an untouched predark city, and uncover a cache of weapons and food. Among other interlopers, the city is guarded by huge winged creatures, protecting the grisly secrets of a nearby barony. Holed up inside an old government building, where Ryan's son, Dean, lies near death, Ryan and Krysty must raid where a local baron uses human flesh as fertilizer...
In the Deathlands, evil is unstoppable.
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 2000
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December 24, 2018
So...I really enjoyed this book but would definitely file it under "guilty pleasures." It was extremely violent, sexual and painfully 90s. Beefcake hero with an eyepatch and "shapely" female lead Krysty. The descriptions of the characters and the extreme sexualization of women were the cringiest parts of this book. Aside from that though, it was a blast to read. I really liked the grimdark world it was set in and how it was built up. The setting was probably the most engaging/intriguing part of the story and aspects of it were genuinely creepy. I don't read a ton of Scifi so it could be that this book is really bad but I'm immune to the cliches.
This is number 52 in a 100+ series, that's crazy! Outside of kids chapter books and comics I didn't really know that was a thing. Would I read the whole series? Probably not, but I wouldn't mind picking up a volume here or there. I'd definitely be interested in reading the first book to have more insight into how this nuclear apocalypse started. It's cool that the cast is built up of people from different eras and races. It seemed weird that one of them was magical (a "mutie") but if I had had more background coming in it probably would have made more sense. It's weird that this is all I have to compare this to but a lot of this reminded me of dark My Little Pony fanfic (lol). The machine and the tone reminded me of The Rainbow Factory.
Guilty, fun read. Thanks James Axler (or whoever ghost wrote this).
This is number 52 in a 100+ series, that's crazy! Outside of kids chapter books and comics I didn't really know that was a thing. Would I read the whole series? Probably not, but I wouldn't mind picking up a volume here or there. I'd definitely be interested in reading the first book to have more insight into how this nuclear apocalypse started. It's cool that the cast is built up of people from different eras and races. It seemed weird that one of them was magical (a "mutie") but if I had had more background coming in it probably would have made more sense. It's weird that this is all I have to compare this to but a lot of this reminded me of dark My Little Pony fanfic (lol). The machine and the tone reminded me of The Rainbow Factory.
Guilty, fun read. Thanks James Axler (or whoever ghost wrote this).
August 24, 2011
Considering I picked this up at a thrift store and hadn't read the first 51 (!) books, I wasn't too too lost. Reading the book was like watching a sci-fi show in the middle of the series. I'll keep my eye out for more from the series.
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