The Day After Doomsday

by Rena Vale

When the Yellow Alert flashed, all flights from O'Hare Jetport were postponed indefinitely. Of the thousands of people waiting there nervously, only fifteen escaped in the sudden nuclear blast that destroyed life on Earth. The fifteen lived because they had been transported 50,000 years back through time -- to just before an earlier Doomsday. Who brought them there? Why did the chosen few include a hired killer disguised as a priest, a religious fanatic, a woman who poisoned her husband's blueberry muffins, a slumlord, a lecturer, and a farm worker? And what did their kidnappers mean by telling them they were in training for THE DAY AFTER DOOMSDAY?

Genres: Science Fiction

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

Reviews

[Ben Walter · Rating 1 out of 5]

i got this from a vending machine in a bar and it is the worst piece of dog shit i have ever read. horribly convoluted while also being interminably boring. there are like 40 characters in a book that’s 150 pages long

[Shawn · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book felt very unstructured, and I found it constantly confusing.

[Eric · Rating 1 out of 5]

Promise in the concept doesn’t mean success. A convoluted confusion of characters early on pretty much doomed the story.

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

What... what actually happened in this book? I should have learned my lesson that often the teaser on the back of these classic little sci-fi novels has little to nothing to do with the main plot of the story. By 75% we had not even gotten to the purpose of the group being saved from nuclear annihilation, let alone progressed on any salient plot. I wanted to enjoy this because the writing was very good, but it simply lacked... drive?