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Call Back Yesterday #2
Doomsday Plus Twelve
In the year 2000, twelve years after the world nuclear holocaust known as Doomsday, a group of Oregon teenagers, accustomed to a new, simple, peaceful way of life, take matters into their own hands to combat militarists and assure the peace of the future.
230 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1984
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January 27, 2020
The book is set 12 years after a nuclear war that appears to have caused an awful lot of damage across the globe, but hasn't completely destroyed civilisation everywhere. In particular, the relatively unaffected Japan has become the world's dominant superpower.
The story begins in a small town in Oregon in the north-western USA, where some level of order has been restored and life goes on. Japanese companies have set up trading routes with the town and there are Japanese businesses located there. This peace is disturbed by the arrival of a militaristic faction based in San Diego who want to remove the Japanese influence and restore the USA to a functioning independent country. It is soon learned that that San Diego group has a working nuclear submarine and are planning to use in against Japan if necessary. In an attempt to stop this, the Oregon citizens plan a kind of protest, which takes up the bulk of the book.
This is a reasonable story and I was interested to see how things would turn out. The ending was a bit of a disappointment, but not terrible, and the writing style, characters and plot were all good. A decent, fairly realistic post-apocalyptic story without any mutants or giant insects or any of that nonsense.
The story begins in a small town in Oregon in the north-western USA, where some level of order has been restored and life goes on. Japanese companies have set up trading routes with the town and there are Japanese businesses located there. This peace is disturbed by the arrival of a militaristic faction based in San Diego who want to remove the Japanese influence and restore the USA to a functioning independent country. It is soon learned that that San Diego group has a working nuclear submarine and are planning to use in against Japan if necessary. In an attempt to stop this, the Oregon citizens plan a kind of protest, which takes up the bulk of the book.
This is a reasonable story and I was interested to see how things would turn out. The ending was a bit of a disappointment, but not terrible, and the writing style, characters and plot were all good. A decent, fairly realistic post-apocalyptic story without any mutants or giant insects or any of that nonsense.
April 9, 2009
I picked this science fiction book up because Matthew is reading it for science class. The title refers to the time in which the book is set: twelve years after a 1988 nuclear war. It's a young adult book; the protagonists are teenagers who make a pilgrimage to stop further acts of war. The plot and character development are pretty thin, but nevertheless I found myself caring about these kids and their journey. The ending was pretty anticlimactic.
August 24, 2012
Related to Call Back Yesterday, this book is not as good but is still worth a read.
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