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Deathlands #43
Dark Emblem
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Transformed by the nuclear conflict of 2001, the earth had turned into a wasteland ruled by anarchy and barbarism. Heirs to this blighted world, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior wayfarers fight for survival... and a way to restore humanity's lost promise.
REMAINS
The preholocaust redoubts housing the dangerous and unpredictable mat-trans units are the legacy of the whitecoat scientists and their precocious knowledge. For the very few in the know, the network of redoubts serves as an escape route and transport through the bleak landscape.
Emerging remarkably unscathed after a mat-trans jump, Ryan and his wayfarers are welcomed by Dr. Silas Jamaisvous in his fortress among the ruins of San Juan. This man of science may hold a vital key to the future, but is he an icon of hope or a dark emblem of the past?
In the Deathlands, time can kill or save...
Transformed by the nuclear conflict of 2001, the earth had turned into a wasteland ruled by anarchy and barbarism. Heirs to this blighted world, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior wayfarers fight for survival... and a way to restore humanity's lost promise.
REMAINS
The preholocaust redoubts housing the dangerous and unpredictable mat-trans units are the legacy of the whitecoat scientists and their precocious knowledge. For the very few in the know, the network of redoubts serves as an escape route and transport through the bleak landscape.
Emerging remarkably unscathed after a mat-trans jump, Ryan and his wayfarers are welcomed by Dr. Silas Jamaisvous in his fortress among the ruins of San Juan. This man of science may hold a vital key to the future, but is he an icon of hope or a dark emblem of the past?
In the Deathlands, time can kill or save...
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1998
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November 17, 2022
Violent, future time’-travel Novel. part of 100 plus book series.
The original guilty pleasure SF series is raw, violent, bloodthirsty and kind of compulsively readable. 100 years after a nuclerar war a band of surviors roam the Deathlands, a nightmare version of what’s left of America. Murder, torture, rapinee and robbery are an everyday event among the isolated towns still existing, with governance provided and precarious safety offered by local warlords, yeah, it’t the old west with future accoutrements. The first 35 to 40 of the series are written by one guy using the house pen name of James Axler and he is actually a decent writer within the confines of the genre. After that it’s hit and miss as various authors ta a crack at things. Purely considered by itself this rather slow moving and turgid for the series. I think these are considered “men’s books” like romances are for women. The whole concept of gender based novels is due for a study on its own.
The original guilty pleasure SF series is raw, violent, bloodthirsty and kind of compulsively readable. 100 years after a nuclerar war a band of surviors roam the Deathlands, a nightmare version of what’s left of America. Murder, torture, rapinee and robbery are an everyday event among the isolated towns still existing, with governance provided and precarious safety offered by local warlords, yeah, it’t the old west with future accoutrements. The first 35 to 40 of the series are written by one guy using the house pen name of James Axler and he is actually a decent writer within the confines of the genre. After that it’s hit and miss as various authors ta a crack at things. Purely considered by itself this rather slow moving and turgid for the series. I think these are considered “men’s books” like romances are for women. The whole concept of gender based novels is due for a study on its own.
June 15, 2012
Good story, plenty of action, the story doesn't seem disjointed, sexual content as usual
January 26, 2016
An average apocalyptic adventure story. This one takes a century after the last war and now there are mutants running around the earth. Recommended
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