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Wasteworld 1 Aftermath
128 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 1983
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August 4, 2023
Wasteworld 1: Aftermath James Barton
The book starts with a sinking boat, our hero, Chance, drags himself ashore with only his combat knife and is immediately attacked by mutated moggies and former pet dogs gone mad. Welcome to Wasteworld.
The collapse of the western economy leading to Global Nuclear War has sent the world to shit. It's an old school nuclear post-apocalypse with Mutants, Warlords and skeletal remains left sitting where they died. All waved away in one phrase 'clearly wasn't conventional nuclear weapons'. Which made me laugh.
Chance is a former military badass whose only goal is to get across America and reunite with his estranged wife and kids.
In my mind he's clearly George Peppard!
The ruined world is vividly presented, almost every chapter opens with a description of how messed up the sky is, which really helps set the scene and the various environments are well described, including the bioluminescent sewer tunnels where chance meets psychic blob woman Alice. She offers to help him on his journey, if he takes out the local voodoo priest...!
Physical action is propulsive and explicit. However, no-one simply fires a gun in this book, they hold 'out the M18 armalite with the trigger held down. The thirty round magazine emptied the .233inch slugs".
I did end up googling some guns...
There is some "of it's time" racism in the descriptions of the black characters, so you have to ready for that.
Overall, I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to getting on the next one.
The book starts with a sinking boat, our hero, Chance, drags himself ashore with only his combat knife and is immediately attacked by mutated moggies and former pet dogs gone mad. Welcome to Wasteworld.
The collapse of the western economy leading to Global Nuclear War has sent the world to shit. It's an old school nuclear post-apocalypse with Mutants, Warlords and skeletal remains left sitting where they died. All waved away in one phrase 'clearly wasn't conventional nuclear weapons'. Which made me laugh.
Chance is a former military badass whose only goal is to get across America and reunite with his estranged wife and kids.
In my mind he's clearly George Peppard!
The ruined world is vividly presented, almost every chapter opens with a description of how messed up the sky is, which really helps set the scene and the various environments are well described, including the bioluminescent sewer tunnels where chance meets psychic blob woman Alice. She offers to help him on his journey, if he takes out the local voodoo priest...!
Physical action is propulsive and explicit. However, no-one simply fires a gun in this book, they hold 'out the M18 armalite with the trigger held down. The thirty round magazine emptied the .233inch slugs".
I did end up googling some guns...
There is some "of it's time" racism in the descriptions of the black characters, so you have to ready for that.
Overall, I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to getting on the next one.
February 25, 2024
"He saw breasts like avalanches of raw flesh."
A future America of napalm extinction, sunken cocaine ships, acid rainfall, rabid Rottweilers, homicidal cat gangs, chain-gangs, live burials, a black magic snake worshipping cult, an obligatory "chosen one", psychic humanoids, radiated sewers, skeleton polluted brothels, and mutant rats.
The hero, Matthew Chance is so cool that he does cool things like shaving with a combat knife, sleeping on the uppermost seat of an abandoned amusement park, and breaking a man's nose with so much pressure that it shoots bone fragments up into his brain.
The old hermit I bought the book from wanted 20 bucks for it. I haggled with his apathetic wife and she talked him down to 7.
A future America of napalm extinction, sunken cocaine ships, acid rainfall, rabid Rottweilers, homicidal cat gangs, chain-gangs, live burials, a black magic snake worshipping cult, an obligatory "chosen one", psychic humanoids, radiated sewers, skeleton polluted brothels, and mutant rats.
The hero, Matthew Chance is so cool that he does cool things like shaving with a combat knife, sleeping on the uppermost seat of an abandoned amusement park, and breaking a man's nose with so much pressure that it shoots bone fragments up into his brain.
The old hermit I bought the book from wanted 20 bucks for it. I haggled with his apathetic wife and she talked him down to 7.
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