1900 Warday and the Journey Beyond, by Whitley Strieber and James W. Kunetka (read 7 Jan 1985) My nephew said this was the best book he read in 1984, so I have now read it. It tells of events after 28 Oct 1988, when the U.S. and the USSR engage in a limited 20-minute nuclear war. Washington is destroyed, as is San Antonio and New York. It is a horrendous, extremely disquieting story--even though it is amateurish and in some ways inconsistent. New York after five years has only 7000 people and green vegetation is taking over! After reading this, I cannot be against ban-the-bomb and nuclear freeze people. I wish U.S. and Soviet leaders would read the book--though since it is all fiction they no doubt won't bother. But one can't help but think Russia isn't as bad as a devastated world. ( )

An interesting picture of post-nuclear-war America. I cannot remember much more than the basic story of two men traveling in the ruins to try to grasp the extent of the disaster.

One of my 5 post-apocalyptic classics; good stuff, and not as grim as some of that genre. ( )