Damnation Alley
by:
Roger Zelazny (author)
Survival run ... across a nuclear wasteland, where rampaging winds sweep the ruins of civilization over the charred plains and shattered mountains of America. Where huge bats battle gigantic butterflies in the contaminated rubble of barren cities and where armies of madmen crucify scientists...
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Survival run
... across a nuclear wasteland, where rampaging winds sweep the ruins of civilization over the charred plains and shattered mountains of America. Where huge bats battle gigantic butterflies in the contaminated rubble of barren cities and where armies of madmen crucify scientists along the deserted highways.
Damnation Alley. Where a handful of survivors pilot their awesome, fire-breathing machine on a coast-to-coast trek through a world gone to hell.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425036419 (0425036413)
Publish date: 1977-11-15
Publisher: Berkley Medallion (NYC)
Pages no: 193
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Not to be confused with the horrifyingly bad Hollywood movie that was (barely) derived from Zelazny's novella, Damnation Alley is a wonderful, action-filled-yet-highly literate read. This post-apocalyptic thriller begins with an America physically split in two by a dead zone of uncatalogued horrors,...
Quite an important book for the influence it had on other things. The famous Judge Dredd story The Cursed Earth is a direct rip off of the book and you can clearly see the influence on the Mad Max movies.However, the book feels like a bit of a missed opportunity. The central premise is great: a jo...
This is a bit like a Seventies road movie, say "Vanishing Point", in a post apocalyptic setting, say "Mad Max". It's an entertaining enough story but it's not deep, a bit of SF candyfloss. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But not quite what I was expecting after the only other of Zelazny's...
I read this as a kid. I remember really liking it but not much else.This Is a reread. I couldn't remember details so I reread it to reaffirm my 4 star rating. The rating stands. I enjoy Post-apocalyptic stories and the different paths they can follow. This is post nuclear and leans toward some ...
Damnation Alley is about a biker named Hell Tanner who has to take some plague serum from LA to Boston, travelling a route called Damnation Alley across the nuclear wasteland that is the United States in a car that might as well be a tank. Along the way he encounters such mutants as giant Gila Mons...
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