Damnation Alley
by:
Roger Zelazny (author)
The world has been devastated by atomic war and only small pockets of civilization still exist in an inferno of deadly storms, tortured volcanic landscapes and monstrously mutated animals. In North America the major surviving centres are California and Boston. And Boston is ravaged by a terrible...
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The world has been devastated by atomic war and only small pockets of civilization still exist in an inferno of deadly storms, tortured volcanic landscapes and monstrously mutated animals. In North America the major surviving centres are California and Boston. And Boston is ravaged by a terrible plague with the only serum in California, three thousand miles of radioactive wasteland away...Hell Tanner is one of the last of the biker Angels, a survivor of the Big Raid that destroyed America, and the only man with even the ghost of a chance of making the nightmare journey through Damnation Alley.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780575073463 (0575073462)
Publish date: October 16th 2003
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 157
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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