David Sumner has a problem: the world as he knows it is about to end. what's a brilliant young man and his equally brilliant family to do? why, bring back members of that extended family, store supplies, circle the wagons, and build a lab which will eventually help the Sumner family to repopulate th...
It's 1976 and the end of the world is just around the corner - as pollution, radiation, rioting, inflation, and strange diseases and infertility are about to grip the land... except this is 2012 and none of that happened, obviously. Kind of like watching a 70's apocalypse film -- and look! here come...
I read this when it was new, and I loved it then. I still think it's worth reading today- in fact, parts of it are chillingly accurate regarding climate and food. It suffers mostly from being so brief. There's quite a bit of room for expansion, and although I'm normally a big fan of terseness, there...