Without Warning
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781405038126 (1405038128)
Publish date: November 2008
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
I enjoyed this book. Great 'what if' disaster scenario played out. Going to go get the rest of the series for my Nook at B&N.
I've pulled the plug on this one early, which is really disappointing. I have a lot of respect for John Birmingham as a writer and a person, but I'm just not enjoying this book.I've read a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction, and what interests me about that is always the human mental and emotional resp...
“Without Warning” is a dystopic vision of the first year after The Disappearance, as it’s called, but it’s interesting to see how Birmingham traces the probable course of events. And, as the present U.S. economic struggles demonstrate, Birmingham believes that the rest of the world would miss Americ...
Not your ordinary "apocalyptic" book.Most "end of the world" or "return to the dark ages" books involve some sort of disease (The Stand) or nuclear war or financial collapse. This one is unexplained (yet - there will be sequels), yet elegantly simple. The "what if" in this case is: what if (by an a...
The book is a “What if” type of book. What if something happened and modern day USA (along with chunks of Canada, Mexico, Cuba) were removed from the planet. An energy wave that wiped out humanity in that zone, but for certain areas on the mainland (like Seattle). The year is 2003, USA is set to i...