One Second After
| Title | One Second After |
| Year for Search | 2009 |
| Authors | Forstchen, William R.(b. 1950) |
| Date Published | 2009 |
| Publisher | Tor/Forge |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages. First volume of a trilogy. His One Year After. New York: Forge Books, 2015, is set in one small community as it begins to recover from the events of the earlier novel, but it has to face the forces of a supposed national government that wants to take control of their lives. In The Final Day. New York: Tor/Forge. 2016, a push by a new, authoritarian government tries to bring the group into line, but they manage to stay relatively free. The author is a professor of History at Montreat College in North Carolina. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt, Public |
| Author Note | The author (b. 1950) is a professor of History at Montreat College in North Carolina. |
| Full Text | 2009 Forstchen, William R. (b. 1950). One Second After. New York: Tor/Forge, 2009. PSt, Public Dystopia in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages. First volume of a trilogy. His One Year After. New York: Forge Books, 2015, is set in one small community as it begins to recover from the events of the earlier novel, but it has to face the forces of a supposed national government that wants to take control of their lives. In The Final Day. New York: Tor/Forge. 2016, a push by a new, authoritarian government tries to bring the group into line, but they manage to stay relatively free. The author is a professor of History at Montreat College in North Carolina. |
