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| Title | : | Down to a Sunless Sea |
| Author | : | David Graham |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | June 22nd 2007 by Simon Schuster (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Fiction. Dystopia |
David Graham
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.91 | 774 Users | 87 Reviews
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I read this book when the Cold War was reaching its icy zenith, amidst new headlines about the Polish unrest of the eighties.Leonid Brezhnev’s steely glare was not to be dulled by Ronald Reagan’s unremitting resolve, while a Polish Pontiff attempted to mitigate the mess, and Lech Walensa refused to budge.
It had all started for me MUCH earlier...
Back around 1961, you see, Ed Sullivan had internationally aired graphic line-drawn images of Japanese civilians at ground zero of Hiroshima in 1945, on his wildly popular variety show.
To this day I don’t know how he could have been so irresponsible.
Kids my age all over the world watched the horrific pictures fill the TV screen.
Nightmares? You betcha! 9 to 12 year old kids everywhere had ‘em.
And all that summer, whenever a Canadian Argus military transport lumbered slowly across the sky, I watched warily to see if it was gonna unload the Big One on us...
Sure I was dumb. Aren’t most kids that age?
But somehow I know that social planners followed Freud’s lead in recognizing the value of fear in societal conditioning.
One recent domino event in the present can backtrack smack dab into larger, earlier dominoes from the past (traumatic events in our minds) quite easily...
Well, THAT’s my own Big Bang theory, anyway.
But by the mid-eighties, as the contemporaneous flick LA Cop had it, the heat was on.
So when I hoped against hope by reading this vapid thriller, it’s for sure that like Dr. Strangelove, I was trying to stop worrying and LOVE the bomb.
Except it didn’t work. And couldn’t.
You can’t love something which scares you to death.
And when I got to the inexorable end, I was a bit disgusted with myself for even starting it.
Cause - quite simply - there‘s Nothing good that can come from a story (or a weapon) that ends by killing off everyone and everything you have ever LOVED.
And Nothing whatever that’s innately, humanly valid in that foul widespread depredation through stark, unnerving Fear of that most basic, cherished human quality of Love that took place in the Cold War.
And that blatant depredation continues, unchecked, Today.
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| Original Title: | Down to a Sunless Sea |
| ISBN: | 1416567666 (ISBN13: 9781416567660) |
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This book made me cry in two different spots. A terrific "escape the apocalypse" thrill ride. The main character was a good guy and had a tad of a naive view on women (women are sluts or wives) but I blame the author for that. There's a couple of unlikely coincidences and a happy American ending. Worth a read, especially if this is your genre.I read this many years ago, in the 80s when the threat of nuclear war was something we grew up with and was fodder for a lot in many forms of media. I remember this being a great story. I had it in my book collection for many years, not sure where it ended up, I would be curious to read it again someday.
The start of the story focuses on a world where the US is in real financial trouble due to depleted oil reserves. There is a lack of jobs, food and basic provisions and everyone is struggling to survive or leave the country. The central hero of the book is a passenger jet pilot who is in the process of transporting refugees to the UK, which is more-or-less living under normal conditions due to more careful management of their oil supplies. The first third of the book details the bad conditions
The book starts off in an alternate reality Cold War era, where the US has collapsed economically and has turned into a lawless third world country. A British pilot operates a scheduled flight from New York to London, carrying scientists, relief workers, refugees to the UK. During the flight, a nuclear war breaks out, and all continents are destroyed in a few hours in a nuclear holocaust.Unable to land at London, the plane aims for Madeira and Gibraltar, but accidents and catastrophes on the
I read this book when the Cold War was reaching its icy zenith, amidst new headlines about the Polish unrest of the eighties. Leonid Brezhnevs steely glare was not to be dulled by Ronald Reagans unremitting resolve, while a Polish Pontiff attempted to mitigate the mess, and Lech Walensa refused to budge.It had all started for me MUCH earlier...Back around 1961, you see, Ed Sullivan had internationally aired graphic line-drawn images of Japanese civilians at ground zero of Hiroshima in 1945, on
This might be the 4th time I have read this book and it is as it ever was. Truly a "cannot put down" kind of story. For fans of apocalyptic books, this is a must read.
Every time I take a long haul flight I think of this book.
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