One second after, by William R. Forstchen, is a science fiction novel about the possibility of the U.S. getting hit with an emp and it is told through the perspective of a college professor that is named John masterson. For John matherson his experience of the emp hitting was taken in black mountain in North Carolina with his two daughters that he was left to take care of on his own after his wife had died. The day it started was daughter's birthday he was cooking food with his daughters and his eldest daughter's boyfriend when the power when off within his house. John assumes that it is just a normal blackout or that maybe a drunk had just ran into one of the electrically pole. When his daughter points out that there was no noise. John thinking nothing of it at first began to think about the noise that should come from the highway that wasn’t there.The Next day he went to look around the town and that is when it truly began for john. One second after is one of the two books created to talk about the possibility of an emp hitting the U.S. While the other book talks more about how the the U.S and other countries that were affected by the emp began to reassemble order and stability it is still an intriguing book.
How do I feel about the book? It is one of my favorite books as of now due to my interest in science as well the setting of a doomsday or end of an era kinda feeling. The book throws a number amount of mixed feeling throughout due to the situations that the characters are put in as well the sense that there might no longer be a moral compass. The question that I found myself asking and you may as well where is the line drawn who gets to decide the undecided, is it truly a working system that is why this book is intriguing. -Jose Sanchez
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