“The lavender light of evening spread across a landscape that grew more barren, more devastated, with every bend in the road. Poisoned predark villes and ruined townlets lined this section of the interstate highway, a gridwork of lengthening shadows, the concrete-lined pits and slabs that had once supported sprawling suburbs. Backdropped by low brown hills, smothered in drifts of windblown sand and soil, the dismal flatland was broken only by the occasional, half-standing brick chimney and barel...y upright light pole. A landscape hammered into rubble. A landscape scoured clean of the trappings of life. It was impossible for Ryan to fully visualize the density and vitality of the communities lost on nukeday. In Deathlands, at least, he’d never seen that many people in one place at one time. On the fateful day more than a century ago, when the MIRV warhead had detonated over the high desert city, it had released a flash of light brighter than a thousand suns and a mile-high blast wave of incendiary heat and incandescent dust.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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