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To those interested why exactly, please do yourself a HUGE favor and read this book. https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16 It has two more in the series. Best urban survival fiction story i have ever read. EMP's are fucking scary because the human nature is scary. I was recommended this book on this subreddit a while back and i thank you, whoever you are.
I have been on an EMP fiction kick. (Books about what happens after an EMP hits and we lose all electronics.) They are fun, and I learn things. I am learning things necessary to survive after something like this, and having fun doing it. No, they aren't true, but the writers tend to do their research.
I really enjoyed this one: One Second After by: William R. Forstchen
Not mind blowing, but a good read. ;)
To the planet itself? Not much.
To a couple billion people in rural / 3rd world conditions? Not much.
To us in first-world, moderate-to-highly-urban environments? Utter catastrophe.
This is probably the scariest book I've ever read.
I have been in nursing 30+ years, as an RN what strikes me even if the disaster is EMP or economic, the mortality rate is going to be sky high even without rioting, violence, and fights over food/resources. So many people that are around today would be dead as soon as their medications run out, insulin dependent diabetics are going to die off in a couple of weeks after the power has been off that long. Good read along these lines is One Second After I do not know the author just thought it was a great book. I work in pharmaceutical research, and have thought about the staggering number of people kept alive by medications. Not to mention the people of anti-depressants , ant-psychotics, anti-manics, anti-anxiety medications that are either going to be a danger to themselves or others once their medication supply runs out. So even if folks are on a 90 day mail order supply we have 3 months until we have another wave of death, violence.
I point the unprepared to the book "One Second After", by William Forstchen.
Massive EMP, infrastructure collapse, societal collapse. This is the book that turned my wife from tolerant of my Prepper nature into a full-on supporter and contributor to the cause.
http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen-ebook/dp/B002LATV16
Just throwing it out there, go read / listen to "One Second After", your question is the premise of the book.
One Second Later by William R. Forstchen. I have a T1 son and read it before his diagnosis. Reflecting on it post-diag makes it so much scarier. https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16
I keep getting the title wrong. It's 1 second after and here it is. Very realistic look into what we would think of as mundane things not working. https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel-ebook/dp/B002LATV16/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=One+Second+After&qid=1613963217&sr=8-1 Did you know you can look inside for free of the 1st chapter?
<em>One Second After</em> by William Forstchen is an important post-apoc work. There's a recent sequel, also, One Year After.
<em>The Remaining</em> series by DJ Molles.
Post-apocalyptic fiction is my hobby. If you're looking for good, not-so-crazy stuff without alien-space-bats mucking with the laws of physics, check out:
One Second After (Willam Forstchen, EMP causes societal breakdown and a small college town in NC must fend for itself), Deep Winter (Thomas Sherry, 3 book series about a massive earthquake in the PNW and the economic crash that follows), and Dark Grid (David C. Waldron - another 3-book series where a solar flare causes the power grid to blow out and chaos ensues)
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