Reddit mentions of One Second After (A John Matherson Novel)

One Second After. Great read.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765317583

Real answer: Someone already wrote a book based on the congressional report on this specific scenario.

I don't think worrying if the data is corrupted is what should be focused on, the fact that there would not be any power to turn anything back on is the real issue. As you say, the social impact would be larger.

One Second After - William R. Forstchen Read this... and then start stocking up on weapons and supplies.

This book, while a fictionalization, is based on a highly plausible situation. It scared the living crap out of me.

Decades, if ever. We would have to rebuild the modern world from scratch. I suggest reading "One Second After" to see what an EMP could do to the USA. I'll warn you, it's not light reading. In addition to reading the main text, be sure to read the preface, and the after words. This book is well referenced. 250 million people would likely be dead within the first year of an EMP/CME event. We would be reduced to the 1850's technologically wise.

We have had a massive CME before. In 1859 to be precise. Telegraph systems across North America and Europe failed, and this is primitive electronic communications, (I can literally build a telegraph with nothing more then a battery, a long wire, a speaker hooked up to the long wire, and 2 wires to connect the battery to a switch connected to the wire). Imagine the damage that this event would place on the modern electronic world.

Solar Storm of 1859

I enjoyed One Second After.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765317583

Fiction, One Second After, plays out that scenario over North America.

I'm buying Zone One for Christmas for a friend. We both really loved WWZ. But I haven't read it and it just came out a couple months ago.

I really like post-apocalyptic books but read zombie books to get my fix. Here are some P-A things you might enjoy. However no zombies.

One Second After

Y: The Last Man

If you have the farm set up already (and the guns to back it up), you probably will do OK (and kudos to you for that!). Most people will have starved by the time the first crop comes in, even if the EMP hits at spring planting time.

Scary book on this topic: One Second After

One second after I read it recently and enjoyed it.

Read "One Second After" if you want a glimpse of the psychological effects that a breakdown of society can cause. This book made me go buy a gun just in case.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765317583

There is nothing much new here. It's a very bad road to start down since both sides can do it. It's foolish to think you are going to limit this to disabling naval vessels when it is simple enough to turn around and do it to population centers. This novel was written about the effects on society. If half of it is true it is a scary thing indeed.

Though it lacks elements of the supernatural, I'd highly recommend the novel One Second After. It's a story about how one man (maybe his family or community would be a better description of who it follows...) trying to get up and running again post-(more or less)-apocalypse. This apocalypse is sort of realistic too, which is a terrifying bonus...

One Second After

One Second After. Try /r/tipofmytongue next time.