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DescriptionUnder a Tell-Tale Sky: Disruption - Book 1: Volume 1 by R E McDermott English | EPUB | 350 Pages | ISBN-10: 098374176X | ISBN-13: 978-0983741763  28 October 2015 | Science Fiction & Fantasy, post-apocalyptic CONTENTS Under a Tell-Tale Sky Dedication Acknowledgments Author's Notes Thanks and an Invitation More Books by R.E. McDermott Excerpt: 1 April 2020 The world ended on a Wednesday. Not physically, of course, but the world as most knew it. The Big Blue Marble continued to spin on its axis and orbit the sun, and neither the indigenous people of the Amazon River Basin nor the Papuan tribes of New Guinea noted anything amiss. But the ‘civilized’ world, the modern world of cheap abundant electrical power and all the wonders it provided, regressed a century and a half in the blink of an eye. It was fitting Wednesday was also April Fool’s Day. As if on cue, world governments responded foolishly, dithering over the wording of last minute press releases on the eve of the Apocalypse, sending mixed signals to an oblivious public. Don’t panic. Everything is under control. Business as usual. Communications went down before most advisories were transmitted. A few warnings did get through, but the unfortunate timing and muted official response led many to conclude it WAS an elaborate April Fool’s Day prank. Witty anchor people cocked eyebrows and shared the joke, accompanied by a clip dug from the archives, featuring a rustic gentleman with a single tooth and a tin-foil hat, discussing The End of The World as We Know It (to say nothing of his recent colonoscopy at the hands of extraterrestrials). But events would prove the gentleman with dental hygiene issues and aluminum head wear to be right after all. The world would never be the same again. But what would it become and who would rule it? An open question, it seemed, but if bureaucrats the world over had been shortsighted in regard to disaster preparation, guns and ammunition were available in abundance. They might not understand preparedness, but they certainly understood power and control. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and extraordinary circumstances produce heroes and villains in equal measure. Sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference. Sharing Widget |