· The Old Man and the Wasteland by Nick Cole – This short post-apocalyptic novel takes place some forty-years after the nuclear destruction of the cities in the US. People survive by salvaging through the wasteland. One old man begins a salvaging hike in the baron Arizona wasteland to prove he can still contribute to his small band of survivors/5. · The Old Man and the Wasteland is a well-written homage to Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and in some ways surpasses the classic by getting us deeply embedded in the minds of the characters. Nick Cole's descriptions of the charbroiled desert landscape conjure up clear mind pictures of desolation, hardship and extreme madness/5(K). The Old Man and the Wasteland. Amazon Bestseller and Number One Pick in Science Fiction. Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Forty years after the destruction of civilization, human beings are reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world.
The Wasteland Saga - Three Novels: Old Man and the Wasteland, The Savage Boy, The Road is a River Nick Cole sends us on a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of post-apocalyptic America in this three-part adventure Forty years after a devastating thermonuclear Armageddon, mankind has been reduced to sal-vaging the ruins of a broken world. - Nick Cole, author of The Old Man and the Wasteland (Amazon #1 in SciFi) and Soda Pop Soldier (Publisher's Weekly Starred Review) "M.A. Rothman has combined the high-frontier space realism of Kim Stanley Robinson, with the big ideas and cosmic scope of Larry Niven, and paced it all like a Michael Crichton adventure. VICTORY is at hand. With the galaxy in tatters, Chhun and Wraith lead Kill Team Victory and the remnants of the Legion in a clandestine final effort to bring about Article Nineteen. It's needed now more than ever as the Republic's new emperor, Goth Sullus, grows increasingly enigmatic and tyrannical.
The Wasteland Saga is a compilation of three interconected stories by Nick Cole which include The Old Man and the Wasteland, The Savage Boy and The Road is a River. The Wasteland Saga follows the journey of "The Old Man" and the "Boy" in a post apocalyptic world some 40 years after a nuclear war. Author:Nick Cole [Cole, Nick] Language: eng. Format: epub, mobi. Publisher: Nick Cole. Published: T+ Eighteen. ‘MAN IS INCAPABLE OF PEACE’. Carved into the concrete wall of the old sewer, each blackened letter rose three feet high. Someone had used a blowtorch to etch the message against the wall of the tunnel that led away from the big room. Man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man’s most prized possession is Hemingway’s Classic ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’ With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a survivor of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse.
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