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Название книги: Pilgrimage to Hell
Автор(ы): James Axler
Жанр: Боевая фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Pilgrimage-to-Hell-228221.html
Prologue
The world blew out in 2001.To be precise, at noon on January 20, 2001.There was an irony that only a very few people fully appreciated. That is, about 0.0001 percent of those who survived.Back about thirty years or so a science fiction writer called Arthur C. Clarke had gotten together with a movie director called Stanley Kubrick and made a film called 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film, the beginning of a series of such films, had a message. For many who had seen it and read the story in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the year 2001 had become a symbol of optimism and hope for the future of mankind. Calmer times were only just around the corner. Peace and prosperity were assured.The world blew out in 2001.So much for fantasy.* * *The full dreadful reality began at noon on that crisp and clear January day with a one-megaton blast in Washington, D.C., power base of the United States of America and political center of the Western world.The bomb was not triggered above the city, nor
Название книги: Pilgrimage to Hell
Автор(ы): James Axler
Жанр: Боевая фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Pilgrimage-to-Hell-228221.html
Prologue
The world blew out in 2001.To be precise, at noon on January 20, 2001.There was an irony that only a very few people fully appreciated. That is, about 0.0001 percent of those who survived.Back about thirty years or so a science fiction writer called Arthur C. Clarke had gotten together with a movie director called Stanley Kubrick and made a film called 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film, the beginning of a series of such films, had a message. For many who had seen it and read the story in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the year 2001 had become a symbol of optimism and hope for the future of mankind. Calmer times were only just around the corner. Peace and prosperity were assured.The world blew out in 2001.So much for fantasy.* * *The full dreadful reality began at noon on that crisp and clear January day with a one-megaton blast in Washington, D.C., power base of the United States of America and political center of the Western world.The bomb was not triggered above the city, nor
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