Warday
1984 hardback edition
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| Author | Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Nuclear war, Novel |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
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Publication date
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1984 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 374 pp |
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| OCLC | 10046613 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.T6955 W3 1984 |
Warday is a novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, first published in 1984. It is a fictional account of the authors travelling across America five years after a limited nuclear attack in order to assess how the nation has changed after the war. The novel takes the form of a first-person narrative research article and includes government documents, interviews with survivors and aid workers, and present-tense narration.
The novel opens with Strieber's account of a nuclear attack on New York City in October 1988. He experiences the initial blast while riding a bus, and witnesses the flooding of the subway system by a tsunami in the wake of a nuclear detonation at sea. Strieber is reunited with his family at his son's school and shelters there, but experiences radiation sickness. Upon his recovery, he and his family leave New York for San Antonio which they soon discover was destroyed as well. They eventually settle in Dallas, where he becomes a news reporter for the Dallas Times Herald.
Five years later, Strieber and Kunetka decide to document the effects of Warday on the United States; they travel first through devastated southeast and southwest Texas. They then visit the new nation-state of Aztlan in the former American Southwest, and conduct interviews with its foreign minister and citizens. They then conduct interviews while trying to evade the omnipresent police in Los Angeles, California. California, physically not touched by the attack, has become a self-governing, authoritarian, police state which treats outsiders as "illegal immigrants." In San Francisco they reunite with an old friend of Strieber's, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, but then are captured, arrested, and sentenced to years of hard labor in prison.
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