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77 Days In September (2011)

by Ray Gorham(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Ray Gorham

series

The Kyle Tait Series

review 1: Adding one star because the writing style here is competent and paced well enough. Lots of criticism though.As a work of fiction, 77 Days in September fails on many levels. The premise of an EMP attack crippling the United States infrastructure is fascinating because it preys on our dependency upon technology. The idea of our entire livelihood being destroyed thoroughly and instantly is a harrowing and compelling thought. It can make for good literature too, as was the case with One Second After. The biggest problem with 77 Days lies with the characters. They are entirely black and white. It was almost as if Gorham set out on a mission to prove that the protagonists were completely morally incorruptible. This makes for an extraordinarily boring plot as you can predict thin... moregs the narrative based on the characters' concrete worldviews. Good guys are good. Bad guys are bad. Another issue is that despite the apocalyptic nature of the book, Gorham avoids the apocalypse. Yeah, there's some passing descriptions of murder and looting, but it all feels very abstract. The book has a politically conservative skew, which is certainly forgivable given the inherent distrust of the government in this type of fiction. That said, the overall narrative simply isn't very good. Very little tension. It's a morality tale that other authors have done better.
review 2: This was an interesting, if terrifying (because it seems that this is something that could so easily happen to us) story about a terrorist attack on the US using a nuclear bomb to send an EMP that destroys almost all technology on North America. The main character is from a small town in Montana but has the horrible fortune to be in Houston at the time of the attack. The story follows him as he tries to make his way, on foot, back home to his family. The horrible lawlessness that he encounters is offset by occasional goodness at least. I'd definitely be interested in reading more by this author. less

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