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Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron

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"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote in
news:MPG.314a9e4f9f755d7f989fd2@news.eternal-september.org: 

> In article <nbqh4f$npb$1@dont-email.me>, lmc@winsim.com says...
>> 
>> _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark
>> Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron 
>>     http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Grid-Lights-Permanently-Series/dp
>>     /1468079158/ 
>> 
>> Book number one of a three book series.  I purchased the trade
>> paperback format in POD (print on demand).  I have ordered the
>> other two books in the trilogy.
>> 
>> What would have happened to the world if the CME (coronal mass
>> ejection) event of 2012 had not missed the planet?  This book
>> (and series) is a conjecture into the effects of that type of
>> event.  Basically, all of the entire electrical grids on the
>> planet are irretrievably destroyed due to high voltages and
>> currents.  So are cell phone grids, etc.  Computers not
>> connected to the grid or protected are not destroyed so cars
>> still work.  Please note that the book was written before the
>> 2012 CME event, it is just a conjecture.
>>     http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23
>>     jul_superstorm/ 
>> 
>> The book follows a small group of people in Tennessee as they
>> work together to survive in the new world without the rule of
>> law and minimal communications.
>> 
>> My rating:  4 out of 5 stars
>> Amazon rating:  3.5 out of 5 stars (257 reviews)
> 
> After "One Year After", my take on all EMP stories is "throw it
> at the wall on general principle".
> 
You actually had to read one to arrive at that conclusion? Or have 
you never met _anyone_ who works in the industry?

-- 
Terry Austin

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

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_Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-03-09 19:06 -0600
  Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 20:56 -0500
    Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-03-09 19:27 -0800
    Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-03-09 21:41 -0600
      Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron -dsr- <dsr-usenet@randomstring.org> - 2016-03-11 11:58 -0500
        Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-03-11 15:02 -0600
        Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-11 13:19 -0800
          Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-03-11 15:24 -0600
          Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 13:42 -0800
            Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-03-11 14:23 -0800
          Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-03-11 17:18 -0600
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        Re: _Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently._ (The Dark Grid Series) (Volume 1) by David C. Waldron Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-03-11 23:56 +0000
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