Forstchen, The Final Day A Dependence Worth Pondering OverĪs you might already know if you’ve read the other books in the series, the running theme here is our critical dependence on technology and how much we take for granted things our ancestors had to toil day and night for, things like food, light, heat, shelter, safety and running water. Even though some communities are prepared to roll over and accept whatever changes may come, John and his gang aren’t too keen on letting the whole country be ripped apart at its darkest hour.Īmazing- the years of political correctness pumped out of our colleges became an education of national guilt. However, a new autocratic government has very different plans: to cede huge parts of the country to China and Mexico. Against all odds they are very slowly but surely succeeding in bringing the good life back to this wasteland. In the third book, The Final Day, we get to see the kind of progress John Matherson has made with his community from the very start, trying to restore the country to its former glory days piece by piece. Famine, civil war, disease, starvation, distrust, and violence have taken over the American people, with rebellions popping up left and right as well as people splitting into smaller communities.
In the previous two books we’ve come to familiarize ourselves with the author’s vision of a future America that got hit by an EMP (Electromagnetic pulse) blast and as a result fell into boiling chaos.
Forstchen who are wondering what would happen should we be suddenly deprived of it, an idea he explores in tremendous depth in his John Matherson series, with this third and last book being The Final Day. Virtually everything runs on it, and there are more and more authors like William R. Our fears in regards to the apocalypse unquestionably reflect the things we rely on for collective survival, and today it’s harder to think of something that fulfills that role better than electricity. Complexity is often a double-edged sword: complicated systems have greater potential, but are generally easier to sabotage… and that’s a concept which can be applied to our visions of the apocalypse.We’ve come a long in way in our depictions of the end of the world, going from rampant disease and fire from the sky to total nuclear and biological warfare. Forstchen’s Vision of an Obscure FutureĪs our lives become increasingly complicated due to the development of various technologies we come to rely on an ever-rising number of crutches that allow us to maintain our daily routine.
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