Duck and Cover! The Unit is here… The Orbit Team July 14, 2010
cre: Duck and Cover! The Unit is here…
The Orbit Team July 14, 2010
When the manuscript that eventually became THE UNIT landed on my desk, I was a little skeptical. I’m a big fan of post-apocalyptic fiction but after reading recently The road and play Fallout 3 more than strictly sane, I wasn’t sure I was ready for the exhausting, depressing grind of yet another end-times story. Oh, how wrong I was…
THE UNIT is the post-apocalyptic story that I didn’t realize I was waiting for. Unshakable, honest, brutal, tender and, above all, human, the beginnings of Terry DeHart floored me from the first reading. It’s not that it’s not dark. It’s not that horrible things don’t happen to the right people. But it does what so many post-apocalyptic stories fail to do, it reminds us of the essential humanity of each actor in the story.
A colleague of mine immediately identified it as “hey, that’s like The road if they ever retaliated,” which, beyond flippancy, was exactly what I felt Cormac McCarthy’s overwhelmingly excellent narrative lacked.
Anyway, you don’t have to take my word for it:
a striking image of human vulnerability and strength. — The Editor’s Weekly
Like a crowbar to the skull, the deadly narrative intensity of this novel comes from its brutal realism and its overly plausible scenario. — Explorations
And io9.com chose it as one of its July picks with a description that surpasses any copy I’ve ever found:
You have a zombie plan, I assume. How is your preparation for the fallout? On vacation in the Sierra Nevada, the Sharpe family survives a nuclear strike, but anyone who’s ever read Alas, Babylon! knows that’s the easy part. Now they have to deal with radioactive blizzards and killer teenagers. Jerry, a badass former sailor, just wants to bring his family home to Sacramento, while his wife, Susan, does her best to keep raising the kids. Their daughter, Melanie, tries to maintain her pacifist beliefs, while her brother, Scotty, goes totally Red Dawn on the people who pursue them. Worst family trip ever. — io9.com
THE UNIT is now available in stores. Read the first chapter here and go download a wallpaper for your computer or mobile device here.
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