Is the book "One Second After" worth ordering?

Who is the author of "One Second After"? Can't find it here without an author's name. Thanks.

Quick check on amazon says William R. Forstchen.

For a thought on an animal that will almost take care of itself and apparently can free range pretty well look on the rabbit forum at the "guinea pigs for meat" thread that is now 4 pages long Interesting idea for supplemental meat with almost no input.

Thanks Cliff

Anyone going to the Sensible Mountain Preparedness Seminar?

This is a seminar this next weekend or the one after, and the author of "One Second After" will be one of the speakers.

The link to the seminar site is within that post that is linked above.

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I thought it was ok but prefered , as posted above , Lucifers Hammer. Alas Babylon and Earth Abides I would also choose over One Second After ~ Vickie

Ya know, I liked Lights Out (unlike Deep Winter... I just could NOT drag myself through that first book), but I agree, it was unrealistic. Then again, I think that's why I couldn't get into Deep Winter--it was even more unrealistic.

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I've posted it here before and if you want I can see if I can dig it up again but there's simple plans online to build a solar power ice maker.

There is also a simple, VERY SIMPLE, system called "icy ball" which you could adapt a modern chest type freezer to use to give you refrigeration.

But of course if you get rid of the cooling problem you eliminate one of the huge heart tugging parts of the book.

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Yes, please do dig it up again...sure would appreciate it!

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Here it is. I thought it said how much ice it made per day but scanning over it I didn't see it. Seems to me I read somewhere it made either 10 pounds or 10 kilos per cycle...

http://www.instructables.com/files/o...VJG6MPPX21.pdf

I have wondered if you could make it a bit more efficient if you used a vacuum pump to remove as much of the air in the system as possible before adding the NH3.

There are a lot of things you could do with this system. You could fix it to cover the reflectors and cool the pipe which would allow you to have more than one cycle per day. You could daisy chain several to make more ice. You could use a large one to make a walk in cool room.

You should also research "icy ball" its much more practical for home refrigeration than trying something like the critter above. All you need is a small fire and a pan of water to charge it. After its charged it should be able to keep a converted freezer cool all day. You might have to charge it once in the morning and again at bed time.

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Watcher, do we have this in S&EP? I don't think I've seen it, or not in a long time.
Would you make a post about it down there?
Thanks, Angie

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I preferred listening to the book over reading it and it was pretty good.
I did like the protection system for the livestock etc.. that was interesting.

But the things that bothered me were based on a knowledge of the area and the flaws there.
Right next to the college that he uses as a setting, there is another college( my college) that produces it's own food. There are huge greenhouses, pig barns and paddocks, cattle herds, garden plots, kitchens and areas for handling all of that fresh food and tons of folks that know all about it.
That school has 'green' buildings and dorms that are solar only etc..that would still be running fine.
That just annoyed me, but I guess it wouldn't help move the plot along.

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Read OSA from the library - promptly bought a copy for myself and got hubby to read it. Totally got him on board with preparedness. Loaned it out to a bunch of friends, now they are on board too.

I liked "Lights Out", but didn't think it was quite a realistic as OSA. David Crawfords second book formerly titled "Lost & Found" is now called "Collision Course" and according to amazon it is schedule for release in Nov of this year. I read the first 20+ chapters when they were still available on-line and thought it was a good read. Now only the first 6 chapters are available: SF Fiction - Lost and Found Update 5/6/11 - Page 1 - AR15.COM Not sure how closely they will match the published version, but you can get a good idea what the story line is.

I LOVE Deep Winter - especially the first book in the series. It painted what I believe to be a very realistic scenario of a natural disaster in that area. But then again I am very familiar with the area and the possibilities of exactly what he writes about happening. My hubby just couldn't get into Deep Winter (I bought the hard copies from the author - cheaper that way. You can get the PDF's from Lulu.com for $5 each). Tom is working on a 4th book "Distance" and slowly posting chapters on-line. It covers the same time frame as the Deep Winter trilogy, but from an entirely different perspective. Here is a link to the first chapter: Deep Winter: October 2010

Speaking of PDF's I think it is wrong to steal from authors. Posting PDF's or links to copyrighted material without permission is stealing. I used to pass out PDF's to the Deep Winter trilogy with the author's permission. Then he got it set up on Lulu for folks to buy them and I no longer send them out.

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One worth reading, but not buying, is Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse.

Personally I found the cause of the 'collapse' to be unrealistic and James Wesley, Rawles (that's how he uses his name) writes in excrutiating detail.

I think I posted it there but I'll make a thread on it there.

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Just finished reading "Dies the Fire". I got the impression it was originally much longer (and is a long book now) and then edited down by several people. Too many doesn't connect the dots or finish the story aspects. But then I got to the back and saw where it is part of a series.

Read "Alas Babylon" back in something like 1966. Still remember the part about the notice on a community bulletin board about someone wanting to trade a car for two baby diaper pins.

Right now I'm reading the Change Series, which is the continuation of the Dies the Fire series but focusing on the children of the original subjects.

One Second After was a great read. Almost wish I had not read it. I just don't want to think about how bad it could get.