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He built his fire on the slope of the rubble pile, where it could brighten the darker crannies of the antechamber. Then he went to explore whatever might remain uncovered by debris. The ruins above ground had been reduced to archaeological ambiguity by generations of scavengers, but this underground ruin had been touched by no hand but the hand of impersonal disaster. The place seemed haunted by the presences of another age. A skull, lying among the rocks in a darker corner, still retained a gold tooth in its grin-clear evidence that the shelter had never been invaded by wanderers. The gold incisor flickered when the fire danced high. (Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz)
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Nice read about the changes introduced in the first update to the Gamma World. If you're unfamiliar with this ttrpg and its setting, in his retrospective James links another article about the 1e.
https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2023/04/retrospective-gamma-world-second-edition.html
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To quote the book itself:
"It seemed so ... solid. All the institutions, law enforcement and military. All the rules and systems that were
in place. You’d think a modern society would be able to withstand challenges. But it all just crumbled when this thing got out of
hand."
Just finished the series, what a ride! You've got nine books, each describing events that took place during one day. Really "Night of the Living Dead"esque. Action takes place at the beginning of the outbreak in Denmark. The setting makes it a quite different read from traditional US based apocalypse. There’s no widespread gun ownership in Europe, so you'll be following lots of close, in-your-face struggles, usually ending in bites.
https://www.librarything.com/work/24097045
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The only fictional documentary that won Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Despite being produced for BBC it was withdrawn from airing in 1965, after causing dismay with its depiction of violence and human suffering. Mind you, the film questions the survivability of a nuclear attack despite following the government guidance. The TV ban didn't forbid the cinematic distribution.
Triple-feature along with The Day After, Nicholas Meyer (1983) and Threads, Mick Jackson (1984).
https://archive.org/details/TheWarGame_201405
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