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Post by spaceowl on May 18, 2013 10:31:41 GMT
I can remember (often) looking at a book in W.H. Smiths some years ago, which I would now like to get hold of. Naturally though, I've completely forgotten title and author. I can remember the following things about it:
* Set in Scotland (mainly Edinburgh, to be precise) which has somehow survived a nuclear war intact and un-hit
* Great play is made of everyone wearing radiation suits nearly all the time, possibly tied in somehow with Scottish Presbyterianism
* Features a Romeo and Juliet-style romance (according to the blurb, so possibly it doesn't )
* Dates to 80s/early 90s
The book would make a nice addition to my collection, so any help on it would be very much appreciated.
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Post by Matthew on May 19, 2013 13:12:28 GMT
Have not got a clue but it sounds very good.
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tq168
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Post by tq168 on May 23, 2013 20:02:24 GMT
Have a word in your local library,
TQ
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Post by jokerukrs on May 24, 2013 7:34:20 GMT
could it be this? Martin, Graham Dunstan. Time-Slip. London: Orion, 1986.
The nuclear war of 1998, triggered by the unilaterial disarmament of Western Europe and subsequent invasion of West Germany, destroyed eighty-eight percent of the population and blotted out the sun for a month. EMP effects occurred. Now, in 2035, mutations are common and everyone wears useless symbolic anti-radiation suits. Two-thirds of them are sterile, twelve percent are deformed. There is a high suicide rate, infanticide of deformed children is common. In Scotland, religious cults proliferate. The plot concerns the rise of a religion based on the idea of forking time paths which create alternative worlds, at least one of which was spared the horrors of nuclear war. A grim satire on escapism
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