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Cold as Thunder
Jerry Apps
In an authoritarian future where the climate has run amok, wily oldsters foment revolt
Since the Eagle Party took power in the United States, all schools and public utilities have been privatized, churches and libraries closed, and independent news media shut down. Drones buzz overhead in constant surveillance of the populace, and the open internet has been replaced by the network of the New Society Corporation. Environmental degradation and unchecked climate change have brought raging wildfires to the Western states and disastrous flooding to Eastern coastal regions.
In the Midwest, a massive storm sends Lake Michigan surging over the Door County peninsula, and thousands of refugees flee inland. In the midst of this apocalypse, a resourceful band of Wisconsin sixty-somethings calling themselves the Oldsters lays secret plans to fight the ruling regime's propaganda and show people how to think for themselves.
Jerry Apps is the author of more than thirty-five books on rural history and country life, including his series of Ames County novels. He is profiled in two documentaries aired nationally on public television, Jerry Apps: A Farm Story and A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps. His many awards and honors include the Major Achievement Award of the Council for Wisconsin Writers and the Notable Author Award of the Wisconsin Library Association. He is professor emeritus in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Praise
“In his newest novel, Apps imagines a future where the values of a free society have been undermined by determined oligarchs. He does not settle for a grim dystopia but creates a world in which citizens fight back.”
—Dennis Boyer, author of Listen to the Land
“Jerry Apps has woven a tale that is fast paced, frightening, exciting, and eerily prescient.”
—Bill Berry, author of Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way
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May 2018
LC: 2017042904 PS
232 pp. 6 x 9
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