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Dad's Nuke Paperback – 7 April 1988

by Marc Laidlaw (Author)

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Marc Laidlaw's mockery of 'keeping up with the Joneses' ranges from irreverent to amusing and from shocking to sad as he brilliantly satirises contemporary America, as well as giving a frightening glimpse of things to come. Nuclear weapons have become a status symbol in Laidlaw's post-collapse America, where two neighbours are locked in bitter rivalry over the balance of power in their town. As the patriarch of the Johnson clan makes a bid for self-sufficiency by installing the first home nuclear reactor, Jock Smith has an atomic missile set up in his back yard. As the two continue their cold war of one-upmanship, invasion threatens the town and their families start to fall apart, while shady deals are made by the pillars of the community to start another war.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins Distribution Services; New edition (7 April 1988)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0586074341
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0586074343

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PHILIP B.

Just go buy this slice of brilliant madness

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This brilliant book is probably long forgotten, BUT! I never did forget it. First read on loan from my local library in approx 1991 (ok very long ago) I found it so good that the book`s title and author remained permanently lodged in my brain ever since. I finally purchased it secondhand through Amazon in 2014. Read the other review for the story detail, but expect such a mass of unexpected and inventive chaos, that will blow you away, quite frankly I`m going to have to read it again to sort it out in my head. The concepts brought in for a book written so long ago are totally current and none of it has dated one bit, in fact the glitches in the systems described (for instance the bugs and blank spaces in the virtual holiday) are so spot on that you feel that Marc Laidlaw had an Xbox 360. Spend a few coins on this slice of madness and berepaid with endless ravings to your friends as you try to explain it to them without appearing like an incomprehensible nutcase. Enjoy deeply.

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