- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Bantam (Aug 1 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553762214
- ISBN-13: 978-0553762211
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.3 x 21.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
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Six centuries after the Last War, the battle for America has just begun.
For six long centuries after mankind’s Last War, a handful of survivors dwelled in a place of eternal twilight below the fields of Kansas. Transformed into duendes, ghost-like beings, by the fields of organic energy which protected them, they waited for nature to heal the wounds of the Earth. But when, at last, they reached the light, they found their land in the hands of their age-old enemies…
For six long centuries after mankind’s Last War, a handful of survivors dwelled in a place of eternal twilight below the fields of Kansas. Transformed into duendes, ghost-like beings, by the fields of organic energy which protected them, they waited for nature to heal the wounds of the Earth. But when, at last, they reached the light, they found their land in the hands of their age-old enemies…
About the Author
Paul Cook is a native of Arizona, and currently is a Lecturer in the English Department at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in English in 1981 from the University of Utah, and has two previous science fiction novels to his credit, Tintagel and The Alejandra Variations. He has published over 150 poems in such journals as The Georgia Review, The Seattle Review, Quarterly West and The Southern Poetry Review. He has also done some occasional script writing.
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Paul Cook is the best., Mar 14 1998
By dslagle@3-cities.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Duende Meadow (Paperback)
Always interesting, Paul Cooks earlist works are the flight of fancy. A society existing under the soil of the USA believing that they are the last remains of humankind... Only to venture forth and find the world covered with the Hammer and Sickle of the USSR. Great read.
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The Cover Is Infinitely Better Than The Story, Mar 11 2012
By Dayton L. Kitchens - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Duende Meadow (Paperback)
The novel has great cover art that actually illustrates a key scene from the book and the basic idea of the book is a great one. Basically a group of Americans holed up ina type of futuristic bomb shelter for six centuries while the world above them changes dramatically.But the story is let down badly from some of the truly hoky science that is used to push the plot forward. And the entire "U.S. military is composed of bad people" seems more from the immediate post Vietnam War era than from the late 1990s when the book was published.
An interesting concept looking for a good story and good execution.
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