The Folk of the Fringe

Orson Scott Card

2001 a.

272 lk.

Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there exited a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.

A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America.

Arvamus:

Katastroofijärgne USA, kus kamp mormoone rändab oma mingi pühapaiga poole. Millegipärast on need usuhullud aga tavaelus täiesti abitud ja lollakad ja oleks ilmselt oma teekonna esimesel kümnel kilomeetril maha notitud, kui neile poleks mingi mitteusklik patukotist rändur appi tulnud. No ja too tegelane püüab siis mormoone läbi maa "tassida".

Täielik pask minu arvates vürtsitatuna veel mingide pikkade usualaste arutlustega. 50-60 leheküljest piisas mulle täiesti.