In some not so distant future after a nuclear war, humanity lives in primativist small communities to guard against future attack. In the epigraph of the novel we see that there’s been a 30th amendment preventing towns of more than 1000 people. This is to guard against the mass death they clearly experienced, but what this has led to is a lost sense of American identity and the formations of 1000s of small towns with small town histories, cultures, and identities. Len Colton and his […]
Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter, and contemplating a sin
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
