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A series covering the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction of the nuclear age one book at a time from 1945 to 1990.
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11 MAR 2024 · This episode features "When And If" by Philip Reynolds. Europe is once at war as the United States and Soviet Union fight for supremacy and the French protagonist uses his spycraft to fight against communist infilration at home.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
4 MAR 2024 · This episode features "Let Out The Beast" by Leonard Fisher. After a short, violent nuclear war Gregory Robinson and his wife have to contend with the grim realities of survival in the post-apocalypse and the threat of degradation.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
26 FEB 2024 · This episode features "On The Trail of 1960" by Ray H. Wiley. Resistance leader David King fights to create a just and equal society despite the machinations of a corrupt oligarch regime that uses nuclear weapons to keep the populace under control.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
19 FEB 2024 · This episode features "Shadow on the Hearth" by Judith Merril. Gladys Mitchell is thrust into the role of trying to maintain her house and keep her children safe from radiation and unhelpful government commands after a surprise attack on the United States.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
12 FEB 2024 · This episode features "Don't Inhale It!" by Imre Balint. The narrator, with the help of special tobacco, describes a darkly comedic future where the fascist president of the United States inadvertently splits the planet with a massive nuclear weapon.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
5 FEB 2024 · This episode features "Shoot!" by Bernard Newman. Another world war erupts with every nation engaged in military manuevers and background schemes with dozens of characters caught in the wake. Also, Hitler.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
29 JAN 2024 · This episode features "Ape And Essence" by Aldous Huxley. Two movie executives search for the writer of a movie script where scientists from New Zealand visit the radioactive wasteland of the United States and encounter the damaged survivors.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
22 JAN 2024 · This episode features "World Aflame: The Russian-American War of 1950" by Leonard Engel and Emanuel Piller. The United States is in a terrible war with the Soviet Union that's seen the use of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the worst is yet to come.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
16 JAN 2024 · Welcome to "Our Nuclear Nightmares" a series on the literature of the Nuclear Age. Each episode will offer a detailed summary of a fiction novel, analyze its themes, and place it in the historical context.
This episode features "Fight For Life" by William Fitzgerald Jenkins. The United States is reduced to a ruined wasteland by nuclear attack with the survivors trying to fight back against the mysterious enemy with the help of lucky rocks.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
9 JAN 2024 · This episode features "Murder of the USA" by William Fitzgerald Jenkins. The United States has been devastated by a surprise nuclear attack and the survivors of the Rainer Burrow struggle to stop the enemy and retaliate before time runs out.
Theme Music "Melancholia" by https://soundcloud.com/verzand
Sound Transition "Dubby" by https://lloydrichards.net/
Support The Show: https://patreon.com/OurNuclearNightmares
A series covering the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction of the nuclear age one book at a time from 1945 to 1990.
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| Author | Jason Lanum |
| Organization | Jason Lanum |
| Categories | Books |
| Website | - |
| jasonlanum@proton.me |
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