" It is a very valid description of life after the collapse of the modern world enveloped in a novel. Sometimes the fictional aspect is too thin a veil for very specific details about Kunstler's view of life after electricity and grocery stores-which seems to boil down to hard work and corn bread, lots of cornbread. Not entirely post-apocalyptic, Kunstler's world broke down more slowly, with our current world simply moving on to his logical conclusion. It is not a book that uses instantaneous catastrophe along the lines of " I woke up to zombies in my yard" or the strike of an EMP. For this fact I think this book is a whole lot scarier. "
— Alex, 12/11/2013