At B & N Reads Somers tagged five of the greatest road trips in sci-fi & fantasy, including:The Dead Lands, by Benjamin PercyRead about the other entries on the list.
If Percy’s apocalypse isn’t the most original—another superflu, another nuclear war—his idea of what comes after totally is: the people of St. Louis build massive walls around their city to ride out the end of the world, and succeed, if living in a spoiling, crumbling city running out of water and ruled by corrupt and incompetent tyrants is your definition of success. When a rider appears outside the walls reporting the Northwest U.S. is seeing rain and growing crops, Lewis Meriweather and Mina Clark set out along a historically significant trail to see if humanity’s salvation can be found. Old-school road trip meets irradiated monsters, slave gangs, and giant spiders in a book that deserves to survive to classic status.
--Marshal Zeringue
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