num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Folk of the Fringe
titlecomplete: The Folk of the Fringe
genres: Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Apocalyptic, Fiction, Short Stories, Dystopia, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 4146
publisher: Tor Science Fiction