The folk of the fringe
By: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: TOR
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Science fiction, American.
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 exists a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Desert, 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, in the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again. A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful reorganizations, 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.
Table of contents: title: West; title: Salvage; title: The fringe; title: Pageant wagon; title: America.