6/11/2023 0 Comments On the beach book nevil shute![]() That leaves our characters with a mere nine months to make their peace and say their goodbyes.Īnother thing that makes this novel uniquely, chillingly realistic is that Shute backs up his plot with some legit knowledge that makes the whole scenario that much scarier. After that? Yeah, you don't survive massive radiation clouds. ![]() That doesn't mean the Australians out of the woods, though: the radioactive fallout is heading south and will hit them by September. It's like everyone just hit an RKO outta nowhere on each other at the same time.įrom there, we catch up with a groups of survivors in Melbourne, Australia, which was far enough south to miss out on the war altogether. Roughly four thousand nukes later, the entire Northern Hemisphere is a heaping pile of rubble. Just look at how Shute depicts World War III: what begins as a tiny, regional conflict sprawls out of control through a series of betrayals and misunderstandings until, finally, the whole planet is locked in a duel to death. Written in the early days of the Cold War, On the Beach is a reaction to the growing proliferation of nuclear weapons. It may be less flashy, but this timeless novel has one thing that those modern masterpieces of post-apocalyptic panic can't touch-it's actually realistic. ![]() Before Mad Mad: Fury Road, before I Am Legend, before The Walking Dead, there was one true king of the post-apocalyptic genre: Nevil Shute's On the Beach. ![]()
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