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"A super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts such as the Sanctuary-the remains of St. Louis-a shielded community that owes its survival to its militant defense and fear-mongering leaders. Then a rider comes from the wasteland beyond its walls. She reports on the outside world: west of the Cascades, rain falls, crops grow, civilization thrives. But there is danger too: the rising...

Two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. The survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator and the troops suggests that all is not as it...