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False Dawn
False Dawn
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
ISBN-13: 9780385131445
ISBN-10: 0385131445
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 208
Edition: 1st ed
Rating:
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Unknown Binding
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reviewed False Dawn on + 55 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Dark. Dated - it was very obviously written in the 1970s. Think "Soylent Green" more than "Planet of the Apes". Having said that, it's a different spin on the post-apocalypse trope and its well written. And none of this happily-ever-after ending stuff either.
Jrzy avatar reviewed False Dawn on + 35 more book reviews
It is the turn of the twenty-first century. War, disease, and pollution have made the Earth nearly unfit for human habitation. In American, food is scarce, and what food remains is quickly confiscated by the Pirates - a murderous band of raiders determined to save themselves and to destroy the last stronghold of civilized human beings - the mutant population. One of these mutants, a woman named Thea, has eluded the Pirates for years. Armed only with a crossbow, her pride, and common sense, she has been slowly making her way Eastward....Until she meets Evan Montague, a man who needs her help, a man who is also on the run from the Pirates, he once led the Pirates himself and has now become their most bitter and hunted enemy.
Jrzy avatar reviewed False Dawn on + 35 more book reviews
It is the turn of the twenty-first century. War, disease, and pollution have made the Earth nearly unfit for human habitation. In America, food is scarce, and what food remains is quickly confiscated by the Pirates - a murderous band of raiders determined to save themselves and to destroy the last stronghold of civilized human beings - the mutant population.

One of these mutants, a woman named Thea, has eluded the Pirates for years. Armed only with a crossbow, her pride, and common sense, she has been slowly making her way Eastward....Until she meets Evan Montague, a man who needs her help, a man who is also on the run from the Pirates, he once led the Pirates himself and has now become their most bitter and hunted enemy.
Jrzy avatar reviewed False Dawn on + 35 more book reviews
It is the turn of the twenty-first century. War, disease, and pollution have made the Earth nearly unfit for human habitation. In American, food is scarce, and what food remains is quickly confiscated by the Pirates - a murderous band of raiders determined to save themselves and to destroy the last stronghold of civilized human beings - the mutant population. One of these mutants, a woman named Thea, has eluded the Pirates for years. Armed only with a crossbow, her pride, and common sense, she has been slowly making her way Eastward....Until she meets Evan Montague, a man who needs her help, a man who is also on the run from the Pirates, he once led the Pirates himself and has now become their most bitter and hunted enemy.