Scouring second-hand book shops brought no joy, but McCammon’s works are now seeing a resurgence in ebook format, so how could I resist?Īt first glance, comparisons with Stephen King’s The Stand are inevitable. It’s a whopper – just over 850 pages – and, I think, out of print in the UK for many years. Over the years, Swan Song is a book I’ve meaning to pick up, but was daunted by the size of it. I’d came across the author before with his vampire novel They Thirst I lost some sleep with that one, too, after a séance scene that put real shivers up my spine. Published in 1987, Swan Song is Robert R McCammon’s vision of the aftermath of such a conflict. Some TV shows – the UK’s Threads and The Day After in the US spring to mind – were downright terrifying, enough to keep my teenage self awake at night, wondering what would really happen if the two superpowers decided to have a crack at each other. Back in the 1980s, when the Cold War was at its height, the spectre of nuclear war loomed large, and this was reflected in the fiction of the time.
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