Walter D. Petrovic ~8 hr read

A future history of planet Earth, written by an aspiring young screenwriter in his first college year, a sweeping, earnest vision of catastrophe and what comes after.

Walter D. Petrovic's 1980 novel is an ambitious dystopian and post-apocalyptic future history, the author's heartfelt first book. Earnest, wide-ranging, personal. Read it for a young writer's monumental undertaking, a self-made chronicle of Earth's grim tomorrow, offered to the world for the joy of the telling.

In its time

Published in 1980, during the 1980s, cyberpunk arrives.

Reading it

~8 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).