"Dark December" by Alfred Coppel follows the story of Major Kenneth Gavin, who survives a worldwide nuclear war and embarks on a journey to find his family in California. The narrative captures the devastating effects of the war on the West Coast of the United States, portraying a post-apocalyptic world where Major Gavin encounters bureaucratic detours, radiation, disease, feral children, and more as he navigates through a broken landscape. The writing style is described as hard-headed and realistic, depicting the struggles for survival in a world gone wrong with intimate and moving encounters between surviving individuals.
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Major Kenneth Gavin -- one of the few anguished souls left to contemplate the end of biological existence, the silent spring, the dying of love, desire, and hope -- was one who had pushed the button that ended everything.
One who had nothing left but perception and remorse. One who had killed millions by remote control could kill no more -- not even to save himself.
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About the Author:
Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer.
He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers.
Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.
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