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The Folk of the Fringe


A Science Fiction Novel


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Post-Apocalyptic,
  • Dystopian
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Post-apocalyptic rebuilding led by everyday people, not just heroes
  • Survival stories set in a transformed American West
  • Communities forging hope after biological and cultural collapse
Publisher Description

In Orson Scott Card's classic apocalyptic science fiction novel The Folk of the Fringe, only a few nuclear weapons fell in America--the weapons that destroyed the nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural.

But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho.

The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.

A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America.

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