One Year After

By: William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times best-selling novel One Second After.

Months before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should have, a book discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at the dangers of EMPs. An EMP is a weapon with the power to destroy the entire United States in a single act of terrorism in a single second; Indeed, it is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. One Second After was a dire warning of what might be our future... and our end.

One Year After returns to the small town of Black Mountain and the man who struggled to rebuild it in the wake of devastation: John Matherson. It is a thrilling follow-up and should delight fans in every way.

©2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2015 Blackstone Audiobooks

They were wrong

This book was great. the performance was amazing. can't ask for a better sequel!!!! Please if you are considering this book and you have read the first book I think you will find everything is on par. I hesitated for a long time if I wanted this book because everyone else was giving it a bad review. I think that most who lesson to this book will enjoy it and see the meny posabliats that it presents. Please lesson for yourself and see that it is not a bad book. And if there is another one it will have big shoes to fill.

Great second book

I do agree with others that the performance was a bit distracting as his accents and dialect weren't altogether believable. I am from South Carolina, and while some here may speak that poorly, those with such "form" certainly aren't at the forefront of our communities, which the characters being represented in this reading were, for different reasons and carrying different positions of authority.
It's alright with me if performers make themselves look uninformed, or inexperienced. I tried to overlook it, and not focus on it, having been forewarned. I am a true Southerner, born and raised in the south, and at the end of the day, understand that while sometimes misrepresented and misunderstood, we can be a formidable force to be reckoned with, should the occasion arise.

A great second book!!!

It's always hard to follow up a great book but William R. Forstchen has done it. One Year After is a great read and a real life follow up to what might happen if a EMP hit the US.
I like this book because I lived in the reigon that this book was wrote about "JOHNSON CITY,TN" Close to Asheville,NC and refrenced in the book a couple times. Col John Matherson makes all the right calls for the little town of Black Mtn. The pressure of helping everyone around him could set the town back and the outside new start up Goverment also wants the help from Col. Matherson. If you read One Second After you will be proud of Black Mtn and the community they have become. Must read!!!

Solid Followup

This books is the sequel to One Second After which was probably to best book ever written for the post apocalyptic genre.

This book carries on the great story line and gives the reader a harrowing glimpse of how our modern society copes a couple years and all infrastructure is lost

good read, good narrator.<br />

this book kept me interested, it could have covered more of a timespan, but the they spent made it a plausible story and kept you shaking your head on what happened next.

outstanding

absolutely loved this book! I was stuck in the first book itching for more upon finishing. after waiting 2 years I found this extention just published and it was no question to buy it.

so incredibly accurate to our world these days. as a combat veteran this is sadly and scarily close to truth

Good sequel, but not as gut wrenching as the first

the first book is terrible as it portrayed as a very good book. The sequel helps fill in what the aftermath might be like. It is hard to predict what life would be like afterwards comma but not a bad job. I guess the shock of it all made the first book so much more terrible to realize. Good job, thank you for an eye-opening experience period as a person who grew up in the seventies and eighties he served in the military and had nightmares of nuclear war comma I guess I wasn't prepared for what this book brought out and on.

A great follow-up

Would you consider the audio edition of One Year After to be better than the print version?

I don't know. I don't read, I just listen.

What was one of the most memorable moments of One Year After?

To see where the survivors have come since the first book. This is a very life-like book that I can see this happening if these conditions were met.

Which character – as performed by Bronson Pinchot – was your favorite?

John.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Life or lack thereof without Electricity.

Any additional comments?

People really need to educate themselves about EMP.

Thought Provoking . . . Just Get Over the Accents

Excellent follow up to One Second After . . . and y'all just need to suck it up and accept the fact that you are in North Carolina . . . folks in the south don't talk like city slickers . . . the story continues one and two years after an EMP hits the US . . . virtually turning back time and civilization a hundred years or more . . . this sequel finds the little community at Black Mountain picking up the pieces, reinventing things, growing their own food, and defending themselves from the outside . . . little by little "the outside" begins to invade, bringing with it hope . . . and terror . . . slow to trust, the community tests its new allegiances, as well they should . . . things are never what they appear to be . . . this tale, just like the first one, will have you thinking, questioning what you believe and who you believe, and wondering what line of bull you may have been fed . . . amazing story line, and conclusion . . .

Great Story, Poor Narration

Narrator failed to research characters, giving almost all of them improper accents and personalities. Very good story though.