![]() ![]() When he returns home, his mother-in-law Jen is there, and John teases her about the monstrosity she drives, a Ford Edsel. The novel begins on a pleasant spring afternoon as John searches for a birthday gift for his 12-year-old diabetic daughter, Jennifer. ![]() As the book depicts the fallout from this catastrophe, it examines the themes of the fragility of civilization, overdependence on technology, and a societal failure to heed the lessons of history. One Second After, told in limited third person and set in the real town of Black Mountain, North Carolina, follows college professor John Matherson as he tries to hold his family together and help his town survive in the face of total technological failure. ![]() Since the novel’s publication, Forstchen has addressed both Congress and NASA on the topic. Forstchen took his inspiration for One Second After from a 2004 congressional study about the potential threat of an EMP attack on the United States. ![]()
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