I am happy with the way it ended and the diverse responses of people around the country. In that way, the book could’ve been accurate as well as tell the good story already here. None of it would’ve affected the plot or characters. I wish the author would have had one of us (or the numerous others around the world) take a read of the preprint and suggest some corrections. I am a solar physicist working in that lab at NASA Goddard. He is a pilot and co owns an original 1943 Aeronca L-3B recon plane used in World War II. His other interests include archaeology, and he has participated in several expeditions to Mongolia and Russia. The book was cited on the floor of Congress and before the House Armed Services Committee by Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R.-MD), chair of the House Committee tasked to evaluate EMP weapons, as a realistical portrayal of the potential damage rendered by an EMP attack on the continental United States.įorstchen resides near Asheville, North Carolina with his daughter Meghan. and currently is in development as a feature film. The book has been optioned by Warner Bros. Similar in plotting to books such as On the Beach and Alas Babylon, One Second After, is set in a small college town in western North Carolina and is a cautionary tale of the collapse of social order in the wake of an EMP strike. Based upon several years of intensive research and interviews, it examines what might happen in a “typical” American town in the wake of an attack on the United States with “electro-magnetic pulse” (EMP) weapons. In March 2009, Forstchen’s latest work, One Second After, (Forge/St. More recently, they have have published two works on the events leading up to Pearl Harbor and immediately after that attack Pearl Harbor, and Days of Infamy. In 2002 he started the “Gettysburg” trilogy with Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich the trilogy consists of Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, Grant Comes East, and Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant - The Final Victory. Night Shyamalan.įorstchen’s writing efforts have, in recent years, shifted towards historical fiction and non fiction. He received his doctorate from Purdue University with specializations in Military History, the American Civil War and the History of Technology.įorstchen is the author of more than forty books, including the award winning We Look Like Men of War, a young adult novel about an African-American regiment that fought at the Battle of the Crater, which is based upon his doctoral dissertation, The 28th USCTs: Indiana’s African-Americans go to War, 1863-1865 and the "Lost Regiment" series which has been optioned by both Tom Cruise and M. He is a Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina. Forstchen (born 1950) is an American author who began publishing in 1983 with the novel Ice Prophet.
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