Caravan E-Book

Stephen Goldin

• Herausgeber: Stephen Goldin
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

It's the 1980s in an alternate-world America. U.S. society has fallen apart under food shortages, fuel shortages, racial unrest and a host of other problems.Peter Stone predicted the Collapse, but was helpless to prevent it. Now he's joined a group of people who intend to escape to another planet and start a whole new world...if they can make it safely across the country--stealing gas and fighting off bandits--to reach the ship before it leaves.

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CARAVAN

a novel by

Stephen Goldin

Caravan Copyright 1975 Stephen Goldin. All Rights Reserved

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

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CHAPTER 1

WASHINGTON—International meetings on the economy opened here Monday with tones of gloom and distress over higher oil prices and the threat of world depression.

H. Johannes Witteveen, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, predicted continuing recession and inflation around the world, along with unprecedented financial strains.

World Bank President Robert S. McNamara forecast mass starvation in the world’s poorest countries, containing populations totaling one billion, unless industrial and oilexporting nations alike sharply step up their aid—a move few of these countries seem likely to make.

Los Angeles Times

Tuesday, October 1, 1974

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We sit on the lip of a precipice, daring the force of gravity to pull us into the pit. The bottom is unfathomable because we’ve climbed so high we’ve lost sight of it. It is nothing so trivial as a recession; even a depression similar to the one in the 1930s would pale by comparison. What we are facing as we stare down into the abyss is nothing less than the total destruction of our present civilization—and most of us, through a fear of heights, have shut our eyes….

If you climb only a little way up a hillside and slip, you probably won’t be hurt too much. Falls from greater heights can be fatal. We have climbed so high on the hillside of Progress that a fall will shatter us like a glass dropped from Mt. Everest….

Peter Stone

World Collapse

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The sign over the desk read “Granada Hills Security Checkpoint,” but that did not disguise the fact that this building was actually a deserted supermarket at the edge of a deserted shopping center. Aisle upon aisle of denuded shelves gave mute testimony to the bad times that had befallen the community. In fact, the empty cavern of a building seemed to Peter to symbolize the entire Collapse of civilization.