Warday

Warday
1984 hardback edition
AuthorWhitley Strieber and James Kunetka
LanguageEnglish
GenreNuclear war
PublisherHolt, Rinehart and Winston
Publication date
1984
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages374 pp
ISBN0-03-070731-5
OCLC10046613
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3569.T6955 W3 1984

Warday is a novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, first published in 1984.[1] It is a fictional account of the authors travelling across the U.S. five years after a limited nuclear attack in order to assess how the nation has changed after the war.[2] The novel takes the form of a first-person narrative research article [3] and includes government documents, interviews with survivors and aid workers, and present-tense narration.[4]

  1. ^ Books and Bookmen. Hansom Books. 1984. pp. 4–5.
  2. ^ " Book Review: Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka" Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine. Amazing Stories, Matt Mitrovich, October 29, 2013
  3. ^ Patrick Mannix (1992). The Rhetoric of Antinuclear Fiction: Persuasive Strategies in Novels and Films. Bucknell University Press. pp. 41–. ISBN 978-0-8387-5218-0.
  4. ^ David Seed (31 October 2013). American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film. Taylor & Francis. pp. 175–. ISBN 978-1-135-95389-8.