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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
"Fade out" by Patrick Tilley (author of the Amtrak Wars) describes a situation a bit like the magnetar hit (although his story revolves around alien devices emitting some sort of field preventing any electrical fields stronger than an animal (or human) nervous system operating ).
Very scary with planes falling out of the sky, etc and technology beyond steam suddenly becoming so much useless scrap.
http://www.patrick-tilley.com/ |
I'm going to have to look for that one -- though it sounds familiar. I have a lot of books in my "library" (really just a spare bedroom with a bunch of second-hand bookshelves in it) I picked up here and there on the cheap from used bookstores, but haven't actually read yet. I might already have that one.