I just finished Mark Laidlaw’s Dad’s Nuke :
Continuing the discussion from TOM THE DANCING BUG: When Gun Proponents Go Ballistic :
From Wikipedia:
Dad’s Nuke, first published in February, 1986 by Donald I. Fine, is a science fiction dark comedy novel written by Marc Laidlaw. It is a parody of middle class suburban life, and tells the tale of a nuclear family in the post-nuclear (holocaust) age. The protagonists are a father, mother, daughter, and eight biologically-engineered children living in a gated suburban enclave following the near collapse of modern civilization. The story consists of a series of episodes demonstrating the ridiculousness of the family’s sheltered, conformist lives, and culminates in the collapse from within of the suburban community. The title refers to a trailer mounted nuclear missile purchased by the family’s father figure, as part of his hostile, one-upmanship, “keeping up with the Joneses” competition with his next door neighbor.
With this cover:
Continuing the discussion from TOM THE DANCING BUG: When Gun Proponents Go Ballistic :
Doesn’t quite wrap things up in the end in a way that feels deliberately planned, I’m not sure I feel about the whole, but after the slow start I enjoyed just about every part of it.
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