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Title: High ho, high ho, to the end of the world we go
Review: Yes, it's just what the SF world needs, YAEOTWN. (Yet Another End Of The World Novel.) This time it's the earth's magnetic field, which reverses and lets it all sorts of killing radiation. We've got your domed cities, your hardscrabble farmers, your barbarians, and all the trappings. Add in a stranded pilot who has to make an uneasy friendship to get back home, and you've got Mad Max in Philadelphia.Luckily, N. Lee Wood is a good enough writer to pull it off. Both the main characters are fairly unpleasant people, but well-fleshed out with motivations that make sense in context. The setting is also well thought out: you're never really left shaking your head in disbelief.A warning: this story has a couple of fairly brutal passages, including several rapes from the perspective of the protagonist. Probably not a good book for a 13-year-old.I'll bump the story up about a half star just because much of it is set in Philadelphia, near where I grew up.
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