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It is a parody of middle class suburban life and tells the tale of a nuclear family in the post-nuclear (holocaust) age. 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.
Dad’s Nuke. First published in 1985, this satiric suburban take on cyberpunk imagined a rapidly approaching future that is now rapidly dwindling in our rear-view mirror: The far-flung year of 1998. Against a background of anarchy and apocalypse, white suburban families have withdrawn into fortified enclaves, where they struggle to conform in ...
splatomat. •. Yeah one of the worst "blink and you miss it" parts of the attack scene is the little girl with her grandfather. You see them in the lobby of the building, trying to decide if they should go down. Then later, all you see is a plaid dress getting stomped on as people try to escape the basement.
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Laidlaw was born in 1960 and raised in Laguna Beach, California, he attended the University of Oregon where he tried, and was discouraged by, punch card computer programming. He wrote short stories and his first novel, Dad's Nuke, was published in 1985. This was followed by several more novels over the next decade, but he worked as a legal secretar...
Neon Lotus(1988) (nominated for the 1988 Philip K. Dick Award)Kalifornia(1993)The Orchid Eater(1994)His name appears in Half-Life as an Easter egg on a Sector C locker. Also, in Gordon Freeman's locker, two actual books by Laidlaw, The Orchid Eater and The 37th Mandala, can be found. The Third Fo...
Marc Laidlaw on FacebookMarc Laidlaw on TwitterMarc Laidlaw on MobyGamesJan 1, 1985 · Dad's Nuke takes the stereotypical sitcom plot of neighboring dads trying to one up each other and spins it out into a surreal, often hilarious post apocalyptic nightmare comedy.
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Laidlaw, Marc. DAD'S NUKE. New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Not too far in the future, every American's home is, if not their castle, certainly their fortress. Outside the enclaves of decent, God-fearing folk the country is overrun by all kinds of untrustworthy ethnic minorities; and even ...
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Apr 24, 2006 · Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif; Dad's Nuke: 1986-02-00: Marc Laidlaw: Donald I. Fine
