N.r. Jenssen

Life’s too dreary now that we’re all living in the past and there hasn’t been a new video game issued in years. The survivors need something to kill the time that’s a decent analogy to sex. Even the name “slot” cars suggests a pretty good time. Slot cars made by......

Living beneath the radar, ducking foot patrols, means a lot of waiting around. Origami was exactly the same for thousands of years until after the occupation, then suddenly it was all about creating new forms, and that was the end of your grandmother’s old origami. Now there are tiny, three-dimensional......

After the electronic pulse wipes out every bit of wireless reception in the 15-million-person, 10,743-square-mile South Coast Air Basin, and also renders all chip-driven sound equipment, digital equipment and music downloads useless, some of those who survive manage to ruthlessly acquire electric generators essential to life. These survivalists soon discover......

As able-bodied refugees flee the city, dragging with them crying small children and frail older people, natural leaders emerge from the ragtag caravans — most of them retired military types and young, troubled people just back from Iraq. They soon realize that the motorized crowds pouring into the desert and......