While I Was Sleeping
The Long Loud Silence
By Wilson Tucker
1 Jun, 2025
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
Wilson Tucker’s The Long Loud Silence (1952, 1954) is a stand-alone post-apocalyptic novel.
The enemy struck without warning. Major cities like Chicago were incinerated with atomic bombs. Lesser cities and towns did not rate atomic weapons. Instead, bombs delivered weaponized diseases.
Millions died… east of the Mississippi. The enemy’s weapons could not reach the west. Therefore, those twenty-two states were spared.
Good news for Corporal Russell Gary, who wakes from a bender to discover that he is one of the survivors. Bad news for Gary, who wakes from a bender to discover that he is one of the survivors… on the wrong side of the Mississippi.
