John Barnes signs DIRECTIVE 51

What is Directive 51 about? Here’s journalist James Fallow’s comment from his article in The Atlantic in March: “With financial, medical, legal, intellectual, logistic, and every other sort of information increasingly living in ‘the cloud,’ the consequences of collapse or disruption are unpleasant to contemplate. A forthcoming novel, Directive 51, by John Barnes, does indeed contemplate them, much as in the 1950s Nevil Shute imagined the world after nuclear war in On the Beach. Barnes’s view of the collapse of financial life (after all, our ‘assets’ consist mostly of notations in banks’ computer systems), the halt of most manufacturing systems, the evaporation of the technical knowledge that now exists mainly in the cloud, and other consequences is so alarming that the book could draw attention in a way no official report can.” Find out more when John visits on Tuesday, April 13, at 7:00 PM.

Directive 51 (Hardcover)

By John Barnes

$25.95

ISBN-13: 9780441018222
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Ace Hardcover, 4/2010

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The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "a master of the genre"

Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something called "Daybreak." The group is diverse and radical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatred for the "Big System" and their desire to take it down.

Now, seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the world are in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy modern civilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top government personnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement its emergency contingency program...Directive 51.

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