

From my research, the expectation is that after something like this happened, it would take six to 18 months for us to get back on our feet.

“When you have a strong community, this is something that eventually they can work their way past however, in a system of so little trust and so much tech, it would hit hard and the effects become far-reaching. “It’s not the nuclear bomb blast, it’s not the robots harvesting us, it’s not the shambling zombie hordes,” Williams says of the world-ending occurrence from which springs the action of the novel.

When an electromagnetic pulse event shorts out most of today’s devices, large and small, the Amish do as they’ve done for centuries: They make do, as best they can, guided by their community bonds and faith. The difference is, his characters are Amish, people who eschew most aspects of technology and describe that world beyond theirs as that of The English. Williams’ story is another contender for the crowded contemporary shelf describing The End of the World as We Know It. Author David Williams (Photo by Joseph LeBlanc)
