Richard E. Geis Ordre des livres

BEATSPOLITATION Today we would call the sensationalizing of the cultural phenomenon known as the beat generation to sell books and movies, Beatsploitation. What you won't be reading in this volume are lost or overlooked classics of Beat Lit. Don't expect to find books the caliber of On the Road, Go, Junky or Last Exit to Brooklyn. The books herein were written to cash in on the beat movement... Although the writers of these books never achieved any literary grandeur, it shouldn't be inferred that they didn't have beatnik cred. Indeed, all three of the authors lived in that milieu-Coons and Golightly in Greenwich Village and Geis in Venice, California. These books don't have any literary pretension of defining what the beat movement was, but rather they reflect the places and period in which beatniks were prevalent. This fact doesn't make these books any less worth the attention of the student of the beat generation. Indeed more can be learned about the reaction of the public to the beatniks than by reading the entire oeuvre of authors such as Kerouac or Ginsberg... -from "How JFK Killed the Beatniks" by Jeff Vorzimmer

The morning after the apocalypse. The desperate few struggle for what's left of a shattered world.THE YEAR IS 1992.A star wars weapon has gone out of control, unleashing a solar flame that destroys half the earth.In the burnt lands of Europe, few survive, and those that do must struggle for food and shelter. The rich and powerful&mash;those with money and those with guns—battle one another to control the charred remains of their countries.The United States stands strong—until the forces of terror strike at its leadership.One special man can pull a dying world back from the brink of total catastrophe in the final struggle for survival of the fittest... and most savage.Billions of people had died on the irradiated, daylight side of Earth. And, after the one-hour flare, millions more had died from the devastating super-hurricanes, enormous tides, and searing, continent-eating firestorms. The survivors of these disasters now faced starvation and erratic, killing weather for decades to come.John Norris, global troubleshooter, had frustrated the precise plans of a fanatic group of scientists two months ago. Now he was destined to deal with another power-seeking band of extremists...