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Convoluted style works (usually) in `The Last Ship'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880320
Author:Algis Budrys

The after-catastrophe tale is older, probably, than even Daniel Defoe's A Journal of The Plague Year, though the invention of nuclear warfare has given the genre a big boost. Some attraction like a sore tooth draws people to write and read this story repeatedly, even if it's often the same story with the same cast.

William Brinkley's post-Atomigeddon The Last Ship (Viking, $19.95) supplies it once again. Question is, how well? Next question: What do you mean by "well" in this context?

A lot of the good and reliable is in here: the steadfast, reasonable hero attempting to ensure the ...

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