Cool book to read after "1984. "43,000 Years Later" by Horace Coon. We have a near fine copy 1958 print 1 (http://vintagebookseller.myshopify.com/…/43000-years-later-2). In the year 0A.D., according to traditional dating ideas, Jesus Christ was born. Forty-three thousand years later Earth is visited by an exploratory expedition from the Great Galaxy. This expedition is led by Zolgus, an imperious, hard-minded autocrat, Yundi, an even-tempered person of balanced education, and Xia, a romantic student of the social sciences. These three find that the earth is bereft of much of its animal life, though the vegetation still grows lushly. A brief examination of earth's geography reveals that somewhere around 2000A.D. a nuclear cataclysm took place, which destroyed the main species, all civilization, and much of the animal life. Mystified and chastened by this discovery the three researchers begin excavation to try to piece together some of the truth of how this disaster came to take place and why.

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