The Atom Curtain

"For two hundred and seventy years America has been totally cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of raging atomic fury. To the frightened countries of the Old World, what had once been the greatest of all powers was now the most fearful of all mysteries. No man ached to know what lay behind that frightful barrier more than Emmett O'Hara, restless air-sentinel of the International Patrol-whose American ancestors had been stranded in Britain the day the Atom Curtain was raised. Then, on December 20, in the year 2230, while on routine patrol, O'Hara did the impossible. He broke through the barrier-and lived! This imprint from Bardic Literary House revives a lost gem of Cold War sci-fi. In an era of nuclear fascination and tense political uncertainty, authors like Nick B. Williams turned to speculative futures filled with secret societies and atomic firestorms to make sense of their present. The Atom Curtain joins the ranks of these visions, and is a worthy read for any fan of classic 1950s and 1960s science fiction.