From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/28/2026 9:14 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > In article <10lehob$104c2$1@dont-email.me>, Titus G     
   wrote:   
   >> McCarthy is one of my favourite authors but The Road was most   
   >> disappointing. I think of it as a horror and shaggy dog tale which would   
   >> have been better as a short story. The science aspect has been heavily   
   >> criticised here previously but that wasn't a problem for me as I just   
   >> accepted the situation as initially described.   
   >   
   > There is no science because there is no explanation about how things got   
   > this way.  Nothing at all, and that is part of the disturbing bit... I spent   
   > so much of my time trying to figure out what had happened and in the end   
   > I never did.   
   ...   
      
   To me, it was nuclear bombs burning everything.  First with heat and the   
   overpressure event, then it was the radiation, then it was nuclear   
   winter.  However, it could have been massive solar flares cooking the   
   Earth like in "The Book of Eli".  Or it could have been a massive meteor   
   hitting in the Chicago area.  Or a couple of other items such as a   
   sudden massive volcano.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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