Swan Song (novel)

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Swan Song (ISBN 0-671-74103-9) is a 1987 science fiction novel by American novelist Robert R. McCammon. It is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction describing the aftermath of a nuclear war that has provoked a nuclear winter.

Characters

The story follows several main characters:

Sue Wanda Prescott, or Swan, the eponymous young woman who has an empathic ability with plant life, allowing her to accelerate the growth of or resurrect dead plants through physical contact.
Josh Hutchins, an African-American wrestler stage-named Black Frankenstein, and later The Masked Mephisto at the beginning of the second book. Both Josh and Swan survive the war in a storm cellar (tornado shelter), and he becomes Swan's guardian.
Sister Creep, later simply referred to as Sister, a formerly-deranged bag lady, who survived deep underground in the New York City Subway system.
Colonel Macklin, a survivalist contracted by investors to oversee a mountain bunker, inside which he survived during the nuclear attack.
Roland Croninger, a young boy that was brought to Macklin's mountain bunker by his parents and survived there, after which he took Colonel Macklin as his "King." Refers to himself as "Sir Roland."
The Man with the Scarlet Eye or Man of Many Faces, an incarnation of the devil, similar to Stephen King's Randall Flagg.

Awards

Swan Song won a 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.

Nuclear winter is a hypothetical global climate condition that is predicted to be a possible outcome of a large-scale nuclear war. It is thought that severely cold weather can be caused by detonating large numbers of nuclear weapons, especially over flammable targets such as
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Storm cellars are underground structures that are either located below buildings, or are built underground near houses or other such buildings. They are reinforced structures into which residents can go for protection from a strong wind storm.
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tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, a cumulus cloud base and the surface of the earth. Tornadoes come in many sizes but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, whose narrow end
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New York City Subway

Locale New York City
Transit type(s) Rapid transit
Began operation first section of subway: October 27, 1904
first elevated operation: July 3, 1868
first railroad operation: October 9, 1863^[1]
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A survivalist is a person who anticipates and prepares for a future disruption in local, regional or worldwide social or political order. Survivalism is a commonly used term for the subculture or movement of people who make such preparations.
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Stephen King

Stephen King
Pseudonym: Richard Bachman
John Swithen
Born: September 21 1947 (age 60)
Portland, Maine, U.S.
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Randall Flagg is a fictional character created by writer Stephen King. Flagg has appeared in a number of King's novels under different names, many of which have the initials R.F.
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The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA.
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Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.

1987: Misery by Stephen King (tie)
1987: Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon (tie)
Live Girls by Ray Garton

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The Stand

First edition cover
Author Stephen King
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Horror, Science Fiction
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 1978
(Re-released in 1990)
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