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Where are the Bicycles in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction?

After the apocalypse, don't look for a backpack; look for a Schwinn

Randall Parker hits on one of the things that always irritates me about post-disaster movies and books:

I'm reading some after-the-electromagnetic pulse disaster novels where the electric grid has collapsed.

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