Today is the birthday of Tamara K., the editor of the long-running and very entertaining View From The Porch blog.
January 24th is also the birthday of René Barjavel (born 1911, died November 24, 1985). This prescient French science fiction author wrote several books with survivalist themes, including Ravage, which was titled Ashes, Ashes in its English translation.
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Today we present another review written by our Field Gear Editor Emeritus, Pat Cascio.