The Folk of the Fringe

In Orson Scott Cards classic apocalyptic science fiction novel The Folk of the Fringe only a few nuclear weapons fell in America--the weapons that destroyed the nation were biological and ultimately cultural. . But in the chaos the famine the plague there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret formed from the vestiges of Utah Colorado and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there on the fringes brave hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.. A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women one by one working together to make a community a nation a new America.