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I'm not sure it would even be really accurate to say DOOMSDAY.1 has a "similar premise" to DOOMSDAY+1. Both are set in a post-apocalyptic world, yes, but the cause of the apocalypse is completely different, as is the world -- or, more correctly, small portion of the world -- that "survives".DOOMSDAY+1, of course, was a kind of last gasp of the Fifties style of post-WW3 stories, what I have called the "…and then we get to ride the giant grasshoppers" tales that we saw in such profusion before those darned scientists went and spoiled everything by figuring out what would REALLY happen if we unleashed a nuclear holocaust upon ourselves. The first time the phrase "nuclear winter" slipped into the lexicon, books like DOOMSDAY+1 slid even deeper into the realms of fantasy than they were already. DOOMSDAY.1, then, is a reflection of what we have learned about how the Earth would "react" to various kinds of catastrophes, in this case one of a much more "cosmic" nature than a "mere" nuclear war. Part of my prep for this book, in fact, lay in working out for myself a map of the "world" in which my stories would take place -- roughly this: 
The white circle represents the "habitable" area, the light gray the less habitable, and the rest -- well, forget about the rest! Nothing there but smoke and ash!
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