This is a old paperback book in good condition. It has to go as am trying to declutter and downsize. Shipping is free and included in the price because it is just less hassle that way.

Damnation Alley is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, based on a novella published in 1967. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1977. The story opens in a post-apocalyptic Southern California, in a hellish world shattered by nuclear war decades before. Several police states have emerged in place of the former United States. Hurricane-force winds above five hundred feet prevent any sort of air travel from one state to the next, and sudden, violent, and unpredictable "garbage storms" and giant, mutated animals and insects make day-to-day life a mini-hell. Hell Tanner, an imprisoned killer, is offered a full pardon in exchange for taking on a suicide mission—a drive through "Damnation Alley" across a ruined America from Los Angeles to Boston—as one of three Landmaster vehicles attempting to deliver an urgently needed plague vaccine.

Barry Malzberg found the book "an interesting novella converted to an unfortunate novel," faulting it as "a mechanical, simply transposed action-adventure story written, in my view, at the bottom of the man's talent." Zelazny himself agreed with Malzberg, stating that he preferred the novella and only expanded it at his agent's request to make it more viable for a movie deal.

The novel Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams is an homage to Damnation Alley. The two authors later became good friends. The 2000AD story The Cursed Earth was inspired by Damnation Alley. The Hawkwind album Quark, Strangeness and Charm contains a song inspired by the story. The setting and premise of the 2011 Lonesome Road add-on for the post-apocalyptic computer game Fallout: New Vegas was inspired by Damnation Alley, according to lead designer Chris Avellone.The film adaptation of Zelazny's novel was also one of several sources of inspiration for the original Fallout...