Y2K-The Millennium Bug

By Don L. Tiggre

Y2K: The Millennium Bug is about fallible, human people, not about superheroes. Some are valiant and some are vile, but they all have to deal with their own problems in order to survive the kind of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738801186
• ISBN13: 9780738801186
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 537 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Condsider this novel in your relocation plans

I recently read the novel by Don Tiggre "Y2k, The Millennium Bug", I think it may have some serious clues for people thinking about relocation. Tiggre create's a plausible scenario of the gradual collapse of civilization as a result of y2k, it doesn't all happen on new year's day. There are people who are able to act without external guidance, and there are various people, organizations and places which escape relatively unscathed due to presently unidentified virtues and careful advanced planing.

It's all there! Action, philosophy, violence, benevelence!

Y2K: The Millennium Bug is a well-crafted story about how half a dozen people react and develop during the turn of the Century to 2000 in America when computers fail, chaos ensues and riots follow. It's a tale of action, a superb final battle, characters that develop over the 540 pages and do normal, courageous and vile human acts. More importantly and interestingly, the characters are not super heroes but normal, if not very determined, to achieve their goals. This applies to both protagonists and antagonists. Angel Jesus Ortega, a ruthless and streetwise LA thug, sees the Y2K computer crisis as a chance to take over LA and takes steps to accomplish this goal. His childhood girlfriend, Rosalia, whom he still loves, spurns his actions as Ortega keeps her locked up. This conflict, which spans the book, grows and develops into a tortuously clever psychological battle that continues apace as the wider, more physical action plays out. While this strange dual develops, there is a Randian pureness in Rosalia who attempts to change Ortega. Randians gleefully notice that the main antagonist is named Angel Jesus. Meanwhile in Utah, the Mormons are more prepared to handle the emergency and do not have the riots the rest of the big cities in America experience. Dr. Jared Christensen, a Mormon doctor living in Florida has warned the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City of the Y2K crisis and is summoned to Utah to help out. As he drives with his family through a riot-plagued America from Florida to Utah he learns the lessons of the Second Amendment, the necessity of defending your life and family with a firearms. Here is an example of Tiggre's method of inserting ideology. He does it by showing his characters' actions instead of giving them long speeches. We have more interesting and colorful characters. Merlyn T'bawa, a father-figure from Jamaica is building a strongly defended Galt's Gulch in Colorado with construction well along when the crisis hits. His methods, his insistence on voluntary contracts, his total commitment to laissez-faire are more examples of how we learn of Tiggre's purpose. It is at Merlyn's Dollar Ranch, in a huge climactic battle with Angel Jesus Ortega, who by then leads an army of thousands of thugs, that we have the psychological climax as well. Merlyn's friend Army officer Lt. Colonel Alexis Thomas, who warns the Defense Department of the Y2K crisis, plays an important role. She really is an individualist but stays in the Army because she gets to do what she really likes more than anything else...fly modern combat helicopters. Her heroism and tenacity are matched by her disgust when the President of the US, during a briefing, hits on her breasts. Why who could this president be? A Russian series of atomic bombs also adds to the worldwide action but Thomas, now promoted to general, literally flies into the plot, along with a little horizontal action in a hovering airborne helicopter on autopilot

The best "End of the World" novel in forty years

There seems to be a key frequency in "End of the World as We Know It" novels that are actually good reading. In the 1930s, there was _When Worlds Collide_. In the 1950s, there was _Alas, Babylon_. In the 1970s there was _Lucifer's Hammer_. Finally there is one for the 1990s. Yes, there have been a lot of books published set after the holocaust-of-your-choice, most of them wish-fulfilment action adventures where the hero's ammunition is as unlimited as that in a Western movie. This novel features realistic people with realistic problems, and ammunition inventory is one of them on occasion. The scenario is that of massive computer failures and the effect they have on people and society in the wake of the (now) famous "Millennium Bug". (Contrary to popular belief, it's _not_ a bug, it's a design flaw that has been common knowledge among computer professionals who've been warning management and others for decades -- but I digress). All kinds of people. A financial manager in New York. A stripper in Las Vegas. A doctor in Florida. A gang leader in Los Angeles. A lecherous president in Washington. There are good guys, there are bad guys, there are neutrals who just want to be left alone. Just one sequence, the tension/release involving a leftover Soviet doomsday system that the post-Soviet Russians sort of forgot to disable that's run by a computer that suddenly doesn't expect to hear from Moscow for a century, is worth the price of admission. And that's not the best part. Oh, yes, for some reason most of the good guys in the book seem to have somewhat libertarian attitudes and most of the bad guys don't, and based on my personal experience, that is one of the most realistic aspects of the novel.

Intelligently Crafted Doomsday Novel

One of my all time favorite "the end of the world as we know it" novels has always been Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven's LUCIFER'S HAMMER.With Y2K: The Millennium Bug, I've finally found another intelligently crafted doomsday novel. There are many vividly portrayed scenes in Don Lobbo Tiggre's novel that pop to mind during my daily life...scenes that hauntingly cause me to pause and wonder "what if?"Don Lobbo Tiggre's reputation as a libertarian philosopher and political activist has been forged on the Internet as organizer of the fun loving bunch at Liberty Round Table, but fear not this book is not a political treatise. There are hints of Tiggre's political affiliation, but it never detracts from the gritty Y2K catastrophe story line. Mark A. Laughlin Author of THE PHILOSOPHY IN DEFENSE OF FIREARMS

Get ready for the Millennium!

In the final hours of December 31, 1999, the lights went out.But you knew that already; what you¹re probably wondering is, what happened afterwards. I recommend you read Y2K: The Millennium Bug to find out.This novel is much more than a story about the dark side of our reliance upon computers (and government). It is a thriller that follows the lives of a number of people: those who prepared for the worst, and prospered; those who were taken by surprise, but whose instincts and attitudes helped them to survive; and those whose dependence upon society¹s fragile infrastructure was total ‹ and fatal.The book is full of characters I would love to know: people with no more native ability than your next-door neighbor possesses, but people who triumph because of their intellectual and moral integrity.And, refreshingly, the bad guys are truly bad. I found myself booing and hissing them, even though Tiggre develops their characters with enough skill that there is no hint of melodrama.Characterization is a necessary feature if a novel is to be really great, but there also must be a terrific story. And this book has one; rather it has several, and Tiggre excels in developing these complex stories while keeping them under control and weaving them together for a very satisfying ending.Buy it, read it, and get ready for the Millennium! ‹ Robert B. Boardman author of Savior of Fire