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« Reply #75 on: January 31, 2012, 10:02:57 PM » |
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Lucifer's Hammer Niven & Pournelle Alas Babylon by Pat Frank On the Beach by Neville Shute The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Stand by Stephen King Swan Song by Robert McCammon Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny Just to name a few  Harry, this is fantastic. I grew up on a steady diet of these books as my dead tree versions will attest:  In addition to Fever Crumb, I don't think I saw Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles mentioned. Really enjoyed that series though it's technically YA.  Unfortunately, it's not available for Kindle yet. Pity. |
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« Reply #76 on: January 31, 2012, 10:11:00 PM » |
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« Reply #77 on: January 31, 2012, 10:53:34 PM » |
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Um, excuse me....sorry to interrupt...can anyone tell me what book Soylent Green was based on?
I saw in one of the threads here recently. It was on TV the other night...good stuff! I hadnt seen it in yrs.
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« Reply #78 on: January 31, 2012, 11:05:59 PM » |
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Um, excuse me....sorry to interrupt...can anyone tell me what book Soylent Green was based on?
I saw in one of the threads here recently. It was on TV the other night...good stuff! I hadnt seen it in yrs.
That would be Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. |
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« Reply #79 on: January 31, 2012, 11:10:49 PM » |
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That would be Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.
Thanks so much! |
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« Reply #80 on: February 01, 2012, 12:09:17 PM » |
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Hi,
I'll stick with the oldies as well. John Wyndham, the Day of the Triffods and the Kraken Wakes. Have read both many times. And Hitchikers always. (It is sort of post apocolyptic after all.) And I enjoyed Zelazny's Damnation Alley quite a bit, mostly because of the MC who sometimes is just too tough / hard to be real, even for the last Hells Angel.
I think special mention has to go to Vernor Vinge for his The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime. The invention of the bobble is awesome, and his drawing up of the technological singularity as the end of the world is highly original.
Cheers, Greg.
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« Reply #81 on: February 01, 2012, 01:50:44 PM » |
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Margaret Atwood's "After the Flood"
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« Reply #82 on: February 01, 2012, 06:57:11 PM » |
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I just finished Zone One: A Novel and it was pretty good. It's about reclaiming New York City after the zombies make a mess of the place. |
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« Reply #83 on: February 01, 2012, 09:49:22 PM » |
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I just finished Zone One: A Novel and it was pretty good. It's about reclaiming New York City after the zombies make a mess of the place. Wow, pricey! It does sound interesting tho, and I'm not a big zombie fan. I added it to my Kindle Price Tracker....maybe it will find it's way to my K someday! Thanks for the heads up. |
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« Reply #84 on: February 12, 2012, 08:10:33 PM » |
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They've all been mentioned before but I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Stephen King's The Stand and John Christopher's The Death Of Grass are all superb examples of how to write this kind of End Of Days type fiction. All are fantastic reads.
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« Reply #85 on: February 12, 2012, 10:11:14 PM » |
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The Old Man And The Wasteland, by Nick Cole.
Kindle version is only $.99.
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« Reply #86 on: February 13, 2012, 03:30:22 AM » |
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« Reply #87 on: February 13, 2012, 11:24:05 AM » |
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GO GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE by Victor Gischler. One of the most fun end of civilization books ever written.
I have that -- I think it was a cheap Amazon recommendation when I needed a few dollars to get free postage -- but I found it a bit disappointing. It started well, but it seemed to fall apart in the last third or so. |
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« Reply #88 on: February 17, 2012, 01:40:40 PM » |
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The original War of the Worlds, of course.
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« Reply #89 on: February 17, 2012, 11:07:51 PM » |
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For real end of the world stuff David Graham's Down to a Sunless sea is a standout for me ... unfortunately it's not available on Kindle. But, you can buy the Hardcover (new) from Amazon for just $104.22  also The Stand by Stephen King - my all time favourite book. Swan Song by Robert McCammon- really enjoyed this. |
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« Reply #90 on: February 17, 2012, 11:53:49 PM » |
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For real end of the world stuff David Graham's Down to a Sunless sea is a standout for me ... unfortunately it's not available on Kindle. But, you can buy the Hardcover (new) from Amazon for just $104.22 also The Stand by Stephen King - my all time favourite book. Swan Song by Robert McCammon- really enjoyed this. The Stand is my all time favorite too. And loved Swan Song (and picked it up cheap for Kindle recently) And hope to find Down to a Sunless Sea 2nd hand somewhere, someday. |
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