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I really liked Emergence though the writing is a bit hard for the first page or so. Its written in shot hand as a diary of a super smart girl surviving TEOTWAWKI. Pretty good, fun read.
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Any idea what happened to Jerry Ahern and his book writing (I seem to recall he also wrote a couple with his wife)? He had several series as I recall in addition to the Survivalist. He also did the Mercenary series writing as Axel Kilgore. I know William Johnstone died, but they are still publishing books under his name and I think they have just begun to reprint the Ashes series again. |
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Last I heard, he was still in the gun business. I suppose that's about it.
Something interesting about Ahern |
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"Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion. . . ."
-John Jay 1787, The Federalist Papers |
Recently finished Empire
First half was great and very believable...second half made you go WTH? Author introduced too many sci-fi devices too late for a book based on literally today. Recently finished When the Almond Tree Blossoms Slightly dated premise but something similar could happen given the right political winds. Political thriller with little action but a good description of how American Socialists would govern. Recently finished The Last Town on Earth Biological catastrophe. Premise based on a socialist colony closing its doors to a plague. A little slow in parts but a good reflection of how many would deal with a community quarantine. Currently reading The Rift Just ordered Vandenberg and The Land of Empty Houses |
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I read My Side of the Mountain and Alas,Babylon back in middle school, both several times. Great books, I should go read them both again, probably get a better appreciation now. |
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The Alcohol Fuel Handbook / by Lynn Ellen Doxon.
by Doxon, Lynn Ellen Art of Nothing An excellent series of DVD's showcasing primitive skills: http://www.hopspress.com/Videos/Art_of_Nothing.htm Barnyard In Your Backyard edited by Gail Damerow Basic Essentials. Edible Wild Plants & Useful Herbs by Meuninck, Jim The Biodiesel Handbook by Gerhard Knothe The Bread Builders:hearth loaves and masonry ovens by Wing, Daniel Breathe No Evil Safe-Tek Publishers Brown's Second Alcohol Fuel Cookbook. by Brown, Michael Halsey Build a Root Cellar & Storm Shelter by Hobson, Phyllis Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski Great reference on primitive wood skills. The Can Opener Gourmet by Karr, Laura The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: community solutions to a global crisis by Greg Pahl http://www.chelseagreen.com/2007/items/citizenpowered The Coming Economic Collapse - how you can thrive when oil costs $200 a barrel by Leeb, Stephen The Complete Book of Dutch Oven Cooking by Fears, J. Wayne The Complete Book of Fire: building campfires for warmth, light, cooking, and survival by Tilton, Buck The Complete Book of Survival by Stahlberg, Rainer An outstanding all encompassing guide to the philosophy of surviving - Highly Recommended. The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants by Lyle, Katie Letcher Country Wisdom & Know-how Numerous authors and publishers...all contain worthwhile information. http://www.amazon.com/Country-Wisdom-Know-How-Editors-Publishings/dp/1579123686 Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times by Richard G. Mitchell Jr Edible Wild plants by Meuninck, James Edible Wild Plants of Pennsylvania and Neighboring states by Medve, Richard J. Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West Gregory L. Tilford http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Medicinal-Plants-Gregory-Tilford/dp/0878423591 Emergency Preparedness. Awareness & Survival DVD Apogee Communication, 2006 - Highly Recommended. http://www.apogeevideo.com/emergency/emergency.htm Farming for Self-sufficiency by John and Sally Seymour Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America by Peterson, Lee. First Aid for Dogs. Various authors under related titles...First Aid for Cats...Horses...Pets....even Insects! Four-Season Harvest:organic vegetables from your home garden all year long. by Eliot Coleman Going Local: creating self-reliant communities in a global age by Shuman, Michael Grit Magazine http://www.grit.com/ Guns and Ammo Magazine How to Dry Foods by DeLong, Deanna. Life after doomsday by Bruce D. Clayton Magic of Wheat Cookery by Tyler, Lorraine Dilworth Making Your Own Motor Fuel by Fred Stetson Master list of survival books: http://www.survivalcenter.com/bookbs.html Mother Earth Magazine Al back issues available on CD ROM for nominal cost from: http://www.motherearthnews.com/ Natural Home Heating: the complete guide to renewable energy options by Pahl, Greg Nutrition and well-being A to Z Delores C.S. James editor The Omnivore's Dilemma www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php Pantry Cooking : quick and easy food storage recipes by Robins, Laura PDR for Herbal Medicines by Medical Economics Peak Oil Survival: preparation for life after gridcrash by McBay, Aric Powerdown: options and actions for a post-carbon world by Heinberg, Richard Primitive Living, Self-sufficiency, and Survival Skills : a field guide to primitive living skills by Elpel, Thomas J. The Renewable Energy Handbook:a guide to rural independence, off-grid and sustainable living by William H. Kemp Root Cellaring : the simple no-processing way to store fruits and vegetables by Bubel, Nancy./Bubel, Mike Seed to Seed: seed saving techniques for the vegetable gardener by Ashworth, Suzanne Shelters, Shacks, and shanties: the classic guide to building wilderness shelters by Beard, Daniel Carter U.S. Army combat skills handbook / Department of the Army. Lyon's Press Zips, Pipes, And Pens: Arsenal Of Improvised Weapons by J. David Truby V |
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I love the list! I am a prolific reader, and I intend to read a bunch from the list, and acquire a bunch from the technical list posted above.
If you download, you can find a lot of books as .pdf or microsoft reader files. I have the first 43 DeathLand novels downloaded, and all of Heinlein's works. All in all my ebook collection is over 40 GB. If you look around, you can find it and download it. Steve |
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Make your enemies by choice, not by chance - Alfred Bester
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Just finished "The Road" {and no, not because it's on Oprah's Book Club list) and "Dying to Live" and put "A canticle for Leibowitz" and "Wastelands : stories of the Apocalypse" on hold at the local library.
The Road was cool. Kind of less about survival in terms of being a resource.. more about the journey. Dying to Live was cool. Had a few interesting elements to it. Certain things probably could have been explored a little deeper while others not explored enough... it was a pretty short and easy read... most people could probably knock it out in a few sittings in the bathroom. I'm a slow reader and I knocked it out in about a week or so (not entirely in the bathroom though) |
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"Now they wanna put microchips inside the pedophiles to keep tabs on them. You know what makes it even easier to keep tabs on them? BURIALS!!"
-Dennis Miller |
Want something a bit different?
The Walking Dead - a black and white graphic novel about zombies taking over the world. The story follows several survivors and their travels. Action, sex, murder, rape, revenge, and zombies! Easy reads, well drawn and well written. Av. |
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Proud member of the Pink Pistols.
Watch me restore a 1952 USMC M38A1! http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=493147&page=1 |
Considered it. Have it on my Amazon Wishlist. Just haven't pushed myself to buy it. I actually kind of prefer books without pictures in this case so my imagination has full reign on how the post-apocalyptic world would look. The Walking Dead was actually a comic done about 17+ years ago by another comic company called Aircel. Not sure if there's any connection at all to the current one or not. I still have a few of those old issues. Not sure if the art was better of worse than he current Image series. I always loved the cover art from this issue though. Here's another link to the old series |
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"Now they wanna put microchips inside the pedophiles to keep tabs on them. You know what makes it even easier to keep tabs on them? BURIALS!!"
-Dennis Miller |
I'm about halfway through Lucifer's Hammer. I am enjoying it a lot.
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We're going streaking!
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Swan Song by Robert McCammon; survival in a post-nuclear war United States with a bit of the supernatural mixed in. Kinda like the The Stand.
www.robertmccammon.com/novels/swan_song.html |
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I've been meaning to read Louis Lamour's "Last of the Breed." I hear it's very good.
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There's someting wrong with the world today
The lightbulb's gettin' dimmed |
I got A Canticle for Liebowitz from the library. I'm not too far into it yet. Can't seem to get into it yet.
By the reviews it sounds more sci-fi'ish than survival fiction. I didn't realize how long of a period the story spans... which is kind of a turn off. I'll give it a little longer before I decide if it's going back or not. |
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"Now they wanna put microchips inside the pedophiles to keep tabs on them. You know what makes it even easier to keep tabs on them? BURIALS!!"
-Dennis Miller |
Yay.... The Road by Cormac McCarthy "OPRAH'S Book Club" endorsed...
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good read but very depressing also |
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It had some good parts and it's always cool to read about what people do to survive... but a lot of it had a pretty blah pace to it. The dialogs between the father and son were kind of bland... as much as the father loved the boy there wasn't a whole lot of feeling in their conversations. |
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"Now they wanna put microchips inside the pedophiles to keep tabs on them. You know what makes it even easier to keep tabs on them? BURIALS!!"
-Dennis Miller |
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I really enjoyed it--three day read I thought about buying --Dying to live -By Kim Paffenroth. unsure if it would be a good read?? |
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Just finished it myself. I thought it was a good book personally. Though the battle mechs and hover bikes were a bit much for the type of book it started out as. Though the man is a Sci-Fi writer so I guess its understandable. I just transfered the battle mechs and hover bikes for some mundane military toy in my head. One of the best parts of the book was the afterward by Orson. Here is a link:Link to afterwords |
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Found the original Ashes book (Out of the Ashes) the other day, and have been reading it.
Quite a bit better than some of the others in the series (which sucked really bad), but the authors in-your-face, double-minded political opinions are very annoying. |
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"Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves." - President Andrew Jackson, when he forced the closing of the Second Bank of the U.S., by revoking its charter
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Power PLay as I remember reading it a few years ago was a really good read.M |
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Add Footfall also by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Not completely end of the world but an interesting read about an alien invasion of earth.... Lucifer's Hammer was a bit better, IMHO |
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Northwest Houston Tactical Inc |
I'm about 2/3 of the way through L'amour's 'Last of the Breed,' and it's really good. Not an EOTWAWKI book, but definitely a SHTF book.
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There's someting wrong with the world today
The lightbulb's gettin' dimmed |
I thought Footfall was BORING. Lucifer's Hammer was good, but it had it's slow times. Footfall dragged through most of the book. Av. |
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Proud member of the Pink Pistols.
Watch me restore a 1952 USMC M38A1! http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=493147&page=1 |
Footfall got its start as part of the notes for Lucifer's Hammer. Lucifer's Hammer was going to either be a HUGE book or a trilogy about an alien invasion, which was started with a comet strike directed by the aliens at Earth. Niven and Pournelle got so wrapped up in the survival story aspect they dropped the invasion angle, and STILL had a book about 30% larger than the one you have read. After trimming sections dealing with Kansas and a missile base, and some stuff about the East Coast, the remaining story still kicked butt. Then, years later they got re-interested in the invasion angle, which still had a large asteroid strike as part of the plot. |
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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." Jean Dutourd
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Emergence was good, though its been years since I've read it.
+1 for The Patriot. Not quite EOTW but good... Kildar by John Ringo- Actually read the whole series is good. Kinda like Tom Clancy but X rated. Kildar is about 'Jenkins' equipping his private army and defending his lands in Georgia (country not state) from the Chechens. |
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I have finished Patriots, Alas Babylon and I am currently reading Lucifer's Hammer.
IMHO, the best book is Patriots by far. I liked Alas, Babylon, but it was dated. |
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Cold Asylum by James Axler
It,s it worth buying---Was it a Good read ? |
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Does anyone know the name of the following book?
Future after WWIII, US has gone back to tribal/native type of society. One group (Dog Warriors?) is the main character, he is chiefs son and has a bodyguard/mentor that has a tattoo on his cheeks covering scars from when he was captured by a rival tribe. City type people with a all female church that controls the society by banning all technology. And then a group of pre-WWIII (with technology) wake up from their cryogenic sleep when there bunker is damaged by a earthquake. If I remember correctly they were meant to wake up alot sooner but instead they were a couple of hundred years late. Hopefully someone will have read it and remember what it was called. |
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If there's lead in the air, there's hope!
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I just finished another book I've added to my post-apocalyptic fiction list. It's The Black Death, by Gwyneth Cravens and John S. Marr. It's about the Black Plague striking New York City(Manhattan mostly), and what happens after. They block off all the tunnels and bridges and try to quarantine the place. Pretty interesting book.
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Patriots, My Side of the Mountain, and my favorite Lights Out. As far as short stories go I've read alot of Jerry D Young stories.
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I have it at home and can picture the cover in my mind. I'll check this evening when I get home and post it. I want to say it was called "Warrior" something, but that doesn't help without remembering the author. |
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I'm currently on book #4 of Johnstone's Ashes series. I read one title in the series ten years ago, and thought it was garbage.
Since there isn't a whole lot of post-apocalyptic fiction out there, well.... beggers can't be choosers. This time around, I'm not going to jump in the middle of the saga. Started at book #1 and then continue on in order. The protagonist is quite the nazi, while at the same time denouncing naziism . Kinda makes you wonder if the author had his head screwed on tight... Review of the series and another review |
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"Do you need to be told that even such modest attainments as you can boast in the way of polite society will hardly survive the Faith to which they owe their significance?" T.S. Eliot
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Doomsday Warrior, maybe? |
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That would be it. Thanks guys!
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If there's lead in the air, there's hope!
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Johnstone's 'Ashes' series is back into print. I bought books 4, 5, and 6 at Wal-Mart the other day.
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There's someting wrong with the world today
The lightbulb's gettin' dimmed |
I've got that series at home. The original book was ok, but the sequels didn't live up to the original. |
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*post contains personal opinion only and should not be considered information released in an official capacity*
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I just finished it in two days... couldn't put it down... Fantastic book. There is a movie being made, but so far I can't find the trailer... |
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"The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is." Ronald Reagan
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Down in North Carolina on vacation and just rolled through this book in 2 days as well. Excellent read. ETA: I was also wondering "WTF?" with the Oprah book club endorsement. |
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The Dark Tower series by Stephen King are my second favorite books of all time!!! (second to cannery row by steinbeck) Never ever liked anything else by King but these are great!!
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"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." -Frank Sinatra
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I was telling a friend about "Earth Abides" by George Stewart today and started thinking about it... to me, it's more of an academic look at what could happen, focusing on how nature would react and rebound without man around. On the other hand, I found it awfully unrealistic, even naive maybe, when it came to how people interacted with each other. The first part of "The Stand" by Stephen King (which was inspired partly by "Earth Abides") is more accurate for today's world, in my opinion.
I can't decide if "Earth Abides" strikes me this way because it was written in 1949 and people were different (more friendly?!? community minded?!?) back then or because it wanted to focus on other things without the drama of the bad aspects of human nature. Maybe I'm the naive one. I'll cast my votes for "The Road" (book) and "Time of the Wolf" (movie) here. |
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I'm now on book nine of William Johnstone's post-TEOTWAWKI Ashes series.
They aren't too shabby, if you start from the beginning. Wal-Mart, of all places, carries them. If you ever wondered what all those references to "Tri-States philosophy" meant in those old issues of American Survival Guide, this is where it came from. |
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"Do you need to be told that even such modest attainments as you can boast in the way of polite society will hardly survive the Faith to which they owe their significance?" T.S. Eliot
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I'm in the middle of Parable of the sower by Octavia Butler. There are some scifi elements, but not many, and the main character is starting a new religion, but it does not become obtrusive (so far).
Basically, it is the story of the US after an economic collapse that pretty much does in the middle class. |
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