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Posted: 6/12/2007 11:20:32 AM EDT
I blasted through "Lights Out" in about 3 nights reading and now I'm craving my next "The Stand," "Gunslinger," "Lights Out," "I Am Legend" type book. Can anyone give a list of the more plausible scenario EOTWAWKI type books? For example, Zombies and Vampire aren't exactly what I'm looking for.
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The Road
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I finished it a few days ago. |
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"We can rebuild the buildings that OBL knocked down, and we can bury our dead, but these marxist feminist gun grabbing sodomy promoting abortionists are the real WMD that will bring down the republic." - Belloc (AW)
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Is "Gunslinger" also a Stephen King ...i.e. book one of the dark tower series?
Everytime I see someone mention books on here I usually try to make a note to read them. |
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I guess it's time for The List again.
48 - James Herbert 8.4 - Peter Hernon A Hunter's Fire - Floyd D. Dale Aftermath - Charles Sheffield Aftermath - LeVar Burton After the Bomb(series) - Gloria D. Miklowitz After the Rain - John Bowen Airship Nine - Thomas H. Block Alas Babylon - Pat Frank Amerika - Brauna E. Pouns A Place Called Attar - J.D. Belanger Arc Light - Eric L. Harry Armageddon(short stories) - David Drake & Billie Sue Mosiman Ashes, Ashes - Rene Barjavel Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Breakdown - William W. Johnstone Cold Creek Cash Store - Russell Hill Dark Advent - Brian Hodge Dark December - Alfred Coppel Death on a Warm Wind - Douglas Warner Death Wind - William C. Heine(also published as The Last Canadian) Defiance(also published as Vandenberg) - Oliver Lange Denver is Missing - D.F. Jones Doomsday Plus Twelve - James D. Forman Domain - James Herbert Down to a Sunless Sea - David Graham Earth Abides - George R. Stewart Emergence - David R. Palmer Ende - Anton-Andreas Guha Famine - Graham Masterton Firebrats(series) - Barbara & Scott Siegel First Angel - Ed Mann Free Flight - Douglas Terman Heartland - David Hagberg I, Martha Adams - Pauline Glen Winslow I Am Legend - Richard Matheson Ice! - Arnold Federbush Ill Wind - Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason In Iron Years - Gordon R. Dickson Into the Forest - Jean Hegland Invasion - Eric L. Harry Jenny, My Diary Jericho Falls - Christopher Hyde Level 7 - Mordecai Roshwald Living is Forever - J. Edwin Carter Long Loud Silence - Wilson Tucker Long Voyage Back - Luke Rhinehart Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Malevil - Robert Merle Mister Touch - Malcolm Bosse No Blade of Grass - John Christopher Not This August - C.M. Kornbluth Nuclear War(short stories) - Edited by Gregory Benford & Martin Greenberg Omega Sub(series) - J.D. Cameron On the Beach - Nevil Shute One Just Man - James Mills Out of the Ashes(series) - William Johnstone Pandemic - Geoffrey Simmons Path of the Pale Horse - Paul Fleishman Patriots - James Wesley, Rawles Power Play - Kenneth M. Cameron Pulling Through - Dean Ing Rankin: Enemy of the State - John Osier Resurrection Day - Brendan DuBois Shelter - Dan Ljoka Some Will Not Die - Algis Budrys Storm Rider(series) - Robert Baron Survival 2000(series) - James McPhee Survival Margin - David Graham Survivors - John Nahmlos Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon The 40 Minute War - Janet & Chris Morris The Big One - Kevin E. Ready The Black Death - Gwyneth Cravens and John S. Marr The City, Not Long After - Pat Murphy The Day of the Star Cities - John Brunner The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham The End of the World(short stories) - Donald A. Wollheim The Freeman - Jerry Ahern & Sharon Ahern The Iron Rain - Donald Malcolm The Kraken Awakes - John Wyndham The Land of Empty Houses - John L. Moore The Last Ranger - Craig Sargent The Last Ship - William Brinkley The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett The Long Winter - John Christopher The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick The New Madrid Run - Michael Reisig The Plague - Albert Camus The Postman - David Brin The Rest Must Die - Richard Foster The Rift - Walter J. Williams The Sheep Look Up - John Brunner The Stand - Stephen King The Steel, The Mist, and the Blazing Sun - Christopher Anvil The Survivalist (series) - Jerry Ahern The Turner Diaries - Andrew MacDonald The Wild Shore - Kim Stanley Robinson Those Who Favor Fire - Marta Randall Time Capsule - Mitch Berman Tomorrow! - Philip Wylie Vector - Henry Sutton War Day - Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka We, The Few - John L. Hawkinson When the City Stopped - Joan Phipson When the Almond Tree Blossoms - David Aikman Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm Wolf and Iron - Gordon R. Dickson Wrath of God - Robert Gleason Z for Zachariah - Robert C. O'brien |
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Cool post, i read like theres no tommorow(), that lot should keep me busy, thanks!. ps. Day by day armageddon was excellent, read it four times now, Children of the dust by Louise Lawrence is ok, read it at school with Z for Zachariah.
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I just finished reading: Patriots - Surving the Coming Collapse.
Unintended Consiquences, and Enemies Foreign and Domestic. All great books! Been trying to make it through your list. Here's what I've read so far.
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"THE LIST" will now keep me busy for a little while.
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Pickup a copy of The Rift Very nice read.... It's long and will keep you busy for a while... I'm reading the road.... Very thought provoking, it really makes you appericate a well stocked BOB....
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Which of those books are more about bugging out than bugging in? Maybe a similar situation to Lights Out, except the home is uninhabitable and he had to go elsewhere?
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EMPIRE by orson scott card, Great book and even plausible if the dems get in office and really spur a revolt.....
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Just as the name implies... The Road by Cormack McCarthy. |
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"We can rebuild the buildings that OBL knocked down, and we can bury our dead, but these marxist feminist gun grabbing sodomy promoting abortionists are the real WMD that will bring down the republic." - Belloc (AW)
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Got to add the sequel to Enemies: Foreign and Domestic - "Domestic Enemies". Fantastic sequel! Not exactly post apocalyptic, but a GREAT read just the same. Best to read them in order, as there's a lot of carry over characters.
Patrad. ETA: Patriots, and Unintended Consequences are top notch, too. |
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Where's my tinfoil... Funny thing, I ordered Enemies, Unintended, and Patriots all through Amazon. Do you think I'm on a new special interest list? All 3 are must reads in my book. |
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The "War World" series is a good read for post-apocalyptic sci-fi. It's a collection of short stories over several novels that spans about 500 years in Pournelle's Codominium universe.
Overview: The last of the Saurons (genetically modified "super men" or super warriors) flee the nuclear immolation of their planet and make a bunch of jumps until they get to the declining, backwater planet of Haven, which they proceed to nuke back to the iron age and set up a feifdom with the eventual goal of reconquering the universe. It covers the immediate TEOTWAWKI dislocation and then the slow, grinding technological descent pretty well. |
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Where's my tinfoil...
Funny thing, I ordered Enemies, Unintended, and Patriots all through Amazon. Do you think I'm on a new special interest list? All 3 are must reads in my book. HAHAHA, I did the same thing and have thought about the same thing......I'm on a list somewhere now.....the question is, what list and who's list? |
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thanks for the list, been looking for something like that for a while now.
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I just want a list of the great ones. I'm not a patient reader. I need to be pulled in quickly or it goes back on the shelf.
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I'm no Stephen King fan, or at least, I wasn't. The Dark Tower series is a great "read". I put "read" in quotes because I listened to the series on my iPod. That is the way to go. I just finished "The Road" too. Pretty good book. I have "read" more books since I got my iPod than I ever did before. The Library is a good thing. Mark. |
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I didn't much care for The Turner Diaries either, but it's one of those books that I figure they'll be sure to ban one of these days.
One thing about The Road that bothered me was that unexplained disaster that mysteriously "burned up everything". Of course, The Road wasn't the only book to have that idea in it. In Malevil there was a nuclear war, and the nuclear weapons seemed to be unusually big(especially considering they were being used on France ). I think many writers tend to exaggerate the effects of nuclear weapons(maybe because they've swallowed too much propaganda?). |
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Farnham's Freehold and Tunnel in the Sky; Robert A. Heinlein
"Watch out for the stobor." Beyond Armageddon (anthology of apocalyptic fiction) and A Canticle for Leibowitz; Walter M. Miller Jr. |
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+1 That will never be in my library. |
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+1, one of the few book series I've re-read quite a few times (every couple of years). Love that slow spiraling technological decay...energy weapons, to guass, to caseless bullits, to automatics, to flintlocks, to bows and arrows...all while gentic manipulation/ evolution of the natives brings them in-line with the Saurons. |
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I just found Survival 2000(blood quest)by James McPhee in a box of books from my youth. I do not remember reading it, something for a really hot day.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."Thomas Jefferson (letter to William S. Smith, 1787)
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I am going to bump this up for a recomendation. I have read Lights Out, World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide, The Road and I just finished Lucifer's Hammer. Instead of picking random books off the list that was posted can you guys post some of the better ones that are on there?
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Alas, Babylon is probably the all-time classic. Barnes & Noble probably still has it on their shelves.
While some may question whether it qualifies as a "TEOTWAWKI"-genre book(it is the aftermath of an invasion), Vandenberg by Oliver Lange is also a must-read, IMHO. It has been out of print for a long time, so you will have to locate a used copy. That isn't hard to do, using Amazon... Here is another list: www.1stconnect.com/anozira/SiteTops/resources/fiction.htm FWIW, Jerry Ahern's The Survivalist series is entertaining, in a pulp fiction kind of way. Aftermath by James Axler is a good introduction to both the Deathlands and Outlanders series (the latter being mostly sci-fi). |
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"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility." - Thomas Szasz
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"The last Town on Earth" is a fictionalized story, of the true life Colorado town that armed itself and closed its borders. The towns people were defending themselves from the Spanish Flu epidemic that was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Americans.
This book has some gun play and an attack from a neighboring community. So it will entertain. It also offers some insight into how well different types of people respond to TEOTWAWKI situations. *************** Another great book is "The Siege of Leningrad". Harrison E. Salisbury. This is a first hand account of a true SHTF event. It is a very long book with very small print. If you want a clear picture of what an American city could be like after SHTF. Then this is a very good reference text for the hard core survivalist. In this book you will find graphic examples of barbarism such as.... Not just looting, but hundreds of people pushing and shoving to lick wallpaper to get at the wheat paste! .... Learn about the strange Bread mania- People waiting in line for rations, impaling themselves on bayonets because the smell of baking bread was overpowering.... Then there is the reason you'll want to change your food cache to "cold or boil only" rations. Packs of ferrel men running down streets. Sniffing at the air like hungry dogs. Then smashing down the doors of those who are cooking food. These are two good books if you want to read then think about how they relate to Survival. If you prefer someones guess at what survival will be like, along with bloody action. Then these will be too boring. |
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That's what I've read from the list. The three that I give dates for I read just last week. Of the three, Alas, Babylon is most like a survivalist style story. A book not on the list is, I think, very very good: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George amazon link. It's from 1959. A boy lives off nature for a year in the Catskill Mountain wilderness. I read this last week. GL |
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Into the Forest ---> how about that lesbian action? |
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Why is everybody scared shitless of this book? It doesnt contain any secret battle plans of AR2 and I didnt think it was very well written, but its nothing to have a heart attack over.... |
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Currently reading Earth Abides. Pretty good so far; am about a third of the way through with it.
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If you are interested in the Native American vision, Phoenix Rising is a good book.
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Very cool list. Some I've read and some I have to get, but you might want to look at
Day by day armageddon Entertaining read... got some silliness to it, but some different perspective on the Zombie invasion. Better than a sharp stick in the eye. I heard about it on Arfcom, so... |
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I read it about 14 years ago, if my memory serves me correctly it is written like a diary, thought it was interesting. |
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Because the over-the-top racism is pretty disgusting. |
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"Today I'm going to war with New Bern, KS, home of the nearest Costco. Today is already about as weird as I can handle, I'm not asking any more questions."
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I figure if law & order ever disappear there will be a LOT of disgusting things happening, including plenty of racism. When the nutcases have nobody telling them they'll go to jail if they act on their impulses plenty of them will probably try to fulfill their sick "dreams". |
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the Zombie Survival Guide, Brooks
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My Homer moment. Dope!
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I've read and added a few more to the list recently. I'm thinking maybe I should just start putting them at the bottom of the list so I can keep track of which ones I've already added there.
The White Plague - Frank Herbert Commander-1 - Peter George A Gift Upon the Shore - M.K. Wren The Last Town on Earth - Thomas Mullen A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe |
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great thread and list of books. i read through lights out in about a week. good story for the most part, great info, but too many cliches, i wish the prologue had a little more detail in it. but i can't complain, the price was right.
i tried to find some info on the author, but didn't have much luck. anybody know much about him and whether he's written any other books? now to try to find my next read from the list, somebody needs to post a brief summary of each book to make my decision easier. |
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He posts on this board. He's participating in another thread on this forum
www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=10&f=20&t=607182 |
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thanks for the link. posted there. |
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Keeping MICHIGAN zombie free one round at a time!
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I suspect many of us are on "lists" somewhere..... |
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Shoot it man...shoot it in the head..just not with a 5.7 PS90 cause it'll only piss em off!
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Sad but true. The book is good and I can see liberalism today as a force much like in the book. If this book was made into a movie "they" would burn down theaters. Ugly things will happen and some will be for no other reason but race. My wife and child is what this book calls a "mud person" so I'll just add these types of people to my zombie list. |
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Tunnel in the Sky was a special book for my. Up there with "The Hobbit" and "LOTR". It is 1000 times better than "Lord of the Flies" and is everything that that book tried to be. |
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