This is a partial list of apocalypse -n-progress or post-apocalyptic novels that I have not read but that I have on hand.
To get to 50, I only had to list off the unread novels in my Kindle:
Driving Toward Disaster, Ron Foster
Matthew and the Derelict Joseph Wood
Omnilingual H. Beam Piper
The Last Pilgrims Michael Bunker
Apocalypse Island, Mark Edward Hall
Seed, Rob Ziegler
The Eagle has Crashed, Ted Lacksonen
Half Past Midnight, Sam Winston
Invasion: Alaska Vaughn Heppner
Torn, Various Authors
The Bunker Book 1, E.J. Camacho
Desperate Times, Nicholas Aritinozzi
Bio-Angel, Des Michaels
Tinker’s Plague, Stephen B. Pearl
The Heirloom, Richard Davies
The Knight of the Long Knives, Fritz Leiber
Pike, Benjamin Whitmer
The Judas Syndrome, Michael Poelt
EXOS, Michael Ammann
Rhubarb Culture, David C. Waldron
Through Darkest America (Extended Version?), Neal Barret Jr.
The Old Man and the Wasteland, Nick Cole
Terminator Gene, Ian Irvine,
Life Lottery, Ian Irvine
The Last Albatross, Ian Irvine
The Great Collapse, Jeff W. Horton
Surviving Passion (The Shattered World), Maia Underwood
The Breach, Patrick Lee
Ranchero, Rick Gavin
Shut Down, W.R. lynn
Grants Pass, Various Authors
After the Apocalypse, Maureen McHugh
The A-men, John Trevillian
Outside- A post Apocalyptic Novel, Shalini Boland
As Wind in Dry Grass- H. Grant Llewellyn
Race Against the Machine, Erik Brynjolfsson
Eyes of God, Philip Babcock
Scourge of an Agnostic God, Michael Juge
The Oblivian Society, Marcus Alexander Hart
Renewal, JF Perkins
The Purple Cloud, M.P. Shields
Ashes of the Earth- A Mystery of Post Apocalyptic America, Elizabeth Bear
Hammered, Elizabeth Bear
Catastrophia, Various Authors
Earth Hour, Ken MacLeod
Noise: A Novel, Darin Bradley
Welcome to the Greenhouse, Gordon Van Gelder
Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century…, Robert Charles Wilson
A Land of Ash, Various Author
The Bayour Trilogy, Daniel Woodrell
A Winter’s Bone: A Novel
Savage Night, Jim Thompson
2003: The Real Story of What Happens to America, Albert Brooks
2084: An Oral History of the Great Warming, James Powell
Deep Winter, Thomas Sherry
Love in the Time of the Apocalypse, Gregory Blecha
That is more than 50. I did it in a hurry. There a couple of titles that may not be within genre, but I have not even touched the physical books on hand. Since I have an interest in the “history” of the genre, I have more pre-Kindle titles on hand than Kindle ones.
I could easily get through these titles in a year if I avoid too many long boring slogs (aka – Directive 51), and stopped reading non-fiction. Mind you long books that are good (Earth Abides, and so far Warday) are perfectly fine, even if they slow up the mad frenzy of reviews. It is easier to keep notes in the pre-kindle books (kindle note keeping gets cumbersome if you note to many items), and a little easier to do the reviews, so I do have a tendency to grab the non-Kindle titles first.
7 comments:
ok. i guess i believe you now. but man - i have been checking some of the titles on the internet and there are some real interesting reads on that list. gonna have to find some of them second-hand. i like used books. thanks for sharing, buddy!
your friend,
kymber
Might want to try on "Fitzpatrick's War" by Theodore Judson. You may well find it interesting
D: Thanks, I have seen it. The problem with P-A stories that far after the collapse is that they are often more a way to tell a story within a completely different setting (in this case a retelling of Alexander the Great) without being complete fantasy.
K: Yes, they may not all be great (I haven't read them yet after all), but at least they passed the first filter of wretchedness. But be forewarned that Kindle titles are cheap, so I sometimes buy a little impulsively. Even more so than usual.
What I found the most intriguing about FW is the way that population and technology had stabilized. That is the real food for thought that I had coming out of the read.
Technology won't go away, even the highest technology, the key will be how it will be integrated and to what extent
D: Allright, allright LOL.
It wouldn't even be my first faux Alexander the Great (via Augustus Ceaser) read.
http://reflexionesfinales.blogspot.com/2011/08/profession-thriller-review.html
But it is being added to a very long list. You don't even have half of it here.
It is a good thing I read fast.
Do you ever get bummed out during your readings?
:)
Jennifer
I am always going to be reading something. Usually multiple books at one time.
I loved the few survival in a distress books that I read growing up (generally cozies), but pre-internet they were hard to find consistently. Compared to the non-fiction I read, they are pretty light and fluffy.
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