Post-Apocalyptic Literature Recommendations : Othor Games

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:08 am

Went to work earlier and came back to this. Thanks, everyone. Pretty sure I'm set for a while.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:24 pm

Deathlands? I have so many of them, at least 60. My wife uses the books as gifts, she gives me 3-4 at a time but she won't tell me where she get them

...can I have your wife?

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:28 am

The final one, and probably my favourite (though a lot harder to get over here, might be easy over there) is "Damnation Alley" written by Roger Zelazny. Great fun, and you can see how Carpenter's "Escape From New York" (and LA) were influenced by it.

Stellar suggestion, which I concur with most heartily. The movie "Damnation Alley" is nothing like the book and is one of the worst adaptations I have ever seen. "Escape From New York" is conceptually much closer.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:00 am

I thought The Stand by Stephen King was pretty good.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:37 pm

Not sure if it is post-apocalyptic style, but the Stephen King The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger was pretty good.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:20 am

...can I have your wife?

Sorry, shes all mine

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:26 pm

Sorry, shes all mine

And so it was done, there shall be no wife sharing.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:15 pm

And so it was done, there shall be no wife sharing.

Nope, trades and sales only, all transactions are final

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:05 am

I'm not into this kind of thing, but I read a summary of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" and it sounds pretty darn post apocalyptic.

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:15 pm

You can check out Extinction Chronicles. I don't mean to plug myself but my book deals with some post apoco material. Two of the shorts deal with the world on the verge of extinction and the other four tell a tale of how we got there. The Observer, that's the one with a new spin on apoco stuff, is really out there. Check it out, you might like it. It's an independent work. There was no editor hacking up things so it's my full vision. If all pans out I'll follow up with a Novel dealing with material in The Observer. I can safely say there is some stuff for the horror/sci-fi genre that you haven't seen before going on with this Novella.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:03 am

Thanks, all.

I'm buying a book tomorrow at Books-A-Million, and I've narrowed the selection down to five books:

1. Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
2. Blindness - Jose Saramago
3. Swan Song - Robert McCammon
4. The Passage - Justin Cronin
5. The Stand - Stephen King (but I'm only getting this one if the other four aren't available... I need to quit reading King and nothing else)

» Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:09 pm

The Road is brilliant. I cried at the end. I just wept manly tears.

A bunch of the compilations and novels on here have been on my Amazon.ca Wishlist for a long while, I just haven't had a chance to order them yet.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:51 am

The Genesis of Shannara series by Terry Brooks is pretty good.