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I enjoyed Soft Apocalypse, which reminded me of the classic Earth Abides in a way. They're both ultimately sad books, good, but sad.
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I read both of those in hardback years ago, both were very good. I might give Lucifer's Hammer a reread, it's been so long I can barely remember it.
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I recommend "Flood" by Stephen Baxter. It 's about what happens when the oceans starts rising much more rapidly than expected. It's followed by "Ark".
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Mankinds Worst Fear by David l. Erikson whilst containing some off-planet (mars) action is mostly a earth based sci-fi. Check it out.
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Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
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I just remembered that Isaac Asimov has a collection of stories called Earth Is Room Enough.
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Started reading Earth Abides yesterday. Thanks to all who recommended it. I had a hard time putting it down.
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I'm not sure if it's what you are looking for, but I recently bought the first series of Yesterday's Gone by Sean Platt and David Wright. The first two are free but I bought the whole first series after reading the reviews at Amazon.
The bumpf about it classes it as a post apocalyptic serial thriller in the form of several short stories. It seems to be written in the same vein as Wool by Hugh Howey, which I thought was excellent. I've yet to read any of it but it's next on my TBR list. I'm sure I'll buy the second and third series too as I love the genre. The authors have another series written in the same way called White Space but I've not read much about that one. |
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If you can find it. . .
"Davy", by Edgar Pangborn Why it's unavailable as an eBook is one of the great literary tragedies.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Uko...source=gbs_atb Also good is "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz |
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That's interesting, or rather puzzling. I "read" it last night, or attempted to, as I ended up skipping forward 20 pages at a time until I reached the end after a couple of hours or so. I found the writing old-fashioned as well as stylistically awkward and stilted, the story yawn-inducing and the whole package profoundly unengaging. In fact I found it to be one of the worst books I've tried to read in a very, very long time.
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Mine is backed up too. I'm always nice to my books, whether or not I enjoy them.
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The Beyond Armageddon Series by Anthony DeCosmo.
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