I have read A Canticle For Leibowitz/Miller, and have started War Fever/Ballard and Beyond Armageddon/Miller and Greenberg, the first two recommended through world4ch.
Anything else that isn't D&D-RPG paperback?
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Anonymous2005-12-06 12:13
Maybe Black Easter or Faust Aleph-null and The Day After Judgement - James Blish.
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Anonymous2005-12-06 15:33
Also, in a more apocalyptic sense, from J. Blish too :
The 'Okies' stories prepublished in Astounding Science Fiction, known collectively as the 'Cities in Flight'. A quadrilogy.
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Anonymous2005-12-18 23:04
Blood Music by Greg Bear is excellent. For that matter, Eon by Greg Bear involves the entire world being blown up and is pretty decent. But I find Greg Bear to be VERY hit-and-miss.
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Anonymous2006-03-29 19:07
Blood Music by Greg Bear is excellent. For that matter, Eon by Greg Bear involves the entire world being blown up and is pretty decent. But I find Greg Bear to be VERY hit-and-miss.
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Anonymous2006-03-29 19:47
haha what the fuck i made this thread 4 months ago. What a weird bump. :o
I'm still interested in those novels, since I can't find any of the ones mentioned at my libraries.
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Anonymous2006-04-14 23:12
Cell, The Stand (Both Stephen King), and 1984, because I think that counts.
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Anonymous2006-05-29 12:14
Is there an end-all book of apocalypse fiction? There are so many novels and they all look like they could be terrific or horrible paperback pulp.
Some say Stand, but I don't see how King could know anything at all about scifi as purely a horror author.
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Anonymous2006-05-29 13:41
since when is knowing anything about science a prerequisite for writing scifi? (hint: it isn't)
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Anonymous2006-05-29 16:02
I agree, and never said it was. But knowing about scifi is a prerequisite for writing scifi. This is why scifi authors stick to scifi and why non-scifi authors only write bad scifi or scifi without the sci.
There are authors who have written nothing but apocalypse their entire lives. King pumps out horror film scripts once a year. I simply don't trust him enough to give him 2 months of my life to see if he knows as well as someone dedicated to it. The apocalypse isn't horror, and King isn't that great at what he does in the first place.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 2:17
Evensong. I can't remember who wrote it, but it was a nice look at the end of the world. Apparently after everyone dies it's all talking animals and kittens and rainbows and stuff.
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Anonymous2006-05-30 2:22
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut is apocalyptic, isn't it?
everyone fucking froze in the end. or are we talking about the biblical one?
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Anonymous2006-05-30 2:52
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Read it. Just in general - the end of civilization, or the beginning of another.
I'll definitely check out Galapagos. Cradle was chilling, but Vonnegut has a knack for making comic book characters that kill the mood like yogurt after sex. The horse-faced lesbian sister, her gay midget brother, big black native titties getting fucked in a fallout shelter, the insurance salesman still acting like an insurance salesman..
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Thanks. I was interested in religious apoc., but they all seem too texty rather than lyrical.
Evensong's is a pretty thin book. It's something you should be able to read in one sitting, maybe after dinner, that'll let you go to bed with a nice warm feeling, and the hope that tomorrow, EVERYONE WILL DIE.