flory@zaphod.UUCP (Trevor Flory) (10/24/85)
Well Folks, here is the first issue of the ``Man in the Rubble''
suggested reading list. I have collected the following from email
responses to my original request and postings gathered from
net.sf-lovers and net.books. I have included the recommendor's
comments where it seemed appropriate.
BTW, if anyone can provide further information --such as the name of
an unknown author-- please feel free (email please). Thank you all
for your input. I will gladly accept further recommendations.
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__Greybeard__
(by): Brian W. Aldiss
(pub): Granada
__Earthworks__
(by): Brian W. Aldiss
(pub): Granada
SYNOPSIS:
Pollution has brought civilization to its knees. The
protagonist travels through enough realms of decay
--both geographic and social-- to present a lasting
image of a dying world.
__Orion Shall Rise__
(by): Poul Anderson
__Nightfall__
(by): Isaac Asimov
SYNOPSIS:
``A classic short story about a world orbitting multiple suns,
forever in daylight, where civilization crumbles each epoch in
which all of the planet's suns are eclipsed simultaneously.''
Ray Lubinsky (rwl@uvacs.UUCP).
-can be found in the anthology of the same name.
__Catastrophes__
(by): editors: Martin Greenberg, Charles Waugh and Isaac Asimov
SYNOPSIS:
``... the best collection of end of the whatever stories ....''
Jon (pugh@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU).
__By the Waters of Babylon__
(by): S. Vincent Binet
SYNOPSIS:
short story (source unknown).
__A Boy and His Dog__
(by): Harlan Ellison
SYNOPSIS:
Short story to be found in the anthology entitled
_The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World_.
__I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream__
(by): Harlan Ellison
SYNOPSIS:
Short story to be found in the anthology of the same name.
__The White Plague(?)__
(by): Frank Herbert
__Riddly Walker__
(by): Russel Hoban
SYNOPSIS:
Apparently it takes a little effort to get past the
language. Enjoyable thereafter.
__The Stand__
(by): Stephen King
(date): ca. 1978.
__Hiero's Journey__
(by): Sterling Lanier
SYNOPSIS:
``Lots of strange critters.''
__Notes of a Survivor__
(by): Doris Lessing
SYNOPSIS:
Warning: Lessing is rather pessimistic.
__God's Grace__
(by): Bernard Malamud
SYNOPSIS:
``The last primates on Earth are a Jew and his chimp.''
__Dreamsnake__
(by): Vonda McIntyre
SYNOPSIS:
``... a very well developed picture of the society of the
post-holocaust world.'' Chuck Koelbel (chk@mordred).
__A Canticle for Leibowitz__
(by): Walter J. Miller Jr.
SYNOPSIS:
Three parts, three phases of life after a holocaust.
Some consider this to be the classic ``MITR'' novel.
__A World Out Of Time__
(by): Larry Niven
SYNOPSIS:
``Thrown three million years into the future by a relativistic
space voyage, the hero returns to Earth to find the survivors
of humanity living among the ruins.''
Ray Lubinsky (rwl@uvacs.UUCP).
__The Castle Keeps__
(by): Andrew Offutt
SYNOPSIS:
Non-Nuclear holocaust.
__Davy__
(by): Edgar Pangborn
__Alas Babylon__
(by): Frank Pat
__Lucifer's Hammer__
(by): Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
SYNOPSIS:
Follows the lives of various characters before and after
a meteor/asteroid strikes the Earth and effectively ends
civilization.
__Dinner at Deviant's Palace__
(by): Tim Powers
__The Wild Shore__
(by): Kim Stanley Robinson
__The Empire of the East__
(by): Fred Saberhagen
SYNOPSIS:
``Good book, but we're starting to stretch the genre quite a
bit here.'' Tom Phillips (trantor!phillips)
__On The Beach__
(by): Nevil Shute
SYNOPSIS:
``This was one of the first classics of the after the
destruction type. It deals with the situation as encountered
by an American submarine on duty at the start of the War.
Both the movie and the book are excellent.''
Bob Guernsay (bob@scgvaxd.UUCP).
__Nightwings__
(by): Robert Silverberg
SYNOPSIS:
``Way after the end, caused by invasion of aliens.''
__Tom O'Bedlam__
(by): Robert Silverberg
SYNOPSIS:
``Mysticism and mutation.''
__Earth Abides__
(by): George R. Stewart
SYNOPSIS:
``... a great man-in-the-rubble story. The catastrophe
is non-nuclear. The post-catastrophe re-building is insightful
and interesting.'' Peter Benson (benson@dcdwest.UUCP)
__In the Drift__
(by): Michael Swanwick
__The Peace War__
(by): Vernor(?) Vinge
SYNOPSIS:
``... not exactly a 'man in the rubble' kind of story, but
still very good in terms of survival of the human spirit.''
__Cat's Cradle__
(by): Kurt Vonnegut
SYNOPSIS:
``A wry, witty end-of-the-world yarn which introduces my
favorite substance, Ice-nine.''
Brent Slocum (Slocum.CSCDA@HI-MULTICS.ARPA).
__Galapagos__
(by): Kurt Vonnegut
(date): still in hardback.
__Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang__
(by): Kate Wilhelm
__The Day of the Triffids__
(by): John Wyndham
__This Immortal__
(by): Roger Zelazny
SYNOPSIS:
Setting: long enough after The Fall that Man has regained
``a morality''.
__Malevil__
(by): unknown
__Radix__
(by): unknown
(date): recent paperback.
SYNOPSIS:
``Perhaps a classic.''
__Triumph__
(by): unknown
__War Day__
(by): authors unknown
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PS: I respectfully acknowledge the MITR reading list posted
by mcb@styx in <13941@styx.UUCP>. However, in recognition
of all those who emailed me their suggestions and critiques
I feel compelled to post this list if only out of respect
for their efforts.
--
Trevor K. Flory UUCP: ...!ihnp4{!alberta}!sask!zaphod!flory
Develcon Electronics Ltd. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
"... the play is the tragedy, `Man',
And its hero the Conqueror Worm."
Poe, c.1838