[net.sf-lovers] The End of Civilization as We Know It

goun%vacant.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (06/28/85)

From: goun%vacant.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Heisenberg may have slept here)

"End of the world" stories are probably my favorite SF sub-genre.  Try
_Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea_, by an author whose name unfortunately escapes me at
the moment (where's jayembee when you need him?).  It's the story of the
passengers and crew of a 747 jetliner trying to survive the outbreak of a
nuclear war.

I didn't actually break out in tears reading this book, but I sniffled a
bit.

					-- Roger Goun

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JAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA (07/08/85)

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J._Paul_Holbrook.OsbuSouth@Xerox.ARPA (07/09/85)

From: Holbrook.OsbuSouth@Xerox.ARPA


Two more of my favorites in the "end of the work" catagory:

'Earth Abides' by George Stewart.  This is a novel from (I believe) the
50's.  The basic plotline involves a disease that does nasty things to
most of the people in the US.  This is one of the earlier novels I've
read in the sub-genre; well worth reading.

Another novel you might enjoy is a little farther out: 'A Canticle for
Leibowitz' by Walter M Miller Jr.  This 1959 novel is set in the future
long after a nuclear war.  It's a curious blend of religion and how
civilization rebuilds itself.  It follows a monsastic order that
dedicates itself to preserving information from the long dead
civilization that occured before the war.   One of my all-time favorite
sf books.

	Paul