cobb%srvax.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (06/28/85)
From: cobb%srvax.DEC@decwrl.ARPA > The End of Civilization as We Know It > > I have, in thinking of some of the books I have enjoyed over >the last few years, realized there is a small sub-genre that I seem >to enjoy. It is the one where civilization is zapped (or at least >totally screwed up) by a non-alien occurrence. So far I have read >Lucifer's Hammer, The Stand, and War Day. I am currently reading >The Floating Dragon, and have enjoyed the first half of the book. >Does anyone else enjoy this kind of Speculative Fiction? > >Brendan E. Boelke I do like the kind of book you are talking about. I'll give you a recommendation of another book to read, "EMERGENCE" by David Palmer. I really liked the book and recommend it highly. Also let me be the first to drop this joke on you: "ARMAGEDDON sick and tired of these 'End of the World' stories" KEN COBB
lum@osu-eddie.UUCP (Lum Johnson) (07/04/85)
Is Steven King too verbose for you? Try Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's "Time of the Fourth Horseman", c 1976. "Twenty-first century medical science has wiped out all of the deadly diseases. Yet in one American city patients have begun to flock to the hospitals with smallpox, diphtheria, and all the other enemies that were supposed to have been defeated forever, plunging the over-populated city into an epidemic of death, violence, and destruction...." "Yarbro has a fine way with the wicked and a clean, terse style ... a versatile and distinctive talent." -- Kirkus Review "Her writing flashes with a dark and bloody vividness." -- Publishers Weekly 250 pages you will *not* put down. -- Lum Johnson Lum Johnson ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!lum or lum@osu-eddie.uucp (Speaking of verbose, could someone condense Tucker's argument? Should run about 2500 words after it's cut... I stopped following (er, trying to follow) it after about episode three. Wotta mouf!)
JAFFE@RUTGERS.ARPA (07/08/85)
From: osu-eddie!lum (Lum Johnson) Is Steven King too verbose for you? Try Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's "Time of the Fourth Horseman", c 1976. "Twenty-first century medical science has wiped out all of the deadly diseases. Yet in one American city patients have begun to flock to the hospitals with smallpox, diphtheria, and all the other enemies that were supposed to have been defeated forever, plunging the over-populated city into an epidemic of death, violence, and destruction...." "Yarbro has a fine way with the wicked and a clean, terse style ... a versatile and distinctive talent." -- Kirkus Review "Her writing flashes with a dark and bloody vividness." -- Publishers Weekly 250 pages you will *not* put down. -- Lum Johnson Lum Johnson ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie!lum or lum@osu-eddie.uucp (Speaking of verbose, could someone condense Tucker's argument? Should run about 2500 words after it's cut... I stopped following (er, trying to follow) it after about episode three. Wotta mouf!)