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REAL reading list both reference and fictional - NorthernRaider - 27 November 2012
Book list, factual and fictional.
Northern Raider
One set for reference and planning, the other set for mental preparation of how to handle likely scenarios.
AfterLight Alex Scarrow
Aftermath, Charles Sheffield (Very Good)
After Doomsday, Poul Anderson
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (Hard to grasp )
Alas Babylon, Pat Frank (Truly a superb classic)
Amerikan sunset, Jennifer Ladewig (Drivel)
A Wrinkle in the skin, John Christopher (A character essay )
Black Sun, Robert Leininger Very good
Blood Crazy, Simon Clark
Crabs, Guy Smith
Comet, (The) Robert Charles Very Good
Damnation Alley, Roger Zelazny Better than the movie
Day after Tomorrow, (The) Whitley Strieber
Day by Day Armageddon J L Bourne (SUPERB BOOK )
Day By Day Armageddon Beyond Exile J L Bourne ( 2nd in series)
Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
Death of Grass, John Christopher
Deathlands, Jack Adrian
Deluge, Fowler Wright
Deluge, Richard Doyle
Drought ,(The) JG Ballard thought provoking
Drowned world, (The) JG Ballard interesting
Down to a sunless sea, (either version) David Graham (Truly great, another classic)
Earth Abides, George R Stewart 2nd only to Alas Babylon
Earth Winter, Richard Moran
Eternity Road, Jack Mc Devitt Interesting future shock
Empire of Ice, Richard Moran
Empty World John Christopher
Famine, Graham Masterson
Flood, Richard Doyle
Freeman, (The) Jerry Ahern
Heavy Weather, Bruce Sterling
Ice, Arnold Federbush depressing
Icefire, Judith & Garfield Reeth Stevens entertaining
Ice Quake, John R Spencer
Kraken Wakes, (The) John Wyndham
Last Light Alex Scarrow
Last Ranger, (The) Craig Sargeant ( Rambo wannabe crap)
Living is Forever J Edwin Carter
Lucifer's Hammer, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. (Becoming a classic)
Long voyage back, Luke Rhineheart (In the top ten of all time )
Long Loud Silence, ( The) Wilson Tucker
Last ship, (The) William Brinkley
Malevil, Robert Merle
Moonfall, Jack Mc Devitt
Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark (Good follow on from Day of the Triffids)
New Madrid Run, (The) Micheal Reisig
On the beach, Neville Shute
One Second After William R. Forstchen (will become a classic)
Out of the Ashes, ( Ashes series) William W Johnstone
Plague 99, Jean Ure
Plague of the dead (Morning Star Saga) Z A Recht
Patriots, James Wesley Rawles (A Brilliant piece of work)
Postman, (The) David Brin
Resurrection Day Brendan Dubois
Rift, (The) Walter J Williams
Savage Dawn, Robert Cole
Shiva Descending, Gregory Benford
Some will not die, Algis Budrys
Stand, (The) Stephen King
Survivors Terry Nation ( British Classic)
Survivalist, (The) series Jerry Ahern
Third Pandemic, ( The) Pierre Ouellette
This is the way the world ends, James Morrow
Thunder & Ashes (Morning Star Saga) Z A Recht
Virus, Japanese Author ( lost from my collection)
When the City stopped, Joan Phipson
Wild Shore ( The) Kim Stanley Robinson Deep stuff
World in Winter ( The) John Christopher
Year of the quiet sun, Wilson Tucker Surprisingly Good
48, James Herbert
8.4, Peter Hernon good read
28 Days Later, Alex Garland
All good stuff for making your mind more accessible to the possibilities and permutations. Most of these books are very thought provoking and make you think about some concepts you otherwise mare have overlooked.
My Favourites are ALAS BABYLON and Patriots, and Day By Day Armageddon, but One Second After is gaining in my esteem.
READING MATERIAL LIST
Factual and reference
Apocalypse Tomorrow Duncan Long 0-87947-089-5
Archery Steps to Success. Hayward / Lewis
Beneath the City Streets, Peter Laurie: 0586050558
Build the perfect survival kit 0-87349-967-0
Bug Out Scott B Williams 978-1-56975-781-9
Earth Shock Basil Booth & Frank Fitch 0-7221-1778 7
How the live Off-grid Nick Rosen 978-0-385-61127-5
Just In Case Kathy Harrison 978-1-60342-035-8
Life after doomsday Bruce D Clayton 0-87364-175-2
Outdoor Survival guide Hugh Mc Manners 0-7513-0644-4
SAS Survival guide (pocket size) John lofty Wiseman 0-00-470167-4
Surviving Doomsday C Bruce Sibley 07219-0780-6
Survival guns Mel Tappan
Tappan on Survival Mel Tappan 0-916172-04-x
The Coming Global Superstorm Bell and Strieber 0-7434-0888-8
The Survivalists Patrick Rivers 0-413-31650-5
The Nuclear Survival Handbook Barry Popkess
The Survival Retreat Ragnar Benson 0-87364-275-9
The Modern Survival Retreat Ragnar Benson 0-87364-980-x
The Survival Nurse Ragnar Benson 1-58160-075-5
Travel Vans John Speed 99920-1-158-0 (The book for building BOVs)
When Technology Fails Mathew Stein 1-57416-047-8
When All Hell Breaks Loose Cody Lundin (VERY VERY American)
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - TheFalcon - 27 November 2012
thanks NR
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - Mandlaka - 28 November 2012
Awesome list, NR!
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - Scythe13 - 28 November 2012
Thanks for the list NR.
I have a wife. How am I going to find time to read all these? Haha.
Really appreciate you putting that effort in.
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - Ferret - 28 November 2012
(28 November 2012, 01:27)Scythe13 Wrote: Thanks for the list NR.
I have a wife. How am I going to find time to read all these? Haha.
Really appreciate you putting that effort in.
HA I am the wife that the husband gets fed up with because she is always reading!
Thank you for that list it's pretty impressive and I can add a few more books to the To Be Read Tower now.
I was surprised how many I had read, I think I have always been drawn to post apocalyptic novels. I read Alas Babylon when I was about 13 and it has always been on my bookshelf. I bought One Second After for my father who passed it back to me and I think that was the book that really made me start to think in practical terms. I was surprised by the similarity to Alas Babylon until I saw that he quotes AB as one of his inspirations.
Resurection Day is interesting as a concept of how history might have been. Without giving the ending away I rather liked the unexpected interpretation of the central theme at the end.
Have you read Flood by Stephen Baxter? I came across it by chance on holiday this year when my kindle died and I read ANYTHING! Tended to veer towards the superwealthy and superprepared but still a good read.
I really must work and not get tempted to just pop over to Amazon and see what I can find in the second hand sales!
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - BeardyMan - 28 November 2012
You could find some of these on http://www.freebookspot.es if you were so inclined. It's a review site, but occasionally there appear to be links to download these ebooks.
I couldn't say for definite though as I find breaching copyright reprehensible, immoral and down right disgusting
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - Tibbs735 - 3 January 2013
Just finished reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I'm gonna have to read it a second time (over 1100 pages D
, as it was rather hard to grasp.
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - Tdvsko - 6 April 2013
Thank you NR
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - Megatron - 6 April 2013
Cheers mate.
I've read a lot of these but there's a fair few I've never heard of so I'll give them a go.
RE: REAL reading list both reference and fictional - Scythe13 - 6 April 2013
(28 November 2012, 13:52)BeardyMan Wrote: You could find some of these on http://www.freebookspot.es if you were so inclined. It's a review site, but occasionally there appear to be links to download these ebooks.
I couldn't say for definite though as I find breaching copyright reprehensible, immoral and down right disgusting
Greatly appreciate your moral standards on holding to copyright law.