REAL reading list both reference and fictional

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(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!