PA Reading list ?

[northernraider1]

Duno if a list of PA books is permitted so if its not my apologies and could the mod dedlete this threat if I have broken the rules.
Below is my list of favourite PA books

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 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 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
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
There falls no Shadow, David E Crossley Part one of trilogy
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 Suprisingly Good
48, James Herbert
8.4, Peter Hernon good read
28 Days Later, Alex Garland

[Matthew]

Great list. Not sure if it belongs in this part of the board or not but will leave it anyway. Lots of stuff to investigate there and thanks for putting it up. The only obvious exclusion that I can see is the book 'War Day'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warday

In my opinion a PA classic.

[northernraider1]

War Day I forgot about that one, its in the book case in my conservatory, brilliant book, What I did leave out was Last Light and After Light by Alex Scarrow I hated them, even worse than the abysmal Last Ranger by Craig Sargeant.

[Matthew]

Dec 30, 2011 9:48:19 GMT northernraider1 said:

War Day I forgot about that one, its in the book case in my conservatory, brilliant book, What I did leave out was Last Light and After Light by Alex Scarrow I hated them, even worse than the abysmal Last Ranger by Craig Sargeant.

Alex Scarrow does seem to be somebody who divides the British PA world. I have read both books and actually, on the whole, rather enjoyed them. Yes, the plots had enough enormous holes to drive HGV's through and perhaps were not one for the purist but I thought they put accross some interesting POV's and whilst not a fan of the whole 'Peak Oil' senario I did find it interesting about the choke points of oil production.

As I understand things the issue we have is not a shortage of oil but rather a limited capability for turning it into petrol and disel and that anything that damages that does present a potential problem.

[mithrilwisdom]

Another good one to add is "The Reapers Are the Angels" by Alden Bell. It focusses more on the will to survive rather than the cataclysm of the shambling undead, so it's an oddly optimistic read.

[tankgirl]

Wow, this is quite a collection! Thank you very much. I think I'll run the list through Amazon and add quite a few to my wish list.

[lor]

I'll enjoy working my way through the ones on that list I haven't read, got a few more;

One Second After - William Forstchen (loved this, echoes of Alas Babylon)
The Passage - Justin Cronin (big saga, somewhat reminiscent of the Stand, hate the sequel)
Allison Hewitt is Trapped - Madelaine Roux (zombies)
The Becoming/Ground Zero - Jessica Meigs (more zombies)

One thing I sometimes do is browse books I like on Amazon, the suggestions can be very inspiring

[nebogipfel]

I am loathe to mention Zombie fiction because since the floodgates opened in the last couple of years there are just so many of them and sadly quite a large proportion are badly written trash.

another few for your consideration ....

Greybeard by Brian Aldiss

After the Fire (Trilogy) by John Lockley .....quite a bit of religious soul searching.

The Furies by Keith Roberts ....mentioned elsewhere and one of my favourites

I Spied a Pale Horse by Mark Timlin ....another previously mentioned favourite

All Fool's Day by Edmund Cooper

Untied Kingdom by James Lovegrove

Bar None by Tim Lebbon ....not bad, a bit supernatural.

Domain by James Herbert .......the finale of the Rats trilogy and by far the best book. Post nuclear survivors with mutant rats as an added peril! Very good IMO.

The Children of Men by P D James.

Straight to You by David Moody (early book by the author of the Autumn Zombie series) .......not bad in a depressing sort of way


Could this useful thread be made a sticky list at the top of the forum Matthew?

[Matthew]

Jan 1, 2013 16:01:23 GMT nebogipfel said:

Could this useful thread be made a sticky list at the top of the forum Matthew?

A fine idea. Will endeavor to do so.

[andyp]

Good lists, guys. Here's a few more I've read (excluding zombie novels):

After London or Wild England, Richard Jefferies
Blindness, Jose Saramago
Bridge (The), D Keith Mano
Dark December, Alfred Coppel
Darkness and Dawn, George Allan England
Dawn's Uncertain Light, Neal Barrett (and sequel)
Einstein's Monsters, Martin Amis
Eleventh Plague, LT Peters
Emergence, David Palmer
False Dawn, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Farewell Party, Franklin Bandy
Fugue for a Darkening Island, Christopher Priest
Greener than You Think, Ward Moore
Hopkins Manuscript (The), RC Sherriff
Ill Wind, Kevin J Anderson
Last Gasp (The), Trevor Hoyle
Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky
Mister Touch, Malcolm Bosse
One, Conrad Williams
Penultimate Truth (The), Philip K Dick
Plague Year, Jeff Carlson (and sequels)
Purple Cloud (The), MP Shiel
Riddley Walker, Russel Hoban
Sheep Look Up (The), John Brunner
Sun Grows Cold (The), Howard Berk
Survival Margin, Charles Eric Maine (also published as The Big Death)
Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse , James Wesley Rawles (this is a sequel of sorts)
Tomorrow! Beyond Armageddon, Philip Wylie
Trinity's Child, William Prochnau
Two Journeys, Clemens P Suter
Unit (The), Terry DeHart
Vault of the Ages, Poul Anderson

I wouldn't recommend them all necessarily, but they might be of interest to someone.