Novels

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:10 pm

Everyone should read Terry Pratchett, especially people who loathe fantasy.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:16 pm

They're not very Fallouty though innit

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:23 pm

Well, yeah, but shut up.

Anyways, to whomever said they couldn't get into Earth Abides: you're a knucklehead. It's a really great book and is certainly worth the effort. I read the first half of the book in the middle of the quiet night and was really freaked out by how alone I felt while reading it. I had to go and pat my dog to reassure myself everyone else wasn't dead.

Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:50 pm

I get the same feeling whenever I read that book about the bald little swell guy with the purple crayon, Spazmo.

requiem_for_a_starfury · Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:39 am

WWII novel rather than PA but still worth reading 'Street Boys' by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Group of Italian boys and a American Soldier defend the City of Naples against the Nazis.

The Jizz Stain · Post by **The Jizz Stain** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:31 am

A real good series, but it isn't PA, is The Great War series and the sequel to that series, which i forgot the title of. Its about what would have happened in the early 1900's if the South would have won the civil war how WW 1 would have looked like.

Doyle · Post by **Doyle** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:43 am

The Jizz Stain wrote:A real good series, but it isn't PA, is The Great War series and the sequel to that series, which i forgot the title of. Its about what would have happened in the early 1900's if the South would have won the civil war how WW 1 would have looked like.

Yeah, by Harry Turtledove. I think the sequel series is Blood and Iron maybe? I've only read the first series, but they were good books.

The Jizz Stain · Post by **The Jizz Stain** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:05 am

Blood and Iron was the first book in the 2nd series. Then Turtledove wrote one that Apollo/Soldier 87 might like about the Nazi's winning WW 2. Its called The Enemy Among Us I think, I haven't really read much of it. Just the first few chapters

Doyle · Post by **Doyle** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:11 am

Found it. American Empire is the name of the WWII series.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:06 am

requiem_for_a_starfury wrote:WWII novel rather than PA but still worth reading 'Street Boys' by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Group of Italian boys and a American Soldier defend the City of Naples against the Nazis.

Sounds pretty fucked up.

Like the movie "Captain Corelli's Mandoline".

requiem_for_a_starfury · Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:41 pm

Kashluk wrote:Sounds pretty fucked up.

Like the movie "Captain Corelli's Mandoline".

I haven't read or seen Captain Corelli's Mandoline so I can't say. Street Boys is written by Lorenzo Carcaterra who wrote Sleepers. He says in the Author's Note that it's a fictional account of a true story.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:49 pm

I meant the historical aspect. CCM is based on a book by Louis de BerniÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¨res, where during the WW2 an Italian light infantry squad fights against Nazi invasion in Albany... Burn history books, burn.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:55 pm

Nicolas Cage is teh gay tho.

And, about good books, King Rat, by James Clavell.
Not PA at all, but awesome.

Scifi : Jack L. Chalkers' Quintara Marathon, firts book is The Demons At Rainbow Bridge, second is The Run To Chaos Keep, third is The Ninety Trillion Fausts.

It really is awesome, tho I haven't read the third one yet, I can't find it anywhere in Quebec.

RoGuEHeX · Post by **RoGuEHeX** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:36 pm

Through darkest America is a really good post apocalyptic book. Set after WWIII, the world has evedently been nuked to oblivion. You get to view the life of a young boy who lives in this aftermath.

Its a bit different to Fallout in terms of mutants but its very realistic and shows us a sickinging view of a very possible future.

If you like Apocalyptic books then i would reccomend it.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:02 pm

So no muties and everything you see is modern, not 50's pulp scifi?

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:26 pm

Don't be so set on 50's pulp, because modern post-apoc can be just as intriguing... give it a chance huh?

Insane-Lark · Post by **Insane-Lark** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 1:42 am

http://www.scifan.com/themes/themes.asp?TH_themeid=9

Some good reads listed there & a few things I've never even heard of. I won't let the Invalid_Session stop me from posting.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 3:08 pm

Franz_Schubert wrote:Don't be so set on 50's pulp, because modern post-apoc can be just as intriguing... give it a chance huh?

Uh, who said I wasn't going to?
To be honest, when I first got involved with Fallout, the "oldy"-look seemed strange and ackward. I was wishing if it could be modern instead of that 50's "bullshit".

RoGuEHeX · Post by **RoGuEHeX** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 12:07 pm

Well i'm not sure if its modern but its certainly not the 50's pulp you get in Fallout.

Society has devolved to a sort of early nineteenth century rusticness; much of the flavor of the tale recalls Civil War or Western epics. There's a familiarity here that is very troubling when you step back and ponder the details. These are us as believable cannibals.

This is great story of a man gone right in a world gone horribly wrong. It is almost a post-Apocalypse version of "The Searchers", combined with a moving portrayal of secrets unsealed, of revelation. It is not for the squeamish. The view of a barbarism sprung from our own loins is not an easy read, on top of the plain nastiness of the story's events. This is a story of a terrible potential that comes from within the civilization we now so cherish.

If your not so sure on whetehr you will like the setting then i suggest gettng it froma libary and reading maybe the first 2 chapters. But in general, if you like post apoc genre then you will like this.

boywoos · Post by **boywoos** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 9:47 pm

Anything by Irvine Welsh, I'm reading a book at the moment called 'The Tin Drum' thats pretty awesome too.