Good EOTWAWKI books?

[funkymonkey1111]

Great list above. "The Road" is probably the single most archetypal, defining book of the entire genre. It's nothing but despair, sadness, and pain. I started reading it after dinner on a camping trip and literally stayed up in my tent, reading by red headlamp, until I finished the book at 4am. I couldn't put it down.

I tried to read "blood meridian" by cormac mccarthy and it was literally dogshit. I mean, one of the worst books if ever read--so shitty I stopped torturing myself. If anyone has read that, and "the road," are they written in a similar fashion?

[Great-Kazoo]

I had a better opinion of Lucifer's Hammer than JohnnyEgo. Yes, the tech is 80s but the thinking is timeless.

John Ringo has a series out called Black Tide Rising. It's a zombie apocalypse story by an author who hates zombie apocalypse stories but is well-versed in military tech (I believe he's good friends with fellow Baen author Larry Correia). Some good stuff in there thinking about how to arm up, how to organize a post-apocalyptic societal group, etc.

Baen Book is a great place for free and $$ downloads

have you read the 299 days books?

or, the "enemies" books by Matt Braken?

I'm probably odd man out with the Enemies books by Bracken. Other than the 3rd in the series Foreign Enemies & Traitors. The other 2 were terrible

This recommendation isn't TEOTWAWKI BUT............................ it's a good read. It's still referenced in Bio-hazard training & security

I suggest a 1995 ish printed book .

The Hot Zone.
They made a semi boring (Loosely based) movie with Dustin Hoffman from it. However the book, if you're in to this sort of thing, moves. Factor in it's based off an incident @ the Reston VA lab involving NHP's

[Wulf202]

Lights out

[Irving]

This is my last post from the Books thread in the Stickys:
The Post Mortal - Drew Magary - Apocalypse by discovering the key to biological immortality. This is a great book that thought through several downside scenarios to immortality that I hadn't thought of or seen before.

Like each new wife having more rights than the last one? What a nightmare.

[JohnnyEgo]

A lot of amusing thoughts on marriage. Like, now that 'Until Death' is no longer applicable, the rest of the contract should be voided.
Also, the contract marriage. As in, being immortal, we can be married for 50 years, but after that, I will be bored with your shit and in desperate need of some strange.
And some creepy unintended consequences, such as the woman who injects her baby with the stuff, so that he will be an infant forever.

[Irving]

That's just down right realistic. Just because one is immortal, does not mean they are full of wisdom. Probably a lot of procrastination as well.

[DireWolf]

Day of Wrath is excellent and frigging scary that it hasn't happened (yet).

That book is what got me worked up on the truck/backpack rifle project...

I thought the "Going Home" series (by A. American) was also really good...


On a (somewhat) unrelated note, I have an extra copy each of the Leadership and Survival books by Lt. Gen. Honore, if anyone wants them (and willing to pick them up in the N. metro area)...

[spqrzilla]

John Ringo has a series out called Black Tide Rising. It's a zombie apocalypse story by an author who hates zombie apocalypse stories but is well-versed in military tech (I believe he's good friends with fellow Baen author Larry Correia).

Well, yes, they are friends since each is writing stories in the others' series. And a friend of mine is writing stories in both Ringo's Black Tide Rising series and Larry's MHI series.

[TheGrey]

"Emergence" by David Palmer. 1980s, lots of scifi/fantasy aspects, but some excellent ideas and points. A very entertaining read!

[SAnd]

Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein was first published in mid '60s. It's about group of people are blasted into by a nuclear bomb.