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Letter Re: Survival Fiction Recommendations
Mr. Rawles;
I really enjoyed your novel ["Patriots:
Surviving the Coming Collapse".] It was great, and I was
amazed at the quantity of useful facts that you squeezed into a piece of
fiction. I've read it three time and have given away a copies
to a couple of my friends and to my dad. It helped him extract his head
from the sand. For that alone, I am very grateful.
What other "survival" fiction do you recommend that has any real educational
value? (Not just motivational or "what if" situations.) Are there any novels
like
yours, or perhaps some movies that are "musts"? Thanks, - Ken H., in Cleveland,
Ohio
JWR Replies: I enjoyed reading all of the following novels:
Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (Classic nuke scenario)
Pulling Through by Dean Ing (a more modern nuke scenario + a mini
nuke survival manual) Not to be confused with my screenplay that
has the same title.
Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys (Plague total wipe out scenario)
No Blade of Grass by John Christopher (Massive crop disease/social
breakdown scenario, from the British perspective.)
Vandenberg by Oliver Lange (Invasion scenario) later republished under
the
title “Defiance”.
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Last of the Breed by Louis L’amour
For my movie recommendations, scroll down near the bottom of the SurvivalBlog
Bookshelf page. OBTW, if you enjoy movies with survival themes, then you
will like reading my "Pulling Through" screenplay (available--at
least for now--for free
download.)
