Meltdown Café: 2012-10-28

Or will, by midnight. Head over to my writing blog, Torrie Burke, to view updates on my writing project for the month of November. Hope to see you there!

THE LISTS

Below are the lists of various media types dealing with Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian or otherwise SHTF scenarios. Mind you, inclusion of these does not necessarily mean I endorse them --some are sheer crap and marked with an X, but are included for the completionists (and so I don't get e-mails screaming that their favorite piece of garbage isn't on the list when I didn't feel like putting it there). My personal favorites, however, are marked with an asterisk. Why? Because I felt like pointing them out. You disagree with my opinions? Put on your man panties and deal with it. The Post-Apocalypse is no place for whiny wimps.

Fiction (Novels and Short Stories and Comics)

*(Nothing But) Flowers, John G. McDaid
*A Canticle For Leibowitz, William M. Miller, Jr.
*Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
*Damnation Alley, Roger Zelazny
*Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
*Hard John Apple's Nuclear Hit Parade, Jim Stenstrum
*Hunter (Comic Series in Eerie), Neary/Margolpoulos/Lewis/Dubay
*Kamandi (Comic Book Series), Jack Kirby
*Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban
*The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
*The Postman, David Brin
Deathlands (Series), James Axler
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb, Philip K. Dick
Eternity Road, Jack McDevitt
I am Legend, Richard Matheson
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Swan Song, Robert McCammon
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
X Dies the Fire, S. M. Stirling (I'm not even bothering to list the others in this series)
X Through Darkest America, Neal Barrett

Non-Fiction

*Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook, Peggy Diane Layton
*Making the Best of Basics, James Talmage Stevens
*Preparedness Now: An Emergency Survival Guide for Civilians and their Families, by Aton Edwards
*Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America, Tom Vanderbilt
*The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction, John Leslie
100 Suns, Michael Light
Life After Doomsday, Bruce D. Clayton
One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture, Kenneth D Rose
What to do when the Shit Hits the Fan, David Black

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

NaNoWriMo has begun!

Music

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