Recommend me a book

Just noticed a thread in here talking about "One Second After" and it peaked my interest. Any good?

The only SHTF/Survival type book that I've read is "Patriots" by James Wesley Rawles. I enjoyed that book very much and recommended it to my friends.

Any recommendations of similar books would be great! Thank you.

Wolf & Iron by Gordon R. Dickson

Think I have read it 4-5 times. Great book on post collapse life.

RLS

An oldie: "Alas Babylon." During the mid-to late-1950s, the US and the Soviet Union exchange gifts via ICBM. The survivors, some of who were related to American bomber pilots, struggle along.

Another oldie: "Malevil." Although the notion that a single bomb could wipe out all of France, the survival aspects are fairly accurate. A guy buys an old French manor, has a wine cellar to hide in when the bomb drops, and has to set up law & order in the French countryside.

Both books provide the perspective of nuclear terror in the mid-1950s. Even though neither group is especially "hard-core" in regards to their preparations, they are much better situated because of their literal geographic locations to survive.

Lights Out, by David Crawford (Halffast)

I'll go with Frank on 'Alas, Babylon!' It is excellent.

Also, T. Sherry's 'Shattered' and 'Deep Winter' and Halffast's 'Lights Out'. (T. Sherry had a third installment in his trilogy, but I honestly didn't think it was worth reading when I finished it.)

The Unthinkable - Amanda Ripley

"Who survives when disaster srikes"

Great read.


Tex

Thanks guys, I'll look into these. Much appreciated.

Off topic, but I'm in the process of putting a BOB together and am new to this forum. So I'm sure I'll be lurking for a while and posting some.

Thanks again.

I would add a 3rd prop for 'Alas Babylon'. It was the first time I ever thought... "What would I do if..." and "How likely is...".

The black book of communism

About the millions killed. Makes you feel blessed to be an American

Surprise! The Survival Forum has a whole sub-forum on just this topic, right beneath this one!

http://www.ar15.com/forums/f_10/20_Essential_Survival_Guides_andamp__Fiction.html

Now that that's out of the way...

Yes, I like Alas, Babylon, and One Second After is possibly even better.

My personal favorite is Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. (Biggest influence as an adult to start prepping.)

Ohers favorites include:

Pulling Through by Dean Ing
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein (this book was one of my earliest influences & probably started me on the prepping path.)

These next titles aren't exactly 100% SHTF/TEOTWAWKI books, but...

Friday & Farnham's Freehold, both also by Heinlein, contain good descriptions of shelters & some ideas that might be useful.
The shelter described in Farnham's Freehold is actually the one Heinlein (an engineer) designed & built at his home in Colorado Springs.

Emergence by David Palmer. 1st part contains a descripton of the ultimate shelter ––no expense spared––& is therefore, perhaps,
unrealistic, but it does have some thoughts on organization that I found useful.

Dick Proenneke's journals & the videos that use his journals as narration are also great. PBS stations frequently air them during fundraisers.
I think the one they run most frequently is Alone in the Wilderness.



Have fun, & post anything good you find!

David

Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle (sp) I think. Good comet strike story with lots of food for thought.

Also, The Killing Fields is an account of one man's survival of real events in Pol Pot's Cambodia. Worth looking at in light of our current political climate.

Post Nuke Comic

Kinda good. Its a nice diversion, but a literary classic it is not.

This is a fantastic book.

+1

The good news is that any book you pick will be better than the one you read, so you can't go wrong.

Lol

+2. I just bought this and finished reading it about a week ago. Very eye opening and a great storyline

Thanks again everyone. I read through the Good EOTWAWKI Books thread in the Essential Survival Guides & Fiction forum which I failed to notice before posting this.

I just ordered Alas Babylon and One Second After on amazon. I am also going to get a digital copy of Lights Out. Looking forward to reading them. Now the hard part is which do I start first!?

One of my favorites.

Lucifer's Hammer... wish I'd remembered this one. A comet crashes into the Earth, killing 87% of the population without significant radioactive fallout (as would have occurred with a nuclear war).

Recently read Alas Babylon, would recommend. Currently a third of the way through the much praised Riddley Walker, tough read so far but I'm liking it.

Speaking of "tough to read but you should..."

Atlas Shrugged

James Wesley Rawles also has a second book that goes along with "Patriots" called "Survivors" and I understand he has a 3rd book comming out either this year or next.

Another vote for Alas,Babylon, Lights Out, and One Second After

Unintended Consequences by John Ross.

Free pdf copy:

http://www.greatwhitedesert.org/documents/Ross_-_Unintended_Consequences.pdf

Explains the gun culture and machine gun culture past to present.

excellant book, very quick read. Alas Babylon is a favorite too. One Sec After was decent and a quick read.

J-

Baen books has a small assortment of this kind of thing. There might even be some in the free library.

Most of their ebooks are <$6.

I know they have most of Heinlein's stuff along with Lucifer's Hammer and other good ones.

best thing of all - no DRM at all on their ebooks.

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