Book: Dies The Fire

[txmoonwolf]

I found Lucifer's Hammer really boring also until the comet hit. There was too much lead up and too little post impact fiction.

Stirling covered that too, in The Peshawar Lancers. The comet hit the Northern Hemisphere in the 1880s, and the book is set in 1990, but the tech is straight outta Victorian England, altho mostly set in India, because the northern areas were evacuated after the comet buried everything under a non-nuclear winter for a couple of years, and everyone was concentrating on sheer survival for most of that time.

I've read all three books of the Dies the Fire series, and am waiting for the next trilogy to come out.

Matt in Tx

 

[armourer2]

There's something to be said for Dies the fire. Fun read, dones't bother to explain why the high technology stopped working, but does not loose the compeling plot line. I read the Protectors war first and was able to read thru without any problems with the wicca stuff, I seem to have a bilt in edit for books, glossing over that which does not need to register. I'm working thru the third book in the series - good so far not as much wicca stuff.

Other books to think about (just post apocolyptic fun):
"A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller, JR.
the Harlan Ellison Anthology "Alone Against Tomorrow" (lots of good short stories, many dealing with machines taking over)
Philip K. Dick "Doctor Bloodmoney"
"On the Beach" - don't remember who the author is

These books don't usually go into the day to day survival skills that will be used after the end of our current world but they are compelling stories.

Patrick