Book series some of you may enjoy...

hi thanks for the recommendations .....

would like to suggest these books also ;

1. Fire in the Sky - Heinmenn Si-fi survival :thumbup:
2. Rains on Eridan - Hoover Si-fi survival :thumbup:


great books ...... change my view of our world and open up my imagination ...

NEVER DOUBT THE POWER OF IMAGINATION .... IT DRIVES THE WORLD:D

bob
 
One of the first books that got me thinking about survival stuff was; "Farnham's Freehold" by Robert A. Heinlein, one of the great fantasy writters of all time. It is fantasy but good reading is good reading, and it made me think.
 
Wow, great timing! :D I just finished Dies the Fire last night myself. Picked it up at the local library, after seeing it recommended on here so much. The recomendations were spot on, the story is excellent.


Spoilers below, if you haven't read the story.

I did have some critiques of the story and of the ideas presented. First, in the beginning, the story is too explanitary (is that a word?) in that, the author has to give a detailed description of the tools/knives/items for, the sheeple who've pick up the book. A sentence would have been fine, but these were a full paragraph each.

Second, everyone they encounter that's good/neutral has a skill they can utilize (horse wrangler, blacksmith, fencing teacher...)

Third, I can see electricity going out (worldwide is a stretch, but I can buy into it...) I was wondering about buried/protected electrical devices. I can also buy into gunpower not working. This was MUCH harder to do, but for the sake of the story, it was okay. (I was curious why no one in the story tried to make new or different power or tried to make some from scratch.) But the thing I couldn't get was, that steam power didn't work. As soon as I saw the word 'railroad', I thought of steam power. It was just too much of a stretch that water pressure/heated water didn't work.

Those quibbles aside, I loved the story. I've hung around with some pagens, so that aspect was okay. I've made some chainmail, shot some archery and tried my hand at blacksmithing (only twice, so I'm still figuring out which end of the hammer to use!) so I loved to see how they did those in the story.

I saw on here from other threads, and on Amazon, that the second isn't as good (too wordy) but I'm planning picking that up as well. (The third is supposed to be great again). Also, he has another trilogy set in New England along the same lines that I'll try to get as well.


I also started and finished the first book in the Harry Potter (Sorcerer's/Philiosopher's Stone) series yesterday too! :D The first chapter is downright horrible, but it gets better after that and turns into a nice read by the end.
 
One book I don't see mentioned, but that I highly recommend is Wolf and Iron by Gordon Dickson. Hands down one of my favorite books ever.
 
Grim/Don said:
I saw on here from other threads, and on Amazon, that the second isn't as good (too wordy) but I'm planning picking that up as well. (The third is supposed to be great again). Also, he has another trilogy set in New England along the same lines that I'll try to get as well.
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Grim/Don, I also enjoyed this series -- I think Stirling is a great writer, but he seems to have Harry Turtledove-itis --- some of his recent books could've been edited down by 20-30% and still been really great. Still, if you can get a library loaner or a cheap used copy (should be widely available on Amazon), all his books are worth reading.

The "New England" series you mention is the "Island in the Sea of Time" trilogy -- it focuses on what happens to the island of Nantucket during what the "Dies the Fire" people call The Change (the Nantucketers call their experience The Event). It's worth reading; see if you can spot some characters in "Island" that are relatives of characters in the "Dies the Fire" series. :)


Also -- here's an older thread that ended up producing a great list of survival-themed fiction books.
 
GRIM/DON

I read all three of the books in th Dies In The Fire series. Enjoyed them all. The situation set out in the story has really made me look at my preparations in a new light and consider some alternatives. Such as survival with no firearms. It puts things in a whole different persepective. I'd recommend the other two books. :thumbup:
 
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

A post-Apocalyptic adventure written by an author who, unlike most in the genre, can actually write fantastic dialogue and prose. McCarthy also keeps his characters real physically and psychologically--no superman in his story, just a decent man living like an animal to give his son a chance to live.

It gave me a renewed appreciation that most of surviving any setback is a matter of not giving into despair, even when things look impossible.
 
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