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07 Jul 2009, 4:31 am

What postapocalyptic novels do you like most? On my personal list the first place is and will always be taken by Stephen King’s “The Stand”. Some time ago I read also “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy which made a shocking impression on me. Wyndham’s “The Chrysalides” is a nice story but I always preferred such books in which people are forced to deal with the very aftermath of a catastrophe to ones presenting life of people when they have already rebuilt the civilization.

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07 Jul 2009, 6:04 am

I suspect that you will find out for yourself within the next five years.

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07 Jul 2009, 6:19 am

What do you mean?

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07 Jul 2009, 6:35 am

Irulan wrote:

What do you mean?

Google "Gerald Celente"
He predicts economic forecasts with great accuracy.

He says that our present "recession" is bottomless and that we will see food riots and martial law by 2012.

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07 Jul 2009, 7:25 am

Terry Pratchett's and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, of course. :wink:

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07 Jul 2009, 11:28 am

Mad Max 2 *drool*

my favorite quotes are "......." "........" and ".......!"

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07 Jul 2009, 2:00 pm

As far as books go, I Am Legend is the only one that comes to mind that I've read...maybe The Dark Knight Returns. I guess The Time Machine counts, too.

Now if you were to count movies and videogames, I've enjoyed quite a few of those.

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07 Jul 2009, 2:36 pm

V for Vendetta, I am Legend... the comic book of the former, the original novel of the latter, though the movies weren't too bad.

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07 Jul 2009, 6:41 pm

Blade Runner, hands down.

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07 Jul 2009, 6:57 pm

Another S.K.'s The Stand fan here.
I also like Cell, also by Stephen King of course.

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08 Jul 2009, 12:27 am

Whitley Strieber "Warday and the Journey Onward" - very informative.

And of course, I like Stephen King's the Stand (and the Dark Tower which intersects it nicely).

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08 Jul 2009, 10:55 am

Magellan by Colin Anderson

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09 Jul 2009, 5:02 am

I like the Terminator movies (I still haven’t seen the fourth movie yet) if the Terminator series can be classified as postapocalyptic – after all, before the fourth movie the action takes place in the world we know.

I like The Cell too, Belinda. It reminds me of some funny story connected with this book – I bought The Cell when I was on a school trip and later on the bus girls saw me holding the bundle and they wanted to know what I had bought so I pulled the book out and showed them to which one of them reacted by telling to the other with admiration in her voice: “Look, she’s got a book. What a patriot!” I didn’t know until then that “patriot” and “bookworm” are synonyms .

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09 Jul 2009, 12:17 pm

Irulan wrote:

I like The Cell too, Belinda. It reminds me of some funny story connected with this book – I bought The Cell when I was on a school trip and later on the bus girls saw me holding the bundle and they wanted to know what I had bought so I pulled the book out and showed them to which one of them reacted by telling to the other with admiration in her voice: “Look, she’s got a book. What a patriot!” I didn’t know until then that “patriot” and “bookworm” are synonyms

Wow.
That makes me want to pull out my "Silly humans, Trix are for kids!" line, ha.

Cell is awesome. I always loved the book cover. (I hate phones.).

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10 Jul 2009, 5:50 am

torchwood children of the earth

terminator

hg wells time machine

indipendence day (if it counts)

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12 Jul 2009, 5:09 pm

A Canticle for Leibowitz
There's a twin thread in the writing forum to this.

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