tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183734002011-12-13T17:52:30.616-10:00Nuclear War, Pandemic, Economic Collapse, Natural Disaster, Alien Invasion, Machine Revolution, Global Warming, Cosmic Rays, Zombie Apocalypse, Astronomical Impact, Animal Revolt, Science Gone Wrong, or any combination of the above...MEGATØNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023476186203916236noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18373400.post-27542358137367517982008-12-27T15:18:00.000-10:002008-12-27T15:18:00.392-10:00

I just finished episode 6 of the 2008 version of BBC's show Survivors, and overall, I really liked it. At first it didn't seem entirely realistic to how I would think survivors would behave. Everyone seemed to have gotten over the loss of their families and friends too quickly. But aside from that, I thought it was really good, and it definitely got better as the episodes went along. I heard

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I just signed up for a Twitter account and added a Twitter feed of the posts over on the right sidebar. I also set up a Twitterfeed so that anything I post here will get sent back over to Twitter. I know I don't post enough here, but I'm on Twitter a lot, so I figure I'll be able to throw up random, occasional thoughts on books I'm reading or shows I'm watching and such.Now I just have to find

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I'd been keeping an eye on the book Day by Day Armegeddon by JL Bourne for a while, but it was really hard to find a copy unless you were willing to pay big bucks for it on Ebay or somethingBut I guess it was finally reprinted, 'cause I was able to get a copy off Amazon for a normal price. I figured it would be a good vacation book and it was. Finished it in a couple of evenings and really

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So I just finished reading The Host by Stephanie Meyer. I hadn't planned on mentioning it here, but it turned out to be post-apocalyptic in the sense that it takes place years after a planet-wide invasion where all but a handful of the population have been turned into mindless "hosts" for centipede-like aliens.I was a big fan of Ms Meyer's previous books, the Twilight Saga, so I was really

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So I finally finished The Hopkins Manuscript. It turned out to be really good. Over half the book was pre-cataclysm, but even that part was interesting; seeing how people react to and prepare for impending disaster. It takes place in England, and it was funny how the characters were so proper and British. Like on the evening before the world might end, the main character was still worried

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I tried to read The Bar Code Tattoo but it was so bad I just couldn't finish it. It might have more appeal to a younger audience that wouldn't question how dumb certain aspects of it were. I didn't have that problem at all with the other young adult series I just read, Uglies and Fire-Us.I'm about 75 pages into The Hopkins Manuscript, and it's pretty good so far. It's definitely old school,

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I guess it's about time for what have turned out to be semi-annual "what have I been reading" posts.Since we last spoke, I've read a few PA novels.First was I Am Legend. I liked it, but I thought the ending was strange. I had seen the Vincent Price movie version recently, so I kind of knew what was going to happen, but the book didn't really explain it better than the movie did. But overall it

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Response to a CommentDave posted the following:"Hey there - attempted to send ya an email on this - I've been looking for the name of a book that was read to me in my youth at school. This would have been around or before 1984 or maybe 1985. The basic premise is that everyone over a certain age has died from a plague or disease. There are only kids left. This focuses on probably one boy and 2

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So it's been a while since the last post again. Here are some of the books I've read over the last few months.The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Absolutely fantastic. When I saw that it was an Oprah Book Club pick, I almost skipped it, but that would have been a huge mistake. This book is great; probably one of the most realistic-feeling post-apocalyptic books I've ever read. It's just a story of

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Want to get to this one soon, Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht, another zombie novel.

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Reading Monster Nation by David Wellington. It's the second in a series, but first chronologically, so reading this one first.Pretty good so far.

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Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfield, Young adult, similar to Logan's Run, sounds good.

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Sun of Suns, Karl Schroeder, http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/04/sun_of_suns_novel_of.htmlKarl Schroeder's new novel, Sun of Suns is the first book in a thrilling new steampunk/ post-singularity/ space-opera trilogy that is the finest and weirdest worldbuilding I can remember reading.

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I put Contest on hold for a while, but only because I thought I had lost the book and moved on to something else.I started The Big Empty, but it was really bad, even for young adult fiction.So I looked around the house and came across a book that I grabbed at a used-book store a while back, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. It's turning out to be really good, though I had some family in

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It's been a while since my last post, and I've gone through a couple of books in that time.First of all, I received and read 12 Monkeys, which was pretty good. I've always been a fan of the movie, and the book explained a couple of things that I hadn't caught before.I also picked up a copy of Armegeddon 2149 AD: The Seminal Buck Rogers Novel on eBay, which I'll get around to eventually.Then I

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I came across another good list of post-apocalyptic books at the Internet Book List. The first book on the alphabetical list was 12 Monkeys, which I never knew had been novelized. I loved the movie (I considered 13thmonkey.com for this site, but it was already taken,) so I jumped on Ebay and picked up a used copy for 30 cents plus shipping. I'll let you know in a few weeks how it is.

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I got a Borders gift card for Christmas, so even though I'm still reading Batman, I went looking for a book to read next. I ended up grabbing The Big Empty, but J.B. Stephens. It's written for a 7th grade and up audience, but a lot of good post-apocalyptic novels are kids' books (Z for Zachariah and the Lois Lowry books come to mind.)It follows a group of teens through a near-future dystopian

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I'm about 2/3s through Batman: No Man's Land, and I know I'll finish this one; it's excellent, way above what I was expecting. I've collected comics off and on throughout my life, but I've never read any Batman titles, so what I knew about the character I learned from watching the recent movies. The book is great because it doesn't just deal with the surface level of the considerable amounts of

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Even though I've been reading it for a month, I'm only about 2/3s through Dies the Fire, and I'm struggling to finish it. Having a two-year old at home, most of my reading is done in 20 minute blocks during my lunch hour each day, so it takes me a while to get through books these days. To make matters worse, I stopped by Borders today and came across Batman: No Man's Land, and it looked good

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Another pretty cool list is at http://www.crowbold.com/homepage/nukebib.htm. It's a list of post-apocalyptic books for young adults, but contains some of the standards of the genre that wouldn't be considered kids' books. I recognize a lot of the titles, but there are a few listed that I've never heard of before.

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I actually haven't read too many books about a zombie apocalypse. I guess '48 might qualify, but I can't remember too many others.I just came across a trilogy of zombie books by Dave Wellington. They were originally published in serialized installments, and can still be read for free on his site, but the full printed novels are supposed to come out around April of '06. They're supposed to be

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I'd like to offer a hearty welcome to all of you who found my humble site by way of the mention on this week's episode of Destructomundo. If you're a fan of stories of any of the various apocalypses that make up the Doomorama, feel free to browse through the books I've added to my list, and to suggest ones that I don't have yet.I'd be particularly interested in hearing about foreign language

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A few days ago I recieved a set of Thundarr the Barbarian DVDs I bought off of Ebay. Thundarr was never officially released on DVD, so what you can find now days are VHS transfers, but the quality of the ones I got is absolutely amazing. Full menus for each episode, synopses, and great video quality. If you're looking for some old fashioned post-apocalyptic fun, pick up a set for yourself.

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I finally finished the book I was reading (the first spinoff novel from the tv series 24; was really lame), and now will be starting Dies the Fire, by S.M. Stirling. Seems to take place in the present day, after some sort of magical event happens and electricity and gunpowder simply stop working.I've always wondered how long it would take for society to collapse from something as simple as an

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I added Post-Nuke Online Graphic Novel to the links section. I haven't read it yet, but it looks pretty cool.

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It won't matter to most of my readers (since no one has seen the site yet anyway,) but I moved from the free Blogspot hosting to hosting of my own. My own hosting lets me get rid of the Blogger toolbar that comes with the free account, and also to play around with favicons (the little icon that appears in the addressbar next to the URL.)Less than $3 bucks a month with GoDaddy.com; can't beat that.

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Another great list is the one put together by Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University, Pullman, as the bibliography for a five-chapter dissertation he wrote on atomic war in fiction. The list itself is several pages long with descriptions and other information for each book.

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For a good complete list of post-apocalyptic books, films and tv series, take a look at the Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction page on Wikipedia. It's got a good long list with links to more info. I'll be limiting my Reader2.com list to books I've already read or that are on my personal wishlist.

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I came across a site the other day, Reader2.com, that allows you to keep lists of books that you've read or want to read. You can tag your submissions with whatever terms you think would best allow others looking for similar books to find them. The cool thing is that you can subscribe to RSS feeds of other user's lists with interests close to yours. You can even have an RSS feed of your own

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Finally, a post that fulfills the purpose of why I set up this site. I came across an article yesterday talking about a new book, How to Survive a Robot Uprising. Sounds pretty interesting. I'll have to pick up a copy sometime.

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When I think of post-apocalyptic stories, I break them down into a few different categories, mostly depending on the timeframe in which it takes place. Generally, there are stories that take place during the apocalypse, those set thereafter, but with the apocalypse having taken place in the living memory of at least some of the survivors (usually portrayed as very old by that point), and finally

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At the opposite end of the spectrum from the Pelbar Cycle is the Ashes series by William W Johnstone, another one of my favorites. It's more men's adventure than sci-fi, and takes place in the years right after a limited nuclear and biological war, and the ensuing "aftershocks" of plagues and invading armies. Lots of gun talk and "look, a criminal" bang, dead. I started reading this one back

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Hat tip to the guys at Destructomundo.com. As I was listing the various doomsdays that make up the Doomorama, I couldn't help but use most of the same subjects that are listed on the Destructomundo website.If you're a fan of The End of Civilization As We Know It, check out their podcast.

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One of my favorite series of all time is the Pelbar Cycle by Paul O. Williams.1. The Breaking of Northwall (1980) 2. The Ends of the Circle (1981) 3. The Dome In the Forest (1981) 4. The Fall of the Shell (1982) 5. An Ambush of Shadows (1983) 6. The Song of the Axe (1984) 7. The Sword of Forbearance (1985)It takes place about 1000 years after the fall of civilization (I forget what the

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Ariel by Steven R. BoyettCopyright 1983I remember reading Ariel sometime around the 8th grade. I re-read books all the time, and especially like to revisit books from my younger days. So, I'll try to pick up a copy of this one when I can.

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Welcome to the inaugural post on Doomorama.com. I'd be surprised if anyone other than me ever reads this, but that's all according to plan. I'm setting it up as place for me to just keep some notes about books that I've read and that I'd like to get to someday; a set of online notes. If you are reading this, then welcome and I hope you enjoy your visit. If you're a fan of post-apocalyptic

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