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Post by bce1 on Apr 26, 2017 16:15:08 GMT 10
The other two
Watershed - Jane Abbott,
Red Queen HM Brown
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Post by selfsufficient on May 2, 2017 3:51:04 GMT 10
Bloody hell, have to many books on my kindle. went to purchase the Jakarta Pandemic to read, and found out I had purchased it on the 6th January 2015. By the time I finish reading the ones on my current list I will have forgotten again. Just for your interest sign up to www.Bookbub.com. It automatically sends you an email when free books of your interest are available. To be honest I have to many books I like. Another guy to read for short PAW novels is Jerry D Young www.apocalypse-survival.com/jerry-d-young.html#.WQd1_RN96UkI checked his web site and it appears to be down at the moment, so I dont know his status. Lucky I have a copy of all his books  Ok it looks like he has gone full commercial now www.amazon.com/Jerry-D.-Young/e/B009NMRQ26 |
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Post by fei on May 5, 2017 15:18:42 GMT 10
A bit dated now (written in the 50s), but The Death of Grass by John Christopher is a decent read. Its a fairly short book and doesn't suffer from the modern problem with listing huge amounts of branded gear or completely improbable plots (probably helped by the fact that everyone at that time had either gone through WW2 themselves or knew someone who had, so had to keep things realistic).
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Post by ziggysdad on Jun 30, 2017 15:31:29 GMT 10
If you like the Jakarta Pandemic and Perseid Collapse series, you should definitely explore the Perseid Collapse Kinder World - lots of novellas and books that build on Steven Konkoly's writings.
Look for Tom Abrahams' Refuge, Crossing and Advent - three books that are written in a similar tone and complement Konkoly's writing beautifully.
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Post by bce1 on Jul 10, 2017 0:47:12 GMT 10
New Australian novel - Year of the Orphan - Daniel Findlay. Couple of hundred years in the future, set in the outback. Very well done novel.
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Post by tomatoes on May 24, 2021 15:06:47 GMT 10
Has anyone read (on audible) John Birmingham’s Zero Day Code? I’m just re-listening because book 3 came out recently. I’d forgotten that the start of the book talks a lot about whether China can be self sufficient in food and related topics.
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Post by bce1 on May 24, 2021 15:19:29 GMT 10
I’m on book 3 as well.
Definitely worth the read I think.
Books 1 and 2 I really enjoyed the geopolitical stuff, so far (100 pages in) none in book 3.
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Post by malewithatail on May 24, 2021 18:29:18 GMT 10
The one second, one year and ten year series of books were good. I recorded them as mp3's before they were removed from the net.
Also, and I don't know if it was ever put into a book form, was the survivor series from the mid 1970's. Based in England after a pandemic and followed some survival groups. The day of the triffids is another good read, and has some survival themes in it. I think it was turned into a movie as well.
Contagion was a TV movie a few years ago, worth a look now with Covid. I recorded it on the computer some years ago.
Some of the survival stories from WW2 are good reads, Readers Digest did a swag of them many years ago I think.
Your facts, though interesting, have no bearing on my reality.
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Post by tactile on Nov 4, 2021 7:34:25 GMT 10
The Remaining series mentioned previously here I enjoyed. It now has a five book spin-off series called Lee Harden - the main character from Remaining.
The Bunker series by Gary Tiederman was OK. A five book EMP style scenario on Audible. If you go to his authors page in Audible he has books 1-3 and 4-5 bundled so don’t spend your credits on the individual books!
I pretty much only get my fiction hit from Audible so some of the stuff I mentioned here may not be in paper form.
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Post by malewithatail on Nov 5, 2021 6:25:36 GMT 10
A long time ago on Aust tv was a series called 'survivors'. It was based in Britain and followed the survival of a group after a nuke war.
Also, there is the day after part 2 and think a part 3, as audio books. Good to listen to whilst working.
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Post by tactile on Dec 6, 2021 17:48:23 GMT 10
The mentioned 3 book series by John Birmingham - Zero Day Code, Fail State & American Kill Switch appear to be free at the moment in Audible? I logged on to my account and it was in my library to download...saying it was an offer or something. Anyone else get this in their audible account?
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Post by bushdoc2 on Dec 10, 2021 19:09:09 GMT 10
"Never" by Ken Follett. Not a prepper novel, but a good story, with lots of modern realistic politics, to show how WW3 might start.
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Post by blueshoes on Dec 12, 2021 15:01:15 GMT 10
"Never" by Frederick Forsyth. Not a prepper novel, but a good story, with lots of modern realistic politics, to show how WW3 might start. I tried looking it up and couldn't find it - this was the closest I could find... www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57747930-never but it's a different author. I know you're busy but would you be able to link to the one you meant pretty please? It sounds interesting |
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Post by tactile on Dec 13, 2021 16:09:11 GMT 10
Finished reading John Birmingham's 3 books...I think he would have had a lot of fun writing these books! I got a good laugh reading them! Some of the one liners are epic!
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Post by bushdoc2 on Dec 13, 2021 19:21:25 GMT 10
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Post by tomatoes on Dec 17, 2021 19:48:21 GMT 10
Actually, I’m a bit sick of reading basically the same story over and over again - generally economic collapse or emp, in a book series that’s about 3-5 books long. Sometime in the first book they have to leave their home to go somewhere safer. Usually someone is prepared. The second book is all about travelling and things get more violent. At the end (book3, 4 or 5) they are setting up a new life in their new community on someone’s property - generally owned by an older couple. The older woman cooks wonderfully including the best biscuits and gravy,
but often dies near the end of so the younger female has to take on that job. The older man is a bit of a hoarder and has a shed full of pretty much everything you could need, that he stashed away even though his wife complained as he knew it would come in handy some day.
I’ve also read once about volcanoes, political persecution, the second coming, pandemics, etc.
I’d like something a bit different.
I haven’t read a series or book where there has been a nuclear attack and a family has to shelter in place for a month or more - making adjustments to their house so that it keeps them safe and working out when it was safe to come out. And then working out what was safe to touch, eat, drink, etc. I’d like to read about that.
I’ve only read one book where there was a naturally occurring pandemic, like maybe bird flu - not a virus released by evil people, and they sheltered in place for a few months then everything gradually reopened (after many people died) - so I wouldn’t mind another line that.
Any suggestions?
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Post by snafu on Dec 17, 2021 21:12:39 GMT 10
Movie adaptation of 1996 Jean Hegland book "Into The Forest" I found was a good one. Not read the book, but might be better than the movie. Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.
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Post by drjenner on Dec 27, 2021 10:57:18 GMT 10
tomatoes, yes all the apocalypse fiction is the same. I have kindle unlimited and its great as I read books really quickly. I can go through a book a day - so am always looking for new material. Reading the population zero series right now. Talks about COVID and how the government and elites actively worked to divide people...sound familiar....?  Anyway, it's just good easy reading so I don't have to think too hard. |
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Post by tactile on Dec 27, 2021 11:27:50 GMT 10
Not a prepper novel as such but the best (fiction) read I had this year was Andy Weir's Hail Mary. It's science fiction but without all the "Space Ordnance" that turns people (including me!) off the genre. Great book.
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Post by tactile on Jan 8, 2022 17:00:18 GMT 10
Next installment of Lee Harden (spin-off from The Remaining) is due out in a week on Audible...should be good!
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