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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 17, 2008 11:52:06 GMT
looking for some more british PA books. i read 'the death of grass' on friday and it has become an instant favourite. i only discovered 'the death of grass' thanks to a BBC documentary and reckon there might be a few others out there that might be as good.
obviously there's 'day of the triffids' which i plan on rereading soon.
any that you can think deserve a mention?
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Post by coral on Nov 17, 2008 14:39:37 GMT
Try The Chrysalids, my personal favourite Wyndham, a bit meatier than the others too.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 17, 2008 14:52:38 GMT
^Strangely enough i was just reading the synopsis for that on wikipedia!! i think my sister has quite a few wyndham books as she's a bit of a fan, especially the triffids!
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Post by Calenture on Nov 17, 2008 15:06:31 GMT
 Chris FossSummer 1971. A marvellous spell of weather, idyllic in its warmth. But new sun spots had appeared; and with their appearance comes a significant increase in the suicide rate. The wonderful summer continued for a decade: simultaneously Radiant Suicide reached endemic proportions, the only people to escape its effects being the supposed transnormals, the obsessionals, the eccentrics and the psycopaths. These were to be the only remnants of the ancient 'homo sapiens'... Demonik once told me that he expected to see Vault of Evil change, transform, mutate. Interesting to see that this site seems to be 'mutating' with this thread already. Interesting!  This book was published in 1966, incidentally. Cooper had a number of SF novels published at the same time. Another PA book (which I thought was great) was Aldiss' Greybeard. Then there's J G Ballard's The Drought... |
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 17, 2008 16:57:37 GMT
^I forgot about ballard! (and his work was in the same docu where i discovered 'the death of grass'!).
is ballards PA stuff any good??
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 20, 2008 19:34:25 GMT
The Drought is brilliant. always loved the day of the triffids and the Death of Grass all safe middle class apocalii but jolly good all the same time. Quest of the DNA Cowboys isn't bad
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Post by Stephen Bacon on Nov 20, 2008 20:42:53 GMT
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Post by corpsecandle on Nov 21, 2008 0:23:25 GMT
Guy N.Smiths own and enjoyble Throwback is deffently worth reading for a bit of fun |
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 21, 2008 10:57:15 GMT
The Drought is brilliant. always loved the day of the triffids and the Death of Grass all safe middle class apocalii but jolly good all the same time. Quest of the DNA Cowboys isn't bad i don't think the 'cost catastrophe' label can be attached to 'the death of grass' its down right brutal compared to 'day of the triffids'. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 22, 2008 14:03:00 GMT
Sorry typical ambiguity form me. I think Wyndham wrote apocalii where the working class were simpky removed from the equation. Not te others.
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Post by bushwick on Nov 26, 2008 20:24:28 GMT
I think 'Thirst' by Guy N Smith could count as post-apocalyptic fiction, well, during-apocalyptic really. Birmingham gets completely written off, anyway...
hello everyone
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Post by corpsecandle on Nov 27, 2008 15:30:14 GMT
I really don't know if this counts but it is a fantastic book anyhow AND one of the two writers who wrote this book is British.
The book Warday about a hypothetical limited nuclear attack upon the U.S is a great read,it is written as an account through an America that is crippled by a limited nuclear strike by Russia.
I would say it wouldn't hurt to read this even if the book is 50% American.
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 2, 2008 15:34:43 GMT
^i've been meaning to try and pick up 'warday' for a while it sounds good.
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Post by corpsecandle on Dec 15, 2008 21:02:38 GMT
I picked up by sheer luck in a charity shop in Scotland a few years back I know they do second hand copies on amazon and e-bay has copies most times.
I am not sure if it's a British but if you get Warday and like it pick up a copy of This Is The Way the World ends to...it's brutal book however.
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 16, 2008 10:56:05 GMT
^i prefer the brutal ones!!
also meant to mention:
'the third world war' - humphrey hawksley
'wolf in shadow' - david gemell
and several of the stories in china mievilles 'looking for jake and other stories'
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