Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!J._Paul_Holbrook.OsbuSouth From: J._Paul_Holbrook.OsbuSouth@Xerox.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The End of Civilization as We Know It Message-ID: <2625@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 12:52:12 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2625 Posted: Tue Jul 9 12:52:12 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:27:42 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 From: Holbrook.OsbuSouth@Xerox.ARPA Two more of my favorites in the "end of the work" catagory: 'Earth Abides' by George Stewart. This is a novel from (I believe) the 50's. The basic plotline involves a disease that does nasty things to most of the people in the US. This is one of the earlier novels I've read in the sub-genre; well worth reading. Another novel you might enjoy is a little farther out: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' by Walter M Miller Jr. This 1959 novel is set in the future long after a nuclear war. It's a curious blend of religion and how civilization rebuilds itself. It follows a monsastic order that dedicates itself to preserving information from the long dead civilization that occured before the war. One of my all-time favorite sf books. Paul