Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!cobb%srvax.DEC@decwrl.ARPA From: cobb%srvax.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: 'END OF THE WORLD' BOOKS Message-ID: <2433@topaz.ARPA> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:08:40 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2433 Posted: Fri Jun 28 14:08:40 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 07:18:46 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 21 From: cobb%srvax.DEC@decwrl.ARPA > The End of Civilization as We Know It > > I have, in thinking of some of the books I have enjoyed over >the last few years, realized there is a small sub-genre that I seem >to enjoy. It is the one where civilization is zapped (or at least >totally screwed up) by a non-alien occurrence. So far I have read >Lucifer's Hammer, The Stand, and War Day. I am currently reading >The Floating Dragon, and have enjoyed the first half of the book. >Does anyone else enjoy this kind of Speculative Fiction? > >Brendan E. Boelke I do like the kind of book you are talking about. I'll give you a recommendation of another book to read, "EMERGENCE" by David Palmer. I really liked the book and recommend it highly. Also let me be the first to drop this joke on you: "ARMAGEDDON sick and tired of these 'End of the World' stories" KEN COBB