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From: flory@zaphod.UUCP (Scrapfaggot Green)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Man in the Rubble.
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Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 15:49:13 EDT
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Hello All;
	I am looking for a particular flavour of story --usually to 
	be found in the SF genre-- and would like to receive whatever 
	information or recommendations anyone might care to pass along.

	In my youth I read a story which I think was called
	_A_boy_and_his_Dog_.  Whatever the title really was the
	story had your basic post-apocalypse, all-hell-broke-loose
	type of setting.  The story was a little violent, a little
	gruesome, but made fascinating reading.  I have thought of
	the tale may times over the years and have since found cause
	to remember it once again:  the series of Mad Max movies have
	a somewhat similar theme (decay, greed, fear, violence).
	Though I personally feel that the Max flicks are thin in
	terms of plot that is not really the point; the desolation
	of the setting, the thematic elements of primitive fear and
	survival and the overall air of malaise are the elements I
	am specifically looking for.  So ...
	
	I seek good post-apocalypse stories that have the
	same ``gone to hell in a hand basket'' feel as _A_boy_ and
	the Max flicks.  Civilization crippled and dying; Man lost
	in the rubble; morality worn and discarded like old clothes;
	survival the only law.  What man does in this environment is
	up to you the recommender.

	I think it best that recommendations be sent to me at the
	usenet address below.  If there seems to be sufficient
	interest then I will post a summary of recommended works.

	Thank you.

*****
Trevor K. Flory
Develcon Electronics Ltd., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
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