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<blockquote data-quote="d4" data-source="post: 1150709" data-attributes="member: 12699"><p>here's a couple more to look out for, though i expect they are all long out of print:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, <em>Deus Irae</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Philip Jose Farmer, <em>Dark is the Sun</em></li> </ul><p>these are both squarely in the PA genre. Farmer's book is set in the far distant future, and reads almost like a fantasy world. the Dick + Zelazny book is much closer to the apocalypse and suitably weird, as expected given the authors. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Walter M. Miller, Jr., <em>A Canticle for Leibowitz</em></li> </ul><p>probably <em>the</em> classic PA novel. deals with the loss and recovery of knowledge following an apocalyptic nuclear war.</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Olaf Stapledon, <em>Last and First Men</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">William Hope Hodgson, <em>The Night Land</em></li> </ul><p>neither is strictly in the PA genre, but both detail a world after an apocalypse. Stapledon's book is a "history of mankind" from the present-day (at the time he wrote the book in the 1920s) up to several billion years in the future. lots of cool and strange ideas. the Hodgson book is about the world milions of years in the future after the sun has gone out and all is dark. consider it the follow-up to Vance's <em>Dying Earth</em>. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> a bit Lovecraftian in flavor.</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gene Wolfe, the "Book of the New Sun" tetralogy; <em>Shadow of the Torturer</em>, <em>Claw of the Conciliator</em>, <em>Sword of the Lictor</em>, <em>Citadel of the Autarch</em></li> </ul><p>also not strictly PA. about the world an untold amount of time in the future. there must've been some kind of apocalypse at some point, because the world of the book's time is very different from our own. some interesting beasties and techie gadgets. in a lot of ways, feels more like a fantasy world than anything else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="d4, post: 1150709, member: 12699"] here's a couple more to look out for, though i expect they are all long out of print: [list] [*]Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, [i]Deus Irae[/i] [*]Philip Jose Farmer, [i]Dark is the Sun[/i] [/list] these are both squarely in the PA genre. Farmer's book is set in the far distant future, and reads almost like a fantasy world. the Dick + Zelazny book is much closer to the apocalypse and suitably weird, as expected given the authors. ;) [list] [*]Walter M. Miller, Jr., [i]A Canticle for Leibowitz[/i] [/list] probably [i]the[/i] classic PA novel. deals with the loss and recovery of knowledge following an apocalyptic nuclear war. [list] [*]Olaf Stapledon, [i]Last and First Men[/i] [*]William Hope Hodgson, [i]The Night Land[/i] [/list] neither is strictly in the PA genre, but both detail a world after an apocalypse. Stapledon's book is a "history of mankind" from the present-day (at the time he wrote the book in the 1920s) up to several billion years in the future. lots of cool and strange ideas. the Hodgson book is about the world milions of years in the future after the sun has gone out and all is dark. consider it the follow-up to Vance's [i]Dying Earth[/i]. ;) a bit Lovecraftian in flavor. [list] [*]Gene Wolfe, the "Book of the New Sun" tetralogy; [i]Shadow of the Torturer[/i], [i]Claw of the Conciliator[/i], [i]Sword of the Lictor[/i], [i]Citadel of the Autarch[/i] [/list] also not strictly PA. about the world an untold amount of time in the future. there must've been some kind of apocalypse at some point, because the world of the book's time is very different from our own. some interesting beasties and techie gadgets. in a lot of ways, feels more like a fantasy world than anything else. [/QUOTE]
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