I'm really…, Book Review: The Amulet, by Michael McDowell, Review: Fables, by Bill Willingham. What becomes of us, a species most of whose members are far removed from the production of food, who are utterly dependent on an evermore fragile castle of cards called civilization, when that structure collapses? I have a guy that is living on my Bug Out location with the agreement that he works on the land as a payment for rent, and I supply the livestock and seed and he tends to them and produces his own food so that in the event of a disaster we are already up and running, but he has decided he doesn’t have time to do the work – which is almost as bad as taking it away when it is needed. Antiheroes are quite popular nowadays and I’m not excluded here. For instance – if you have a BOL (Bug Out Location – aka cabin in the woods) what would you do if you arrived during a disaster to find it was occupied? And for that reason, fiction really doesn’t age well. There's one thing you can count on in a crisis: if, when you're rebuilding, the less privileged don't have a voice, then things will be really shitty for them. However the boy reported the "heavenly body" at the same time so the proud Mr. Hammer even invites the kid to stay at his mansion , all expenses paid of course by the millionaire and see the local attractions. Lucifer's Hammer is a full-on 1970s disaster film, full of polyester flared slacks and unfortunate hair.

None of the imagery is evocative. I think it can be “good for its time” and respected as laying the foundations of what we have today, but it’s often not good by current standards. surely not! But this is serious White Dude sci-fi, steeped in sub-Heinleinian 70s tropes. now I grit my teeth and try and focus on the story and not the man/woman interaction :C. Your review basically describes my own reactions to the book 1:1. A crusty US Senator's ranch becomes a stronghold against roving armies of cannibals and religious fanatics as he undertakes to build a new civilization. Sleeping volcanoes erupting spreading their deadly lava, ashes and gases..No crops no food no sunlight, no safe areas, nuclear war, maybe to finishing off the rest of the people or, back to the stone age. It might have been easier, had the characters been more likeable, but they were just a bit like stereotypes and not very relatable.

By logging in to LiveJournal using a third-party service you accept LiveJournal's User agreement. All around the Earth's coasts the sea expanding over the cities and beyond..Rivers, lakes, dry streams reclaiming their old territory.. tremendous heat caused by the invader burning the Earth's surface. So – Not Recommended, but with less vigor. Like Armegeddon, the earth is the target, this time by a comet & it hits the earth. Lucifer’s Hammer often makes these lists, and the people who read it when it was published (the 70s) say it was great. Click on a plot link to find similar books! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The people just happened to be there. Yet Andrea and Michonne are two of the most competent warriors in the group (the comic). In his private observatory located on a mountain top outside the city after numberless lon. Others find a different solution, forming a cannibal band that has to keep moving to feed itself. The men take care of running society. I’ve long felt that all fiction is contemporary. Except comparing this book to Armageddon would be an insult to Armageddon. But this book is crap. On the other hand there are some characters who are weak, some of which are male, some of which happen to be female.

Sci Fi has always had its progressive side (which it’s known for) on the one hand, and it’s old boys club (who are well-known) on the other. . its just a thought. The alternatives are far, far worse. hey thanks for this review, I just read this book for the first time, because I was scrounging on my book-sale shelf for something to read this weekend… I thought the ‘brothers’ were laughably stereotypical, and I wondered if it was just me. All Rights Reserved. If that wasn’t enough, the writing is flat. In my quest to read classic post apocalyptic classics, I couldn't very well ignore the famous Lucifer's Hammer, although having read it, I now wish I did. Start by marking “Lucifer's Hammer” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It might be a good book to pass on to those you care about that don’t care about prepping – it may just let them realize how much you care for them and are looking out for their well being.

The lockdown has me revisiting by home bookshelves and what a read this was. I can tell you I was 17. It's also steeped in that optimistic, sunny, innocent 1970s belief that technology can save us from anything, a viewpoint which appears distinctly naive today given tech's decidedly mixed impact (I'm looking at you, Fake News and nuclear accidents and cyberstalking and ransomware). literati will scoff, but partisans of apocalypse and everyone who has ever wondered, ""Could I survive, if. I last read this completely in 1985. You can often get a feel for what decade a SF/F book was written as you’re reading it.

Then I realized that any book that keeps me going back over and over for nearly 25 years has damn well earned the full five stars. I'm all for epics, but a post apocalyptic epic of that size with that many characters should be as good as The Passage to make it worth while. by Fawcett Crest. (Incidentally, I couldn’t read this book for the same reason I can’t watch Mad Men, I don’t need that kind of blood-pressure spike.

Then I had an English teacher, Andy Page who would suggest I read certain books. The force of the impact shockwave would have been disastrous by itself, vaporizing everything in a wide radius...but the widespread ecological d. The eeriest part of the story of the dinosaurs is its sudden, abrupt, and once-mysterious ending. ‧ If it does hit, civilization will cease on Terra after pieces of the comet smash into the Earth's oceans, tidal waves hundreds of feet high, they'll be or even higher destroying everything in their paths. Perhaps I am a misanthrope but I feel like that is just more realism. Definitely the best post apocalypse story I've ever read. The writing, sadly, is clumsy: sprawling and ponderous, weighted down with banal, extraneous chit-chat and simplistic politics. I read is as a part of monthly reading for July 2020 at, In my quest to read classic post apocalyptic classics, I couldn't very well ignore the famous Lucifer's Hammer, although having read it, I now wish I did.

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