Hey, since obviously the people who visit this site are big fans of post-holocaust-type novels, I thought I'd share a couple of great reads for those interested.
The first brand-new novel is : The Return Man. This was a solid action/adventure zombie apocalypse novel. Check it out.
For a more full-blown world ending action adventure read, much more like DL, check out James Jaro's - Burn Down the Sky.
Both are excellent high-octane post-holocaust adventure reads.
I thought I would add this: Deathlands first came out in 1986. At about that same time, there were several other series along similar lines:
Doomsday Warrior by Ryder Stacy
Endworld by David Robbins
The Guardians by Richard Austin
Survivalist by Jerry Ahern
Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Anyone know of any others?
I never had the opportunity to follow any of those. In the area where I lived at the time, the books were very hard to
find. Deathlands was the only series that I was able to follow and never miss a volume. And that was only because
I ordered many of them direct from Gold Eagle, rather than relying on book stores and their hit-and-miss ways.
I can say that the first volume of the Doomsday Warrior series was quite good.
Not a novel, but a short-story by one of the best sci-fi writers, Ray Bradbury, who died last week. If you can believe it, this was written in 1950. I heard it on the radio today, and had to track it down and re-read it. This is post apocalyptic fiction at it's best - and equally amazing that it was written 60 years ago.
http://www.jerrywbrown.com/datafile...adbury.pdf
"August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) 1
Ray Bradbury
1 Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985), 166-172.