[First edition of "A Canticle for Leibowitz"; $4.95 price on dust jacket.]
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"Earth Abides" (1949) — George R. Stewart
"On the Beach" (1957) — Nevil Shute
"A Canticle for Leibowitz" (1959) — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"Riddley Walker" (1980) — Russell Hoban
"The Postman" (1985) — David Brin
"The Last Ship" (1988) — William Brinkley
"The Road" (2006) — Cormac McCarthy
I've read them all, some several times: I think the first was "A Canticle for Leibowitz" when I was in high school in the second half of the twentieth century.
antares David Brin, The Postman, was first published as a short story (novelette? novella?) in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1982. It was well-received. Brin got the idea to expand the story to novel length. IMO that was a mistake. Like Ender's Game, the original short story was strong; the novel was weak tea.
ReplyDeleteantares FWIW a link to the original : https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/SF/ASI/ASI_1982_11.pdf
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