[Falconoffury]

I want to start a thread with recommendations for fiction novels. Let me start by recommending "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. It is a story about the human race going to war with an alien race. The space ships are flying close to the speed of light, which causes the passengers to experience little time, while the rest of the world experiences many times more. So he keeps coming back to Earth every few decades, and things keep getting worse. It's great for the mix between science nerd and doomer.

[perdition79]

"Red Dragon" and "Hannibal" by Thomas Harris. Provides excellent gastronomical tips, which will prove invaluable post-peak.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding. Second, Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift.

[TheDude]

Aren't novels fiction by definition?

In re: having a friend over for dinner, I'll recommend the story anthology Strangeness, which includes The Last Supper by Russell FitzGerald, about how to prepare a person to be haute cuisine nonpareil! Not a novel, however.

Just finished Lucifer's Hammer and enjoyed the depiction of Southern California being swamped by tidal waves and never ending storms quite a bit. Technological happy ending made me snicker though.

What kind of novels are we listing? You could as well cue up some list, like Harold Bloom's.

Checked out Random House's 100 Best Novels. Their Modern Library editorial board (Maya Angelou, Christopher Cerf, etc.) picked the usual Lit 101 heavyweights - Top 5 is Joyce x 2, Fitzgerald, Nabokov, Huxley. The readers' picks reflect more mundane choices - Ayn Rand x 2, Tolkein, Harper Lee, and - get this - are you ready? - Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Superlative tastes, Rat Brain!

[Tanada]

1632 by Eric Flint along with all its sequels.

How would modern Americans react if dumped into a primative technological environment surrounded by very unpleasent people?

[drgoodword]

My Personal Favourites Top Ten List (in no particular order)

1. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera

3. Fifth Business - Robertson Davies

4. Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney

5. Bonfire Of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe

6. Lord Of The Rings Trilogy - J. R. R. Tokien

7. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

8. The Stand - Stephen King

9. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

10. Neuromancer - William Gibson

[Hawkcreek]

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[gg3]

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Malevil by Robert Merle: Post nuclear war, the village vs. various barbarians.

The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. Ecological collapse, the community vs. the Regime.

The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. Cyberpunk dystopia a decade before there was a cyberpunk genre.

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. Not quite doomer fiction but touches on issues related to genetic engineering, AI, pervasive bureaucracy, infotainment, and other themes.

Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad. Immortality for the few based on bureacratized cannibalism.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick. Consider Dick's "Perky Pat & Walt" toys, and his "translation drugs," in light of today's "Second Life" genre of cyberspace worlds, and multiplayer video games.

There's plenty more where all that came from...
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[jboogy]

Survivor by Stephen King , short story about a shipwrecked surgeon that eats himself piece by piece , since it seems some of you are gravitating towards that sort of thing.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'S')urvivor by Stephen King , short story about a shipwrecked surgeon that eats himself piece by piece , since it seems some of you are gravitating towards that sort of thing.