Favorite Fictional Nuke Books?

[Rivet]

In recent memory, I've read (or re-read) Alas, Babylon, Warday, and am currently reading Resurrection Day (so don't ruin it ), but thought I'd toss this out for comments.

What are your favorite nuclear holocaust books? It can cover during or after the nuke-age. There were some good recommendations in a different thread, but figured I throw it out there. Thanks.

[phylo_roadking]

Roger Zelazny's "Damnation Alley"

Erric Harry's "Arc Light"

Never really like "Warday", it spent too long exploring the various conceopts of the post-war world. A glorified travelogue of the authors' mind trip LOL

I've read a lot of these, from Pat Tilley's "Amtrak Wars" series (what a crock, bought them all hoping it would EVENTUALLY get good! Didn't work...) to Jerry Ahern's "The Survivalist" series....that lost the plot halfway through BIG TIME and shunted John Rourke into a Nazi-filled future to some of the "Deathlands" series; there's also a few obscure British almost-"cosy catastrophe" Nuclear war novels....

But THE best I've ever read is one you've probably never heard of A REALLY obscure little novel called "First Angel" by one "Ed Mann"...published over 20 years ago (one edition!) under the Soldier of Fortune magazine label!!!! http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Angel-Sol ... 0812512294 Don't be put off by the cover artwork, it bears NO resemblance to ANY plot element inside!

[Rivet]

Excellent. Thanks for the recommendations.

[phylo_roadking]

....but "Damnation Alley" is of course the granddaddy of them all With THE coolest "protagonist" - just wouldn't be right to call him the "hero"

NOT to be confused with the excreble movie loosely...VERY loosely!...derived from the book!

[Rivet]

I just googled it and I vaguely recall seeing Damnation Alley on CED or VHS back in the 80s. The word "sucks" jumps to mind.

Good to hear the book was a solid piece though. The next Amazon order shalt include a copy. Thanks.

[phylo_roadking]

It'll require drink or drugs in places very obviously a product of same at times!

[Venttiseiska]

Fail-Safe a novel published in 1962 by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_%28novel%29

Red Alert a Peter George novel from 1958. It formed the background for Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Alert_%28novel%29

[Habu]

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Farnam's Freehold (very strange at points)

Malevil (set in France)

The Third World War by General Sir John Winthrop Hackett