Apocalypse, NAO!

Yeah, after that last post I found a bunch of books the US GOVERNMENT wrote on the effects of nuclear blasts and survival guides on nuclear, chemical, or biological attacks.
I must AQUIRE them.

Here's my post-apocalyptic survival book list (Take note, I haven't actually read any of them yet, but as I get to them, I'll review them... since you know, I live in a nuclear wasteland and can test the practicality of each book.):

• U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Survival Manual, by Dick Couch

• Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis, by Peggy Layton

• Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival, by Jack Spigarelli

• How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times, by James Wesley Rawles

• Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons, by the Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons and the National Research Council

• The effects on humans of world-wide stratospheric fallout from a nuclear war and from nuclear tests by Charles Shapiro

• NUCLEAR WAR SURVIVAL MANUAL, PROTECTION IN THE NUCLEAR AGE by FEMA

• Nuclear Emergency: How to Protect Your Family from Nuclear Radiation, Fallout and Terrorism by Ken Larson

PFFFFT.

There's like a billion more, but really, unless you have a specialty in nuclear science and live near a well stocked bomb shelter, you're pretty much done for.

Apocalypse NOW!

Not that I've seen the movie.

But I need to find more books on post-apocalyptic scenarios!

They tend to be very good... You know, all two of the ones I've read (The Road, and Z is for Zachariah). But post apocalyptic movies, which I've seen more of comparatively, tend to be interesting at worst, although typically stupid regardless. I can't properly enjoy them without some scientific explanation. A good, thorough scientific explanation as to why everyone, but (this guy) and (this guy) and maybe (these people), are still alive, and why the hell everyone is suddenly remarkably dangerous. And by "good" I mean scientifically plausible. This thing should be comparable to The Zombie Survival Guide. Maybe the chance that either of those scenarios would actually happen is nil, I would still like to lay in comfort knowing that I may be prepared.

That's a half joke though, I think stories become really really amazing when they allow the laws of the natural world to limit their creativity. I believe that under pressure, an artist can make something really really amazing. They're usually lackadaisical and tend to require a considerable amount of prodding and threatening to make anything worthwhile. The shackles of the scientific world are definitely good at that, but an artist would also instantly gain my respect if they too respected the laws of nature by doing intensive research on the subject matter.

Like a Nuclear Winter. [It's a proper noun now.]

It seems like Metro 2033 is the only book I know of where the majority of people retain at least some form of civility. Besides the Fallout video game series [which is possibly a book series], but a video game without safe places or allies would seem boring to me, so its fine in that department, although Fallout has major problems in other areas.

For example, I've seen Blast From the Past about a dozen times at least, and I'm pretty sure Christopher Walken mentioned that nuclear fallout usually dissipates after 30 yeeaars... after 200 years either everything that ever was should be gone [cram, sugar bombs, nuka-cola (basically all food manufactured prior to bombing), Rivet City(especially)] or people should have their shit together already.
And if Moriarity and Tenpenny could cross the atlantic all the way from the UK to D.C. [which implies that at least some vehicles work] I think things are going pretty well everywhere else.

You know what, none of this matters, I'm just bored and I'm craving another post-apocalyptic book to read.

Jacksons Java is this really amazing coffee shop with a great atmosphere, where lots of students go... To sit separately and never speak to one another.