Brother your list is all over the place...on genre, but random media...love it sir
@Scottmbradfield
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the bathtub, Timothy. Random media all the way! s
@OlStinky1
4 жыл бұрын
I've never even heard of Immobility - thanks Bathtub Man I will check it out! As for Canticle for Leibowitz, I would definitely not consider it a satire of Catholicism as you mention. If anything it gives a thoughtful critique of a purely secular worldview (I say this as an athiest), I'd argue presenting it as an entropic force that the monks hold vigil against. The euthanasia debate at the end is a great example of this, going through great lengths to show the reasoning of both sides where it would be very easy to have a dumb strawman.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting! I'm sure you're right, I just recall the nightmare landscape of Leibowitz, and how much I liked most of Miller Jr.s stories... Definitely check out Immobility! S
@marchowe1629
3 жыл бұрын
This is a great channel and just exactly what I've been looking for on KZitem. Thanks Scott!
@Scottmbradfield
3 жыл бұрын
Any time, Marc! Stay safe with great books! s
@scififan9533
4 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for A Canticle for Liebowitz. Definitely worth rereading. One of my memories of the book is how the monks in the novel cannot figure out how re-invent the light bulb. Also, the ending is one of those memorable endings that sticks with you for a while after reading it.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
I really don't remember much except they have a new nuclear war at the end? I just really enjoyed it as a kid.
@tectorgorch8698
3 жыл бұрын
Haven't read Earth Abides yet, but your description of it reminds me of The Great Bay by Dale Pendell, one of the greatest weirdo super geniuses ever. I recently read The Chrysalids, another Wyndham in a really groovy NYRB Classics edition, and a super duper sort of Post Apocalyptic novel is Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle.
@Scottmbradfield
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, TG. I know the Wyndham but not those others. Will tag them on my radar. Stay safe int the pre-Apocalypse! S
@excelsiorathletic
6 ай бұрын
I've just finished Earth Abides. I loved it. I'd add "A secret history of time to come" by Robie Macaulay (1979). Very good.
@chase36chase
4 жыл бұрын
liked dr. bloodmoney by pkd
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Me too. Scott
@lyndao7356
4 жыл бұрын
Earth Abides. I just started it, it does seem different and lovely. Day of the Triffids became part of my cellular make up. It's just in me since I read it so long ago. How about Dune? I loved that, but I read it in '69 or '70 and I might not feel the same now. I'm going to see the new movie if I have the time. Actually I think I prefer the Apocalypse part of our coming future, I like knocking things down with a hope of starting over. The actual building up again would be disappointing. All those levels of power rising up again, all those musical chairs. Great list, Scott. Your finest, imo. And timely, as always. I'm going to slip into my RBG costume and follow my star. Salud.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I want to reread Dune, and some consider that post-apocalyptic... you tear it all down and I'll build up the library! S
@pastorytime2683
4 жыл бұрын
Just discovered your channel via Jonny Keen! My favourite post apocalyptic novel is Engine Summer by John Crowley. Haven't heard of Keith Roberts - but adding him to my list right now. Enjoy your martini! Bert x
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
PaSTORY Time that’s another good one! Welcome to the bathtub, PaSTORY! Scott
@selwynr
Жыл бұрын
'The Slynx' by Tatyana Tolstaya is one of my favourites. A truly fabulous, funny and grim novel.
@Scottmbradfield
Жыл бұрын
Interesting, never heard of it! Thx. S
@massivereader
2 жыл бұрын
There are sooo many British dystopian and post-apocolyptic novel that it's kind of a national trademark for them. 'Day of the Triffids' is among the best of the later. "No Blade of Grass" and "The Loud Long Silence" made quite an impression on me as a youth. There were a few silver age American writers that did a decent job of it later. Niven and Pournelle's "Lucifer's Hammer" comes to mind. "Canticle" was exceptional. Another great but underapreciated limited nuclear war recovery series was Dean Ing's trilogy "Systemic Shock", "Single Combat" and "Wild Country". Closer to modernity Brin's 'Postman' from before the turn of the century was a terrible movie but a decent book. And the Emberverse novels by Sterling starting with "Dies the Fire' and the next half-dozen book are a nice P.A. treatment despite the fantasy elements like physics suddenly changing so that all electronics, heat engines and explosives stop working. There's even some better-than-decent online fiction in the sub-genre like "Aftermath" by Al Steiner
@Scottmbradfield
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for all those great suggestions, Massive Reader! Obviously you have a much longer post-apocalyptic bookshelf than I do! Stay safe! s
@massivereader
2 жыл бұрын
@@Scottmbradfield Thus my screen name. I have a couple of pallets of boxed up books stacked to shoulder height in the basement. Those are about a third of the Sci-fi I've read. I donated all the hardbacks I really didn't care for to the local libraries wherever I lived.
@ctgman
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Check out “The Postman” by David Brinn.
@Scottmbradfield
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, McGee. Stay away from the apocalypse! S
@GoreVidalComicbooks
4 жыл бұрын
I remember reading a piece by Martin Amis expressing his surprise at how conventional and middle class J.G. Ballard was when he first met him for an interview. What surprised me was that Martin was surprised. What was he expecting? I didn't see Harlan Ellison's A Boy and his Dog, although I did like your choice of books. Nevil Shute's On the Beach?
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Yeah, I like the Ellison but it didn't crack my top ten (or so). I interviewed both Ballard and Amis and Amis was far and away the more "middle class and conventional" of the two. Ballard was an eccentric beatnik/suburban type, and a lot more interesting than Amis! Stay safe! Scott
@minuteslater86
3 жыл бұрын
How can The Road not be on this list? Great content by the way. Discovered your channel while researching Nabokov for my reading of Pale Fire right now.
@Scottmbradfield
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I meant to include THE ROAD but forgot. Thanks for bathing! (PALE FIRE is great.) s
@stephensinclair3771
4 жыл бұрын
Loved John Christopher's sword of the spirits trilogy as a kid. The world created created convinces completely.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I never read his YA stuff but have it one my shelf. S
@stephensinclair3771
4 жыл бұрын
@@Scottmbradfield I would definitely give it a look. Good one for a winters night.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
@@stephensinclair3771 Will do!
@reinereine1896
3 жыл бұрын
The old bbc tv serie "the Day of the triffids" from 1982 is still incredible and one of the best moments from the tv world ever (beware of the fullenght movie though). The best film about the nuclear war is "threads" a uk film that easy beats every Hollywood drama. Much intense, horrible and terrifying.
@Scottmbradfield
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the rec. I loved the old movie version of TRIFFIDS when I was a kid, but never saw the original BBC series. Sounds like I need to avoid "threads" tho since I can't find the world much more terrifying than it already is! Stay safe! S
@reinereine1896
3 жыл бұрын
@@Scottmbradfield well in that case, sire, you have several hours of top notch horror/post apocalyptic scifi before you (I admit that I am jelaous) 😉 you are doing right to avoid "threads" though since it's more facts than fiction. The teachers force our poor kids in school to watch it and when our parents reacted they were simply told that we kids need to get prepared for what could happend 😱 the movie is from 1984 and I have never seen anything more disturbing about a nuclear war than that movie. The american movie "aftermath" who came out at the same time is like a comedy in comparision. Speaking about nuclear war: i guess you have read "metro 2033" by Dmitrij Gluchovskij and "deluge" by PC Jersild. They must be available on english otherwise it's a disaster (speaking about nuclear war i mean). Read and enjoy but be prepared to burst into cries often (and this is a sign of how good these books really are and they will stick to you forever). Feel free to ask about more recommendtions (I simply can't understand why neither of these books were not even mention in this KZitem clip). So enjoy both one of BBC's finest moments as well as some extremly great litterature!
@BlindGuy-vs5rc
3 жыл бұрын
You might check this man’s freezer! For body parts of the missing kids in the neighborhood! Lol
@donaldmorgan4272
4 жыл бұрын
I love immobility, just read it a few month ago. Most of those I hadn't heard of, I'm curious about the nebula novella. A couple of my faves are Tatyana Tolstoya's The Slynx, and Good News by Edward Abbey. I enjoyed Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro. Malamud's God's Grace is pretty screwed up, worth a read.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
I like Fiskadero, it's a bit hard to follow but it does merit reading... I'll check out the Abbey which I haven't read... your book's in the mail! S
@donaldmorgan4272
4 жыл бұрын
@@Scottmbradfield Yay USPS! Oh, and how could I forget: Mockingbird by Walter Tevis and Kate Wilhelm's Where the Late Sweet Birds Sang. I had fun reading Good News, it straddles western and sci fi genres, I'm sure there are other books that do that, but I haven't read any. Though there are certainly many such crossovers in TV and movies...
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
Donald Morgan those are all very notable! Note them on the Facebook page? I find stuff gets lost on the KZitem comments section, even to me...
@mohammedhanif6780
4 жыл бұрын
Ridley Walker? My favourite novel. btw what's that tablet you use to read comics on? it looks really big.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
It's just a 12 inch iPad I got cheap on eBay. Good for comics. I like Hoban but never cracked Ridely Walker. The Mouse and His Child is my favorite Hoban. Stay safe Mohammed! If you want to join the IBA, give me your okay and a location! Scott
@mohammedhanif6780
4 жыл бұрын
@@Scottmbradfield I've loved The Mouse and His Child since our teacher read it in infants school. A tad inappropriate for that age though. Have a go at RW. it's up there with the best. I'm from Birmingham England.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
@@mohammedhanif6780 Great! You are now entitled to read books in any bathtub in the known galaxy! Congratulations! I've listed you on this map: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Tc7RT3iL24ErPt8HJgjXj4m5Pey1HnSi&usp=sharing And greeted you on our Facebook page: facebook.com/groups/702202229874384 Last time I was in Birmingham, the downtown reconstruction LOOKED like a scene from Ridley Walker! Stay safe!
@noahjuanjuneau9598
2 жыл бұрын
Was also going to recommend RIDLEY WALKER… So often overlooked in the post apocalypse reading lists. Very unique storytelling. Highly recommend it.
@jesuisnoach
4 жыл бұрын
Great list! You forgot The Road, by my boy Cormac McCarthy. Also if you want another great post-apocalyptic game with fantastic storytelling, try The Last of Us 1 and 2.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
Oh shit. Yeah, I mean to include that.
@jdamsel8212
4 жыл бұрын
Unrelated, but I remembe ryou saying you never got past the first 100 pages of Gravitys Rainbow (maybe im misremembering) but I gotta say it gets alot better after the first 100 and you get into a rthym. Maube give it another go.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
I may do that! Scott
@sandrawalker8839
3 жыл бұрын
Why not put them in description
@TheGamerGuyXBOX
2 жыл бұрын
Hi there. I was wondering if you had any recommendations specifically for beginners. I'm 19 and basically never read, but I'd love to start. I find the (post-)apocalypse theme very interesting. Do you know any that are easy to read? Thanks in advance :)
@Scottmbradfield
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the bathtub, buddy! I can only talk for really OLD guys like myself and not really YOUNG guys, but here are a few ideas: Wyndham's THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS John Christopher's NO BLADE OF GRASS George R Stewart's EARTH ABIDES Those are three that stick my head anyway. Many younge(er than me) people say Max Brooks's ZOMBIE WAR is fun. (I forget the exact title.) Let us know how they go! Scott
@TheGamerGuyXBOX
2 жыл бұрын
@@Scottmbradfield Hey again. Thank you for this. I decided I'm going to buy Earth Abides and World War Z (Max Brooks). If I like them I'll also read The Day Of The Triffids. I can't find No Blade Of Grass in my country though, so that's a shame, but 3 books is enough for now :) I'll let make sure to let you know how it goes, but it will take a while because I do have exams coming up.
@Scottmbradfield
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheGamerGuyXBOX Good plan. And let us know what you think. What country, by the way? Should I enlist you in the free (and totally useless) lifetime membership to the International Bathing Alliance? Did I say it's free? Or totally useless? I just need a location and a name.
@TheGamerGuyXBOX
2 жыл бұрын
@@Scottmbradfield Haha sure. I'm Yusif from the Netherlands. Where can I get my membership? 😅
@niriop
4 жыл бұрын
I recently finished Clifford D. Simak’s City, which I didn’t actually find that appealing, even though the ideas-urban decline, automation, mass alienation, genetic engineering-were all extremely relevant to us now for stories written in the 1940s. I think the most important post-apocalyptic novel (not necessarily favourite) for me was Philip K. Dick’s Dr Bloodmoney, which was the first PKD I read when I was about thirteen, and I loved all of its crazy notions, and how in it American suburbia becomes a grotesque and brutal parody of itself.
@Scottmbradfield
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah Bloodmoney is good. I have a soft spot for Simak, but it may be an old guy thing.
@Tailspin80
3 жыл бұрын
The part that interests me is how people would act during the “fall”. Scavenging, fighting, denial etc. Once things settle down it’s just going to be boring - we will all just be third world people eking out a subsistence living and with none of the skills of real third world people.
@Scottmbradfield
3 жыл бұрын
Gordon Van Gelder once told me about an anthology he edited about the end of the world, and one of the stories or something made the argument that actually people tended to come together in the face of disasters. I guess one would hope. s
@Thagomizer
2 жыл бұрын
Fallout 3 is a horribly written Fallout game, and Fallout 4 could perhaps be described as excellent presentation of adequate writing. If you had to pick one Fallout game with the best story,--not the best gameplay, mind you, but the best story--it would be Fallout 1, hands down. This is the only Fallout story that could easily be adapted into a movie, and remain equally effective. If you've never played the first two games, then you have two amazing RPGs to look forward to.
@Scottmbradfield
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I heard those first two were good but never saw them available on my platforms. They are always in back of my mind tho. And I still l love Fallout 3! Stay safe in the bathtub. Scott
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