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From: Mark Nobles <cmn-nos...@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:34:24 -0500
Local: Fri, Jul 4 2008 3:34 pm
Subject: Re: Cormack McCarthyís "The Road" ñ similar works?

Kurt Busiek <k...@busiek.com> wrote:
> On Jul 3, 9:12 pm, Gas Bag <shazl...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > I have recently read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Although it was a
> > short book, I thought it was extremely well written – brilliantly
> > crafted. I am trying to find other books (and) movies of this genre,
> > but it hasn’t been easy.
> > I’m already well aware of 28 Weeks/Days Later, and I Am Legend, but I
> > am looking for the more obscure alternative titles, if there are any.

> If by "this genre" you mean "postapocalyptic travel stories," the
> grandaddy of the genre is THE STAND, by Stephen King, though it
> couldn't be more different in style from the McCarthy.

> Others include EMERGENCE by David R. Palmer, SWAN SONG by Robert
> McCammon, DAMNATION ALLEY by Roger Zelazny, A BOY AND HIS DOG by
> Harlan Ellison, most of the stories in THE BOOK OF THE DEAD (edited by
> John Skipp and Craig Spector) and the graphic novel series THE WALKING
> DEAD by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard.

And if the travel part is not so important, "Alas, Babylon" is one of
my favorites. It's what Jericho could have been. No zombies.

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