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The enemies trilogy is really good. I am halfway through the third book and i know it is fiction but it's pretty hard not to make comparisons to what would/could happen.
Cory Doctorow is going to be a speaker at Liberty Forum in February:When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, by Cory Doctorow
Someone in another thread linked to the free excerpts on Bracken's website. I devoured those, then bought Kindle versions of all his books and am sucking them in as fast as I can.ETA Fiction: Enemies Foreign and Domestic Trilogy. Books 2 and 3 are SHTF stories. But, read Book 1 first! These are great stories written by Matthew Bracken.
Book 1: Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Book 2: Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista
Book 3: Foreign Enemies and Traitors
Cory Doctorow is going to be a speaker at Liberty Forum in February:
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Someone in another thread linked to the free excerpts on Bracken's website. I devoured those, then bought Kindle versions of all his books and am sucking them in as fast as I can.
Aside from the timeliness given the current "assault weapon" hysteria, and aside from the fact that he knows what he's talking about, he's also just a damn good writer.
I highly recommend Matt Bracken not just as a SHTF/TEOTWAWKI/guns writer, but as an entertaining storyteller.
+1 The media/political response to recent events immediately reminded me of Enemies Foreign & Domestic.
Just came across this book reviewed by Matt Bracken: Failure Of Civility
Looks like a worthy book with lasting reference value. I hope someone runs a group buy on it. If not I'll buy a copy for myself soon.
A Walk in the Woods is a travel memoir on the Appalachian Trail, one of America's greatest hiking routes. The author, Bill Bryson lived in England for 20 years and came back to the United States with the urge to go on a long hike. Stephen Katz, an old college friend, and a former alcoholic accompanies him. Both men are out of shape, and beginners at hiking, so it is a wonder how they can endure such hardships along the trail. They had to carry a pack that contained their tents, food, water, clothes and other items. Katz and other interesting characters provide the book with much comic relief to keep the reader involved. At some points in the book I was laughing out loud.
Near the beginning of the trek, Katz decides that is pack is too heavy and starts tossing the food in the woods. Later, they decide that this was probably not a good thing.
I read that maybe 10 - 15 years ago. Wasn't a lot of Katz's food Twinkies and junk food anyway?
Great. Now I want a Twinkie and I can't HAVE one
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Just came across this book reviewed by Matt Bracken: Failure Of Civility
Looks like a worthy book with lasting reference value. I hope someone runs a group buy on it. If not I'll buy a copy for myself soon.
I got my copy in the mail today. Just from skimming it, it looks like it has a lot of good information .
Although, the first page of the book is a fold out chart which lists potential disasters, their likelihood of happening, happening and the various impacts of them. It lists the financial collapse of the US, an EMP attack, and race wars as "Highly possible".
I'll let you know how it goes from there.
If you're a fan of Lights Out they are trying to get enough money together to make it into a movie. You can follow the link to read more about it. Even without a big budget that book could be turned into a movie pretty easily, hopefully they get some decent actors.
I'm halfway through Enemies Foreign and Domestic right now, and IMO the writing leaves a lot to be desired. Like the plot, but does the author "grow" through the next couple books in the series?
As a writer? Yes. There's not as much unrelated side-chatter in the next two.
My way of looking at that series, along with "Patriots" by Rawles, is that its more of a how-to manual rather than a novel. Neither one of those guys will be winning a Nobel, but their work is packed with info, its just woven into a novel. The fact that its written that way probably gives them some plausible deniability also. "Why no Agent So-And-So, I never set out to write a step by step description of how to disable an M1A1 with improvised materials, its just a work of fiction."