false <![CDATA[Eternity Road]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171956838m/128533.jpg 128533 5 <i>Eternity Road</i> is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it, only one person returns. The lone, dishonored survivor eventually kills himself, but his son is determined to try again... 123788 1997 Eternity Road total:292|5:41|4:108|3:95|2:42|1:6| 292 1012 413 32 2 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 13:50:22 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 20:02:53 -0700 2009 Eternity Road, from the 1990s, was recommended by some online list, and Alas, Babylon is a early classic of the genre I've been meaning to read since A2 told me about it 15 years ago.

Alas, Babylon blew me awa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 09:03:25 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 09:15:52 -0700 2009
That's the scena...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 10:36:38 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 10:49:07 -0700 2008
Stephen King's "The Stand" is a classic masterpiece in this regard. Despite the critics ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 11:15:15 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 09:11:40 -0700 2008
The story takes place about 1000 years in future (no one is really sure how much time has passed) after a plague wiped out most of mankind. The su...more...]]> 5 0 true false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 20 21:34:07 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 21:46:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 07:30:58 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 07:36:40 -0700 2008
The Illyrian Empire is settled in the Mississippi river area and they have long...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sun Jun 24 21:07:19 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 24 21:22:47 -0700 2007 love with it; I'm kind of scared to go back and reread it now, for fear it won't stand up to my fond memories of it.

The premise is that some unspecified disaster has destroyed most of the population of the world around our presen...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 16 20:51:41 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 19 08:28:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 06 08:06:24 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 13:35:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 29 14:56:22 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 12:38:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 16:30:43 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 16:32:40 -0700 2009
It was a future apocalyptic book about humans on Earth after a great disaster in the near future.

I can see where the beginnings of the other books originate from. This book had enough grip to hold you on until the very end. The ancient sho...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 21:35:17 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 21:38:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 13:05:13 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 13:10:06 -0700 2009
For non-fans, steer clear; the pacing, prose, characterization, dialogue, etc. are all pretty atrocious...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Tue Apr 08 10:13:05 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 10:30:15 -0700 2008
I read this about ten years ago, and I remember being extremely frustrated by it-- it was a definite Wall Banger, the earliest one I can recall reading. The end was resolved far too qu...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 15 08:57:58 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 08:58:14 -0700 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 11:59:54 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 14:11:47 -0700 2008
Set in an unspecified point in the future, where our own civilization has crumbled into ruins. The American civilization we live in is half shrouded in myth, with the only true testament left being broken road...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 09:43:17 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 09:43:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Sep 21 07:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 07:01:00 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 09:20:29 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 09:23:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 18 10:30:16 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 20 13:52:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=128533