A Conversation for Extinction Level Events

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Post 1

Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque

Another good book about nuclear war is 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' which begins some centuries after the Flame Deluge and ends with mankind destroying itself in a 2nd nuclear holocaust.


A Canticle for Leibowitz

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Woodpigeon

Hi BC, I thought I had included this, but there you are - zippo. It was on Farlander's selected reading list, but for some reason I edited it out. More book suggestions can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F1857?thread=617387#p6796597 Woodpigeon


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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque

never mind, looking down the list you've got quite a few so easy to miss one smiley - smiley
one of my favourite books though
very nice article too smiley - ok


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Woodpigeon

Thanks BC! It's a far better attempt than my first entry, which was written before Jan 1 2000, and captured, to far too great an extent, the worries about the Millenium Bug at the time!


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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque

I shall have to search that out smiley - biggrin
I've a few friends in computing who had a very good year in 1999


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Post 6

Woodpigeon

Indeed! smiley - biggrin Unfortunately it was us in the IT community that suffered the 'real' Millennium Bomb - we all lost our jobs in 2001... smiley - smiley


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