Quote Originally Posted by smokey the elder View Post
I read On the Beach back in high school, over 30 years ago, along with Alas, Babylon. Both of these were post-nuclear war stories, but had completely different endings, as I recall. Humans have survived (as a species) any number of disasters; civilizations have risen and fallen throughout all of recorded history.
Please stay out of my bookshelf?


Want to read a rocking good end of world tome?

Lucifer's Hammer.

Or a sci fi twist on same story?

Footfall.


Niven and Pournelle wrote both. I go back to each occasionally.