Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The fictional survivalist

Do you want to know what survivalists do when they're not working on preparedness? Well, in addition to all of the other things every day people do, they enjoy survivalist fiction and movies. Every time you read an article related to survivalism, just about every writer makes reference to the Mad Max movies as the quintessential survivalist movie. It's not, but it does have very obvious survivalist themes. However, no survival nut worth his salt would eat dog food, unless the dog was eating as well as its owner ;)



Movies
I am Legend
The Survivalist
Panic in the Year Zero
No Blade of Grass 
Deliverance
Dawn of the Dead
Packin' it In
The Survivors
Red Dawn
Tremors
The Postman
Mad Max
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Cast Away
Resident Evil: Apocalypse

TV
The Day After in the US 
Threads in the UK
24
Jericho
Lost
Survivors
Survivor reality TV

Books
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Tomorrow by Philip Wylie
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Stark by Ben Elton
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
How to be a Survivor by Robert A. Heinlein (nuclear war essay)
Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven 
Footfall by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven
The Postman by David Brin
Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles (Editor of SurvivalBlog.com)
Good News by Edward Abbey
The Survivalist is the title of a series of paperback novels by Jerry Ahern

Do you have a favourite not mentioned above? Let us know by leaving a comment.

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