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Title:Arcana Caelestia
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Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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Total number of notes:18728

701.0. "William W. Johnstone" by CSG001::MCCONNELL () Mon Sep 26 1988 11:39

                          Out of the Ashes
    
         Ben Rainse hadn't looked forward to the War, but he knew it
    was coming.  After the balloons went up, Ben was one of the survivors,
    fighting his way across the contry, searching for his family, and
    leading a band of new pioneers attempting to bring Americia 
    Out of the Ashes.
    
         This is the story.  Have any of you SF readers had a chance
    to read this?  If you havn't, I would highly recommend it!!  Some
    of it is kind of gross, but it's realy a good book.
                                     
    
                                 
    
                                          Steve M.
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701.1WINGMAN SERIESAIMHI::GIARAMITAMon Oct 03 1988 16:516
    I havn't tried it yet but it sounds similar to the 
    Wingman series by Mack Maloney, Zebra Books. Same theme,
    America and the world coming out of the ash to rebuild. The hero
    is a fighter pilot filled with super skills and has the last F15
    left. These are pretty well writen for a series. Good action.
    Not true science fiction.
701.2AKOV11::BOYAJIANThat was Zen; this is DaoTue Oct 04 1988 01:225
    There are scads of these series out -- referred to by collectors
    as "survivalist series" after the Jerry Ahern's The Survivalist
    series, which is the first of the wave.
    
    --- jerry
701.3SF/Adv.CSG001::MCCONNELLTue Oct 04 1988 10:5124
    re .01
    
         I didn't know that Wingman was a series when I picked it up,
    are the others as good as the 1st? 
         
         I know that these arn't SF but you always see sf/adventure in
    the book stores so I figured you wouldn't mind. :-)
                                     
    re .02
    
         I havn't read any of the survivalist series; are they any good?
    
    
         I'v noticed more books that merge, I think, both SF and Adv. in
    one story.
    
    Footfall   (Aliens invade Earth, people fight to survive)
    Lucifers(sp) Hammer (comet from space hits Earth)  ????
    Swan Song   (WW III, magic crown to fight evil with)
    
         What do you call a book that has parts of both?   
    
    					Steve
701.4AKOV11::BOYAJIANThat was Zen; this is DaoTue Oct 04 1988 11:548
    As far as I'm concerned, they're all post-holocaust science
    fiction. Just because it's written from a military/adventure
    point of view doesn't change that.
    
    I haven't read any of Ahern's "Survivalist" series, but friends
    that have think it's pretty good.
    
    --- jerry
701.5F16!!!CSG001::MCCONNELLI'm the NRATue Nov 22 1988 09:308
    RE .01
    
         Just finished the 2nd Wingman book, not as good as the 1st,
    but not bad.  Also the Wingman has a F16 not F15.
    
    
    					Steve