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Subject: Man-in-the-Rubble
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 19:50:21 EDT
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In answer to the fellow who asked for an After-The-End anthology.

The after-doomsday theme is one that has been  handled  often  in
both sci-fi and mainstream literature.

Taking the 'man in the rubble' description  loosely,  here  is  a
list of those that come most easily to mind.

By the Waters of Babylon, S. Vincent Binet.  Short story.

A Canticle  for  Liebowitz.   Walter  H.  Miller.   Probably  the
closest thing to a classic of this genre.

Damnation  Alley.   Zelazny  (or  perhaps  Silverberg,  I  forget
which).  Pretty road-warriorish.

Riddly  Walker.   Russel  Hoban.   Once  you  get  past  the  new
language, it's very good.

Nightwings.  Silverberg.  Way after the end, caused  by  invasion
of aliens.

Tom O'Bedlam.  Silverberg.  Still in hardback.  Mysticism and mu-
tation.

God's Grace.  Bernard Malamud.  The last primates on Earth are  a
Jew and his chimp.

The Stand.  Stephan King.  The end is caused by a  mutated  virus
rather than nuclear war.

Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang.  Kate Wilhelm.

Galapagos.  Kurt Vonnegut.  Still in hardback.

Lucifer's  Hammer.   Niven/Pournelle.   End  caused  by   falling
meteor/asteroid.

The Wild Shore.  Kim Stanley Robinson.

In the Drift.  Michael Swanwick.

Radix.  New Paperback.  Perhaps a classic.  Forget the author.