The Three Peroids of Survivalist Literature

[gunsmith]

for your consideration

http://jasonswalters.blogspot.com/

I don't believe I've ever read an article or a book analyzing survivalist fiction as a distinct sub-genre with it's own literary qualities, artistic goals, and objective merits. Of course it's easy to see why. The sort of people who enjoy performing that kind of abstract literary zoology tend to also be urbane, liberal academics, who either instinctively dislike the entire idea of the genre, or find the sorts of people who read and write such books to be so inherently repulsive as to be unmentionable. Hence the lack of McFarland publications entitled things like "Preparedness Or Paranoia? A guide to the work of James Wesley Rawles" or "Boston T. Party: a guide to the fiction and non-fiction of Kenneth W. Royce."

[Perd Hapley]

What a thoroughgoing failure. He totally ignores what is arguably the most likely type of TEOTWAWKI event, and its literature. I guess he's gone along with the crowd that wants to bury its head in the sand, and ignore the frightening (but all too real) possibility of zombie outbreak. 

[Antibubba]

It's an interesting post.

[Antibubba]

Gunsmith, is this your blog?

I ask, because of this:   http://jasonswalters.blogspot.com/2011/03/flattering-review.html


...But if you’ve spent time in the desert you’ll almost believe these things could be real. The author knows whereof he writes. He has a ranch in the Black Rock desert and he sent me

[White Horseradish]

The classification fails, given that the medical TEOTWAWKI is lumped in with environmental. Jack London's Scarlet Plague was published in 1905.

[MicroBalrog]

On the contrary, a book on the topic exists:

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/nuclear/index.htm

[gunsmith]

Gunsmith, is this your blog?

I ask, because of this:   http://jasonswalters.blogspot.com/2011/03/flattering-review.html


...But if you’ve spent time in the desert you’ll almost believe these things could be real. The author knows whereof he writes. He has a ranch in the Black Rock desert and he sent me

Nope, not me but I live on his ranch! in my various I've referred to Mr Ranch owner, that's Jason. ... I'm merely a serf with a gun.

[Balog]

What's a peroid? I note it's spelled that way in the actual blog post as well as here.