From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: The Postman...
Date: 2 Oct 92 04:29:45 GMT
Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens

In article <5079@calmasd.Prime.COM> rac@calmasd.Prime.COM (Russ Clark) writes:
>
>   Well in asking a simple question about the postman, I recieved flames
>   from anoymonus (sp?) mail senders, telling me not to ask questions
>   about non-horror novels!!! Well to me the idea of the end of the world
>   scares the shit out of me, after all in The Stand I found the end of 
>   the world bit more frighting then Flagg, I also noticed when The Stand
>   was being talked about, that I was not the only one who felt this way!
>   So I don't really care about the flames, but if your going to do it,
>   do it w/ your email address, that way you can hear my oppinion on the
>   subject.
>
   
   I see no reason why this book is not suitable fodder for 
   discussion on this group.  Horror is in the mind of the
   beholder.  It's also welcome to see *anything* new here,
   as 90% of the discussion seems to be the same old things.
   
   However:
   Russ, you also received some positive responses which you don't
   seem to choose to comment on either here or in e-mail.  I also
   can't figure how anyone can send anonymous e-mail.  If you wish
   to complain, you ought to balance it out by handing out some
   words of thanks as well.

   I'll take this opportunity to thank Andrea for her previous post.
   I don't know the authors or the book, so can't do a comparison,
   but I've got it on the list.

   To provide documentation for Russ's benefit that people *did*
   respond positively to his question, I reproduce Andrea's
   response to me:

In article <1992Sep29.011638.16776@rigel.econ.uga.edu>, hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:
> In article <5060@calmasd.Prime.COM> rac@calmasd.Prime.COM (Russ Clark) writes:
>>
>>   I was talking w/ a friend over the weekend about books that we injoyed 
>>   reading, and I mentioned The Stand, and she said that she loved it, and
>>   also enjoyed "The Post Man", the author had escaped her mind, but she
>>   said, that it dealed along the end of the world bases like King's book.
>>
>    David Brin wrote (one of his first, if not his first) a book called
>    The Postman.  It is set 16 years after a nuclear/chemical/biological
>    war.  It does not have a fantasy/horror element.  The main character
>    finds a mail carrier's uniform and mail and sets out re-unifying
>    the country by pretending that the US Postal Service is in operation.
>    (These are not spoilers, btw, these are established early on in the book.)
> 
>    Wayne

Brin's book sounds a great deal like a book I read by Whitley Strieber and 
James Kunetka (I think I spelled that last name correctly) years ago.  The 
book was called Warday and naturally examined the aftermath of 
post-apocalypse America.  The two were journalists, I believe, and 
travelled the country researching and writing about the people and things 
they ran across.  It was a great book, and though I wouldn't categorize it 
as horror per se, it certainly had its moments.  Has anyone read both 
Brin's and Streiber's books and can you compare them?

Andrea @ BVC
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