Reddit reviews The Dog Stars (Vintage Contemporaries)

Sounds suspiciously like "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller

>Adventure writer Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars is a first novel set in Colorado after a superflu has culled most of humanity. A man named Hig lives in a former airport community—McMansions built along the edge of a runway—which he shares with his 1956 Cessna, his dog, and a slightly untrustworthy survivalist. He spends his days flying the perimeter, looking out for intruders and thinking about the things he’s lost—his deceased wife, the nearly extinct trout he loved to fish. When a distant beacon sparks in him the realization that something better might be out there, it’s only a matter of time before he goes searching. Poetic, thoughtful, transformative, this novel is a rare combination of the literary and highly readable.

Sirens of Titan makes me feel very not dead inside.


Rant by Palahniuk might also fit the bill, it's dark and weird and some sci-fi elements.


I just read The Dog Stars, it was very good.


Maybe this thread from a while back will have some good suggestions for you.

[The dog stars - Peter Heller](https://www.amazon.com/ -Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476) Fantastic Story. Man and his dog surviving post super flu. I personally will read pretty much any post apocalypse fiction, but this is up there with The Road in quality. Beautifully written.

I've never delved too deep into the classics but a more modern pick is Peter Heller's 'The Dog Stars'

“A dreamy, postapocalyptic love letter to things of beauty, big and small.” –Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

“A book that rests easily on shelves with Dean Koontz, Jack London or Hemingway." —The Missourian

I recommend the novel The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. About a post apocalyptic world where a guy and his dog have a small plane and survive in and around the mountains of Colorado.

Just thought of some non-fiction as well, that also parallels the sailing aspect of Robinson Crusoe. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told. Not all of the are survival, but quite a few are. I enjoyed them all!

There are also loads of other books about survival in the world wars as well as other wars. I am sure with some digging several good ones could be found.

Lastly, as said above, Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild is another great non-fiction recounting of survival in the world, not just the Alaskan wilderness.

The Dog Stars by Peter Wellers is all kinds of great.

https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476

Gimme a fucking break.

FOUR entries for Hugh Howey? And three of them are about the same (meta)series?

What a joke.


Obvious omissions include:

The Dog Stars

The Passage

Through Darkest America

I Am Legend

And more...

The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller

Dozois's Year's Best Sience Fiction is a good compilation of short fictions. This year's was especially great. I like my science fiction idea-based, exploring concepts and hypotheticals, and I thing the short-story format really lends itself to that.
Rudy Rucker keeps publishing great novels.
By other authors, Nod and 2312 were both very worth my time. Intrusion was excellent, The Dog Stars was excellent, there is just a lot of good books published if you look around for them.

The Dog Stars, survival with a post-apocalyptic flair.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dog-Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476

Try The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. While not as bleak as The Road, I wouldn't call it happy:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dog-Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476

"The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller and "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy are both part of the modern canon, IMO.

I'm 3/4 of the way through the The Last Man Standing by Davide Longo. It's a little bit different to your usual post-apoc in that the apocalypse happens very slowly instead of a massive apocalyptic event. Set in a rural area of italy it slowly charts the breakdown of society into anarchy. An awesome slow burner.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Standing-Davide-Longo/dp/1623650348/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397683579&sr=8-1&keywords=davide+longo

Also check out The Dog Stars. It's very similar to The Road.

http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Stars-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307950476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397683690&sr=1-1&keywords=the+dog+stars+by+peter+heller