Best political fiction books according to redditors
We found 657 Reddit comments discussing the best political fiction books. We ranked the 255 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 657 Reddit comments discussing the best political fiction books. We ranked the 255 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
I really like Anthony Ryan. The first two of the Blood Song trilogy are out. They are his first two books so if he keeps pulling me in like those two have then he has great potential.
Here is his first book [Blood Song](http://www.amazon.com/Ravens-Shadow-Book-One-Blood-ebook/dp/B0070NSPCU
) and his second book Tower Lord.
There's a novel out called Ghost Fleet in the vein of Tom Clancy, set in the not too distant future. In it, an Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos-type character obtains a Letter of Marque from the US government to hunt down a Chinese spaceship that's taking out American communications satellites. Which basically makes him a space privateer. Fun read
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/0544142845
Context: Main character encounters past antagonist at Burning Man. He gets paranoid.
EDIT: The book in question for the lazy
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772
Get startup money from the rich. That's what Nader says in his new work of fiction
I read a LOT and am always trying to find new collapse fiction. Whenever I see these kind of threads they always list the same 5 novels. To be fair that is because they are great books. Here is a list full of novels you might not know about. Anything you find here is worth reading. Even bad collapse fiction is useful because you can make mental notes of what the characters are doing wrong. I'll try to list them in rough order of best to worst.
Tunnel in the Sky By Robert Heinlein
Holding Their Own By Joe Nobody
Swan Song By Robert McCammon
A Distant Eden By Lloyd Tackitt
The Jakarta Pandemic By Steven Konkoly
77 Days in September By Ray Gorham
The Walk By Lee Goldberg
Folk of the Fringe By Orson Scott Card
World Made by Hand By James Kunstler
American Apocalypse: The Collapse Begins By Nova
Into the Forest By Jean Hegland
Year of the Flood By Margaret Atwood
Last Light By Terri Blackstock
TEOTWAKI: Beacon's Story By David Craig
The Pulse By Scott B. Williams
Grid Down Reality Bites By Bruce Buckshot Hemming
Desperate Times By Nicholas Antinozzi
Armageddon's Children By Terry Brooks
Desperate Times By Nicholas Antinozzi
Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
These are all terrific, and are either obscure or all-but forgotten:
Evolution's Darling by Scott Westerfield
Stone by Adam Roberts
Broken Time by Maggie Thomas
Double Star by Robert Heinlein (forgotten classic, but still terrific)
The God of the Labyrinth by Colin Wilson (creepy, trippy, near-pornographic, but also mind-blowing)
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
Carve the Sky by Alexander Joblokov
Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel
Marrow by Robert Reed
and.... Bought. Thanks /u/kaiser_soze I love these kinds of books. Historical, enthralling, and sheds light on current world history and politics. another good book; Power of the dog
I find it ironic that a book about how one might respond in a post-EMP world is only available (at least from Amazon) in electronic form.
http://www.amazon.com/Only-Blood-Suffering-LaVoy-Finicum/dp/193773594X
It sounds like a riot of a read.
Don't judge me on this one...but I have a special fondness for the Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. The story and writing style are rather simple but it was the first fantasy book I picked up on my own and started reading. It was really what got me interested in the genre as a kid.
I think a close second is the entire Dragon Prince/Dragon Star series (I think there are 2 for a total of 6 connected books) by Melanie Rawn. The first one is Dragon Prince and it is very good. She did a wonderful job of creating an intricate world and keeping it consistent over the entire series.
I am cutting and pasting from a HelloGiggles interview i did because this is not a short list:
EG: I love Gail Collins. She’s a New York Times journalist. She wrote a book called America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. It’s the feminist history book you never had. It’s a book you cannot put down. It’s so jam packed with information, and you just can’t believe you don’t know this stuff. She has a whole thing about how pioneer women basically built San Francisco. Because when the gold rush happened, there was no one to cook for the men. So women would come out, set up shop, and make tons of money. They were business owners and had autonomy and control of their finances for the first time. Stuff like that. I mean, Bear Grylls would look like Tom Brokaw compared to these pioneer women. That’s not even a good analogy. But these women would like, crawl up mountains while giving birth. Their skirts would catch on fire all the time. The shit that they went through was insane. So you’re reading this, and [Collins is] just giving you all of it. It’s the most fascinating book I’ve ever read.
Of course, all of Roxane Gay’s books. She’s necessary reading. I just read In Her Words, the Eleanor Roosevelt book. That was uplifting, and also so sad to see this woman with this knowledge and access to power whom, if she had been given the chance…god, the things she could have done. You should read Susan Faludi’s Backlash. That’s super necessary feminist reading. I also like this book called White Trash. It’s about America’s history of poverty and how it explains a lot of what’s happening today. But because it’s written by a woman — it’s written by Nancy Isenberg — it has a feminist slant to it. It’s fantastic.
Oh, and Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu. It’s a graphic novel of incredible women. It’s gorgeous and informative and great. And it’s a great book for a teen, or an adult who likes graphic novels like me. Also Bitch Planet. It’s a graphic novel that’s The Handmaid’s Tale of space. That’s great. And of course, The Handmaid’s Tale. Read Margaret Atwood. And not just The Handmaid’s Tale. She’s written tons of other books that are thematically similar and just as depressing.
Also, Samantha Irby. Her books…I don’t know what to say about her books. I have a really loud laugh, and when something tickles me and gets me really hard, I laugh really loudly. And I do it like, every other page with her.
a copy of ralph nader's masterpiece, only the super-rich can save us!
Yeah, the pedophilia thing is the most disturbing. It makes The The Handmaid's Tale and Future Home of the Living God seem plausible.
The more new laws get shoved up my uterus, the more I am positive that we are moving towards the misogynistic dystopian society Margaret Atwood wrote of in The Handmaid's Tale.
Basically "Only the Super Rich Can Save Us!" by Ralph Nader: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Super-Rich-Can-Save-Us/dp/158322923X
Unfortunately a little tarnished now by it's inclusion of Bill Cosby.
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Read Molon Labe! and dream about what could have been if it were Wyoming instead.
Here's a fictional exploration of the worst case scenario: nuclear war with North Korea.
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel
My top long fics:
Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived: 660k words long canon rewrite in a non-magic AU. It's so good I like it more than the original series.
Emperor, linkffn(5904185): 680k words and still in progress, a great war epic that rivals Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising in quality.
Divided and Entwined, linkffn(11910994): Voldemort was a lot scarier in this 640k words long story, and canon Horcrux Hunt would have completely failed. But Hermione and Dumbledore were up to the challenge. It's another great war epic and polit thriller.
The Accidental Animagus, linkffn(9863146): 700k words long and generally lots of fun, but Years 1 and 2 followed canon stations a little too close. Its sequel Animagus at War, linkffn(12088294), is even more fun, but the author has her priority set on another fic at moment.
The Handmaid's Tale
My favorite book in the world is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I have read it probably eight times since I first got it when I was 15.
It's really very sad, but I found great comfort in it. The main character struggles a lot with her relationship with her mother, which I did a lot growing up. Even though it isn't a "happy" story, it was so wonderful for me to find that there wasn't something wrong with me for not getting along with my mother! It also reminded me that no matter how bad my life was (or how bad I perceived it to be), I could always draw love from sources other than my mother. It really really really contributed to the person I am today!
Here is a penny book I would like - Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins :). Thank you for the contest <3
Everyone should go read Ghost Fleet if they are curious how a war with China could go down. Hawaii is prime territory.
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
I know some of these have already been mentioned, so just consider this a second vote for those titles. Also, my list skews heavily towards sci-fi/fantasy, because that is what I tend to read the most of.
By women, featuring female protagonists:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day (It's not entirely fair to characterize this as a book about women; it's really a set of interconnected stories featuring both male and female characters. On the other hand, many of the most memorable characters, IMO, are women, so I'm filing it in this category anyway. So there!)
The Protector of the Small Quartet by Tamora Pierce, beginning with First Test (Really, anything by Tamora Pierce would fit the bill here. They're young adult novels, so they're quick reads, but they're enjoyable and have wonderful, strong, realistic female protagonists.)
These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer (Heyer wrote really fun, enjoyable romances, typically set in the Regency period, though These Old Shades is actually Georgian. This one is probably my favorite, but they're really all quite wonderful. Not super heavy stuff, but don't write her off just because of the subject matter. She was a talented, witty writer, and her female protagonists are almost never the wilting "damsel in distress" type - they're great characters who, while still holding true to their own time and place, are bright and likeable and hold their own against the men in their lives.)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Another young adult book. And, again, I think it's worth noting that L'Engle's books almost always feature strong and interesting female characters. This one is probably her most famous, and begins a series featuring members of the same family, so it's a good jumping off point.)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
By men, featuring female protagonists:
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (This is another one that is perhaps not a perfect fit for this category; the titular unicorn is female, but the book is as much about Schmendrick the magician as it is about her. However, there's also Molly Grue, so on the strength of those two women, I'm classifying this book as having female protagonists.)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (It's a children's book, but there's plenty to enjoy about it as an adult, too.)
By women, featuring male protagonists
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
If you liked Red Storm Rising, I would suggest Ghost Fleet as your next read.
I think it's called "Homeland"
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
These are all books I read and thoroughly enjoyed in my late teens/early 20s.
I've definitely been intrigued by The Goblin Emperor, but I've bought a ton of great books I need to read first. It seems like a fresh take on common fantasy tropes.
I have The Dragon's Path because it came free when I bought the ebook of Leviathan Wakes, by Abraham & Ty Franck. I haven't read it yet, though I've really been enjoying the Leviathan Wakes series. Together, they are a great writing duo, and that series is currently in production as a TV series for Syfy, premiering next year. :)
I'm a fairly hardcore SF fan, and I've really only started appreciating fantasy in the past couple of years. Most of the genre is unreadable for me (due to elves & crystals), but I've been pleasantly surprised on a few occasions. Blood Song by Anthony Ryan was a well-written, notable 1st novel, but this year's sequel Tower Lord was hands-down outstanding, a remarkable improvement in plotting.
I also love Joe Abercrombie. He's written 6 books in the same universe; you need to start at the beginning with The Blade Itself. Abercrombie's stuff is long on swords & short on sorcery, it's a sort of fantasy noir. I love his dialogue, how he's able to turn a phrase & make it fresh rather than a cliche, and he excels at writing action scenes. He's now working on a new YA series, starting with Half a King. I avoid YA, but he's a favorite of mine, so I read it & loved it. The 1st sequel is out in 6 months.
If you want to read a fun fictional book of exactly this playing out, I recommend Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.
Can you ask her what she likes about the Hunger Games series? Is it the dystopian element, the strong female protagonist, the focus on action?
No matter what, I'd recommend The Handmaid's Tale to her. It's a favorite of mine, and it has a lot in common with the Hunger Games books, but she might not like it if she wants a lot of action. The main character isn't the fighter, for the most part.
This exact scenario occurs in Ghost Fleet, which is a wonderfully entertaining book. A sort of 'evil Sir Richard Branson' gets a letter of Marque to become a Space Pirate against the Chinese.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/054470505X
I was charitable to Shapiro until True Allegiance. jfc talk about diluting your brand. Complete conservative fever dream.
Its part of the game, and the recordings, but a good source is the book "Rapture, by John Shirley" which covers a lot of the pre-1959 story on Rapture and how it was built, catalogs the event between "Atlas" and Andrew Ryan, the story of Frank Fontaine of Fontaines Fisheries and how everything started to crumble.
Its a great read if you enjoy the Bioshock series and delves into the civil war beneath the sea quite a bit, i've recommended it to many people who've played the games.
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772/ref=sr_1_7/142-6017233-7483325?ie=UTF8&qid=1496794345&sr=8-7&keywords=ben+shapiro
>America is coming apart. An illegal immigration crisis has broken out along America's Southern border—there are race riots in Detroit—a fiery female rancher-turned-militia leader has vowed revenge on the president for his arrogant policies—and the world's most notorious terrorist is planning a massive attack that could destroy the United States as we know it. Meanwhile the President is too consumed by legacy-seeking to see our country’s deep peril.
>Brett Hawthorne is the youngest general in the United States Army—and he’s stuck, alone, behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. He’s the last lost soldier of a failed war, fighting to stay alive and make it back home—but will he be able to stop the collapse of America in time?
It's absolutely fucking awful, and Chapo Trap House is doing a reading series on the novel.
I've tried to find some excerpts from True Allegiance, but it's proving difficult. Feel free to have a look at it here. Look around his twitter account. Look at his tweets, the views he expresses. Think critically about subtext and dogwhistles.
All his work is intensely bigoted and hateful against any aberration from the norm. All his writing is bland, boring propaganda, filled with hip hop thugs conspiring to get police officers framed, stuffed to the brim with giant bear-like men who take action and snuffly effeminate gay effeminate socialist soyboys. The way he talks about his wife is absurd.
Maybe he isn't alt-right. But he is intensely racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, antisemitic (in a baffling and absurd way) and he has a REALLY fucking annoying voice.
Peterson is more complex. But it's basically the same shit.
It's not even necessary to try to imagine what he was thinking in this situation, since he has explicitly explained how he wanted his encounter with law enforcement to go down in his videos.
Heck, even his book, Only By Blood And Suffering, describes his imagined encounter with LEOs.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZswE9tWYAAFdP5.jpg
Now, even if there was no gun in his pocket (there was a loaded pistol in there, not a cell phone), there are times when you should comply with those authorized to use deadly force. I don't necessarily agree with the use of deadly force ever, but Lavoy certainly did, and we can be sure he did doing what he loved - challenging authority.
Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn
It's part of the Dragon Prince trilogy and is continued by the Dragon Star trilogy. The whole series is pretty close to how Game of Thrones is but still very different, hits more on morals and politics rather than fighting.
The books are just...amazing.
Link: Amazon link
Edit: added description and link
You've just listed some of my favorites. I've read Everything Murakami, Pratchett, and King have ever published (barring some brand new works, and the odd short story). One book I recommend to Murakami fans is Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, by Kenzaburo Oe. It's been described as "Lord of the Flies meets The Plague", and that's fairly apt.
I think any Pratchett fan should read Tom Robbins, any of his works is worth picking up, but since I'm providing links go with Skinny Legs and All.
Might be a little too mature for an 11 year old, but I'd recommend Little Brother and Homeland by Cory Doctorow.
I'd recommend you reading them as well. Some pretty good common-man explanations of some core security topics.
And of course the followup, Homeland.
These are two excellent books about the future of monitoring.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see an update to the Bible within the next year. The Heller Update edition followed the case fairly quickly, and there might be a McDonald update- especially considering all the changes in state laws that have happened in the past few years (lots more Constitutional Carry and other sorts of things). Plus, there's a fair amount of equipment in the past few years that warrants a look from BTP.
If you haven't read Molon Labe!, you fucking should.
http://www.amazon.com/Only-Super-Rich-Can-Save-Us/dp/1583229035
There is a history of data systems technician online, which explains how the Navy changed it's way of operations in tracking enemy ships and planes up to the modern aegis system. Gives you an idea of how the Navy transformed from guns to missiles.
http://ethw.org/First-Hand:No_Damned_Computer_is_Going_to_Tell_Me_What_to_DO_-_The_Story_of_the_Naval_Tactical_Data_System,_NTDS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Man%27s_Bluff:_The_Untold_Story_of_American_Submarine_Espionage
Hunt for Red October
https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-October-Jack-Ryan-Novel/dp/0425240339/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475178085&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=hunt+for+red+october
Red Storm Rising
A book about a hypothetical war between the US and USSR, a lot of Navy stuff in this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Storm-Rising-Tom-Clancy/dp/042510107X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475178124&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=red+storm+rising
Red November
https://www.amazon.com/Red-November-Inside-U-S--Soviet-Submarine/dp/0061806773/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475178190&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=Red+November
Anthony Ryan's Blood Song does this also. Fun read with a lot of positive reviews. The sequel Tower Lord just came out. I haven't read it yet but but I really liked the first one and will definitely be getting to the sequel soon.
Have you read Ghost Fleet? https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/054470505X
I haven't really played Gears or Mass Effect much and so am in no place to comment but here's what I'd suggest for the other two.
As a series Assassins Creed is amazing but be warned the first game, while inventive and exciting gets a bit repetitive towards the later third. But after that ACII and its counterparts 'Brotherhood' & 'Revelations' are astounding and with the news on ACIII the series is going to pan out/close on a real high.
For a revelation and in-depth story Bioshock is my personal go-to on all cylinders. The first game dig deep into Randian objectivism and once you read the blogs and opinions you realise that it is a game about the very nature of gaming. I would suggest reading 'Atlas Shrugged' as you play through to get the full depth of the first game.
The sequel is good if you really get into the story of the city of Rapture but doesn't come with the depth of philosophy that the first does.
But if Rapture is your thing it's worth a play to see how it panned out, also get hold of John Shirley's adaptation of the story Bioshock: Rapture.
Again the upcoming Bioshock: Infinite is going to take the series to new heights (pun intended!) and will be a worthy addition to the franchise.
Right now, I think I’d say “The Power of the Dog” by Don Winslow. The Power of the Dog https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400096936/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Rv5xCbE4D5YQ8
For others curious: https://smile.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against-ebook/dp/B079VDR6HM
My local library doesn't have it but it looks interesting.
https://www.amazon.com/Commission-Report-Nuclear-Attacks-Against-ebook/dp/B079VDR6HM/
In roughly recommendish order:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle/dp/0756404746
http://www.amazon.com/Mistborn-Trilogy-Boxed-Hero-Ascension/dp/076536543X/
http://www.amazon.com/American-Gods-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0380789035
http://www.amazon.com/Assassins-Apprentice-Farseer-Trilogy-Book/dp/055357339X/
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Prince-Book-Melanie-Rawn/dp/0886774500/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Shadows-Night-Trilogy/dp/0316033677
Online fiction:
Pact: I'm enjoying Pact. Not as much overall as Worm, but there are some moments that are pretty awesome like [6.11](#s "not existing when the Behaim's do their thing with perception, and it goes straight from 6.10->6.12. Meta shenanigans are best shenanigans.")
Citadel: It's exactly what would happen if you cross Super Powereds' setting with characters from Worm. Not enough story yet to get a really good feel for how it's going to turn out, and the chapter length leaves something to be desired, although the update rate makes up for it. So far, I'm willing to keep reading it, which is more than I can say for most serials I start.
I second Hard Reset, and its sequels. Entertaining time loop shenanigans, and the characterization is pretty good ([Pinkie Pie](#s " narrator is best narrator.")). It's worth mentioning that I've never watched the show, or had any interest in watching the show, but I still found it fairly entertaining.
While we're on the subject of ponyfic, Fallout Equestria is one of my favorite pieces of fiction. Dark MLP!Fallout, not much else to say.
The Optimalverse, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is also pretty good. Satisfying values through ponies and friendship has never been more gratifying. Or terrifying, depending on your viewpoint and whether or not CelestAI's actions creep you the hell out.
Leftover Soup is a webcomic that I enjoy almost as much as the author's comments. There were quite a few times while reading it and thought "Huh, you know, that's a good point. I never thought of it that way."
The SilverClawShift Campaign Archives: What everybody wishes their DnD group was like. Fairly epic campaign.
Old Man Henderson: what every GM is terrified their group will be like.
Inviolate: A DC universe spanning conspiracy. Probably better if you have previous understanding of the universe, but I found it entertaining with just a layman's knowledge base.
Good ol' paperbacks:
Finished up Blood Song and its sequel Tower Lord not too long ago. Really enjoyed Blood Song, had a few issues with Tower Lord, but overall two very good books.
The Red Knight was pretty good as well, although it did have a tendency to get caught up in medieval armor jargon. I have no idea what most of those word were, but understanding is not necessary to enjoy the story.
The Dragon's Path is the first novel in the Dagger and the Coin series, and it looks pretty promising. Some entertaining political/economic maneuvering.
For fans of the Dresden Files, Benedict Jacka's Fated and it's sequels have much the same vibe. So far, it's only about as good as the early to mid Dresden Files, but the author has been improving steadily.
Huh, I just finished reading Singer's fictional take on WW3 - https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/054470505X
It was an okay read.
It is in your best interest and mine that we continue to support the establishment clause in the constitution and the generations of case law that supports separation of church and state.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This means that although you have the right to unimpeded religious worship, our government remains neutral and separate.
The best argument I generally present to theists is to ask them to think really hard about the consequences if this provision were not in place. Suppose we allowed the government to establish religion. We would pay for a state church with our taxes. We would allow politicians to interpret religion for us and pass laws accordingly.
It would be an utter disaster. Take Rick Santorum as an example. He is advocating a theocracy in the US. It is utterly illegal under the constitution. You cannot impose your religious beliefs on someone else. If you legislate religious belief, you are violating the Establishment clause of the constitution.
This is a huge and real concern in todays politics. Many states are not only walking the line, they are jumping over it with both feet. Declaring the year of the bible, repealing womens rights, and denying homosexuals their civil rights, are all examples of religion overcoming a secular nation.
If allowed to stand, these intrusions into church and state are a dangerous precedent. Say some time in the future forced prayer in schools is allowed. Imagine how you would feel if your children's teacher was a Wiccan or a Muslim? Would it then be ok to allow preaching in schools?
Would it be a great idea to break the wall of church and state if the government was allowed to decide which churches have the right to exist and which ones are heretical ? Suppose the age old war between catholics and protestants was allowed to infiltrate our government. It would be a massive civil war if one group decided to get rid of the other group. Without the separation of church and state the one group could even use the military and police to rid themselves of the other group.
Read The Handmaids Tale. Atwood paints a great example of what a theocracy would look like.
You might want to read this book. It's pretty close to your life (as mentioned above) with a bit of politics mixed in.
http://www.amazon.com/Boomsday-Christopher-Buckley/dp/0446579815
Sounds like you've already had some informative answers but just for fun, and in honor of Tom Clancy's passing, I'd recommend Red Storm Rising for a fictionalized but realistic description of your scenario. Great coverage is given to defending carriers against air to surface missiles, protecting convoys from subs, and ground campaigns with close air support.
It's a bit dated but gives you a sense of what's possible.
This isn't too far off, but it's a fictional book, and nobody reads books anymore. It was pretty entertaining, though.
It was the guy who was "farming" foster kids for money. He wrote a shitty fan fiction about a rancher fighting off The Guvmint.
This is off the top of my head and are just my opinion,but some books from a woman's pov that have really stuck with by are:
For little girls the Flavia de Luce mystery series is really cute and a fun read. Set in the years following WWII, a 12 year old girl solves mysteries in her small English village.
As a teenager I loved the book Witch Child where a girl who is just beginning to realize she is a witch is forced to cross to colonial America with a group of Puritans and must hide what she is. I still love this book but it has more of a teenage heroine: Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca is about a young insecure woman who becomes the second wife of a rich aristocrat, but as she tries to settle into her new life the memory of the first wife haunts her (shocking twist at the end).
Two creepy social commentary pieces that I love are: The Handmaid's Tale where a women struggles with her role in a dystopian religious extremist society. And The Yellow Wallpaper is an amazing short story told from the pov of a woman (I think in the early to mid 20th century) who is taking a 'rest cure' after having a baby. It will give you chills!
There are probably more but those are just the ones I remember at the moment.
Just found it for a fiver on AmazonUK, might get one...
Read Red Storm Rising, Hunt for Red October, Submarine, and maybe Fighter Wing, then walk away and never read another of "his" books.
Amazing author.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038549081X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
God is Dead, anyone?
Don't blame me; I voted for Bernie in 2000
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772
True Alliegiance - Ben Shapiro
It's a look into Ben's mind via his "fiction" which is really just a thinly veiled alternate imagining of history and the current political climate.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a crucial piece of literature. There are many layers that add to the pragmatism, an intricate dystopian piece of what has been hailed as speculative fiction, mostly for it's semblance to reality. The glimpses the narrator has before she was a enslaved to bear children mirrors our own.
OH MY GOODNESS they are so cute!!! :3 I have a little chihuahua/rat terrior mix named Pookie :)
Young Adult is great! I really enjoy dystopias as well! If you're interested in trekking down that path, a few good Young Adult/Dystopias are The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Giver. I also highly recommend Ready Player One and The Handmaids Tale :D
My husband teaches high school English, and one of his favorite books to share with his class is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It's a very cool story about a future society where women are only important in society because they can have babies.
Larry Bond was co-author and shares the copyright. I could have sworn the first copy I saw credited him on the cover with Clancy, but all the images of covers I've seen since just have Clancy. (The current paperback calls it a Jack Ryan novel, which, no.)
Well, even in Harry Potter, there are several people who could've been sorted into different houses. Example, Hermione (Ravenclaw, Slytherin). The series puts Miguel's deeds in a limited scope. My point is, Miguel is ambitious, but he was also smart. See The Power of the Dog. Miguel was very smart. You asked who our favorites are, and I told you Miguel and that Narcos didn't show how smart he was. I didn't say Miguel wasn't ambitious. Being smart and ambitious are not mutually exclusive traits (See Gilberto). Miguel made very few mistakes, and was only captured after the Mexican government turned on him after constant pressure from the U.S.
The Power of the Dog
I just told you to read House of Leaves elsewhere. But I have a much better suggestion that I bet you haven't heard of.
Check out Everything Matters by Ron Currie, Jr. It's his first true novel, he has a collection of tangentially related short stories called God is Dead, which was also fantastic, but I digress. The basic setup is what would you do if you, and only you, knew from the instance that you were conceived, the exact time and date at which the world will end 36 years into the future.
It's fantastic, I loved it, bought all my relatives copies, and they loved it too.
great fictional read featuring this boat:
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/0544142845
Hi!
My name is Maxwell, and I really love this book. I love it because the author takes an event that can very well happen here at any time (an EMP - Electromagnetic Pulse), and the author made it into a very intriguing book that I could not put down for a second. It combines a thriller with romance, which makes for an exciting combination. Also, I love reading any books I can put my hands on, but unfortunately my Kindle broke, so I'm stuck using my netbook which hurts my eyes and isn't in great shape either.
Well, anyway, thanks for running this competition, it's very kind of you!
Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York, Paris
This book is an incredible history and thoughtful critique of the Dada movement. If you think you don't like Dada, maybe a closer look is in order.
Skinny Legs and All
Wonderful wonderful fiction starring art!
Secession by a fundamental christian or conservative group of states would make the most sense, and it's a terrifying thought. Anyone ever read The Handmaid's Tale?
Books I've loved over the past recent years (and haven't seen mentioned a lot on reddit):
I guess I could go on, but those are a start.
Melanie Rawn's first series. Same general flavor as ASOIAF, but not quite as complex in terms of characters and world building (but then, what is). Haven't kept up with her newer series, if she's improved with age/experience those might also be worth a look.
Ralph Nader was born to spoil
Margaret Atwood has two companion books, both of a dystopian nature. I prefer Oryx and Crake, but The Year of the Flood is a nice afterword. The Handmaid's Tale is her most popular work. She calls it speculative fiction instead of science fiction.
She's one of my favorites, obviously.
Cooperatives like this can be awesome but require trust and transparency to work. I am down if you want to talk further about this.
You'd really enjoy Ghost Fleet then.
This is part of the plot for “The 2020 Commission Report”.
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow. It's a brutal but extremely engaging book.
Unfortunatly, it's a published book, so posting here would be breaking laws an' stuff.
Link to amazon though:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rapture-Bioshock-John-Shirley/dp/1848567049
Read the "Look Inside" previews to see if any of these is for you.
On My Way to Paradise by David Farland/Dave Wolverton.
Wool by Hugh Howey.
Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch.
Jennifer Government by Max Barry.
Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos.
Don Winslow has a couple novels dealing with the cartels, and the efforts to fight them. While they are fictional, they do track pretty closely with reality, and go into a lot of the politics, corruption, and economics involved. It's a lot easier to understand when you have a full picture of what exactly is involved.
They are definitely worth checking out. They are fairly graphic, but nothing that will shock someone who just looked at that album.
The two books are a series, but they don't strictly need to be read in order. I read The Cartel first, and didn't feel like I missed out on anything.
The Handmaid's Tale. I'm reading this right now, and it's really, really freaky. It feels like it could possible happen right now with everything going on.
There's also a book to read after, that includes a lot of info on Ryan and the civil war:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rapture-Bioshock-John-Shirley/dp/1848567049
I think Everything Matters! and God is Dead are worth checking out, both are by a guy named Ron Currie, Jr. who's writing style and feel is somewhat reminiscent of Vonnegut's.
edit: links
You should read Molon Labe, you'd love it.
God is dead by Ron Currie. God inhabits the body of a human who is subsequently killed, which also kills god. Dogs eat his/her corpse and become super-intelligent, and society begins to dissolve as god's death becomes known. It's a short novel but a total mindfuck.
https://www.amazon.com/True-Allegiance-Ben-Shapiro/dp/1682610772
Maybe Nader had it right -only the super rich could save us. I have not read his book, but the premise looks sound.
http://www.amazon.com/Boomsday-Christopher-Buckley/dp/0446579815
Obligatory wiki links: Dystopian Literature. Although, some of the titles listed don't seem to fit (The Dispossessed?). Nuclear holocaust fiction, and your general apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Some of the better/more popular ones:
Zombies: World War Z, Raise the Dead, Marvel Zombies, Zombie Survival Guide, Day By Day Armageddon, I Am Legend.
Also, just for kicks, some of my favorite dystopian movies:
Brazil, Soylent Green, 12 Monkeys, Blade Runner, Akira, Children of Men, Dark City, A Boy and His Dog, Logan's Run, Idiocracy, Equillibrium.
Just saw a comment on youtube pointing here:
http://www.amazon.com/77-Days-in-Septembe%C2%ADr-ebook/dp/B0052T1O6S
[Everything Matters] (http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Matters-Ron-Currie-Jr/dp/0143117513/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=&amp;qid=) by Ron Currie Jr., God is Dead is also a terrific and depressing read.
If you liked that, I would recommend you read Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch.
It has a more involved plot, and is very intelligently written.
I think I've devoted at least four reddit comments to it, but damn -
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch is a game-changer.
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Read this: Only the Superrich Can Save Us! by one of my personal heroes, Ralph Nader (disastrous 2000 election notwithstanding). It will give you the ideas and inspiration you need to do something meaningful with your ample resources. I heard him discussing this subject on the Cambridge Forum recently, and his passion and insight blew me away, plus the argument he makes is ridiculously compelling. Read the book and pass it along to everyone you know.
"God is Dead" is an awesome book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0143113488?pc_redir=1411854961&amp;robot_redir=1
Reading rainbow
The Handmaid's Tale
I've been wanting this book for awhile :) I don't mind used!
Reminds me of Ralph Nader's New Book, Only The Rich Can Save Us.
THIS IS EXACTLY IN A BOOK by Cory Doctorow - Homeland. Scary if the book had it right. Recommend reading it as it's based in SF and all about this kind of tracking. http://www.amazon.com/Homeland-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765333694
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Storm-Rising-Tom-Clancy/dp/042510107X
I will search. If I only remembered. I would have said. Maybe the one with the characters Beet Bowl and Stick..
edit- gotcha. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0553377884/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
It is mentioned under "Description" on the page so this is The One. Title is Skinny Legs and All.
His description of the parallel mind process of being an artist is right-on amazing.
FBI murders surrendered Oregon rancher LaVoy Finicum with his hands up. Part 2, as per eye witness Victoria Sharp. Jan 27, 2016. 55-year-old veteran, a published author (http://www.amazon.com/Only-Blood-Suffering-LAVOY-FINICUM/dp/193773594X), and an expectant grandfather LaVoy Finicum is survived by his wife and 11 children, 7 of whom were adopted.
Imagine being this stupid
Go away Ralph you are bad, bad takes