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« Thread Started on Dec 25, 2010, 9:41pm »

I just got 2 free books on my Kindle. Anyone recommend some more good free ones?
In Time of Emergency A Citizens Handbook on Nuclear attack, Natural Disasters (1968)

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« Reply #1 on Dec 31, 2010, 6:42am »

While it isn't free, I noticed that Jack London's PA novel The Scarlet Plague e-book is quite cheap on Amazon- around 75p in the UK or $1.10 in the US. I haven't read it yet but I would like to (too bad I don't have a kindle!)

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Re: Kindle books to look into
« Reply #2 on Dec 31, 2010, 7:38pm »

The Scarlet Plague is great. It's basically the grand-daddy of "modern" plague fiction. It's also old enough that it's public domain, so you shouldn't need to pay anything for it.

It's available in a bunch of electronic formats from Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21970.

Or you can get a free audiobook version of it from Librivox, http://librivox.org/the-scarlet-plague-by-jack-london/

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« Reply #3 on Dec 31, 2010, 8:42pm »

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« Reply #4 on Dec 31, 2010, 8:55pm »

An old guy tells a bunch of younger guys what life was like before the plague that killed everyone and how it happened. It was written in 1912.

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« Reply #5 on Dec 31, 2010, 8:56pm »

Sounds interesting, and since you got me thinking. You wouldn't happen to know about any old west apoc books?

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« Reply #6 on Jan 10, 2011, 3:44am »

Thank you for the mention of the ScarletPlague audiobook on Librivox.

This was a great story. The protagonists comment around food was the most telling and may still ring true for us:

"A few men got the food for many men. The other men did other things. As you say, I talked. I talked all the time, and for this food was given me-much food, fine food, beautiful food, food that I have not tasted in sixty years and shall never taste again. I sometimes think the most wonderful achievement of our tremendous civilization was food--its inconceivable abundance, its infinite variety, its marvellous delicacy. O my grandsons, life was life in those days, when we had such wonderful things to eat."

People may like this, also on Librivox as an audiobook:

http://librivox.org/the-atomic-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-by-us-army-corps-of-engineers/

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« Reply #7 on Jan 13, 2011, 6:51am »

I've never listened to an audiobook before so I might have to give that Scarlet Plague one a go.

Another one you could get for free is Mary Shelley's The Last Man, which is also about a disease wiping out humanity.
http://manybooks.net/titles/shelleym1824718247.html

And also The Purple Cloud, which is about a toxic cloud of gas- it's a little silly, but free.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11229

And After London
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13944

And of course War of the Worlds if you haven't read it already
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36

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« Reply #8 on Jan 13, 2011, 12:28pm »

And three of those (not Purple Cloud) are also available as free audiobooks on Librivox as well.

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« Reply #9 on Jan 13, 2011, 3:00pm »

Anyone know about western apoc books?
I think I have war of the worlds, don't have the others though.

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« Reply #10 on Jan 13, 2011, 6:11pm »

What do you mean by western PA books?

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Re: Kindle books to look into
« Reply #11 on Jan 13, 2011, 6:24pm »

PA books set in the old west. This is the 666 post of this forum.

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Re: Kindle books to look into
« Reply #12 on Jan 23, 2011, 3:48pm »

I'm reading a pretty good zombies in the old west comic right now, but nothing novelish comes to mind right now.

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« Reply #13 on Jan 23, 2011, 11:25pm »

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Re: Kindle books to look into
« Reply #14 on Mar 10, 2011, 8:38am »

I'd like to offer my Apocalyptic series, The Judas Syndrome, up as a kindle book to look into for this group.
Find them here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?u....keywords=poeltl
You can pick both up for less than $9.00. The third and final will be available early 2012.

For more iunfo on the books nd the series, visit the website: www.the-judas-syndrome.com

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