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Subject: Author Lists: Paul O. Williams
From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM
Date: 14 Dec 89 12:20:04 GMT




Paul O. Williams has done one really good series: the Pelbar Cycle.  This
is an extremely well done post-apocolypse setting.  Unlike most stories in
this vein, I actually *believed* there would be enough people to start
over. It takes place about 1000 years after the devastation (hint, it's not
your standard nuclear war even though there is a number of uninhabitable
radioactivite areas).  By this point the population has built up where
isolated groups of people are begining to expand beyond their borders. The
books have a rich variety of political, economic, and religious systems,
languages, art, technology. etc.  The story follows a natural progression
as the society and people change as a result of the events of all the
previous books.  Heros are explorers, inventors, diplomats, warriors as the
needs of the environment change.  Recommended.

/John

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Williams, Paul O[sborne] [U.S.A., 1/17/1935- ]
    The Pelbar Cycle:
        The Breaking of Northwall [1980]
        The Ends of the Circle [1981]
        The Dome In the Forest [1981]
        The Fall of the Shell [1982]
        An Ambush of Shadows [1983]
        The Song of the Axe [1984]
        The Sword of Forbearance [1985]
    Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick [1986] [Biography]
    The Gifts of the Gorboduc Vandal [1989]