Book Review Roundup 4

This is what is referred to as a review roundup.  Normally they come about shortly after a series of reviews, but this one was delayed due to earlier technical difficulties.  The new blogger seems to be handling table-pastes from Microsoft Word better, so I went ahead and posted this one before it changed its mind.  You will note that I got rid of the Amazon link column.  The links are in the reviews in any case and it allowed me to but down the full name of the book.

Note, as described below, the ratings Reality and Readability are not intended as criticisms, but more as guidelines to style.  To see whether I enjoyed a book or not, you will have to look at the review.

Review Link	Author	Type	Disaster	Real	Read
Pandemic Week
The Patron Saint of Plagues	Barth Anderson	AP, SF	P, EC	7	5
Breakdown	Kathrine Hanna	PA	P	7	6
Pandemic Dawn	B.A. Shields	AP	P, Z	3	6
I Spied A Pale Horse	Mark Timlin	AP	P	4	6
Dreamer's Island	Gretchen Hummel	C	P	2	5
The Colony	Mary Vigliante	PA	P	1	4
What Came After	Sam Winston	PA	P	3	4
Survivors	Terry Nation	AP	P	6	6
Earth Abides	George Stewart	AP	P	5	6
Empty World	John Christopher	AP	P	4	6
Retrieved From the Future	John Symour	AP	PO	5	7
Holding Their Own	Joe Nobody	AP	EC, NP	7	6
China Tidal Wave	Wang Lixiong	AP	N, NP, EC	4	5
Reawakening Eden	Vivi Andrew	PA, R	D	5	7
These I Will Bring	Risa  Bear	C	PO, GW	7	5
Love in the Ruins	Walker Percy	AP	W, EC	1	2
Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat	Andrez Bergen	PO	EC, GW	2	2
The Pesthouse	Jim Crace	C	D, GW	3	5
Lights Out	David Crawford	AP	E	7	4
Summer of the Apocalypse	James Van Pelt	C	D	2	5
The Star Fraction	Ken MacLeod	AP	NP	5	4
Daybreak Zero	John Barnes	AP	NN, NP	3	2
Malevil	Robert Merle	AP	N	5	6
Directive 51	John Barnes	AP	NN, NP	3	3
Survivors	John W Rawles	AP	EC	4	4
REAMDE	N. Stephenson	NoA	-	5	5
Salvation City	Sigrid Nunez	AP, L	D	3	4
Salvage	Robert Edric	AP, L	GW,EC	6	3
Apocalypse Law	John Grit	AP	D	7	7
Oil Dusk	Cape,  Buckner	AP	PO, EC	6	6
Afterlight	Alex Scarrow	PA	PO, NP	7	7
End of the Age	Ervin Sim	PO, SF	G	3	3
YellowCake Spring	Guy Salvidge	AP	GW, EC	6	6
I Sniper	Stephen Hunter	NoA	-	6	7
Soft Apocalypse	Will McIntosh	AP, SF	B, PO, EC, GW	5	6
Prelude	Kurt Cobb	NoA	-	5	5
World Ends at Hickory Hollow	Ardath Mayhar	AP	N	5	5
Ship Breaker	Paolo Bacigalupi	C, SF, YA	PO, GW, B	4	6
Red Queen	Honey Brown	AP	D	7	7
Things We Didn't See Coming	Stvn Amsterdam	AP, L	EC, D	6	7
The Windup Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi	C, SF	PO, GW, B	4	7
Kingdom of Four Rivers	Guy Salvidges'	C, SF	GW, PO, NP	4	6
Far North	Marcel Theroux	PA	GW	5	6
The Road	Crmc McCarthy	PA	PD	6	6
Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office	Nathan Poell	AP, PA	W	5	5
The Profession	Stphn Pressfield	NoA	-	7	6
Operation Serf	Chris Sullins	AP, M	EC, NP	7	4
Into the Forest	Jean Hegland	AP, L	EC	7	5
The Witch of Hebron	James H Kunstler	AP	PO, GW	5	4
Random Acts of Senseless Violence	Jack Womack	AP, L	EC	5	4
Crossing the Blue	Holly Jean Buck	AP	GW	5	5
The Fall of Eden	Richard Michaels	AP	N	7	2
Last Light	Alex Scarrow	AP	PO, NP	7	7
The Unit	Terry DeHart	AP	N,E	6	4
The Things That Keep Us Here	Carla Buckley	AP	D	7	6
The Burning Hills	Louis L’Amour	NoA	-	6	5
Emergency	Neil Strauss	NoA	-	-	6
Patriots	John  Rawles	AP, M	EC	7	4
This World We Live In	Susan Pfeffer	AP, YA	M, V	6	5
The Dead and Gone	Susan Pfeffer	AP, YA	M, V	7	6
Life As We Knew It	Susan Pfeffer	AP, YA	M, V	7	6
Long Voyage Back	Luke Rhinehart	AP	N	7	5
Three Mokes East	Philip Revene	C	EC	5	5
Greybeard	Brian Aldiss	PA, SF	W	4	3
No Blade of Grass	John Christopher	AP	PD	5	5
Reviewed Earlier
A Distant Crossing	Thomas Park	AP	EC, NP	5	4
New Coastal Times	Donna Callea	AP	GW	5	5
Raggedy Edge	Michael S. Turnlund	AP	EC, NP	5	3
Gardener Summer	Nova	AP	EC	6	5
Good News	Edward Abbey	PA	GW	3	4
The Jakarta Pandemic	Steven Konkoly	AP	D	7	6
The Noah Countdown	B.T. Post	AP	EC, GW, NP	6	5
But Not for Long	Michelle Widgen	AP, L	PO, GW	7	7
Partial Reviews
One Second After (partial)	Doris Lessing	AP, L	EC	5	4
One Second After (partial)	Wm R. Forstchen.	AP	E	6	4

Disaster	N= Nuclear
	E= EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse)
	D= Pandemic Disease
	PD= Plant Disease
	B= Biotechnology
	PO= Peak Oil
	NP= Nefarious plotters trying to bring the world down
	EC= Economic Collapse (other than peak oil)
	NN= Nanotechnology
	V= Volcano
	M= Meteor or Comet strike
	GW= Global Warming
	W= Weird Science G= God or supernatural forces
	z= Zombies
Real	Realistic in tone - is it trying to portray an expected future.
	7 = yes this will happen 4= barely possible1 = strong elements of fantasy
	In most cases, where the effect is not ongoing, I am not factoring in unlikely disaster types.
Read	Readability = is it an easy book to read.
	7 = page turner; 4= somewhat enjoyable 1= challenging; literary works often tend toward the challenging.
	Note that you will enjoy a "4" if it is your type of book, but probably hate it if not.