No, entirely separate story, with no relation other than authors.

It does. It's been about 20 yrs since I read it but IIRC the "foot" is an asteroid used for a dinosaur killer kinetic strike.

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Posts crossed paths. That cleared it up.

I thought The Road was an excellent read to be sure, but it was insanely bleak... which makes you think that that was part of the author's purpose in writing it, to paint the worst case scenario imaginable for his audience. I won't spoil the ending for anybody, but suffice it to say that there remains a message of hope, or at least a grim recognition of the stubborn will of mankind to suffer and survive no matter what may come.

My offering is NOT "end of the world" fiction by any means.

The novel that really turned me onto the need to know about "survival" techniques and the desire to know more was:

"My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The illustrations are not all that great but they are sufficient where necessary to illustrate a point in the book. I first read this novel at about the 7th or 8th grade. It is written for that student reading level.

Let us not forget the classics of "Swiss Family Robinson" or "Robinson Caruso".

One that kinda bogs down in the middle Is "Ill Wind" I can't remember the Authors, but it's about a bacteria that eats all the plastic.
Another good SF is Stirlings series that starts with "Dies the Fire" The Protector's War" and "Meeting in Corvalis". All good reads. My only problem with Stirling is he writes about how difficult it is to make a longbow but nothing about how hard it is to make straight arrows.

Beleive it or not, "Battlefield Earth" is really a very good book about survival. The movie was OK but the book is really good. The movie is only about the first 1/4 or 1/3 of the book. Keeps getting better and better.

For non-EOTW, and non-fiction, a book I recently read (and recommend) is "Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire" by Nicholas Howe. It could basically be retitled as "1001 ways to die on Mt. Washington," but it's a fun read.

I have my copy up for swap on paperbackswap.com if anyone here uses PBS.