For the literature crowd, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, was released last month. McCarthy's writing style is a terse, almost Faulkner-esque, narrative. Some have considered him one of the most important novelists of our time.

I read the book in one sitting. Not to give anything away, but the story deals with a father and son's journey through a post-apocalyptic America.

This is not your usual TEOTWAWKI shoot 'em up; you will not find any instructions on survival techniques, or dissertations on the cyclical rates of automatic weapons tricked out as prose. Just a good old fashioned yarn.

Let me know what you think if you pick it up.

Gerry

So when I first started visiting "survival" type websites and forums I did not immediately get that this was an acronym.
I actually thought it was a Hopi word for the same concept.
Then one day I was sitting somewhere and it just dawned on me. Duh; "The end of the world as we know it".
I had to laugh at myself for not seeing it the first time.

Some other good TEOTWAWKI stories are from a guy by the name of S.M.Sterling.

check out http://www.smstirling.com/ and look for the "Island In The Sea Of Time" trilogy and the "Dies The Fire" trilogy. also the "Peshawar Lancers" is an ok alternate history story.