Just read The Postman by David Brin

[PostApocalypticTribe]

I must say I enjoyed it though it paints a sad picture for those of us with doomsteads or dreams of doomsteads. Also survivalist becomes a bad word and the militias lead to the downfall of society.

I like the fact that he was loyal to the idea of (or spirit of) the United States. No matter how much I am annoyed by, angered by, appalled by the practical application I'm still completely in love with the idea of the United States of America.

Anyone else read it/liked it/loathed it?

And I believe S.M. Stirling has much to thank Mr. Brin for down to the cover art of the book.

[TLR1138]

Haven't read the book but I do remember the film. Like a lot of Kevin Costner films, it's not bad but gets bogged down with pretentiousness.

[rbrgs]

The book is really good, but the movie sucks.  I was particularly struck by the way reality is created.

[zwick]

The book sucked and the movie sucked harder. Costner should go back to his PC movies about injuns and gill-men. The author of 'the postman' should write romance novels that go straight to paperback.

[SabreKai]

The movie was good, and the book was great.

So there!


Sabre
58 days n a wake up.

[cushngtree]

Before it was a book, I think it was a short story, probably in Asimov's SF magazine.  It's one of the ones that has stayed in my memory for years, it was so good.

[max_power]

The book was good and i thought the movie was even better. The only thing i didnt like about the movie was the very end where they depicted society as being the way it was before the "crash" (as evidenced by Television reporter wearing mass manufactured clothing)