Survivalist Fiction

'Survivalist fiction' is a major sub-genre of dystopian fiction and science fiction.

Popular Examples of Survival and Prepper Fiction[edit]

• 299 Days - is a series of novels that are based around an economic collapse as opposed to an EMP attack. by Glen Tate

• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

• Liberators - A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse by James Wesley Rawles

• Expatriates - A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse by James Wesley Rawles - A contemporaneous sequel to "Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse". This novel is set in Florida, Australia, and The Philippines. It is also available in hardcover, as a survival e-book, and as a survival audio book. It is set in the same time-frame as his others, but features different characters and substantially different locales. His goal with this novel was to show the global ramifications of the economic collapse. The Publisher describes it: "When the United States suffers a major socioeconomic collapse, a power vacuum sweeps the globe. A newly radicalized Islamic government rises to power in Indonesia, invades the Philippines, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, and finally northern Australia. No longer protected by American military interests, Australia must repel an invasion alone. In the thick of these political maneuvers, an American family of missionaries living in the Philippines and a Texan petroleum engineer in Australia must face the fear of being strangers in a world in flux. Are their relatives back home healthy and safe? Will they ever see them again? In its depiction of the authentic survivalist skills and techniques needed to survive a global socioeconomic meltdown, Expatriates is as informative as it is suspense-filled." 336 Pages / ISBN 0525953906 / ISBN-13: 978-0525953906 ^[1]

• Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein

• Founders - A Novel of the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles - The book reached #4 Amazon.com's rankings. - A contemporaneous sequel to "Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse". ISBN-10: 143917282X or ISBN 978-1439172827

• Going Home Series - is a series of novels about an EMP attack that finds a man from Florida over a hundred miles from home. The story follows his journey home (see Get Home Bag), life at home, and having to leave for more security. Contains scenarios involving the actions of military personal in such a scenario. Written by Angry American.

• King Rat by James Clavell

• Lights Out - is a novel about a man and his neighborhood coming together after an EMP attack. Contains many scenarios concerning home defense and community organization. Written by David Crawford.

• Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party

• One Second After - is a novel about a small town in North Carolina and the aftermath of a large scale EMP attack on the United States. This book covers the affects of the loss of long term medical supplies on people's day-to-day lives. Written by William R. Forstchen.

• Patriots - A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles - This fast-paced novel has been described as "a survival manual dressed as fiction." ISBN 978-1569755990.^[2]

• Survivors - A Novel of the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles. - A contemporaneous sequel to JWR's first economic collapse novel, "Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse." This novel is set in the same time-frame as "Patriots", but in different locales, and with mostly different characters. The book reached #2 in Amazon.com's rankings, and #3 on the New York Times Bestseller List. ISBN-10: 1439172803 or ISBN 978-1439172803.

• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein

Robert Heinlein: The "Grand Daddy" of Survivalist Fiction[edit]

Robert Anson Heinlein was one of the most popular and influential dystopian fiction, science fiction, and Survivalist fiction writers of the twentieth century, often viewed as one of the "Big Three" authors with Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. His work helped define the Survivalist genre. He was a strong supporter of the military, as shown in Starship Troopers and other works, and was an ardent opponent of Communism, demonstrated in an essay about his vacation in Soviet Russia, but also espoused the sexual revolution of the 1960s, as strongly shown in many of his later works, and alluded to in earlier ones, and was very skeptical of organized religion, especially fundamentalism, demonstrated in works like Job: A Comedy of Justice and the novella Revolt in 2100. His novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the story of a Moon colony rebelling against a United Nations-run command economy in order to establish their own free market state, is a strong work of pro-capitalist, anti-UN science fiction.

Tom Clancy and best-selling survival fiction author of The Survival Blog James Wesley Ralwes was greatly influenced by Heinlein.

I Am Legend is a science fiction novel written in 1954 by the American author Richard Matheson. The story of the novel takes place in a then-futuristic Los Angeles of 1976 where a plague has transformed all of humanity into vampires, except for the protagonist Robert Neville.^[3] The novel has been adapted into three films, the first being The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price, which was released in 1964.^[4] The second adaptation was the 1971 film The Omega Man which featured Charlton Heston in the lead role.^[5] The most recent adaptation of the novel is the 2007 film I Am Legend starring Will Smith.^[6]

Broad List of Survivalist-Dystopian-Survival-Apocalypse-SHTF-Zombie Books-Films-TV[edit]

• The 100 (TV series)
• 28 Days Later, 2002
• 28 Weeks Later, 2007
• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. A classic nuke scenario. This book was a key influence in James Wesley Rawles writing and it was his inspiration to write “Patriots” in a similar style
• Atlas Shrugged
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
• Battlestar Galactica‎
• Blade Runner
• The Book of Eli, 2010
• Brave New World
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Cast Away, 2000
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Colony (TV series)
• Deliverance, 1972
• Dr. Strangelove by Peter George and Stanley Kubrick (1964)
• Earth Abides by George Stewart
• Elysium
• Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
• Escape from New York
• Fahrenheit 451
• Falling Skies
• Firefly (TV series)
• The Flight of the Phoenix, 1965 with James Stewart
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Hunger Games, 2008
• The Grey, 2011, with Liam Neeson
• I Am Legend, 1954 by Richard Matheson, 2007 film with Will Smith
• Into the Wild, 2007
• Jericho (TV series)
• Jeremiah (TV series)
• Judge Dredd 1995
• The Last Man on Earth, or The Last Man on Earth, 1964 Italian film with Vincent Price
• Left Behind, 1995 to 2007 by Tim LaHaye
• Life of Pi, 2012
• Lifeboat, 1944
• Lights Out by David Crawford (Post-EMP attack.)
• Logan's Run
• Lucifer's Hammer, 1977 by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Mad Max 1981
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985
• The Matrix, 1999, 2003
• Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party
• Minority Report
• Night of the Living Dead, 1968 by George A. Romero
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
• One Second After, 2009 by William R. Forstchen
• Outbreak (film), 1995 with Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland
• Open Water, 2003
• Patriots Novels Series by James Wesley Rawles
  • Survivors - A Novel of the Coming Collapse
  • Founders - A Novel of the Coming Collapse
  • Expatriates - A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse
  • Liberators - A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse
• Panic in Year Zero!, 1962 with Ray Milland
• Planet of the Apes 1968 by Pierre Boulle
• Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys (Plague total wipe-out scenario. This book was another with an influence in James Wesley Rawles writing.)
• The Omega Man, 1971
• The Omen
• The Poseidon Adventure, 1972 with Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine
• The Postman, 1997
• The Purge
• Rescue Dawn, 2006 by Werner Herzog with Christian Bale
• Resident Evil, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2012 with Milla Jovovich
• Robinson Crusoe, 1719 by Daniel Defoe, 1954 and 1997 film with Pierce Brosnan
• RoboCop
• The Road Warrior 1981 (Mad Max 2)
• The Running Man
• Serenity
• Silent Running
• Soylent Green
• Stagecoach, 1939
• Star Trek: First Contact, 1996
• The Stand (TV series), 1994 by Stephen King, starring Gary Sinise and Rob Lowe
• Swiss Family Robinson, 1960, based on 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2006, 2009 film with Viggo Mortensen
• The Terminator frachise, 1984, 1991, 2003, 2007, 2009
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• Terminator Salvation
• Terminator Genisys
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• THX 1138
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• Total Recall
• V for Vendetta
• The Walking Dead, 2010-2015
• WALL-E
• Watchmen
• World War Z, 2006 by Max Brooks, 2013 film with Brad Pitt
• X-Men: Days of Future Past, 2014

Quotes from Heinlein Survivalist Fiction[edit]

• "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

• "The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire." - Robert Anson Heinlein

• "Time to beat those plowshares back into swords." - Robert Anson Heinlein

• "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love - Robert Anson Heinlein

The Motivating Factor Behind Much Survivalist/Dystopian Fiction[edit]

• "The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wiretapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed 'subversive of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the Constitution affords no protection against such invasions of individual security?"
  • Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928).

See also[edit]

• James Wesley Rawles
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Isaac Asimov
• Ray Bradbury
• Dystopian

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Motivating factors and themes for much Survivalist/Dystopian Fiction:

• Censorship
• Tools of censorship
• Censorability
• Fairness Doctrine
• Liberal censorship
• Evolutionist censorship
• Media censorship

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• The Perpetual War on Drugs, War on Terror and the Police state
• Wikileaks and Julian Assange - Australian leftist hacker
• Bradley Manning - Homosexual Hacker Traitor of State secrets
• Social media: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube, Yahoo
• NSA and other Intelligence agency mass surveillance: PRISM, Wiretap - Roving wiretap
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
• Police, RICO and Asset forfeiture
• Mililtarization of police: SWAT and No-knock raids
• Drug trafficking of the Drug cartels, Gangs, Drug dealers, Hollywood values - Fashion industry values - Public school values - Professor values
• Big government ObamaCare-Common Core-Social Security Welfare state leads to Nanny state, leads to Police state: Globalist-Statist-Socialist-National Socialist-Communist
• Liberal totalitarianism

Contrast with:

• Tails (operating system) (Linux-based) and Tor (anonymity network)-I2P Firefox browser HTTPS Everywhere encryption for Internet anonymity to protect unalienable Fifth Amendment - Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy (Internet privacy) and Second Amendment - First Amendment rights against unconstitutional Gun control - Internet censorship Big government Police state, hackers, and "all enemies, foreign and domestic" of American liberty.
• Duck Duck Go - Privacy-oriented Search engine
• Encryption: Cryptography-Cryptanalysis-Cryptology-Data encryption-Public-key encryption-Steganography
• Conservative values and Libertarian American values - Small town values of Limited government and liberty
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Prism-break.org - Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.^[7]
• Open source Free software not Microsoft-Apple-Google-Android
• Duck Duck Go search engine instead of Google, Yahoo and Bing
• Hologram of Liberty - The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government by Boston T. Party - Kenneth W. Royce
• One Nation, Under Surveillance - Privacy From the Watchful Eye by Boston T. Party
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
• Privacy Act of 1974
• Edward J. Snowden revelations of unconstitutional domestic spying on law-abiding American citizens

External links[edit]

• http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/thoughts-on-patriots-surviving-the-comming-collapse
• James Wesley Rawles Liberators - A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse

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