If you liked EARTH ABIDES (I read it in less than 24 hours, couldn't put it down),

[raccoon]

you'll love LIFE AFTER PEOPLE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_People).

Saw some of it on History Channel last week.

also you might like THE WORLD WITHOUT US (http://www.worldwithoutus.com/index2.html)

Both the above are non-fiction. Or anyway, not fiction in the usual sense. :-)

[phantom power]

1. After Man: A zoology of the future

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5178BE6E3XL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

[MGB67]

2. It could be

that the silver arrowheads ARE better for deer and the copper ones are for rabbits..... who can say?

[raccoon]

5. Where'd you get that from? nt

[MGB67]

6. When Ish

became an old man he asked to examine the bow and arrow one of his grandsons had made. Ish noticed that the arrow points were made, not of stone, but of hammered coins. The very proud (and awed) grandson told Ish that the coins that had the hump backed bull on the back were not very good to hammer. The best ones, he said, were the red ones that had the picture of an old bearded man which were good for rabbits. The small ones with the picture of the person with wings on his head were only used for deer.

Ish thought this illogical and was about to rebuke his grandson's superstition but then changed his mind. He thought that, if the superstition that the arrowheads made from hammered dimes held some magic for killing deer and thereby made the aim truer or the draw more powerful, who was he to deny that with dry reason.

It may be the other way around. I have had several copies of "Earth Abides" but have loaned them out over the years. People seem to love the book and I don't mind as I know that each copy is circulating somewhere.

Considering that Stewart wrote this book in 1948.... it does seem to abide.

Stewart was a professor of English at Berkeley and did write some notable non-fiction such as "Ordeal By Hunger" which was an in-depth look at the Donner Party. I think that Stewart's close friendship with Berkeley geographer Carl Sauer led to his foray into this great book.

[raccoon]

7. I'd forgotten, I read the book in 1971. Thanks. nt

[Hekate]

8. I completely forgot that incident. I read the book decades ago and still have the old paperback...

When I saw a hardcover at a used books sale I bought it but have not taken the opportunity to read it again -- yet. Thanks for the nudge. It is one of the best.

Hekate

[JonQ]

3. Also

there's a show on the discovery channel (I think) call the colony.

same sort of idea; disease wipes out most people and a few survivors are struggling to rebuild and make it through. They ham it up of course, but the machines they put together from scraps are pretty ingenious.

[raccoon]

4. Is Russell Johnson on the show? LOL nt