looking for a book or two

[threeplusfire]

So, maybe the internet can help. When I was about ten, I read some very strange books about post nuclear war worlds. One of them in particular was about a group of kids, and I remember the stories about the dust, about scavenging food in shopping carts, about one of them getting sicker and sicker... they were strange and grim little books. Did anyone else read these? Does anyone know what they are?

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I know the books you're talking about but I just can't think of the titles. Hate that.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

By the way, if you like post-nuke fiction, I can't recommend Riddley Walker highly enough. This Is the Way the World Ends is good too, if you have a strong stomach for the details of radiation sickness.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It's hovering on the edge of my tongue... argh! This is where I curse my childish inability to keep a journal.

[melebeth]

I am of absolutely no help, except to say that oddly enough I JUST started a community for posts like this, bookfind. I just need to populate it more :)

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Away to there I must go!

[water-damage.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a story called "Children of the Dust" (I think) that was about some British post-nuked kids.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh!!!!!!!!!! I think that might be it! The title is making alarm bells go off in my head.

[water-damage.livejournal.com]

:-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_The_Dust

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It's a terribly hazy memory. I remember they needed a shopping cart, and I think at some point in the end the surviving children were rescued or taken to some kind of ship.

[xiuzan.livejournal.com]

There was Alas, Babylon, but your description doesn't sound quite right for that one.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think everyone I know was made to read that in high school. another depressing nuclear classic!

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Don't recognise the story. But do know Nevil Shute did one about Australia awaiting the Fall Out of a Northern Hemisphere nuclear war to finally get to them.

Bleak. But, I guess, so were the times.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read Shute's novel which is good but horrifying.