Recommend post-apocalyptic man+woman team vs world sci-fi.
June 5, 2009 4:49 PM Subscribe
Recommend post-apocalyptic man+woman team vs world sci-fi.
Best example I can find is Tale of the Adopted Daughter, which is part of that one big Heinlein book. That part of the story isn't even in space though. The end of that section is so rad though, that battle in their homestead... (oh man, bonus points if story has some dogs too!)
Another example of the type of story: that side plot in Battle Star Galactica where ... Helo(?) and Sharon(?) were stuck on post-apocalypse Caprica, runnin' and hidin' from Cylons. Except I would want the story to be good...
Do you get the idea?
Best example I can find is Tale of the Adopted Daughter, which is part of that one big Heinlein book. That part of the story isn't even in space though. The end of that section is so rad though, that battle in their homestead... (oh man, bonus points if story has some dogs too!)
Another example of the type of story: that side plot in Battle Star Galactica where ... Helo(?) and Sharon(?) were stuck on post-apocalypse Caprica, runnin' and hidin' from Cylons. Except I would want the story to be good...
Do you get the idea?
Cemetery World -- a novel by Clifford Simak. Not the best written book, but an interesting plot -- there's a man and woman fighting for survival on earth (which has been made into a huge cemetery for the galaxy). No dog, but there is a robot wolf.
Pure bubblegum SF, but I really liked it.
posted by pushing paper and bottoming chairs at 5:20 PM on June 5, 2009
Pure bubblegum SF, but I really liked it.
posted by pushing paper and bottoming chairs at 5:20 PM on June 5, 2009
Thomas Disch's The Genocides, sort of (if I recall right, it wanders into that situation halfways... telling more would be spoiler time).
posted by Iosephus at 5:32 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by Iosephus at 5:32 PM on June 5, 2009
Gordon R. Dickson's Time Storm is a very entertaining man-mute woman-leopard (Homo habilis and robot) in a world turned into a patchwork quilt of different eras.
posted by orthogonality at 5:38 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by orthogonality at 5:38 PM on June 5, 2009
Yorick Brown and Agent 355 in Y: The Last Man.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 5:51 PM on June 5, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 5:51 PM on June 5, 2009 [3 favorites]
(It doesn't feature a dog, but has a monkey named Ampersand).
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 5:53 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 5:53 PM on June 5, 2009
The Walking Dead has a man and woman team, actually a few, but they eventually all band together. Still an awesome series.
posted by ga$money at 6:01 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by ga$money at 6:01 PM on June 5, 2009
For whatever it's worth, the "big Heinlein book" you're talking about is "Time Enough for Love".
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:33 PM on June 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:33 PM on June 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
If you're a Heinlein fan, you may have read this already, but his "JOB: A Comedy of Justice" fits your description to the letter, even if it may be a little different than what you're thinking of in spirit.
posted by roystgnr at 7:18 PM on June 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by roystgnr at 7:18 PM on June 5, 2009 [1 favorite]
Oh, and I wouldn't recommend Farnham's Freehold for a man+woman team story. Only one of the characters in it is mature enough to qualify as a man, and none of them qualify (except biologically) as a mature woman. All of the black characters in the book are stupid and/or evil, which gets Heinlein criticized as a racist. I think this is an unfair criticism, because all but one of the white characters in the book are stupid and/or evil too. But that just leads to a more immediate complaint: who wants to read a book where you can only (barely) sympathize with one character?
posted by roystgnr at 7:31 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by roystgnr at 7:31 PM on June 5, 2009
Heh, I remember reading JOB: A Comedy of Justice in high school and loving it.
Although it may subvert the theme you're interested in, A Boy and His Dog features a man, a woman, and an apocalyptic world. And a dog, too.
posted by KokuRyu at 7:38 PM on June 5, 2009
Although it may subvert the theme you're interested in, A Boy and His Dog features a man, a woman, and an apocalyptic world. And a dog, too.
posted by KokuRyu at 7:38 PM on June 5, 2009
I didn't care for it, but how about Clive Owen's character + "Kee" (the young girl) in Children of Men? Maybe the Terminator movies. Hell, Wall•E + Eve?
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 8:54 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 8:54 PM on June 5, 2009
Response by poster: Thanks, guys. Time Enough For Love rules so hard. (Even thought sometimes I feel like I GET IT: YOU'RE NOT A PRUDE)
And yeah, I am thinking Books. Everyone seems to be suggesting books anyways though.
posted by low affect at 9:03 PM on June 5, 2009
And yeah, I am thinking Books. Everyone seems to be suggesting books anyways though.
posted by low affect at 9:03 PM on June 5, 2009
Response by poster: Is it bad metafilter juju to change the question a little? I guess it doesn't have to be sci-fi. Westerns would work too, if they aren't too corny.
posted by low affect at 9:12 PM on June 5, 2009
posted by low affect at 9:12 PM on June 5, 2009
Time Enough For Love rules so hard. (Even thought sometimes I feel like I GET IT: YOU'RE NOT A PRUDE)
It's a little off topic but in my own defense it is following up on a comment by the OPP. Apparently all the wacky sex in Heinlein's later novels was caused by a tumor in his brain.
posted by scalefree at 9:24 PM on June 5, 2009
It's a little off topic but in my own defense it is following up on a comment by the OPP. Apparently all the wacky sex in Heinlein's later novels was caused by a tumor in his brain.
posted by scalefree at 9:24 PM on June 5, 2009
Another Heinlein book is "Number of the Beast" With four main characters, it's pretty much man and woman times two.
And then there's also the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons. It certainly evolves into post-apocalyptic and has some huge sweeping man+woman plot mechanisms. Brawne Lamia is a private investigator built like an American Gladiator who is in love with a John Keats reincarnation. In the third book the main character is an anti-hero who murdered the guy who killed his dog. He falls in love with the woman messiah who must save humanity from a post apocalyptic church. Good stuff!
posted by Lord Fancy Pants at 9:50 PM on June 5, 2009
And then there's also the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons. It certainly evolves into post-apocalyptic and has some huge sweeping man+woman plot mechanisms. Brawne Lamia is a private investigator built like an American Gladiator who is in love with a John Keats reincarnation. In the third book the main character is an anti-hero who murdered the guy who killed his dog. He falls in love with the woman messiah who must save humanity from a post apocalyptic church. Good stuff!
posted by Lord Fancy Pants at 9:50 PM on June 5, 2009
I Am Legend, the book, which spawned 3 movies.
Seems like there are a lot of Sci Fi short stories that fit this bill, perhaps some of Sheckley's early short fiction (I've a hazy recollection of a number of such stories in that collection).
posted by edgeways at 10:21 PM on June 5, 2009
Seems like there are a lot of Sci Fi short stories that fit this bill, perhaps some of Sheckley's early short fiction (I've a hazy recollection of a number of such stories in that collection).
posted by edgeways at 10:21 PM on June 5, 2009
It's a little off topic but in my own defense it is following up on a comment by the OPP. Apparently all the wacky sex in Heinlein's later novels was caused by a tumor in his brain.
Really? That's very sad. Those are some of my favorites.
posted by Netzapper at 12:05 AM on June 6, 2009
Really? That's very sad. Those are some of my favorites.
posted by Netzapper at 12:05 AM on June 6, 2009
A Boy and His Dog maybe? The dog is a kind of a surrogate for a woman. There is a girl in it but, well.... I wouldnt want to ruin it for you. It's a weird story, written by Harlan Ellison. There was a film made of it with a young nobody named Don Johnson that isnt too bad either.
posted by elendil71 at 12:30 AM on June 6, 2009
posted by elendil71 at 12:30 AM on June 6, 2009
Not really post-apocalyptic, since the setting is half-way across the galaxy, but Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep has a human man and woman in a race/battle against all odds. It's a thick book and full of some good hard-ish sci-fi mind-bendiness.
Regarding dogs: That part of the story which does not take place in interstellar space is set on a plant populated by a canine-oid race whose unit of intelligent being is a pack. That is; a single such creature is not intelligent, only when in the company of its pack will (group) intelligence manifest itself. This aspect of the story turns out to be very interesting.
posted by speedo at 11:10 PM on June 6, 2009
Regarding dogs: That part of the story which does not take place in interstellar space is set on a plant populated by a canine-oid race whose unit of intelligent being is a pack. That is; a single such creature is not intelligent, only when in the company of its pack will (group) intelligence manifest itself. This aspect of the story turns out to be very interesting.
posted by speedo at 11:10 PM on June 6, 2009
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posted by Halloween Jack at 4:56 PM on June 5, 2009