In a post world war 3 America, Gordon Krantz is trying to survive. Making his away across country by offering tales and plays from the old times in exchange for food and lodging before moving on.After a run-in with bandits, Krantz comes across a long dead mailman complete with uniform and mail bags....
If you don't like the movie you won't like the book as they are very similar. I liked it. I didn't love it but I liked it. A pretty fast read and somewhat entertaining. I don't see this being a book that I ever revisit again but....
Pretty standard yarn as far as speculative science fiction of the post-apocalyptic genre go, but Brin's The Postman counts as the popular predecessor for many, many others and therefore gets a pass on several of its sappier elements. I've always been a sucker for Cold War era science fiction. The sp...
Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. That’...
In a post-apocalyptic America, a drifter named Gordon Krantz finds himself robbed in the hills of all his possessions. Whilst trying to track those responsible he finds an old mail truck with a long dead postman inside, deciding to take the uniform he finds himself creating a myth of a Restored Uni...
In my experience people who pretend to be postmen are usually up to no good, they are more apt to enter your homes under false pretenses and rob you blind than attempt to unite the post apocalyptic Disunited States of America. The protagonist of this book has to be the most heroic postman in fiction...
I re-read The Postman in Sept. 2011 because part of me felt it wasn't really fair to rate a book I had read only once, 20 years ago, and remembered only vaguely. I'm sticking with my original three-star rating - it was an interesting read, but I doubt it will stick with me any more vividly than it d...
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