Date: 14 Dec 89 04:20:04 PST (Thursday)
Subject: Author Lists: Paul O. Williams
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 5-Feb-94

Paul O. Williams has done one really good series: the Pelbar Cycle.  This
is an extremely well done post-apocalypse setting.  Unlike most stories
in this vein, I actually *believed* there would be enough people to start
over. It takes place about 1000 years after the devastation (hint, it's
not your standard nuclear war even though there is a number of
uninhabitable radioactive areas).  By this point the population has
built up where isolated groups of people are beginning to expand beyond
their borders. The books have a rich variety of political, economic, and
religious systems, languages, art, technology. etc.  The story follows a
natural progression as the society and people change as a result of the
events of all the previous books.  Heroes are explorers, inventors,
diplomats, warriors as the needs of the environment change.  Recommended.

Williams, Paul O(sborne)	(U.S.A., 1/17/1935- )	F
	(award: Campbell 1983)

Series
	The Pelbar Cycle
		The Breaking of Northwall (1980)
		The Ends of the Circle (1981)
		The Dome In the Forest (1981)
		The Fall of the Shell (1982)
		An Ambush of Shadows (1983)
		The Song of the Axe (1984)
		The Sword of Forbearance (1985)

The Gifts of the Gorboduc Vandal (1989)

Nonfiction
Frederick Oakes Syklvester (1986) [CB]
The McNair Family of Elsah, Illinois (1982) [CB]

with Charles B. Hosmer
	Elsah: A Historic Guidebook (1967) [CB]

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