The Postman (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: David Brin
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—post-holocaust
- Time of Work: The early twenty-first century
- Setting: Villages in Oregon
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Future, Mistaken or secret identity, Twenty-first century, Villages, West, U.S., War, Postal service, Survivalism, Science fiction, Adventure, Disasters, Pacific Northwest, Computers, Oregon, Apocalypse
- Locales: Oregon
The Plot
Five descriptions of the life-and-death struggle for survival between Earth and Ocean introduce and divide this four-part story concerning the parallel human struggle. The first two of the four parts appeared earlier in slightly different form, “The Postman” in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine in November of 1982 and “The Cyclops” in the same publication in March of 1984.
Three characters—Gordon Krantz, Dena Spurgen, and George Powhatan—struggle against a survivalist named General Macklin. The central character, Krantz, is an...
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