Mods, please bear with me; I know it's not really Trek, but need the group's thinking resources and some nudges in the right direction. And since it is Lit, figured the best place to find help is right here.
Going through my rather substantial collection of post-nuclear holocaust action-adventure series, and looking to maybe thin the herd out a little before they crowd me out of my office. But what I need is a list of series, and the books of the complete series (at least thus far, though the bottom kind of fell out of the post-nuke market after the Cold War ended, for the most part...though the Deathlands series by James Axler is still going strong, 70-some books later), so I can determine if it's worthwhile to read what I have thus far and try and pick up missing books, or (in regards to the Deathlands series, mostly) if there's no freaking way I'll ever finish the entire series even if I live to be 100.
Helping me with this project will enhance my ability to read more Trek books and have room for them on my limited bookshelf space, I hasten to add.
For example, "The Guardians", by Richard Austin (pen name of sci-fi author Victor Milan), 16 books written 1985-1991 (I won't list the book titles individually herein, but you get the gist of it).
Through an earlier link to the ISFDB (Internet Speculative Fiction Database, at www.isfdb.org), some series and some authors come up, but I can tell by looking at my bookcases that many of the lists are incomplete. Much the same problem exists at Wikipedia. A few links connect to lists of series, but don't break down the series themselves, and that's what I need. Any links to more thorough sites would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance, folks, even if it's just a nudge in the right direction.
Going through my rather substantial collection of post-nuclear holocaust action-adventure series, and looking to maybe thin the herd out a little before they crowd me out of my office. But what I need is a list of series, and the books of the complete series (at least thus far, though the bottom kind of fell out of the post-nuke market after the Cold War ended, for the most part...though the Deathlands series by James Axler is still going strong, 70-some books later), so I can determine if it's worthwhile to read what I have thus far and try and pick up missing books, or (in regards to the Deathlands series, mostly) if there's no freaking way I'll ever finish the entire series even if I live to be 100.
Helping me with this project will enhance my ability to read more Trek books and have room for them on my limited bookshelf space, I hasten to add.
For example, "The Guardians", by Richard Austin (pen name of sci-fi author Victor Milan), 16 books written 1985-1991 (I won't list the book titles individually herein, but you get the gist of it).
Through an earlier link to the ISFDB (Internet Speculative Fiction Database, at www.isfdb.org), some series and some authors come up, but I can tell by looking at my bookcases that many of the lists are incomplete. Much the same problem exists at Wikipedia. A few links connect to lists of series, but don't break down the series themselves, and that's what I need. Any links to more thorough sites would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance, folks, even if it's just a nudge in the right direction.
