The Postman
David Brin • 1985
Devastation Rating
dystopian survival literary fiction philosophical
Our Take
A drifter finds a dead postman's uniform and becomes a symbol of hope in post-apocalyptic Oregon. Brin writes the collapse of civilisation as the collapse of connection — no mail means no nation, no shared story, no reason to believe tomorrow will be different from today. The lie of the uniform becomes the truth.
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