These novels sound great. Do you know who wrote The Return Man?

Look them up on Amazon.com. But I think the guy's name who wrote it was Zito.

I thought I would add this: Deathlands first came out in 1986. At about that same time, there were several other series along similar lines:

Doomsday Warrior by Ryder Stacy

Endworld by David Robbins

The Guardians by Richard Austin

Survivalist by Jerry Ahern

Ashes by William W. Johnstone

Anyone know of any others?

I never had the opportunity to follow any of those. In the area where I lived at the time, the books were very hard to

find. Deathlands was the only series that I was able to follow and never miss a volume. And that was only because

I ordered many of them direct from Gold Eagle, rather than relying on book stores and their hit-and-miss ways.

I can say that the first volume of the Doomsday Warrior series was quite good.

Let's see...off the top of my head there was...

Blade, The Maruaders, The Warlord, Outrider, Traveler, CADs, The Last Ranger (not be confused with The Last Rangers), Phoenix, Eagleheart, Wingman, The Zone...

I'm sure I'm missing many...

I read the second Doomsday book ages ago was quite good. I also read the First two Phoenix books too, good and very violent.

Not a novel, but a short-story by one of the best sci-fi writers, Ray Bradbury, who died last week.  If you can believe it, this was written in 1950.  I heard it on the radio today, and had to track it down and re-read it.  This is post apocalyptic fiction at it's best - and equally amazing that it was written 60 years ago. 

http://www.jerrywbrown.co...ftRains_Bradbury.pdf

 "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) 1 

Ray Bradbury

1 Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985), 166-172.