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The person who is serious about basic survival will absolutely have the Foxfire Book collection. Amazon has it, or search the Internet, or look here: http://www.foxfire.org/thefoxfirebooks.aspx.

It wouldn't hurt looking at all of the back issues of Mother Earth News.

      Fiction? You bet! It's ALL fiction!

      Most people wouldn't know a "survival scenario" if it bet them.

      As for a bunch of newbies formulating anythng of consequence or of fuctional real world value, it isn't going to happen; no  matter how many "fictions" they are exposed to. Most of the problem is that most people don't have a clue as to what or why they might need to make a plan or consider survivable alternatives.

     There is little to nothing in most fiction that might give an uninitiated person a head start on formulating even the most elementary of survivl options.

      Delusions and misinformation aren't the best of foundations from which to mount a set of personal safety and security alternatives. Fairy tales - fictions - don't offer a very promising basis for developing technical and tactical survival plans.

      The last thing a serius person needs is to be influenced by the imagination of some fiction hack. Survival is senior lifesaving and, literally, a matter of life and death!