Editing The Postman (section)

==Reception==
[[David Langford|Dave Langford]] reviewed ''The Postman'' for ''[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]]'' #83, and stated that "The story is complicated by Krantz's intersection with another myth in the making, and then by a muddle of battle, murder and enhanced super-guerillas, all a bit of a needless distraction, but never mind. It's nicely written, sometimes moving, and ends as it should. Well worth reading."<ref name="WD83">{{cite journal  | last =Langford | first =Dave | author-link =David Langford | title =Critical Mass  | journal =[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]]  | issue =83  | pages =8   | publisher =[[Games Workshop]]  | date = November 1986  }}</ref>

Both of the initial parts were nominated for a [[Hugo Award for Best Novella]].<ref name="Hugo-1983">{{cite web| url = http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1983-hugo-awards/ | title = 1983 Hugo Awards| work = The Hugo Awards| date = 26 July 2007| access-date=2020-12-31}}</ref><ref name="Hugo-1985">{{cite web| url = http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1995-hugo-awards-2/ | title = 1985 Hugo Awards| work = The Hugo Awards| date = 26 July 2007| access-date=2020-12-31}}</ref> The completed novel won the [[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel]] and the [[Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel]], both for 1986.<ref name="WWE-1986">{{cite web| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1986 | title = 1986 Award Winners & Nominees| work = Worlds Without End| access-date=2009-07-17}}</ref> It was also nominated for the [[Hugo Award for Best Novel]] for 1986.<ref name="Hugo-1986">{{cite web| url = http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1986-hugo-awards/ | title = 1986 Hugo Awards| work = The Hugo Awards| date = 26 July 2007| access-date=2020-12-31}}</ref>

Brin has suggested that he wrote ''The Postman'' as a rebuke to the celebrations of mayhem in the many derivative post-apocalyptic fictions that appeared in the wake of the popular ''[[Mad Max (franchise)|Mad Max]]'' movies.<ref>John Hay, "The American ''Mad Max'': The Road Warrior versus the Postman," ''Science Fiction Film and Television'', vol. 10, no. 3 (2017), p. 320.</ref>