Emma proposes that they seek help from her biology professor, "doomsday survivalist" Professor Hidgens. In this respect, urban fiction shares some common threads with dystopian or survivalist fiction. It is often viewed as a subgenre of survivalist fiction. A retreat is a place of refuge for those in the survivalist subculture or movement. The tactical knife is a symbol of jungle survivalist. Lewis is unimpressed and Ed gets annoyed at his survivalist mentality. Firearms instructor and survivalist Colonel Jeff Cooper wrote on hardening retreats against small arms fire. The memoir concerns Westover overcoming her survivalist Mormon family to go to college. They traverse their way to a hidden survivalist camp. Often mistaken for a survivalist, Gibbons was simply an advocate of nutritious but neglected plants. The Suidlanders is a survivalist Afrikaner group. They shared political views and interests in gun collecting and the survivalist movement. During the evening meal, Alain tells the students about his survivalist philosophies. Her backstory of being raised by adoptive survivalist parents soon comes to the fore. In the 1980s, Pournelle was an editor and columnist for "Survive", a survivalist magazine.