Post apocalyptic books are my favorite!
Any good books that are post apocalyptic?
Posted Apr 14, 2022, 11:39 PM UTC
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{{Earth Abides}}
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^(By: George R. Stewart | 345 pages | Published: 1949 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, post-apocalyptic, apocalyptic)
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.
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Battlefield earth: l Ron Hubbard Cannibal reign: Thomas koloniar 1948: James herbert
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Shout for Neal Barrett Juniors Through Darkest America, and Dawns Uncertain Light. Life a couple of decades after a zombie apocalypse. Tense, gritty and dark.
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The Road. It’s a little litfic
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Moon of the crusted snow.
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The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin
Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey
Pure trilogy by Julianna Baggott
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Stand by Stephen King
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{{the book of the unnamed midwife}}
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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)
^(By: Meg Elison | 291 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, fiction, sci-fi, dystopian, dystopia)
When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.
In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it.
A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence.
After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.
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The Dog Stars
Station Eleven
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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A Canticle for Liebowitz is a classic, though I think I may have only read the first story that was incorporated into the novel, "Fiat Homo ('Let There Be Man')". On the Beach is another classic, though I've only read the author's mundane The Chequer Board. Lastly, I enjoyed Dean Ing's Quantrill series, plus there's Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog, though I've only read the initial novella, which was collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III.
In case you count alien invasion as post apocalyptic, I add Niven and Pournelle's Footfall (the aliens start their invasion in part by dropping an asteroid into the Indian Ocean), and David Weber's Shongairi series. There's also John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata ("Posleen") series (at Goodreads), though I am less thrilled with it due to the thinly veiled anti-internationalist politics.
Edit: I add Steven R. Boyett's Ariel (I haven't (yet) read the sequel), which is part of the "technology stops working" subgenre, a notable example of which is in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Also in the subgenre are S. M. Stirling's Emberverse series (the plot sounds depressing to me, so I haven't read it, only the related Island in the Sea of Time/Nantucket trilogy), and the TV series Revolution, which I gave up on partway through because the plot was so illogical.
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Robert McCammon - Swan Song and I am Legend by Richard Matheson are my favourites
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Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Dies the Fire by SM Stirling. There’s actually a whole series.
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
Flood by Stephen Baxter
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Severance by Ling Ma (it's light and satirical compared to a lot of other post apocalyptic books)
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FNAFFFF
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One Second After by William R .Forstchen
Good idea, writing is horrendous though. I really tried with this book.
This is a good one. The plot armour does get a tad extreme in the 2nd and 3rd books.
I couldn't agree more .