Apocolyptic type novels
wildhollie
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I just read a book called Alone by T R Sullivan where a man wakes up and he's alone in the world. It was pretty good and thought provoking.
Does anyone have any other books of this genre, not necessarily zombies, but anything where some major catastrophe has occured and people struggle to survive ?
Does anyone have any other books of this genre, not necessarily zombies, but anything where some major catastrophe has occured and people struggle to survive ?
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Davy by Edgar Pangborn
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Chrysalids & The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
Will Self's The Book Of Dave is very good. Half set in a dystopian future and half in contemporary London. The premise is that in the future a new religion is formed form the remains of a diary of a bad tempered London cabbie fighting for visitation rights to see his son.
The Death of Grass ~ John Christopher
Eva Fairdeath ~ Tanith Lee
Both the novel and the film version of "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy are exactly what you describe. Be prepared for a very sad and bleak tale though.
any John Wyndham, especially Day of the Triffids
any John Christopher, especially Death of Grass and The World in Winter
Brother in the Land, by Robert Swindells (for teenagers, absolutely excellent)
Z for Zachariah, by Robert C O'Brien (for teenagers, and occasionally a bit simplified, but worth a read)
I HATED Cormac McCarthy's The Road, absolutely hated it, but it was a quick read and is worth a look, because some people do really love it.
Canticle for Leibowitz was ok - started really well, got mediocre in the middle, and silly at the end.
DIRE?? DIRE???!! Omg I LOVE Logan's Run! It's genius! It's the perfect film.
Perhaps there's another "Logan's Run" movie which doesn't have wooden acting, rubbish special effects, an embarrassing Peter Ustinov cameo and Michael Anderson as its director.:eek:
All of those things make it awesome. Also Farrah Fawcett's hair, Jenny Agutter being wonderful, the cats, the leotards... Michael York being pretty... the shopping mall setting... what more could anyone want in a film?
This was the first one that came to mind, thoroughly depressing and stayed with me for ages afterwards, having said that it was one of my favourite reads in the past few years (along with No Country For Old Men, by the same author)
Yeah, you can't really argue with leotards like that.
It's a very moving tale of survival after the Moon crashes into the Earth told by a Mr. Pooter type narrator who finds that there may be even worse to come.
The Stand by Stephen King
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11229
Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt is a more recent and more accessible novel. Future humans try to eke out a living over the remains of our civilisation. The air/space and computer age has been forgotten and huge structures have collapsed stopping majors rivers being fully navigable and stuff like that. Very interesting.
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/post-holocaust
Seems to be a bit of a marmite book going by reviews on Amazon, I loved it. Don't read the blurb on Amazon it spoils the book terribly.
By posting in this thread I suppose I'm spoiling it a bit, but it's well worth a read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emberverse_series
Stirling also wrote another series in which it turns out that the same event that cause all technology to cease also transported the island of Nantucket back to 1250 BC where, strangely their modern technology continues to work
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantucket_series
"A Murder at Eddsford" gives a good snapshot of the series. Anthologised in "Sideways in Time".