Please suggest some post apocalyptic books. I love those types of movies, and I feel like I would love those types of books even more. I am going to start with
The Road, which I just saw a thread about.
Post apocalyptic books?
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Posts: 5581 (07/11/2008 3:45 AM) |
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Posts: 1852 (07/15/2008 8:37 PM) |
I just ordered The Road on Amazon, it looks really good.
I don't know if these are considered Apocalyptic because of the supernatural elements in them, but Stephen King's The Stand was great. Also Swan Song by Robert McCammon - about a nuclear holocaust and the people that rise up afterward. And then there's I Am Legend. All of those have a supernatural element but I found them riveting. I can't eat sour cream and onion Pringles anymore, because I was eating them while I read The Stand. 
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Posts: 5733 (07/16/2008 8:22 PM) |
Thanks! I don't think anything could make me stop eating Sour Crean And Onion Pringles!
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Posts: 17820 (07/18/2008 9:53 PM) |
By far my favorite genre!
I don't know if these are considered Apocalyptic because of the supernatural elements in them, but Stephen King's The Stand was great. Also Swan Song by Robert McCammon - about a nuclear holocaust and the people that rise up afterward. And then there's I Am Legend. All of those have a supernatural element but I found them riveting. Those were the exact three I was going to recommend! 
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is an amazing book about life after an asteroid hits earth. Day of the Triffids is also amazing as is Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both venture a little more into sci-fi but the first deals with a lot of people dying ).
I also read Dies The Fire, which is the start of a series but for some reason it didn't grab my attention the way the others I mentioned have. Ones I've heard good things about but haven't read: The Rift Alas, Babylon Eternity Road Earth Abides On the Beach |
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Posts: 5797 (07/20/2008 11:59 AM) |
Thanks!
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Posts: 115 (10/17/2008 7:39 PM) |
World War Z.
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Posts: 37568 (10/21/2008 4:41 PM) Best Fan Fic Writer '08 |
Ben Elton's Blind Faith is kind of post-apocalyptic, but not in the I Am Legend kind of vein. I guess you could call it satirical? Umm... umm... can't
think how to describe it so I'll let Amazon
Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion. Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed. Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home? |
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Posts: 13 (11/20/2008 5:55 PM) |
"Oryx and Crake" or "The Handmaids Tale" both by Margaret Atwood
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