I have just finished reading The Road by Cormack McCarthy and now have a thirst for more of the same i.e. mass extinction, post-apocalypse survival etc.
Can anyone recommend anything please?
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The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysalids
also
same *kind of* vein -
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_new_world
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_%28novel%29
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids
That should keep me going
Cheers
Aldous Huxley was a King.
Brilliant book. Good choice.
Lord of the Flies
Cloud Atlas
1984
The Stand
Oryx and Crake
I've just skipped the last story of cloud atlas
the post civilisation bit. Should I go back to it? I couldn't be bothered with it.
erm
I was tempted to do this because I enjoyed Somni a great deal. It's the hardest to get into, certainly, and the one to miss if you had to choose. However, I think its worth doing to give you, y'know, the complete experience.
The Stand
by stephen king, cos its massive, and generally brilliant throughout.
I Am Legend
I forgot the author's name.
Ilium/Olympos by Dan Simmons
is pretty kewl, starts off like a sci-fi version of the iliad (siege of troy), then gets all fucked up and world's being destroyed by entities from other dimensions etc
Also, the bridge trilogy by william gibson is in that vein - All Tomorrow's Parties is one of the books as well!
(it's more bleak under-populated future then post apocalyptic, but it's close enough imo)
Richard Matheson
Grand book.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_in_Moominland