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Post apocolyptic reads

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BlingLoving · 24/04/2012 09:38

I love a good post apocolyptic/sci fi read but find it's quite hard to find them so I'm looking for inspiration please from all of you. To give you an idea of what I like I recently read and enjoyed the Hunger Games trilogy. Going further back, I love almost everything John Wyndham ever wrote, but The Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids are my favourite.

My Kindle is charged and I am ready to download...!

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R2PeePoo · 24/04/2012 12:47

*thought

R2PeePoo · 24/04/2012 12:46

Oh I also loved Allison Hewitt is Trapped by Madeleine Roux. Super,fast-paced action with an excellent book loving heroine. Written in a blog style format. There is a follow up too -Sadie walker is stranded but I haven't read that one yet.

In the young adult genre I though these were excellent too.

-The fear; the enemy; The Dead -trilogy by Charlie Higson
-Unwind by Neil Shusterman
-Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness (four books)
-Divergent by Roth
-City of Ember by DuPrau

SomethingOriginal · 24/04/2012 12:40

Theres a series by Faith Hunter (Rogue Mage Series) which is after the End of Days

Which is lighter reading than it sounds! With sexy angel types included if that's your bag Smile

jeee · 24/04/2012 12:37

John Christopher? I think you can get The Death of Grass on the kindle. Other than that you'd have to go second hand.

CrunchyFrog · 24/04/2012 12:36

Oh, I quite enjoyed the Ben Elton one, Blind Faith. Don't normally like his stuff, but that was a good one. Smile

MsWeatherwax · 24/04/2012 11:49

You might like Mira Grant's Feed - political thriller set after the zombie apocalypse, very addictive read.

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BlingLoving · 24/04/2012 11:23

Thanks both. This is excellent. I'll get Kindling (is that a word yet?).

I've read a few of these: On the Beach is one that's always stayed with me. It's so simple and yet so moving. Or maybe that's just me. I reread it a few years ago as well as A Town Called Alice (different genre, but just as compelling). He's such a low key writer but somehow so evocative? I think I've read Swan Song but can't remember. And yes, I've read the Handmaiden's Tale is good although, like so many of Margaret Attwood's books, I started to get bored towards the end. What is it about her?

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CrunchyFrog · 24/04/2012 10:30

The Handmaids Tale is great, although kind of disturbing.

Children of Men (PD James)

David Gemmell did a trilogy that starts with Wolf in Shadow I think, it's good but very genre.

R2PeePoo · 24/04/2012 10:21

Rot and Ruin (and the sequel Dust and Decay) by Jonathan Maberry is one I just enjoyed. Set 14 years in the future after a zombie outbreak it is very well written and to an extent subverts the whole zombie genre. Lots of excitement and the bad guys aren't the zombies. One of the best 'after the catastrophe' books I have read.

Alas Babylon by David Brin
Swan Song by McCammon
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
The Postman by David Brin
Earth Abides by Stewart
Meat by Joseph D'Lacey
World War Z by Max Brooks
Afterlight by Alex Scarrow
Cell by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
Lucifer's Hammer by Niven
Plague War by Jeff Carlson (two more in the trilogy-very good)

The Forest of Hands and Teeth is one that is on my list to read too.

My favourite genre (I like Wyndham too)

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