Post apocolyptic reads

The Joe McKinney zombie books are great.I agree with someone else who recommended Frater.Also Roux.

I loved the Moody books.Also excellent zombie reads are by J L Bourne and Z A Recht.

I picked up The Year of the Flood the other day - will be my first foray into Attwood.

Some great ideas here! :o

Have to say I thought 'The Rapture' was a bag of shite!!! (Is it the one with the wheeelchair-bound psychologist? If not apologies, I've mixed it up but f**k me then ending was BOLLOCKS!)

Currently pregnant and tried to watch The Road film as I love the book so much. Made it half an hour, sobbing every 5 minutes or so. I'm blaming hormones but actually being pregnant has changed the whole story and made it unbearably intense and poignant. Didn't make it as far as the awful 'human cattle' scene - bad enough in the book!

I can't believe that no-one has mentioned 'Dinner at Deviant's Palace' by Tim Powers! May be out of print or not bekindled, though.

Ooooh, hello like-minded people

I watched The Road the other week and bawled like a baby at the end. Full on proper sobbing. I might have to give the book a go too by the look of it.

I've just got into the newer zombie apocalypse type books, but am a long time fan of Stephen King so The Stand is one of my favourites.

I've just finished reading a trilogy on my kindle by T W Brown called Zomblog. Rather gory, but I enjoyed them.

I will also second the recommendation for Swan Song. I remember reading that 20 ish years ago and enjoying it very much.

I shall watch with interest for any more goodies to get my teeth into.

I just finished The Road. I really liked it. I watched the film last night too which stayed true to the book.
I'm really into Dystopian and Post apocalyptic books at the moment, so loving this thread.

Just finished 'Dark Inside' by Jeyn Roberts (people all turn evil and start killing each other) which was a very quick read but not bad. YA and first of a series or trilogy I think, second is out in August.

Also 'The Other Life' by Susanne Winnacker- mutated rabies virus mutates people into hideous creatures. YA, heavy on the teen romance, also first of a series.

The Road is fantastic but almost unbearably disturbing.

I love the post/apocalyptic genre, and Day of the Triffids still gives me the willies. Wool is definitely on my must-read list. Also pretty new and doing well: White Horse by Alex Adams.

Oh god and moon threads - scared the living daylights out of me, we were shown it at school. If I see Sheffield I think of that film!

I'm currently reading daughters of the north, more dystopian I think but I love this genre. I've got The Rapture on my to read shelf. I often wonder why I like this kind of book so much. I think The Chrysalids and The Handmaids Tale when I was younger started me off. I'd love to write my own. I think they remind me of all the good things I have, scare me a bit and there is often good world building. Why do you like them? Dh is bemused that I gravitate to end of the world books.

*first war of the worlds was good, second one with Tom Cruise was awful I thought.

DH got me the original 70's series of Survivors for my birthday present a few years ago. We watched about 2/3rds and then lost interest but the first couple of discs were absolutely excellent before it all sort of trailed away.

I've watched Children of Men recently and a couple episodes of V (from the 1980s ?), the first was OK, the second was quite good. Also Book of Eli (excellent), war of the worlds (first good, second was awful I though). I struggled through The postman but I really hate Kevin Kostner. Same with the Mad Max films and Mel Gibson. I liked the Last Train but again lost interest after a while.

Movies 24 often has B-movie type post apocs like The Lost Future and Lost City Raiders which are not very good but I watch them anyway (Movies 24 also has such gems as Megashark vs Crocosaurus and Sharktopus).

But I can't watch anything with zombies in...no no no. Even the Living Dead films. I found one once on Iplayer and watched about 5 minutes. Didn't sleep for a week.

Nooooooooo - I tried reading the first 'Autumn' book last week and it was absolutely, shockingly rubbish. It felt like it had been written by a 13 year old who had never read a book in his/her life. DREADFUL. Sorry but it was really bad.

If you want bad zombie stuff that is actually readable and mildly entertaining, rather than merely excrutiating, then try 'Feed' and its follow-up by Mira Grant - zombie-fighting bloggers.

Another vote for 'Far North' - I enjoyed that.

Lucifer's Hammer is great, in the same vein are:

Warday by Strieber
Wolf and iron by Dickson

Further in the zombie theme are the graphic novels by Kirkman (The Walking Dead), but they are still ongoing which is a little frustrating.

Someone mentioned Survivors by Terry Nation, good but too short imo.

There is a mosaic novel I didn't notice mentioned above: Zombie Apocalypse by Jones.

Oh and 'Flood' by Stephen Baxter

I've recently read some good ones so have come back to add them to the thread.

'Life as we knew it' (and the two sequels) by Pfeffer. Meteor knocks moon out of orbit, affects tides, increases volcanic activity= very cold earth

'Snowfall' (and two sequels) by Mitchell Smith. Few hundred years after apocalypse. I liked the first one but the other two were just OK.

'The Last Days' by Frater (and two sequels plus story collection). Zombies. Main characters are women, one of whom is a mother which leads into the most terrifyingly upsetting opening to a zombie novel I have ever read. Unusual in that the female characters are better fleshed out than the male characters.

oh bum. I hope I can get into it - I'm relying on it!

I thought Year of the Flood was better than Oryx and Crake, though neither came up to the standard of The Handmaid's Tale.

Survivors is very good - it's what the recent and 70s BBC adaptions were based on. Can't remember who it's by though.

Right, I'm off to spend some money on Amazon - this is one of my favourite genres!

I liked The Handmaid's Tale, but couldn't get into Oryx & Crake.

Ooh, I am v excited about this thread, I love a good post-apocalyptic book - going to check some of these out now!

I've ordered oryx and Crake :)

Teen stuff: Blood Red Road (Moira Young), also Gone / Hunger / Plague / Lies - all by Michael Grant.

Definitely The Stand by Stephen King. It's the daddy!

Enjoyed Last Light and Afterlight as recommended on here - thank you!

Love The Road and Maragaret Atwood stuff, another quirky one is Far North (Marcel Theroux) - it was recommended on Radio 4 a couple of years ago and I enjoyed it.