Post apocolyptic reads

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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...!

Thanks for the tip Percy - I'll take your advice and read that next! I've always been a huge fan of SK but didn't ever fancy the DT series for some reason. Then I picked up the gunslinger a couple of months ago and have been hooked ever since!

Ok my 2 penith: children of men, handmaids tale, i am legend, 1984 (classic), the running man (stephen king), battle royale, The Stand (SK again)

Oh and 'Brave new world'

None of these post-apocolyptic worlds is better than the world we know, is it?
I admire enormously Riddley Walker, The Road, The Handmaid's Tale and others mentioned, including Oryx and Crake, but not The Year of the Flood.

Hater by David moody is excellent. Really interesting take on the genre.

The Autumn books by David Moody! AMAZING!

My favourite genre - loving this list. I'd forgotten all about Ridley walker. I loved it and lent it to a friend never to be seen again.

My recent favourites are the road, oryx and crake.

Have just bought metro and the big book recommended earlier.

Thanks!

Land of ash was a recent book of short stories. Very good!

Just watching The Road and wishing I'd already read the book.
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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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!