Post apocolyptic reads

[BlingLoving]

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...!

I have just given up on 'Monster Planet' by David Wellington as it really wasn't my cup of tea at all.

I have started watching the series of 'Jericho' as recommended here,though,and I'm enjoying it thus far.

I haven't delved into 'Cell' yet PomBear (tbh I forgot I had it as it became buried in a teetering pile of school letters and old rubbish 'paperwork to action' pile) - it'll be interesting to see which camp I fall in to

Just whizzed through this thread picking up a few recommendations along the way. Don't know if anyone has mentioned these yet but The Gone Away World and Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway are both well worth reading.

crescentmoon Angelmaker came out in Feb of this year I think-I read it on a long flight and it was brilliant. Think he's also written a non-fiction book but I havent read that.

Robocalypse keeps coming up on my amazon recommendations - is it worth getting?

Hi, I'll give Robocalypse a go then!
I have a kindle and I love it, I also have ridiculous numbers of books so it has been a great space saver for me. I think you need an amazon.com account to download books from the US but I haven't needed to yet do I'm not sure how it would work.

Have been happily taking suggestions from this thread (all my recommendations have been made already), and something very odd happened - had to share :)

Ordered Empty World from the library. Started reading it, and realised it was very similar in set up to the beginning of Day of the Triffids, yet written 20 years earlier. Had a bit of a Goolge, then came back to this thread to see if anyone had said anything about it. Only to discover I was reading a different Empty World. Mine's by D E Stephenson, a writer known for her romantic fiction, who just happened to write one post-apocalyptic novel.

It's very gently, and extremely mannered, with hugely wonky schience, but rather enjoyable for all that

Interesting array of typos there - pressed post instead of preview

Thanks Yoho

I'll look that one up on Amazon asap.

I've got A Wrinkle in the Skin out of the library atm and am also reading the second one in 'The Forest of Hands and Teeth' trilogy. The first was very fast paced and full of teenage angst but I enjoyed the concept (fenced religious community/village in the middle of woods surrounded by zombies). Female main character albeit an annoying one.

What I am enjoying is a book called 'Savage Continent' by Keith Lowe, which deals with Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War. It is almost like reading a post-apocalyptic novel, mass destruction, bands of refugees wandering and looting, no police, government, no borders, no money, no factories/manufacture, law and order broken down, morality has collapsed, rape is common, farmland is abandoned, people looting supply trucks/robbing soldiers, soldiers trading tinned goods for sex with housewives, extreme violence the norm. People disturbed by grief/loss/shock/horror. Its astonishing that this really happened and was only 70 years ago.

Did I recommend "Wool" to the Kindle people? I got an omnibus edition, it originally came out in tiny episodes of a chapter or so each. I loved it - it's one of those where you put it down, then fifteen minutes later, you are so desperate to know what happens next, you get out of bed for "five more minutes"

Did you write it or something terrid ? you seem very anxious to let people know about it

I've been lurking on this thread - thought I'd let you know that John Wyndham's 'The Chrysalids' is being serialised on Radio 4. First episode is on now and it's v good.

Should be available on iPlayer

PS

Really want to read some more chapters from SGB

I happily caught the serialisation of the Day of the Triffids on Movies 24 this week, I saw it the first time around a few years back but it was just as good this time around.
If I get the chance to listen to the chrysalids I'll definitely take it (two noisy children on summer holiday here).

I've also read Tomorrow when the war began, can't remember if I already mentioned it above. It was OK (apocalypse is war rather than epidemic/zombies/natural disaster) but it was good enough for me to get the sequels from the library. I also read Plague by Jean Ure again, excellent YA, but far too short imo.

oooh - just discovered that the R4 serialistaion of 'The Day of The Triffids' is being repeated on R4 extra this week!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072sxm/broadcasts/upcoming

I was actually looking for the serialisation of 'Chocky', but couldn't find it. The entire TV series from the 1980's is on youtube though (was children's TV but still excellent, imo)

Back to post-apocalyptic reading (as opposed to listening/watching), one of my favourites is Doomsday Book by Connie Willis - time-traveller gets sent to the wrong time and arrives in a medieval English village just as the Black Death pandemic hits.

There are two sequels to Plague 99 R2 - they are "Come Lucky April" and "Watchers at the Shrine" but I think CLA had a different title in some editions too.

I love the Day of the Triffids with John Duttine, the more modern one with vile Eddie Izzard just didn't do it for me, they changed stuff and messed about with it, and I can't bear him anyway so it just wasn't the same.
Have you read "Night of the Triffids"? I've forgotten who it's by now, it's gone clean out of my head. It is a sequel, but written fairly recently. I finished it, and it wasn't bad but I never had the urge to read it again, it was a tad predictable and a bit meh but ok.

Come Lucky April is also known as 'After the Plague' I think. I have them both on my Amazon wishlist but wanted to read Plague first before I bought them. They don't have good reviews but I like the sound of them anyway.

I quite like the Eddie Izzard version, but that could just be because of the terrible dearth of post-apoc drama on TV and I have a soft spot for Eddie. On Movies 24 they followed Day of the Triffids up with 'Flood' which was awful but I still watched it even thought I loathe Robert Carlyle, and today was the first two hours of 'Pandemic' which is ....well...they are trying...I can see what they are trying to do....

I haven't read 'Night of the Triffids' no, but my library appears to have a copy which I just reserved. Simon Clark is the author. I noticed that book 3 of the 'Tomorrow' series is waiting for me in the library. I'm enjoying them enough to seriously consider buying them, I can see why they won awards.

The Tomorrow When the War Began tomorrow? I enjoyed those they reminded me of Red Dawn, with Patrick Swayze swoon from the 80s. I had it on video but have never got round to getting a DVD if there even is such a thing.
I have got Threads on DVD - I used it for "school" when I was home educating no2 son, along with When the Wind Blows. I love that but it makes me cry.

Yep those are the ones. Amazon has thrown up a DVD from 2011 which has gone on my wishlist. I think they are so well written and they don't shy away from the realities and horrors of war.

I don't have Threads but I have read When the Wind Blows which just about broke my heart. I also read 'Ethel and Ernest' by him which isn't post-apoc but also incredibly moving.

There is a post-apoc called The Eleventh Plague (by Hirsch) which looks good but I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback before I buy.

Just been to the library and got out Hater and Dog Blood by Moody, Xombies by Walter Greatshell, and Allison Hewitt is trapped by Roux (for a reread).

I spotted another one I have read this year and I don't think is mentioned on the thread 'X Isle' by Augarde. YA, world destroyed by floods and people scavenging, people being taken off to a mysterious island. Not brilliant and I didn't add it to my wishlist but someone else might like it more than I did.