Best apocalyptic fiction by new authors?

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I have read an awful lot of stuff written from 1950s to the present day, and am enjoying finding some new stuff via Kindle from self-published authors - some total trash but other things I've thought were quite well written, like Feed/Deadline etc by Mira Grant.

Any other suggestions?

Oh yes. Triffids I discovered in my friend's car on a long drive to France when I was fourteen. I was so shocked it was such a little book when I finally read it, on audio it was fascinating, and I usually sleep on car journeys.

Inside Out I checked, I have a strong leaning towards female authors or protagonists. Maria V. Snyder.

anywhere you can blend triffids with spaceships with magic with mutants with people with dragons. One day this will be my home.

lesson - for reading PERN, if you start with DragonFlight, then Dragon Quest, then take an "aside" and read Masterharper of Pern, Dragon Song, Dragon Singer, and Dragon Drums, then go back and read The White Dragon, Renegades of Pern, and All the Weyrs of Pern, then get the four story collection Chronicles of Pern, then Dolphins of Pern, then go back for DragonsDawn and Red Star Rising, and if you can find a special limited edition called "A Gift of Dragons" it has some more short stories in it. Then ignore all the rest because Todd spoiled it
Oh and read "Nerilka's Story" and "Moreta" whenever you like once you have got as far as White Dragon.
(Can you tell I know them off by heart and have done since I first found Dragonsinger when I was 12? )

Does everyone know This Site exists?
It is wonderful for finding things because of the links and recommendations from page to page/book to book/author to author.

Pom you're a star. Have just spent goodness knows how much on Amazon on the first one of these and most of the other recommendations, my commutes for the next few months are set!

and Amazon do a nifty "people who bought this also like" thingy too, at the bottom of the page...
I've found loads of new authors that way.
I particularly like PS Power, LM Pruitt, (both YA but fun and easy read) Ben Aaronovitch (sp?) Shelly Laurenston (she writes paranormal romance and they are pretty steamy and explicit, just to warn you and MUCH better than 50 shades of shite )
Has anyone read Malcolm Pryce? If you like Jasper Fforde, he is well worth a look, it's sort of "film noir" detective but also so absurd you can't help but giggle away to yourself like a loon - not dystopian as such, in the traditional sense of the word, but ever so good.
I also read a couple of really excellent series recently the "Laundry Files " series, here and the St. Mary's series here
JR Rain is good too - his stuff tends to be short, but is cheap - I particularly like his "Knighthorse" and "Vampire for Hire" series.

I would definitely second the recommendation for Atwood's Oryx and Crake series, though actually, it's the MaddAddams trilogy. I have just finished Oryx and Crake for the third or forth time. Just waiting for a friend to finish The Year of The Flood so I can read it for the second time then on to MaddAdam! Cannot wait! I would also highly recommend Ness's Chaos Walking triology.

Oh yes belle that Chaos Walking trilogy is really good too.
Malcolm Pryce in my wish list now pom thanks!

Last light by Alex sparrow and Computer One by Warwick Collins were good as it was about the UK as America falling apart doesn't hold the same pull.

Last light by Alex Sparrow is really good.

I like apocalyptic books, but not zombies.

Just ordered it WireCat, looks easy reading? I don't like zombie books/films either,it's all just too unlikely for me. I like to scare myself a bit with possible - or even probable - scenarios.

If you like zombie apocalypse then Mark Tufo's Zombie Fallout series is pretty good.

I also recently read a zombie short-ish story that was a political satire about the UK govt. I'll have to see if I can look it up.

Last light has a good female protagonist in it not the usual love interest / making up numbers.

Blueemerald- I've just finished "The Girl with all the gifts"- it was excellent.

I'm currently reading dEaDINBURGH, which is an interesting twist on the zombie genre. I'm not sure if I'm going to go on and read the rest of the series though.

I can't find that political satire, sorry. I have over 1,700 kindle books and I can't remember which month I read it in or what it was called so it's a bit of a needle in a haystack.

I was just going to recommend Mark Tufo/Zombie Fallout! Definitely one of the better ones.

Also like RR Haywood - The Undead. Each book is a single day in the zompoc. Very readable, good characters, set in the uk.

There's also All The Dead Are Here by Pete Bevan. It's a compilation of short stories (most or all of them zombified) but reads a bit like a collection of spooky victorian ghost stories. Really recommend (and it's an mn-er's dh who wrote it!).

I have read pretty much all the zombie books out there on kindle. Any new recommendations mucho appreciated!

The Mammoth book of apocalyptic sci-fi has great stories and it only 99p at the moment.

There's a series called Redaction by Linda Andrew that I enjoyed, and seemed plausible.

Zombie Takeover is the political satire. The action moves back and forward between the more usual start and progression of an outbreak, and the prime minister's office and a more 'Yes, Minister' style of story.

I've some of the Redaction series.

Haven't read those other 2 though.....just downloaded them onto my kindle. Two quid well spent!

Yy the girl with all the gifts. Loved the ending. A bit crime crossover but the last policeman by Ben winters is also good

World War Z (apocalyptic)

Cloud Atlas (Story #5 is dystopian & Story #6 is post-apocalyptic. You can just read those two stories if the rest doesn't interest you)

The Passage (apocalyptic / post-apocalyptic)

1984 (dystopia)

I wasn't impressed by Wool, which I thought was a bit juvenile & lacking in the credibility department, but you might enjoy it if you like YA.

Some more zombie type books/authors - The Dead World series by Joe Mckinney, the 'Autumn' series by David Moody (set in the UK) and Wayne Simmons has a couple set in Ireland. Adam Baker is another British author, but I've only read one of his and that was based on some outpost in the north atlantic. If you like lots and lots of guns in your zombie PA you should read JL Bourne's Day by Day Armageddon. Jonathan Maberry has a series set several years after the rise of the zombies - that shared similarities with the Mira Grant series (so I thought) I didn't realise till I'd finished the first one that it was aimed at the 'youth' market.

Brian Keene's written a couple of post-apocalyptic novels, both with and without zombies, but his books have a Richard Laymonesque feel to them and get a bit weird for me.

Non-zombie - 'One Second After' by William R. Forstchen, that seemed to be a cross between Alas Babylon and the tv show Jericho.

I recently read one called Dead Bastards which was surprisingly good. Cheap amazon zombie books can be hit and miss.

Other favourites but not new authors are

The stand
swan song
The passage
Children of the dust
Domain
Cell

www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Bastards-Jenny-Thomson-ebook/dp/B00AM0OI0G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1396309383&sr=1-1&keywords=dead+bastards

Dead bastards

Dead Bastards looks great.

My Favourites are
The Stand
The Road
Cell
World War Z
Just finished Wool and didn't go much on it at all.