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?

And I've just downloaded Each New Morn to my Kindle - it looks just the sort of thing I like Thanks mako

Thanks PomBear!

This thread is keeping me going through a stinking rotten Easter cold, thanks guys. So far I've read On the Beach and The Giver, which I think is mistitled as The Gift upthread.

I enjoyed On The Beach

I read Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan recently. It starts off very silly with zombie cows but rapidly gets serious and creepy. Loved it.

Anyone got any good non-YA recommendations? Am fed up of picking up books which seem great, but turn out to be YA.

I have chime in with my defence of On the Beach. It's a book that I couldn't stop thinking about. I highly recommend it.

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Any recommendations for a plague apocalypse novel? Ideally not YA. I've read The Stand.

Or aliens, those are good too.

Basically I really like the Scott Sigler trilogy I recommended upthread, where the aliens cause the plague but having read that I now want something similar!

If you like your aliens AND plague, I'm in the middle of reading a series of 3 (so far) books by Paul Antony Jones called 'Extinction Point' that has both. About a female reporter who has survived on her own and is trying to make her own way across the USA on her pushbike. Bits of it are scaring me.

Extinction Point is good, I second that recommendation
Empty World by John Christopher is good - I don't think it was classed as YA when it was written but it is fairly "gentle" and would possibly be more YA now iyswim.
Plague by Lisa C Hinsley is very good, but ever so harrowing if you have children (a small boy dying graphically of plague :( ) - I've enjoyed everything by LCH come to think of it, her others are dystopian but not plague stories.
There's the Plague 99 trilogy, but that's YA - the second one is Come Lucky April (and had a different title in the USA) and the third is Watchers at the Shrine.
If you enjoyed the Stand you would probably like Swan Song, I mentioned it further up this thread I think.
I expect I'll think of loads more later so I'll come back

More aliens and plague in "Breakers" by Edward W Robertson. I found the first third or so of this a bit dull, but it does get going. Bit bogged down with detail in some parts and too little elsewhere. (Not enough pushbikes imo)

It's a series, no idea what the rest of them are like since I'm on the first one still, and its free on Kindle.

Hi, had just a skim over the thread so apologies if this has been mentioned. A while back I read 'Since Tommorow' by Morgan Nyberg. It's a kindle one and its set in Canada (I believe) in the aftermath the collapse of society. It's got an unusual writing style to it - it's rather like watching a film with no exposition, with showing and no telling. It's well worth bearing with it though. I found the end unbearable and it still packs a wallop now. Just noticed he's written more - off to check them out!

Also check out 'What Came After' (US) by Sam Winston. Under no circumstances read 'Crash' or its sequels by Michael Robertson. I read this on my kindle, but if it were a dead tree copy I'd be tempted to burn it!! I'll post more as I remember them.

Thanks for the recommendations :)

I've read the first two in the Extinction Point series but didn't realise the third was out, so thanks for that tip!

Agree that Plague is too harrowing. I read it pre-DD (14mo) - would not be able to handle it now! I find myself ruling out re-reads of a lot of Stephen King now- eg Cujo, Pet Semetary- because they have small children in.

I've just read a sample of Swan Song. Is it YA? Hard to tell from the sample.

at 'not enough pushbikes'

About a third of the way through Bird Box after reading about it on this thread.

I may never sleep again. Or go outside. Or open my eyes...

Just finished Bird Box after hearing about it here. Absolutely fabulously gripping, terrifying and just bloody BLOODY brilliant!!!!

I think I've just found my natural home on MN after a these years

I've skimmed the thread and I don't think anyone has mentioned:

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban - post-apocalypse dystopian novel written in a fully developed dialect of its own. Absolutely glorious.

Spares - Michael Marshall Smith - like Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - glorious and beautiful story

A Canticle for Leibowitz - awesome

Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland

Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham

Children of Men - P D James

The Unit - Ninni Holmqvist - a must read, beautifully translated

I really love post-apocalyptic, counter factual, dystopian type fiction, usually the more grim, the better

I have bookshelves dedicated to this kind of fiction but they're all jumbled up after my house move. I used to love Anne McCaffrey when I was a tween and I liked David Eddings (highly recommend as YA reading).

I have most of the classic 50s stuff but I'm having surgery next month and will be at home for at least 3 weeks, so I must find something engaging to get stuck into!

Just finished White Horse by Alex Adams. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I didn't have a degree in biomedical sciences (had to suspend my disbelief and just go with it). The sequel (Red Horse) looks interesting.

I just finished the Gone series by Michael Grant. I read six books in two weeks so it was clearly quite compelling!

It's YA, reminded me of The Stand and IMO much stronger than The Hunger Games. In a 20 mile area of the US surrounding a nuclear power plant, suddenly everyone over the age of 15 simply pops out of existence. The children left have to cope with sorting out food, water etc. Unfortunately some of them develop superpowers and not all of them are very nice. A battle between good and evil, and for survival,