Post-Apoc Books

ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
Galapogos is post-apoc?


Sure the world falls apart due to a giant financial crisis and the only ones left are the survivors of that cruise to the Galapagos Islands. Most of the story is about the "end" but a good part of it is about what happens to the people once they get to the island.

I am also wondering if its' fair to call "alien invasion" books potentially post-apoc. If so, than Battlefield Earth might be a post-apoc novel. It does have some of the elements.

Planet of the Apes is.

Oh, potentially O-Zone by Theroux, although it's probably more Distopean.

I saw this book where the end of the world comes and the only ones who survive it were the Mormons. Apparently they had built fallout vaults with enough stores to survive the end. Earth is rebuilt by Latter Day Saints. Go figure.
 
post-apoc is certainly one of vonnegut's dadas. the theme is present in most of his novels in one way or another, sometimes only as an anecdote or a summary of a story by some other fictive writer, and so on. i love stuff like that. try slapstick or lonesome no more, which is a post-apoc fairytale. not his best book, but very cute and funny. my personal favourite.
 
welsh said:
ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
Galapogos is post-apoc?



I saw this book where the end of the world comes and the only ones who survive it were the Mormons. Apparently they had built fallout vaults with enough stores to survive the end. Earth is rebuilt by Latter Day Saints. Go figure.

That makes the world in The Man in the High Castle look like paradise.

You'r right, Vonnegut does tinker with post-apoc themse, doesn't he? Most of the time he's wrong though. One of his books about the Japanese/Germans buying everything in the US is what transformed me into the Reagen worshipping conservative I am today.
 
You know, when I was 12-13 and living with my Grandparents in England, I actually wrote about a wave of American refugees to Brazil after a nuclear war. Pretty cool, it had a great (if kneejerk liberal) ending, and must have been close to 30 pages long. Don't think I still have a copy though.
 
'48 is ok. I was disappointed. Frank Saberhagen wrote a book that was Post-Apoc but I can't remember the title(I read it about 20 years ago), but I remember it was good. I'll check the net and see if I recognize the title.
 
ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
You know, when I was 12-13 and living with my Grandparents in England, I actually wrote about a wave of American refugees to Brazil after a nuclear war. Pretty cool, it had a great (if kneejerk liberal) ending, and must have been close to 30 pages long. Don't think I still have a copy though.

Always save your stuff and put it on disk. I made the same mistake and lost some of my older stuff.

There's a book, I think it's called Ice, in which the Americans who can escape an second ice age escape to South America, but there is a huge famine, hunger and eventually social breakdown.

Not a great book unless you were into a new ice age scenario.

Hey got Canticle for Liebowitz. Anyone read the other Liebowitz book?
 
I've got lots of post apoc books but haven't had time to read em.

One's I found awesome were
Alas, Babylon
On the Beach
The Postman

Swan Song was really good but its pretty different. Seems to try and bend fantasy with the science fiction setting. Still really good book though.
 
The Fred Saberhagen book I read that was good was called, "The Empire of the East."
 
Is there anyone here who know of if there is any way i can get my hands on a comic called car warriors? It is sort of post apolyptic.
 
Specialist said:
I never really liked Dark Tower. I mean, the first book was pretty damn cool but the rest... *ugh*
I'll second that.

I loved 'The Mist' by Stephen King
Yeah, that was good. Just a short story wasn't it? Skeleton Crew, if I'm not mistaken.

I loved Herbert's Rat series. The last is a post-apocalpytic book which takes place shortly after London gets nuked.
Yeah, that's a classic. Domain, it is.

lol, reading through the last page, is someone getting their Herberts mixed up, or is it me?
 
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