recommended reading

[daboarder]

Any one got any recommendations for good post apocalyptic fiction? its always so hard to find the good stuff.

[Wolfshade]

There are some suggestions for books here: [url]http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?31205-BoLs-Book-Club&highlight=BOOKS[/url]

Though I do not know if they are any good or indeed if they are post apocalyptic

[daboarder]

cheers wolfshade, I didn't really see to much post apoc fiction in there so I figured I'd create a specific thread, see if anyone had anything specific they'd suggest.

[Wolfshade]

No that's fine most of the stuff I hadn't heard of in there so I didn't know. I thought that you might like some of those titles as generally the posters in there and down in the Oooob have similiar tastes.

The Time Magazine suggestes these: [url]http://entertainment.time.com/2010/06/08/top-10-post-apocalyptic-books/[/url]

and there is another here: [url]http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/post-apocalyptic-science-fiction.php#crowd[/url]

[Psychosplodge]

Electric Church, Jeff Somers. Very much feels like a Kal Jerico book set in the near future. There's four sequels as well...

[YorkNecromancer]

I really like John Wyndham - the "cosy apocalypse" is simultaneously less awful (because the protagonists are so rarely in the same sort of danger you get in, say, a zombie film) and more awful (because all they can do is watch as the world completely falls apart, powerlessly).

"Day of The Triffids" is obviously his best-known (and probably best), but I really like "The Kraken Wakes"; it's got a surprisingly "hard" sci-fi feel, despite being fairly ridiculous.
[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Kraken-Wakes-John-Wyndham/dp/0141032995/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375184565&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Kraken+Wakes[/url]

In terms of more modern stuff, I think the best post-apocalypse is probably Garth Ennis' "Crossed", just because it's so relentlessly bloody horrible. It's an active deconstruction of the current zombie apocalypse wish fulfilment, and manages to include some of the most sickening violence ever seen in a comic.
[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossed-Volume-1-Jacen-Burrows/dp/1592910904/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375184575&sr=8-1&keywords=Crossed[/url]

It's a throwback to being very young, but I remain a huge fan of the "Tripods" trilogy. It's a sort-of sequel to "War of The Worlds", only with the central change being that the Martians won, and are now "mars-forming" Earth so that it's an optimal environment for them. Human civilisation has been utterly pacified through brain surgery done at puberty. [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tripods-Trilogy-White-Mountains-Puffin/dp/0140317228/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375184980&sr=1-2&keywords=the+tripods+trilogy[/url]

Finally, by the same author, while I've not read it, but "The Death of Grass" is meant to be exceptional. I'm very impressed by the simplicity of the central idea. [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Grass-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141190175/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375184857&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Death+of+Grass[/url]

[Psychosplodge]

Kind of apocalyptic, especially in the sequels. Good read, couldn't put them down once I'd started.
[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Without-Warning-John-Birmingham/dp/178116603X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z[/url]

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[scadugenga]

SM Stirling's Emberverse series

Original trilogy:
Dies the Fire
The Protector's War
A Meeting at Corvallis

Subsequent novels:

The Sunrise Lands
The Scourge of God
The Sword of the Lady
The High King of Montival
Tears of the Sun
Lord of Mountains

Ridiculously fantastic stuff. The original trilogy is perhaps the best as it takes things moving forward from the initial catastrophic event.