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Tag Archives: post apocalyptic

Through Darkest America – Neal Barrett Jr.

2018-10-02

Howie Ryder’s pastoral childhood is torn from him as a brutal civil war comes home, sending him on a trek across the post-apocalyptic wilderness of Darkest America.

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“Lot” and “Lot’s Daughter” – Ward Moore

2017-06-20

In the aftermath of nuclear war, a man named Jimmon sees all his built-up middle-class resentment explode in civilization’s twilight. Yet Jimmon reaps what he sows…

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The Book of Etta – Meg Elison

2017-03-12

Etta always felt more at home on the road, taking the guise and persona of “Eddy” instead. But when slavers seize her friends and raid her home, Etta vows to avenge them.

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Dark Universe – Daniel F. Galouye

2017-01-16

A post-apocalyptic society built in the darkness of underground caverns finds its world-view tested when strange monsters emerge, bringing with them a terrible screaming silence.

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Walk to the End of the World – Suzy McKee Charnas

2017-01-12

A post-apocalyptic dystopia set in a hyper-masculine society, where a trio of male anti-heroes and their female slave set out on a journey to the far ends of the world.

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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife – Meg Elison

2016-10-11

When she went to sleep, the world was dying. When she awoke, it was dead. As one of the last surviving women, she must make her way through a treacherous wasteland.

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The Scarlet Plague – Jack London

2016-02-04

Sixty years after a plague killed most of the world’s population, the last man who remembers pre-collapse civilization tries to tell the story of the plague times to his savage grandkids.

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The Silent Multitude – D.G. Compton

2016-01-11

A dreamy psychological tale of the four people who stay in Gloucester while the city collapses around them from an interstellar, concrete-eating plague.

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Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

2015-12-26

An ambitious novel spanning decades, Station Eleven look at human relationships before and after an apocalyptic flu epidemic levels society and decimates the population. Don’t miss it.

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The Pastel City – M. John Harrison

2015-12-04

An aging warrior-poet answers a summons to war, fighting for the young queen of Viriconium, city at the end of time. Far-future decay clothed in the raiments of sword-and-sorcery.

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Hothouse – Brian Aldiss

2015-06-02

Tens of thousands of years into the far flung future, the Earth has become a veritable hothouse, home to new forms of plant life that threaten humanity with extinction.

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