Post Apocalypse Fiction

[Tallim]

I've allways liked the post end of the world style fiction but finding it is quite tricky or at least finding great novels about it.

So I ask if anyone has any suggestions, I don't really mind what the story will be, hard sci-fi, horror etc but I want post apocalyptic settings.

I suspect there are loads of novels out there I need to read.

 

[Queen Michael]

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

 

[not_the_dm]

"The Word and the Void" and "The Genesis of Shannara" serieses(?) by Terry Brookes.
[sub]What the hell is the plural of series?[/sub]

 

[UglyQuentin]

Day of the Triffids, World War Z and The Road are all good

 

[JIst00]

One that springs to mind is a classic.

The Stand - Stephen King

The only Stephen King I've read and enjoyed.

 

[Tallim]

One that springs to mind is a classic.

The Stand - Stephen King

The only Stephen King I've read and enjoyed.

Yeah I liked The Stand, I don't get on with most Stephen King

 

[Brownie101]

http://the-postpunk-group.deviantart.com/ There's a link to the Post-Apocalypse-punk group on DeviantArt I belong to. The head admin has a small prologue story on his profile but for books:
I like The Dark Tower by Stephen King. Such a nice story with a great setting.

 

[Sibbo]

It's not really post apocalyptic but chasm city by Alastair Reynolds has similar themes. It's a sci-fi based on a city that has been hit with a plague, though if I had to really classify it, it'd probably fall better into a film noir (or literary equivalent) mystery with a sci-fi setting, at least in my opinion.

 

[Jekken6]

The Road, as someone said before.

Metro 2033 is also supposed to be pretty good. I don't know myself, as I haven't read the book, but I've been playing the game.

 

[Mechsoap]

28 days later i find a good survival horror

 

[LavaLampBamboo]

The Dark Tower series is ace...

Also, FreakAngels is a FANTASTIC free web comic by Warren Ellis set in a flooded London. Google it!

 

[likalaruku]

There's a movie called "A Wind Named Amnesia" that I'm terribly fond of, but the book it's based on is not available in English.

 

[Koeryn]

There's a series called the Stones of Power, of which I have read one book:

Wolf In Shadow, by David Gemmel. One of my favorites.

 

[Nerf Ninja]

Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick is an excellent one and is one of the influences on the Fallout series.

One by Conrad Warner is a good example by a recent writer.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

The French film Le Jetée is a genre classic.

 

[octafish]

As said before The Road by Cormac McCarthy was probably the book of the year in 2006.
I'll suggest Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. It's a very realistic description of the U.S. after a limited nuclear war. It's a very interesting book.