Good 'end of the world' books
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Good 'end of the world' books
I'm in the process of rereading The Stand. It deals with the end of the world as we know it. Any other books dealing with this type of scenario? Almost everyone being wiped out from disease, disasters, nuclear war, etc? Have it actually happen, not one of those stories where they stop it at the last second.
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"Swan Song" by Robert R. McCammon -- great book
Also, "100 Years of Solitude" is somewhat similar, if only in the fictional geographic locations specific to the novel
Also, "100 Years of Solitude" is somewhat similar, if only in the fictional geographic locations specific to the novel
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Day of the Trifids by John Wyndham -- first a mysterious comet (or perhaps a malfunctioning orbital weapons platform) causes everyone to go blind, save a few people who didn't go outside to see the pretty lights in the sky; then predatory plants begin to take over the countryside, finding easy pickings in the blind while the few sighted survivors build holdfasts.
If you've seen 28 Days Later, you should know that Danny Boyle ripped off this book extensively, just changing the predatory plants to zombies. The opening scene is straight out of the novel.
If you've seen 28 Days Later, you should know that Danny Boyle ripped off this book extensively, just changing the predatory plants to zombies. The opening scene is straight out of the novel.
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The Last Ship by William Brinkley was an excellent read.
It is a bit dated being written in 1988 but the story plays out the psychology of survivors of a nuclear winter.
Don't judge it by the movie but L. Ron Hubbards Battlefield Earth is another good read.
It is a bit dated being written in 1988 but the story plays out the psychology of survivors of a nuclear winter.
Don't judge it by the movie but L. Ron Hubbards Battlefield Earth is another good read.
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There is also a link from one of my posts in that earlier thread to a mega list from rec.sf.arts.sf.written that was saved in DejaGoogle.
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Loved Swan Song.
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Re: Good 'end of the world' books
I read this one book that ended with these guy dying on a row boat. They just come from a sub. If I recall correctly a nuclear cloud drifted over the Earth and killed everyone. Read it when I was like 9 so details aren't real clear.
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"World War Z" -- Zombie apocalypse
"Dies the Fire" -- Technology stops working
"The Postman" -- post-nuclear holocaust
"Monster Island -- Zombie apocalypse
"Children of Men" -- mankind becomes sterile
"Year Zero" -- killer virus from biblical times
"Dies the Fire" -- Technology stops working
"The Postman" -- post-nuclear holocaust
"Monster Island -- Zombie apocalypse
"Children of Men" -- mankind becomes sterile
"Year Zero" -- killer virus from biblical times
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You must read the classic The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel. http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/pro...ud,672245.aspx
It's been an influence on every "last man on earth" scenario. The first half of the book is an amazingly haunting journey through an earth littered with corpses. "I was used to the silence of the ice; and I was used to the silence of the sea; but I was afraid of the silence of Europe."