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But by far, my favorite series:
The first trilogy follows the Island of Nantucket, which is thrown back to the bronze age and loses access to high-energy physics. The Emberverse is the rest of the world (though mostly the US) who stay in present day, but also lose access to high-energy physics.
If you want to go more Sci-Fi, I'm currently reading and enjoying:
Also on my list to read:
1632 by Eric Flint. Grantville, West Virginia is sent back to 1632 during the 30 years war in Germany.
Island in the Sea of Time by S. M. Stirling. The island of Nantucket is sent back to the stone age.
Much more modern period, but The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove. Bunch of South African nationalists try and keep slavery by sending AK-47s to the Confederates during the American Civil War.
All of them are pretty enjoyable reads if you're really interested in this kind of stuff.
>Post Apocalyptic Survival books
Dies the Fire, by SM Stirling
This is a series about what happens if our toys get taken away. Think modern people with medieval levels of technology. It's actually 3 series in one. There's this trilogy, a parallel trilogy, and a follow up series set 15 years from the end of the one I originally recommended.
Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling.
Not exactly apocalypse, but the result of a world-shattering event regardless. And then his entire Change series. They're all excellent.
*Edit: Capitalization
I'm not sure how "from scratch" the civ building needs to be, but I enjoyed the Island in the Sea of Time trilogy. It is about the island of Nantucket getting sent back in time to the Bronze Age. The small population must try and build a civilization from their small pocket of modernity.
Related is the Dies the Fire series, also by Sterling. This is about what would happen if all technology suddenly stopped working. The later books in the series get progressively more "fantasy," but the first few are about the different types of civilizations that crop up and the conflicts between them.
The Time Patrol stories by Poul Anderson. Guys who work to prevent changes in history, and fix them when they do.
Palimpsest by Charles Stross is an even deeper take on the same concept. It's collected in Wireless.
All of an Instant by Richard Garfinkle is a weird take on time travel. Travelers go to 'The Instant', a higher dimension; there, their bodies take the form of their lifelines, long tails which can be chopped up and injured in battle. They can literally lose their past. The story involves the grandchildren of the Mitochondrial Eve fighting to preserve her existence.
Island in the Sea of Time by SM Stirling is the first in a trilogy about the island of Nantucket being transported back to the year 1350 BC.
Cowl by Neal Asher is a kinda creepy story about our descendants fighting a war across time.
The Proteus Operation by James P Hogan. In 1971, Hitler is winning WWII. Then the USA figures out that it's because he has help from the future. They build their own time machine and send a team back to 1939.
The Flight of the Horse by Larry Niven. If time travel is impossible, where do you go when you actually do it?
A Place so Foreign by Cory Doctorow is neat. A boy living in the 1890s is the son of the ambassador to 1971. It's free to download, too!
The Company Series by Kage Baker. Start with In The Garden of Iden. It's terrific, immortal agents living through history to steal lost artifacts for their employers in the 23rd century.
On the Western side of things I know of The Cross-time Engineer by Leo Frankowski as well as Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling.
Both are the start of their respective series with the Cross-Time engineer starting a 5-novel series and Island starting a trilogy.
[A Hero's War] (Low Quality)
[Island in the Sea of Time]
[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]
Try Island in the Sea of Time if you like the social and political aspects of the whole " We have been sent back in time! Now what?" fiction
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You might try the Island in the Sea of Time trilogy by S.M. Stirling.
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