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Check out the book "One Second After" for a depressing view of how society utterly collapses without national power grids. In the book a high altitude nuke causes the EMP with takes down the US grid. There is shielding that can be done to protect against a man-made EMP but a solar flare is orders of magnitude stronger and adequate shielding isn't possible from such an energy source.
Warning - this book is so bleak you'll read "The Road" to brighten your day
https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel/dp/0765327252
Sort of off the top of my head:
Not Supernatural:
Supernatural:
Often times books about survival don't need to be fiction to be amazingly interesting, so I'll add these:
Check out "One Second After" https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel/dp/0765327252
It's about a small town after EMP's hit the United States. More survivalist than taking on a cult single-handedly, but very enjoyable.
These are books which I have read twice or more and would read again and again on the topic of post-collapse:
Alas Babylon
On the Beach
The Postman - not like the movie with Kevin Costner (just based upon and quite different)
One Second After - currently the most realistic and scariest of the bunch I think.
Earth Abides
Lucifer's Hammer - this one I wouldn't read without many years between as the start is sooooo slow but the second half is good.
You are pretty much describing the beginning of One Second After.
People should read the book One Second After. It's a novel about America getting hit with an Electro Magnetic Pulse that fries all of the electronics in the country. It's eye opening.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel/dp/0765327252
By one month most food would have been gone through and all storage would likely have been gone through as well. Trash would pile up on the street. Particularly if it is a modern setting. Medications would have run out. The dead would have festered by then, so not a pleasant place to be.
A good read for what you could expect: https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel/dp/0765327252
Another shout for Hot Zone
Also, One Second After genuinely gave me nightmares.
I agree, he would love another attack. For now he has to settle for trying to keeping the fear alive. Newt wrote the foreword of the book "One second After" It's a propaganda piece disguised as fiction. 9/11 is mentioned at least 8 times in the first quarter of the book. I didn't make it any further.
Some people caught on, their one star reviews are here
One Second After.
Details the breakdown of society after an EMP is detonated over the US. Scary as hell.
you might like this: https://www.amazon.com/Second-After-John-Matherson-Novel/dp/0765327252
show the breakdown of society, the way a small state forms and exploits others, the way gun ownership and independence saves some.
not overtly procapitalist, and someone exaggeraes the impact of an emp, but an interesting read.
Only because you mention DbD, PZ, and the MS books, I highly recommend One Second After by William R. Forstchen.
It has nothing to do with zed but is an incredible post apocalyptic tale. And reads very similar to the Morning Star and Day by Day books.
If you must absolutely have zed in your reading and haven't picked it up check out the Autumn series by David Moody.