(Part 2) Best post-apocalyptic science fiction books according to redditors
We found 463 Reddit comments discussing the best post-apocalyptic science fiction books. We ranked the 107 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Doing research for my fic, I used the fake Harran website and the prequel book, as well as some dialogue in the game, to come up with the following timeline:
Outbreak starts in December. The "epedemic" alert happens after the new mayor is appointed, and the elections were on the 29th and 30th of November. And according to the book, Erol Assani was already mayor at the time the outbreak started. In particular, shit goes down proper on the
21st of December. No, not then. I got confused. All we know, is that things get out of control during the Harran Games opening, if we are to follow the prequel book. Even if the infection had already started causing alarm, there was no panic until that day.Shit Christmas, I assume? ;)
The weather pattern in the game is what I used next. Considering Harran's geographical location, I placed it around late summer. That would give room for the occassional storm, but make the weather still fairly warm, and align with dayrise and nightfall.
This is "headcanon", rather than canon though, in particular because of the "It's been 3 weeks" comment you overhear in the Tower. That'd mean the GRE and military pulled out 3 weeks ago, and we'd think maybe it only took a month or two to quarantine the place. Which I find unrealistic.
My take on it gives the GRE half a year to try and contain the situation, before they decide to quarantine entirely and pull out. I would think it'd take a good amount of time to build the wall around the entirety of the City state (including the Country side!), so I can get behind that.
The Following though? Nothing much on this, but I am moving this into "it's been a year since the outbreak" territory, even if we see no notable changes in day/night cyles. That'd mean Crane has been in there for a couple of months.
Sources: http://www.harran-city.com/ and Nightmare Row.
If you guys want to check the book out you can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Mirrors-Young-Adult-Novella-ebook/dp/B07GMZVF72/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1541259548&sr=8-7&keywords=cj+evans
It's also on Kindle Unlimited. If you read it, hope you like it and please drop a review, that would mean a lot! thanks :)
If you haven't already, you should look into the rest of the Xeelee Sequence. I pray Baxter returns to the Xeelee universe for at least one more book after he finishes "The Long XXX" series with Pratchett. I have yet to find a universe/story that I consider half as engaging as the Xeelee.
Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained came close.
Haven't seen this mentioned. It is closer to SF, but it has its steampunkish elements.
Sean McMullen - Souls in the Great Machine
2000 years in the future. Forbidden fuel engines, computers made of individual people doing calculations by hand, fighter planes, chivalry, engineer guilds, battle librarians, doomsday machines. Fairly unique. It's a trilogy, though the first two books are only loosely connected. The third sort of brings it all together. From what I remember, I enjoyed it, but it is definitely a bit "out there", which leads to very mixed reviews. Probably like it or hate it.
http://www.amazon.com/Souls-Great-Machine-Greatwinter-Trilogy/dp/0312872569/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397499641&sr=1-1&keywords=souls+in+the+great+machine
And if you don't of know it, there's a popular webcomic called "Girl Genius". It's fun, nicely drawn (though the style takes some gettin used to) mostly lighthearted but can turn pretty dark at times as well, has interesting characters, twisting ongoing plot, next to no filler, and is as steampunkish as you can get. (Also its free to read, and pretty massive.) Can recommend.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php
While the series is fiction, you might enjoy the Greatwinter Trilogy. Picture 2000 or so humans as 'components' of a computing machine. Now I'm not saying anything about the chances of recreating something like it in real life, but I will say that when I read it I was struck by how it approached computing. You may find it interesting.
Hello! Publisher of LATCHKEY here -- it's absolutely definitely 1000% available for Kindle in the UK. :-D
Linky here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C3WJW2B
EDIT: HAH! And then I look again and see you were asking about ARCHIVIST WASP, sorry. You should be able to buy a Kindle-compatible e-book (MOBI) at Weightless Books: https://weightlessbooks.com/publisher/small-beer-press/big-mouth-house/archivist-wasp/
I am High School Science Teacher and I recently published a book that was written nine years ago. I wanted to see if you guys can review it. Please show some love. Check out APERTURE @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZTMLSXM Or type in “Aperture Fon” into Amazon’s search bar. It’s only $0.99
“Many people never wanted to be born. They never wanted to exist. I can make that happen for you. All you have to do is say the word. Say it once and everyone goes. Say it twice and everything goes. Universes, dimensions, concept of time, matter, space, light, and even God will be erased. Existence and its Meaning of Life needs to die. This is my sole purpose.”
Based on the Mayan Calendar, APERTURE revolves around the hype of the 2012 phenomenon where the world will end on December 21st. All life will cease to exist if Rachel LaCroix doesn’t grow out of her childhood fears. Worlds will collide and universes will merge into a single reality. After seeing through the eyes of many, does the world and its secrets deserve to live?
APERTURE interweaves several connected stories from diverse backgrounds. Characters include a strong and beautiful female protagonist that attempts to conquer her fear of the dark after being a rape victim for so long, an insomniac that is paranoid, a drunk searching for purpose, a loud-mouth punk kid that lost everything in his life, the Captain of a fallen military, a well-renowned scientist that believed he tore a hole in the fabric of reality, and many others. This novel contains elements of horror, supernatural, science fiction, paranormal events, humor, and psychological thriller.
Same here. Baxter is always recommended so I bought the Xeelee Omnibus (http://www.amazon.com/Xeelee-Omnibus-Raft-Timelike-Infinity/dp/0575090413/) which started with Raft IIRC. I read that and Timelike Infinity but I didn't really like reading them. Whether it is the plot development or the way he writes, I'm not sure.
However, he did make me think afterwards. He poses some interesting scenarios as basis for his stories, so there's that :-)
Hey folks!
This month, I finally got the courage together to complete and publish my first novella, after 5 years of working on it on the side, starting from a hastily written prologue and some notes for an ending. Over time, with bursts of inspiration, and lots of support, it turned into the novella you can start reading today. It catalogues my thoughts at the time after studying history, reading a lot of fantasy, and getting inspired by Asimov's Foundation series regarding the future of the human race.
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You can buy the paperback ($5.99) or e-book ($2.99) from Amazon here: https://amazon.com/dp/B07H1N3MJB
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Synopsis:
Five thousand years into the future, the human race is in a blissful state. War is nonexistent amongst the fifteen colonized planets, and the Central government runs a tight ship -- everyone is well fed and educated. Civilization is progressing at a brisk pace - the expansion of the human race throughout the galaxy is just getting started. Historians are meticulously documenting every step of the way so that future generations can learn from this experience.
Michael Goodyear is troubled. As one of the historians working on the effort, he is witness to the exactness and zeal with which historical records are being kept. Why, then, were there no solid records of humanity's origin? "Humanity escaped from another galaxy, fleeing war and oppression from an alien race" summed up pretty much everything. He could understand the average human not caring much about it, but why were historians only focused on the present and the recent past; when there was so much to discover?
Unearthly Whispers is the story of Michael's quest to discover the true story of human civilization and where it came from.
I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up Harlan Ellison's A Boy and his Dog, which inspired much postapocalyptic fiction that Fallout is based on, including the Mad Max universe. All the tropes are here - a nuclear-blasted desert environment; vaults where a twisted version of the 1950s plays out; savage raiders; telepathic mutant animals.
Warning that the story is told much more from a raider's perspective than a hero's.
Ellison's work is collected as the Vic and Blood stories here:
https://www.amazon.com/Bloods-Rover-Harlan-Ellison-ebook/dp/B07DJ8T79D/ref=pd_sim_351_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07DJ8T79D&pd_rd_r=a89a42d8-aeac-11e8-9f1d-0fdf2b561195&pd_rd_w=uwFa9&pd_rd_wg=z8YKZ&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=18bb0b78-4200-49b9-ac91-f141d61a1780&pf_rd_r=9S1GACN5KM4JJRBVMXWY&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=9S1GACN5KM4JJRBVMXWY
It was later made into a film starring a young Don Johnson and Jason Robards which you can watch on Youtube (just search A Boy and his Dog).
Sorry, not sure why the link didn't post
https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Immortality-Matthew-S-Cox-ebook/dp/B07GY2X9NK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Virtual+Immortality&qid=1571537545&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
I would love to know what you think of my Debut book Earth’s Angels. It’s only 99c on amazon at the moment. Plus I have an adult version, so your adult family members can read the same book as you, and be able to talk about it afterwards.
Badass human survivors....
Powerful ancient aliens.....
Magic that we didn’t know our planet held....
Avatar meets The Host.
Earth’s Angels YA version
AI: Detonation by Erik A. Otto (read it last year and enjoyed a lot),
Anthology: The Art of War by Petros Triantafyllou, Writers of the Future anthologies should be available as part of KU as well.
Australian author: We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson (very good), Manifest Recall by Alan Baxter (a mindfuck, bit a good one)
Graphic novel: Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison (read it and then watch the show. Or the other way around. Both are great)
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[Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang][3] is a novel that I found as part of the BookCrossing project. Pretty cool little utopic novel as I remember it, with a subtext about identity.
For a change of pace, you could try Nathaniel Hawthorne's [Blithesdale Romance][1], which I'm just finishing up now. It's more realistic than most of the books you're likely to find recommended in this thread, in part because it's based on an actual [utopian commune][2].
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Blithedale-Romance-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140390286
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Farm_(Boston,_Massachusetts)#In_fiction
[3]: http://www.amazon.com/Where-Late-Sweet-Birds-Sang/dp/0312866151
yes but it’s not free and you can get it on amazon for like 20 bucks(at least that’s what I paid a couple of years ago) https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Light-Nightmare-Raymond-Benson/dp/153026622X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549848080&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=nightmare+row&dpPl=1&dpID=517vEx57zyL&ref=plSrch
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Earth Force 2 (Relict Legacy) is set to be released October 10.
https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Force-2-Relict-Legacy-ebook/dp/B07YNYR4BV/
Obligatory wiki links: Dystopian Literature. Although, some of the titles listed don't seem to fit (The Dispossessed?). Nuclear holocaust fiction, and your general apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Some of the better/more popular ones:
Zombies: World War Z, Raise the Dead, Marvel Zombies, Zombie Survival Guide, Day By Day Armageddon, I Am Legend.
Also, just for kicks, some of my favorite dystopian movies:
Brazil, Soylent Green, 12 Monkeys, Blade Runner, Akira, Children of Men, Dark City, A Boy and His Dog, Logan's Run, Idiocracy, Equillibrium.
Gehenna (Sci-Fi) $14.95 print and $6.95 eBook
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Gehenna-Dakota-Bryant-ebook/dp/B07PXXGNSB/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=gehenna&qid=1554599266&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Website: BryantAndParker.com
An alien, human hybrid named Alastor discovers he is not alone. Abandoned at birth, Alastor's mother and father left him with no explanation of who he was or what he would have to do. The only thing his father left him with was a deep and burning hatred for everything. A once peaceful Queen of The Seven, Kakos, turns dark while brooding and trying to hide the truth about her son. She wants Alastor’s father and his new lover dead for reasons Alastor doesn’t understand. Kakos becomes the sole focus of Alastor’s hate and anger, which has blinded him to the consequences of his actions. This blind hate and rage will have grave consequences for Earth and every living thing on it. Hate breeds fury, fury causes downfalls.
This is the first story in a universe that we have been crafting over the last 3 and a half years. We have a lot more content that we are wanting to write, and we are hoping Gehenna is the launching off point for us to make that happen for you. Please make sure to leave a review so we know what the reader is thinking and what you want!
Howdy all,
I've just published my first novel (sci-fi, spec-fic).
It is a post-apocalyptic, cyber-hippie travelogue called The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond.
Find it on amazon, ibooks, kobo, barnes & noble, smashwords. Ebook on each is around $3.99. Paperback on Amazon is $12.99.
https://wakefulwanderer.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CT4Y7LJ
In the parlor of the Lester Sunshine Inn, up the Hudson from the flooded remains of lower Manhattan, a man named Marto plans a unicycle ride through scenic New New England. Marto is a post-apocalyptic travel writer with a head full of implants. He live-posts his experiences to his fans, adding his own cheerleading style of historical and cultural context to the mix. His interconnected followers rarely go anywhere, preferring to view the world remotely, making Marto a curiosity.
Before he leaves the comfort of his home in Reverside, he meets a mysterious traveler named Helen who carries a secret message from his mother. Marto thought his mother and father were dead, and is abruptly flooded with memories of unfamiliar parents, throwing him into confusion. He pedals away, but his past and Helen catch up to him and he must choose to live a lie or go into exile.
Meanwhile, a storm is brewing back at home. A spy from a traditionalist enclave bent on reviving the good old days of pre-technological capitalist glory has infiltrated Reverside. She has the means to launch an attack that will break the bonds holding the interconnected humans together. If she is successful, Marto’s way of life will end. Little does she know how powerful her enemy has become.
The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England is the first in the Wakeful Wanderer's Guide series. It is a darkly humorous reflection of our changing world as our relationship with technology becomes increasingly intimate.
Admittedly, this sort of scifi is not for everyone. Maybe you will enjoy it.
Zombie Lieutenant just came out. Good story and characters. https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Lieutenant-Infected-World-Book/dp/B07V1L8S7F/
Free On kindle unlimited, this story takes place from the Martian perspective, as they see what the planet Earth has in store for them, as the first civilized species to touch the little green planet.
Amazon link here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WMFMKTZ
I'm a new author, so thanks even for just taking a look. Any feedback welcomed!
Red Lashers