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The Afternoon After the End of the World
Apocalyptic Fiction
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October 1997
Compiled by Lucy Lockley
, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
GENRE: Science Fiction
SUB-GENRE: Apocalypse/ Post-Apocalypse (also: End of the World or After the Bomb)
Anderson, Jack -- Millenium
Anderson, Poul -- Orion Shall Rise
Anthony, Piers -- Mer-Cycle
Atwood, Margaret -- Handmaid's Tale
Ballard, J. G. (who wrote about apocalyptic scenarios more often than most people read about them....)
The Crystal World
The Drowned World
High Rise
Myths of the Near Future
Hello America
Belden -- Mindcall (and its sequel)
Boulle, Pierre -- Planet of the Apes
Brin, David. -- The Postman
Brinkley, William -- The Last Ship
Bull, Emma -- Finder (BORDERLAND book)
Butler, Octavia -- The Parable of the Sower
Carter, Angela -- Heroes and Villains
Christopher, John -- No Blade of Grass
Clement, Hal -- Mutant
Cook, Paul -- Duende Meadow
Cullen, Brian. -- What Niall Saw
Delany, Samuel -- Dhalgren
deLint, Charles -- Svaha
Dick, Philip K. -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (The basis for the film Bladerunner)
Dickinson, Peter -- An excellent series for younger readers: the first book is The Weathermonger.
Files, Meg -- Meridian 144
Ford, Richard. --Quest for the Faradawn
Foster, Alan Dean -- To the Vanishing Point
Frank, Pat -- Alas, Babylon
Harrison, Harry -- Make Room, Make Room (Committed to film as Soylent Green)
Harrison, M. John -- Committed Men
Hegland, Jean -- Into the Forest
Heinlein, Robert -- Farnham's Freehold
Herbert, Frank -- White Plague
Hoban, Russel -- Riddley Walker
Hoyl, Fred -- The Inferno
Hoyle, Trevor -- The Last Gasp
Hubbard, L. Ron -- Battlefield Earth
Jersild, P. C. -- After the Flood
King, Stephen -- The Stand
Kunetka, James -- SEE: Streiber, Whitley
LaHaye, Tim & Jerry Jenkins -- Left Behind
Tribulation Force
Nicolae
Lanier, Sterling E. -- Unforsaken Hero (and sequel)
MacDonald -- Lake at the End of the World
Maguire, Gregory -- I Feel Like the Morning Star
Matheson, Richard -- I Am Legend
McCammon, Robert -- Swan Song (Deals with the post-apocalyptic world)
McManus, James. -- Chin Music.
McQuinn, Donald E. -- (The Post-Apocalyptic Trilogy)
Merle, Robert -- Malevil
Miller, Walter M., ed. -- Beyond Armageddon
Miller, Walter M. -- A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (Completed by Terry Bisson, 1997)
Morrow, James. -- This Is the Way the World Ends
Moulton -- Children of Time
Murphy, Pat -- The City, Not Long After
Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle -- Lucifer's Hammer
Norwood, Warren -- Shudderchild
O'Brien -- Z for Zachariah
Palmer, David R. -- Emergence
Piercy, Marge -- Woman at the Edge of Time
Roessner, Michaela -- Vanishing Point
Scarborough, Elizabeth -- Nothing Sacred
See, Carolyn. -- Golden Days
Shetterly, Will -- Nevernever and Elsewhere (BORDERLAND book)
Shute, Nevil. -- On the Beach
Springer, Nancy -- Apocalypse
Stewart, George R. -- The Earth Abides
Streiber, Whitley -- Warday and Nature's End (Written with James Kunetka)
Wolf of Shadows (Gr. 6-8)
Tepper, Sheri S. -- Beauty and The Gate to Woman's Country
Tiptree , James, Jr. -- Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
Turner, George -- Drowning Towers
Ure, Jean -- Plague
Vonnegut, Kurt -- Cat's Cradle
Westlake, Donald E. -- Humans
Whilhelm, Kate -- Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Windling, Terri -- BORDERLAND Series:
Bordertown
At the Border
Borderland
Wood, N. Lee -- Faraday's Orphans (An excellent 1997 novel)
Wren, M. K. -- A Gift Upon the Shore
Wylie, Philip -- Triumph
Wyndham, John -- The Chrysalids
The Triffids
The Tripods series
The Prince in Waiting series
Zelazny, Roger -- Damnation Alley
Deus Irae
OUT ON THE INTERNET:
A couple hundred sf titles on nuclear holocaust themes (some post-holocaust settings, some not), with sometimes-lengthy abstracts,can be found on the Web at:
www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/nuclear/nh-supplement.html
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