It’s the End of the World as We Know It...
Take your pick of these post-apocalyptic novels and imagine humanity teetering on the edge of existence. |
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 | Cormac McCarthy |
| The Road |
| After some unknown disaster destroys the majority of life on this planet, a father and son face terrible odds on their journey to safety. |
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 | George R. Stewart |
| Earth Abides |
| The Earth’s population falls to an airborne pandemic, and the survivors live off the remains of the old civilization while struggling to build a new one. |
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 | John Wyndham |
| The Day of the Triffids |
| Blinded by lights from a meteor shower, visionless society breaks down. These vulnerable survivors must now face the triffids. |
|
 | José Saramago |
| Blindness |
| When an epidemic of blindness strikes in an unknown city, everything swiftly falls to pieces. |
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 | Larry Niven |
| Lucifer’s Hammer |
| A comet wreaks havoc when it collides with Earth. Small enclaves of survivors are established – some seeking to hold society together and others abandoning it for mayhem. |
|
 | Nevil Shute |
| On the Beach |
| As the nuclear fallout from World War III advances toward Australia, a Morse code signal emerges from the United States and a submarine heads north in a search for survivors. |
|
 | Richard Matheson |
| I Am Legend |
| Robert Neville appears to be the sole survivor of a viral pandemic that turns humans into vampires. Holed up in his Los Angeles hideout, Neville fights for his survival at night while trying to find a cure during the day. |
|
 | S.M. Stirling |
| Dies the Fire |
| An electrical storm causes all modern technology to cease functioning, plunging humanity back into the Middle Ages. Some band together to help, while others build armies for conquest. First in a series. |
|
 | Stephen King |
| The Stand |
| When a biological weapon decimates the world’s population, the survivors gather into camps of good and evil for the final confrontation. |
|
 | Walter Miller |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| A nuclear war has devastated the world, and the monks in a desert monastery attempt to preserve books that could save humanity while a new threat arises. |
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