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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAlas, Babylon
Pat Frank · 295 pages
A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.
On the Beach
Nevil Shute · 311 pages
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
One Second After
William R. Forstchen · 352 pages
*New York Times* best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages... A war based upon a weapon, an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr. · 320 pages
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and have saved the science texts and blueprints from destruction many times, also making beautifully illuminated copies. As the story opens to a world run on a basically fuedal lines, science is again beco
The Survivors
Angela White · 659 pages
"This is Safe Haven Refugee Camp. Can anyone hear me? …hello? Is anyone out there? “The end of the world has given us a harsh, merciless existence, where nature tries hard to push mankind to the very brink of extinction. Everything is against us, between us... Untold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet, and the future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without change, ther
Children of the Dust
Louise Lawrence · 176 pages
Swan Song
Robert McCammon · 956 pages
Jericho Season 3
Dan Shotz, Robert Levine, Jason M. Burns, Matthew Federman, Alejandro F. Giraldo, Matt Merhoff
Warday
Whitley Strieber, James W. Kunetka · 447 pages
Riveting account of a limited nuclear war between the US and the USSR and what came after.
There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury · 30 pages
Also known as August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, is a short story narrating the daily routine of an automated house, whose menial tasks continue, unimpeded for now, in the solitary aftermath of a worldwide nuclear holocaust. This story was written in 1950 during a period known as the Cold War, a conflict mostly devoid of overt military action that took place between the United States and
A Gift Upon the Shore
M.K. Wren · 374 pages
In the Pacific Northwest of the near future, the golden age has ended in apocalypse. Nuclear war has unleased firestorms and the killing cold of nuclear winter. Earthquakes and tidal waves have ravaged the West Coast of America. Desperate violent looters comb the devastated land. And a horrifying pandemic lays waste to the remaining human population. But one of the few survivors, Mary Hope, is det
Fallout
Harry Turtledove · 419 pages
"The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In his astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot--and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Pol
Down to a Sunless Sea
David Graham
Review:This book was published in 1981 so is a little dated but well worth reading and very frightening. A post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The Last Ship
William Brinkley · 619 pages
The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search
Domain
James Herbert · 412 pages
Man versus rat—the balance of power has shifted The long-dreaded nuclear conflict has come. The city is torn apart and its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets—if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that
Level 7
Mordecai Roshwald · 189 pages
A chillingly calm first person account of Armageddon, from the point of view of a low-level military functionary. This account should make you think, and should terrify you.
Lucifer's Hammer
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle · 639 pages
Lucifer's Hammer is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1977. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. The story details a cometary impact on Earth, an end to civilization, and the battle for the future. It encompasses the discovery of the comet, the LA social scene, and a cast of diverse characters whom fate seems to
Einstein's Monsters
Martin Amis · 142 pages
‘In five cataclysmic short stories Amis creates perplexing visions of a post-nuclear-holocaust world, highlighting schizophrenia, rape, brutality and suppurating despair’ Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
Eternity Road
Jack McDevitt · 370 pages
The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. Bu