Riot Recommendation: A Round-Up of Apocalyptic Stories
This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by After the Snow by S.D. Crockett.
The oceans stopped working before Willo was born, so the world of ice and snow is all he’s ever known. He lives with his family deep in the wilderness, far from the government’s controlling grasp. Willo’s survival skills are put to the test when he arrives home one day to find his family gone. It could be the government; it could be scavengers–all Willo knows is he has to find refuge and his family. It is a journey that will take him into the city he’s always avoided, with a girl who needs his help more than he knows
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On Monday, we asked for recommendations of your favorite “after the bomb/plague/invasion” stories. There were a TON of great responses. Here’s what you guys suggested in the comments and on Facebook and Twitter.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
The Stand by Stephen King
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams
Ablaze by Piers Paul Read
Flood by Stephen Baxter
Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and J.E. Pournelle
Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament by S.G. Browne
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Children of Men by P.D. James
World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
The Postman by David Brin
Hiroshima by John Hersey
“A Boy and His Dog” by Harlan Ellison
Far North by Marcel Theroux
Through Darkest America and Dawn’s Uncertain Light by Neal Barrett
Long Voyage Home by Luke Rhinehart
Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
After London Or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
News from Nowhere by William Morris
