/lit/ - Literature

As a dude who fucking loves post-apocalyptic stuff myself, I'd recommend:

A Canticle for Leibowitz
Gene Wolfe - Book of the Short Sun

>>1428146
Thanks man, I just got into it resently.
Kinda makes me wish something like that would really happen...

>>1428146
oops, book of the new sun, not short
and The Road - Cormac McCarthy

the first, and the best:

Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart

>>1428162
I saw the movie for The Road. Fuckin love Viggo Whateverhislastnameis. Ending was sad...

>>1428171
Nowhere near the first

Modern post-apocalypse? 1949. Ya, name an earlier. I don't think this person is looking for something from the 1700's

>>1428188
I'm game for anything. Currently part of the way through The Last Man by Mary Shelley and that was published in 1826.

I Am Legend.
No, it's not the bullshit that you saw in the movie. They couldn't put this ending in, because it would make the little kids cry. If you don't mind comics,
Y: The Last Man

>>1428207
I've read I Am Legend twice and seen all three versions of the film. The first version is the best. I don't know what they were thinking hooking up Charlton Heston with a black chick with an afro in the second one...

fair enough. I still think in tone, Earth Abides is the precursor for most modern post-apocalyptic fiction. And a must read.

You could try "death of grass"

Metro 2033 = awesome made my cry
The Stand = Stephen kings best
Brother In The Land its quite short but has a very good ending but i would highly recommend metro 2033 it is one of the best books i have ever read.

Vampire Hunter D. The vocabulary of the series is Highschool level but I enjoyed the series immensely.

/tv/ is filled with idiots so I post this here.

Ok, I massively enjoy science fiction movies. I somewhat believe that science fiction, as opposed to other fiction, allows for greater complexity and thought about us, where we are going and so on. On the contrary a War movie is just people killing people, a western is cool people killing un-cool people in the desert.

Problmem is, good science fiction is hard as fuck to right, let alone to film. To write it one must be 100% coherent. A good sci-fi writer puts down a number of premises/laws that will rule his universe (e.g. possibility to travel faster than light, shields that repel bullets but blast with lasers, new human abilities or skills like that of the bene gesserit on Dune, political system and so on).

Then a good author must stick to said rules, he may bring exeptions, but he must give or suggest a reason. If the rules are good, and the author skilfully builds on them a good plot with good character, we have a good sci-fi book.

To get this to film is possibly harder still. the kind of long and detailed explanations that can be given in a book cannot happen in a movie, crappy low budget special effects cannot hold against the imagination inspired by books and so on.

Nonetheless, there have been a number of excellent sci fi movies. I'd like to share theese with you and, because at this point I'm stuck, see if you can share some back.

tl;tr: list good science fiction movies.

>>1428171

>the first

That would be Mary Shelley's The Last Man.

Bitch invented genres for breakfast.

Def recommend:
Swan Song - Robert McCammon

Also:
On the Beach - Neville Shute

>>1429330
Agree with The Stand.....

alas babylon

Z for Zachariah

The Postman. The book is actually quite good (unlike the movie, which you would do well to avoid, and did in fact destroy quite the many careers).

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Y: The Last Man - Brian K. Vaughan
Alas Babylon - Pat Frank
The Wild Shore - Kim Stanley Robinson

I know some of those are duplicates from other entries, but they're all great and absolutely worth reading.

A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Postman
I Am Legend
Y: The Last Man

"The Screwfly Solution" by James Tiptree, Jr.

The story begins with an exchange of letters and news clippings between Alan, a scientist working on parasite eradication in Colombia, and his wife Anne at home in the U.S., concerning an epidemic of organized murder of women by men. Some scientists suspect a biological cause for this sexually selective insanity (selected observations of lab animals indicate that the normal male sexual urges are spiraling out of control, resulting in death). But the murderers feel it is a natural instinct and have constructed elaborate misogynistic rationalizations for it. For example, a new religious movement is spreading along with the murders: the Sons of Adam, who believe that women are evil, that the garden was a paradise before women were introduced, and God is telling them to get rid of all of the women.

>>1429812
>Swan Song.

Bleh. Shitty ripoff of the stand, but without the interesting characters.

Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournelle is the definitive end of the world by meteor strike story.

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson is like reading lovecraft on LSD. Fantastical world building of the most bizarre type imaginable, millions of years in the future when the earth is unrecognizable and populated with inexplicable creatures and humanity is reduced to a single city. (I think that's accurate).