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[Anonymous No.13809372]

What are some good post-apocalyptic books?

[Anonymous No.13809470]

>>13809372
not that one. Either he or the translator can't write for shit

[Anonymous No.13809475]

>>13809372

FUTU.RE by him is way better

[Anonymous No.13809496]

>>13809475
Thanks for the recommendation.

[Anonymous No.13809499]

Some of the best dystopian or “post-acopalypse” novels are literature which isn’t actually genre fiction but are set in periods and settings of destruction and poverty, usually after wars. Examples of what I mean include:
Satantango by Krasznahorkai
The Cannibal by Hawkes
and The Foundation Pit by Platonov.

OP if you’re just looking for more sci-fi kind of post apocalypse (I don’t mean this to demean you) then ignore my suggestions. Otherwise if you’re open to more literary or substantial reads then consider trying these books. What I really enjoy about these kinds of dystopic novels is that when they’re actually set in real world eras, it makes you realize how people have actually had to live through horrific, miserable, apocalyptic conditions.

[Anonymous No.13809501]

>>13809470
It's probably the translator. I enjoyed it regardless. I wasn't expecting pretty prose and dialogue in a series of novels about Nazis and commies and lolbertarians living in tunnels under Moscow.

[Anonymous No.13809510]

ive enjoyd Roadside Picnic very much. pretty uniqe and cold.

[Anonymous No.13809518]

Canticle for Leibovitz, The Postman, Alas Babylon, Stand on Zanzibar.

More modern middle brow lit that isn’t genre fic: American War (El Akkad) and Station Eleven. Post apocalypse lit is getting co-opted a lot by non-sci-fi writers nowadays so there’s a lot of room to explore (although a lot of it sucks, I tried to keep it to a couple books I thought were half decent)

[Anonymous No.13810106]

Earth Abides and I am Legend. One I never see people talking about is Swan Song. It's pretty good but a little silly in some places. There's a scene where one of the characters takes over leadership of a certain group and when he's searching in the former leaders closet he finds a Nazi uniform. When he puts it on he starts acting like a Nazi himself and declares that people with burned faces need to rounded up and shot in order to "make America Beautiful again." I think it was intentionally absurd because the author is an insane person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK-S2c-vdyQ

[Anonymous No.13810141]

[Anonymous No.13810145]

Day of the Triffids

[Anonymous No.13811406]

Wool is a surprisingly good series

I was really bored at the start but then I realized what a living world it had created

[Anonymous No.13811524]

>>13809372
The lord of the Ship Triology is quite good.