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3663912 No.3663912 [Reply] [Original]

Post apocalyptic literature.
I'll start with the best. Nothing can rival it.

>> No.3663917
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>>3663912

It must be pretty shitty because I've never heard of it. And I am in the know, you know? *wink wink*

>> No.3663920

>>3663917
Wat.

>> No.3663933

>>3663917
better be trolling son

>>3663912
The Road by McCarthy
World War Z

also love me some Cold War/ WW3 ITS HAPPENING novels:
Red Army by Peters
Team Yankee by Coyle
The Third World War: The Untold Story by Hackett (the updated one)

>> No.3663940

>>3663933
>>son

Hi dad! Still dreaming of a sub sub sub genre for your crappy pulp?

>> No.3663942

The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes. After the enlightenment has devastated Europe, men cavort with island heathens, huff gas, violate the heavens in demonic contraptions, and in utter hubris try and steal their very secrets. Certainly not for the faint of heart.

>> No.3663949

>>3663942
Thanks. I'll check it out.

>> No.3663951

Im still writing the best post apoc lit.

>> No.3663952

>>3663912
Riddley Walker is okay. What he did with the language was really clever but the actual plot and story was pretty ordinary you know? He dazzled everyone with the words but forgot to add in a good story.

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>>3663951

Does it have lots of Cleveland Steamers and Rusty Trombones?

>> No.3663968

>>3663952
I don't agree with you about the plot, but I do agree about the language. It reminded me of A Clockwork Orange.

>> No.3663970

>>3663954
N-no. No dry cleaning or music involved.

>> No.3663984

>>3663970

Then it is not post apoc, anon.

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3663994

>mfw Brave New World hasn't been posted

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You haven't got the slightest idea what you're talking about, you anglo-centric fucks.

>> No.3664003

>>3663995

NERD FIGHT! NERD FIGHT! NERD FIGHT! NERD FIGHT! NERD FIGHT! NERD FIGHT! NERD FIGHT!

>> No.3664025

I am Legend (1954) ? Pretty gud

>> No.3664038

>>3663994
BNW isn't post apoc, BNW is dystopian(or -to the very most pleb- utopian.)
>Captcha: intrinfic sesnom

>> No.3664051

>>3664038
Technically, there is a sort-of apocalyptic event in the back-story, but the real focus is the dystopia.
>Chrome thinks that "dystopia" should be "topiary"

>> No.3664077

>>3664051
Really? I never noticed that... please elaborate.

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>> No.3664897

Book of the New Sun, kinda