A post not so much about food but…. a list of apocalyptic fiction!
Apocalyptic fiction is one of my favorite genres of fiction. Checking out this list from Powell’s I have come to the conclusion – sadly – that I have not read hardly any at all! I’m surprised based on what I have read that I even know this is a genre. hehe
Here’s Powell’s ’50 list’ of Apocalyptic fiction:
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
- A Gift Upon the Shore by M.K. Wren
- A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
- A Messiah at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock
- Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
- Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
- Battle Circle Trilogy by Piers Anthony
- The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- The Burning World by J.G. Ballard
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- Destiny’s Road by Larry Niven
- Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
- Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick
- The Drought by J.G Ballard
- The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
- Earth Abides by George R Stewart
- Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
- False Dawn by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- Famine by Graham Masterton
- Farnham’s Freehold by Robert A Heinlein
- The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card
- Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
- The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
- Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven
- Nature’s End by James Kunetka & Whitley Strieber
- Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Reuter Leiber
- Night of the Triffids by Simon Clark
- One Second After by William R Forstchen
- The Penultimate Truth by Philip K Dick
- Plague by Graham Masterton
- The Postman by David Brin
- The Protectors War by S.M. Stirling
- Pulling Through by Dean Ing
- The Rift by Walter J Williams
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
- Shades Children by Garth Nix
- The Shore of Women by Pamela Sargent
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Steel Beach by John Varley
- Swan Song by Robert R McCammon
- Thunder and Roses by Theodore Strugeon
- Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
- The White Plague by Frank Herbert
- The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Wind from Nowhere by J.G. Ballard
- The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Okay the ones in bold I’ve read. I’m ashamed. Time to get my apocalyptic reading done. Maybe I meant movies earlier when I said “they’re my favorite”.
There were two others that I’ve read that weren’t on the list that I would consider apocalyptic fiction. The Passage by Justin Cronin and ?? I just realized I have no idea the other book’s name. Boo!
All I know is I picked the book up at a hostel in Dublin this spring, read it and gave it away by the time we arrived in Youghal. Boo again!
Anybody else like reading this stuff??
xoxo
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