PAW Book list

[Chef]

Found this list of PAW (Post Apocalyptic World) fiction whilst searching for something else, haven't heard of alot of these personally but there are some great authors listed that I do recognise, so could be worth a look?

Adams, John Joseph (ed) - Wastelands - Stories of the Apocalypse Reviews
Aldiss, Brian - Greybeard Reviews
Aldiss, Brian - Hothouse Reviews
Anderson, Poul - Vault of the Ages Reviews
Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Crake Reviews
Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale Reviews
Ballard, JG - The Drowned World Reviews
BeauSeigneur, James - Christ Clone Series Reviews
Brackett, Leigh - The Long Tomorrow Reviews
Brin, David - The Postman Reviews
Brunner, John - The Sheep Look Up
Budrys, Algis - Burning World
Budrys, Algis - Some Will Not Die
Butler, Octavia - Parable of the Sower
Butler, Octavia - Parable of the Talents
Card, Orson Scott - The Folk of the Fringe
Christopher, John - The Death of Grass (AKA No Blade of Grass)
Crace, Jim - The Pesthouse
Crowley, John - Engine Summer
Dick, Philip K - Dr Bloodmoney or How We Got Along After the Bomb
Dickson, Gordon - Wolf and Iron
Disch, Thomas - The Genocides
DuPrau, Jeanne - The City of Ember
England, George Allan - Darkness and Dawn
Florman, Samuel - The Aftermath
Frank, Pat - Alas, Babylon
Galouye, Daniel - Dark Universe
Goonan, Kathleen Ann - Nanotech Series
Herbert, Frank - The White Plague
Hoban, Russell - Riddley Walker
Huxley, Aldous - Ape and Essence
James, P.D. - The Children of Men
Kearny, Cresson - (Non Fiction) Nuclear War Survival Skills
Kornbluth, CM - The Syndic
Laumer, Keith - Catastrophe Planet
Leiber, Fritz - Gather, Darkness!
London, Jack - The Scarlett Plague
Matheson, Richard - I Am Legend
McCammon, Robert - Swan Song
McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
McDevitt, Jack - Eternity Road
McIntyre, Vonda - Dreamsnake
Merle, Robert - Malevil (Non English)
Merril, Judith - Shadow on the Hearth
Miller, Walter - St Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Miller, Walter - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Niven, Larry - Lucifer's Hammer
Norton, Andre - Daybreak 2250 AD
Norton, Andre - No Night Without Stars
O'Brein, Robert - Z for Zachariah
Palmer, David - Emergence
Pangborn, Edgar - Davy
Roshwald, Mordecai - Level 7
Sheffield, Charles - Aftermath 1 - Aftermath
Sheffield, Charles - Aftermath 2 - Starfire
Shiel, MP - The Purple Cloud
Shelley, Mary - The Last Man
Shute, Nevil - On the Beach
Simak, Clifford - Cemetary World
Smith, Mitchell - Snowfall Series
Stewart, George R - Earth Abides
Stirling, SM - Change Series
Tucker, Wilson - The Long Loud Silence
Tucker, Wilson - The Year of The Quiet Sun
Varley, John - Millennium
Wells, HG - World Set Free
Wharton, Edith - False Dawn
Wilhelm, Kate - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Williams, Walter - The Rift
Wylie, Philp & Balmer, Edwin - When Worlds Collide
Wylie, Philp & Balmer, Edwin - After Worlds Collide
Wyndham, John - The Chrysalids
Zelazny, Roger - Damnation Alley

Note by the author of the list:

Keep in mind that a few of these titles aren't exactly post-apocalyptic (meaning that a major event hasn't wiped out most of the planet or humankind), but they do follow the theme to a degree. For example, John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up" tells the story of an overly-polluted Earth
and its effects on mankind.

[metatron]

Are any of them well written?

I was not a fan of Patriots or Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse as they were dull, although I liked How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times which was by the same guy.

[Chef]

As I say I haven't read most of them but I have read The Postman, The Road, I Am Legend by Matheson is far superior IMHO to the film, P.D. James - The Children of Men is a good book & film, Frank Herbert also wrote Dune although I've not read White Plague, Mary Shelley should need no introduction or indeed H.G. Wells and John Wyndham I preferred Day of the Triffids to Chysalids but he's a good author aswell.

I'm sure a search of Amazon will bring up reviews of them.

[bulldogeagle]

Last Light by Alex Scarrow, am currently reading the follow on...Afterlight (£3.51 inc p&p on Amazon...cover price £7.99).

[Alleycat]

I have read Oryx and Crake, and After the Flood (which is linked to Oryx and Crake but is not a true follow up) by Margaret Atwood and really liked them both.

Death Of grass, John Christopher is a great book if slightly dated.

Philip K Dick is always a good read, intelligent without being too geeky science fiction, though I havent read the title mentioned in this list.

Have a copy of I am Legend and The Postman in my big pile of books to read

Would love to hear reviews of the others on the list because I'm always looking out for new books to read!

[Arzosah]

Lucifer's Hammer is great. He loves science, Larry Niven, and he likes to get it right. He likes characterisation too, his books are proper best-sellers in the science fiction world; he was runner up one year for an award for male authors best at creating female characters, and later that year it turned out that the "man" who beat him was in fact a woman. So when you come across the single jibe in Lucifer's Hammer at feminism after the apocalypse, thats why he stuck it in. It always grated at me, in such an otherwise brilliant book, and when I met him at a Worldcon about ten years ago, I asked him - so the story is straight from the horse's mouth

Two other great stories of his are Footfall, about an alien invasion - but not in a way you've ever imagined - and Fallen Angels, about a world where the next Ice Age is coming, where Greens have taken over almost completely, and where science is bad, but where an alliance is forged - again in a very unlikely way - between the few inhabitants of the single orbiting space station and organised science fiction fandom, while the world is falling to pieces around them.