Compiling a list of survival novel recommendations

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Compiling a list of survival novel recommendations

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After reading Headforthehill's post about "Cyberstorm" I thought I'd ask if anyone can personally recommend other survival/apocalypse fiction? Until recently I'd barely read anything for years, but I've got the reading bug back, even bought myself a second hand Kindle!

I'm sure there'll be some discussion, so I'll edit this post to show a nice easy to read list as each title as it's suggested. :D

(No affiliate links)
Jerry D Young (Amazon Author Page)
Christopher G Nuttall
Kathy In Florida
John Ringo
John Wyndham (Amazon Author Page)
" High Country Journal Wyoming" - HozayBuck (pdf)
Jerry D. Young (Tired Old Man Stories)
Jerry D. Young (Fleataxis Stories)
"A Will To Survive" - Kathy In Florida
"Cold Camp" - Tim J. Escape

"Lights Out" by David Crawford
"Collision Course" by David Crawford
"Deep Winter" - Thomas Sherry
"Remnant" - Thomas Sherry
"Shatter (Deep Winter)" - Thomas Sherry
"Overthrown: The Death of America 1-6" - Travis O'Dean
"Lucifer's Hammer" - Larry Niven
"Island In The Sea Of Time" - S.M. Stirling
"Empty World"- John Christopher
"The Stand" -Stephen King
"Farnham's Freehold" - Robert Heinlein
"One Second After" - William R. Forstchen
"Last Light" - Alex Scarrow
"Lucifer's Hammer" - Larry Niven
"Disaster in the Burbs" - Jerry D. Young
"Conspicuous Consumption" - Jerry D. Young
"Day of the Triffids" - John Wyndham
"The Death of Grass" - John Christopher
"The Road" - Cormac McCarthy
"Newsflesh Trilogy" (Feed, Deadline & Blackout) - Mira Grant
"Under The Dome" - Stephen King

And a HUGE list from tc556guy! Thanks! :D

"A Canticle for Leibowitz" - Walter M. Miller, Jr
"A Gift Upon the Shore" - M.K. Wren
"A Heritage of Stars" - Clifford D. Simak
"A Hunters Fire" - Floyd D. Dale
"A Hymn Before Battle" - John Ringo
"A meeting at Corvalis" - S.M. Stirling
"A Sweet Sweet Summer" - Jane Gaskell
"A Time for Dragons" - Gary Gentile
"After the Bomb" - Gloria D. Miklowitz
"After the Rain" - John Bowen
"Aftertime" - Sophie Littlefield
"Aftermath" - Charles Sheffield
"Aftershock" - Chuck Scarborough
"Afterwar" - Janet Morris ( editor )
"Against the Fall of Night" - Arthur C. Clarke
"Against the Tide of Years" - S.M. Stirling
"Alas, Babylon" - Pat Frank
"The Alien Years" - Robert Silverberg
"All Fools Day" - Edmund Cooper
"Alongside Night" - J. neil Schulman
"Agviq" - Michael Armstrong
"Among Madmen" - Jim Starlin, Daina Graziunas
"The Andromeda Strain" - Michael Crichton
"Ariel" - Steven R. Boyett
"Armageddon 2419 A.D." - Philip Francis Nowlan
"Armageddon’s Children" - Terry Brooks
"Armor" - John Steakley
"Ashes Ashes" - Rene Barjavel
"Ashes of the Earth" - Eliot Pattinson
"Atlantis" - Greg Donegan
"Ballroom of the Skies" - John D. MacDonald
"Beasts" - John Crowley
"Between the Strokes of Night" - Charles Sheffield
"Beyond Armageddon" - Walter M Miller Jr ( editor )
"Beyond the Burning Lands" - John Christopher
"The Black Death" - Gwyneth Cravens, John S. Marr
"Black Monday" - Bob Reiss
"Body Armor: 2000" - Joe Haldeman ( editor )
"Bone Dance" - Emma Bull
"The Breaking Earth" - Keith Laumer
"Burn Down the Sky" - James Jaros
"Califia’s Daughters" - Leigh Richards
"Cally’s War" - John Ringo, Julie Cochrane
"The Calling of Bara" - Sheila Sullivan
"Carriers" - Patrick Lynch
"Cataclysm : Day the World Died" - Don Pendleton
"Chapterhouse Dune" - Frank Herbert
"Chicago Red" - R.M. Meluch
"Childhoods End" - Arthur C. Clarke
"Children of Dune" - Frank Herbert
"City of Illusions" - Ursula K. LeGuin
"Conquistador" - S.M. Stirling
"Costigan’s Needle" - Jerry Sohl
"Countdown to Midnight" - H. Bruce Franklin ( editor)
"The Country of the Blind" - Michael Flynn
"Damnation Alley" - Roger Zelazny
"Dark December" - Alfred Coppel
"Darkening Island" - Christopher Priest
"Davy " - Edgar Pangborn
"Dawns Uncertain Light" - Neal Barrett, Jr
"The Day After Doomsday" - Rena Vale
"The Day New York Went Dry" - Charles Einstein
"The Day the Oceans Overflowed" - Charles L. Fontenay
"The Day of the Drones" - A.M. Lightner
"Daybreak Zero" - John Barnes
"Daybreak-2250 A.D." - Andre Norton
"Dead Morn" - Piers Anthony, Roberto Fuentes
"Deadly Image" - Edmund Cooper
"Deathday" - William C. Dietz
"Deep Fathom" - James Rollins
"Deus Ex Machina" - J.V. Brummels
"Dhalgren" - Samuel R. Delany
"Dies the Fire" - S.M. Stirling
"Domain" - James Herbert
"Doomsday" - Fred Warshofsky
"Down There in the Darkness" - George Turner
"Down to a Sunless Sea" - David Graham
"The Drought" - J.G. Ballard
"The Drowned World" - J. G. Ballard
"Dune" - Frank Herbert
"Dust" - Charles Pellegrino
"The Dying" - Leslie Horvitz
"The Earth Remembers" - Susan Torian Olan
"Earthrise" - William C. Dietz
"Earth Winter" - Richard Moran
"Earthwreck!" - Thomas N. Scortia
"Ecotopia" - Ernest Callenbach
"Ecotopia Emerging" - Ernest Callenbach
"The Edict" - Max Ehrlich
"The Empire of Ice" - Richard Moran
"Enclave" - Kit Reed
"The End of the Dream" - John Brunner
"Erewhon" - Samuel Butler
"Eternity Road" - Jack McDevitt
"Evolutions Shore" - Ian McDonald
"Exiles Trilogy" - Ben Bova
"Exit Earth" - Martin Caidin
"Fallen Angels" - Larry Niven, jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn
"False Dawn" - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"Farnham’s Freehold" - Robert A. Heinlein
"Fifty Degrees Below" - Kim Staley Robinson
"Fire Lance" - David Mace
"Fireworks" James A. Moore
"The First to Awaken" - Granville Hicks
"Flood" - Stephen Baxter
"Footfall" - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
"Footprints of Thunder" - James F. David
"The Forever Hero" - L.E. Modesitt, Jr
"The Forever War" - Joe Haldeman
"Future Primitive" - Kim Stanley Robinson ( editor )
"The Gate to Women’s Country" - Sheri S. Tepper
"Gorgon Child" - Steven Barnes
"The Green Rain" - Paul Tabori
"Greybeard" - Brian W. Aldiss
"Gust Front" - John Ringo
"The Harvest" - Robert Charles Wilson
"Heat" - Arthur Herzog
"Heavy Weather" - Bruce Sterling
"Hell’s Faire" - John Ringo
"Hello America" - J.G. Ballard
"Here Abide Monsters" - Andre Norton
"Heretics of Dune" - Frank Herbert
"Hiero’s Journey" - Sterling E. Lanier
"Horizon" - Sophie Littlefield
"The Hot Zone" - Richard Preston
"Ice" - Anna Kavan
"Ice!" - Arnold Federbush
"Ice and Iron" - Wilson Tucker
"The Ice Schooner" - Michael Moorcock
"Ice Quake" - Crawford Kilian
"Ill Wind" - Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason
"The Immortals" - Tracy Hickman
"In The Drift" - Terry Carr ( editor )
"Island in the Sea of Time" - S.M. Stirling
"Iris" - William Barton. Michael Capobiango
"Ironmaster" - Patrick Tilley
"The Last Breath" - Eugene Carl Shaffer
"The Last Hope of Earth" - Lan Wright
"The Last Ship" - William Brinkley
"The Last World War" - Dayton ward
"Level 7" - Mordecai Roshwald
"Liberation-Being The Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of America" - Brian Francis Slattery
"Logans Run" - William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson
"Logans World" - William F. Nolan
"The Long Afternoon of Earth" - Brian Aldiss
"The Long Tomorrow" - Leigh Brackett
"Long Voyage Back" - Luke Rhinehart
"The Long Winter" - John Christopher
"Looking Backward" - Edward Bellamy
"The Lost Continent" - Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Lost Horizon" - James Hilton
"Lucifers Hammer" - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
"Make Room! Make Room!" - Harry Harrison
"Malevil" - Robert Merle
"The Man Who Awoke" - Lawrence Manning
"The Marked Man" - Charles Ingrid
"The Martian Chronicles" - Ray Bradbury
"Maximum Ice" - Kay Kenyon
"Memories" - Mike McQuay
"Mister Touch" - Malcom Bosse
"Mockingbird" - Walter Tevis
"Moonfall" - Jack McDevitt
"Nature’s End" - Whitley Strieber, james Kunetka
"Nerves" - Lester Del Ray
"The Nitrogen Fix" - Hal Clement
"No Room For Man" - Ralph S. Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg (editors )
"Not This August" - C.M. Kornbluth
"The Nuclear Catastrophe" - Bett Pohnka, Barbara C. Griffin
"O-Zone" - Paul Theroux
"October the First is Too Late" - Fred Hoyle
"On the Beach" - Nevil Shute
"One Second After" - William R. Forstchen
"Orion Shall Rise" - Poul Anderson
"Other Americas" - Norman Spinrad ( editor )
"The Parasite War" - Tim Sullivan
"The Past Through Tomorrow" - Robert A. Heinlein
"The Peace War" - Vernor Vinge
"People of the Sky" - Claire Bell
"Perfect People" - Robert Lieberman
"Phantom Regiments" - Robert Adams ( editor )
"The Plague" - Albert Camus
"Plague War " - Jeff Carlson
"Plague Year" - Jeff Carlson
"Pockets of Resistance" - Will Sundown
"The Postman" - David Brin
"Post-Apocalypse Dead Letter Office" - Nathan Poell
"Pulling Through" - Dean Ing
"The Puppet Masters" - Robert A. Heinlein
"Pure Blood" - Mike McQuay
"The Purple Cloud" - M.P. Shiel
"Queen City Jazz" - Kathleen Ann Goonan
"Re-Birth" - John Wyndham
"Red Alert" - Peter Bryant
"Red Shadows" - Yvonne Navarro
"Revolt in 2100" - Robert A. Heinlein
"Rings of Ice" - Piers Anthony
"Riverworld series##" - Philip Jose Farmer
"The Road" - Cormac McCarthy
"The Ruins of Earth" - Thomas M. Disch ( editor )
"Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman" - Walter M. Miller, Jr
"The Scourge of God" - S.M. Stirling
"The Sea is Boiling Hot" - George Bamber
"The Sheep Look Up" - John Brunner
"Shudder Child" - Warren C. Norwood
"Single Combat" - Dean Ing
"Some Will Not Die" - Aldis Budrys
"The Steel, the Mist, and The Blazing Sun" - Christopher Anvil
"The Stone War" - Medline E. Robins
"The Sunrise Lands" - S.M. Stirling
"Supernova" - Roger MacBride, Eric Kotani
"Survival 2000 series:" - James McPhee
"Blood Quest"
"Frozen Fire"
"Renegade War"
"The Return Man" - V.M. Zito
"Survival" - Julie E. Czerneda
"Survival Margin" - Charles Eric Maine
"Survival World" - Frank Belknap Long
"Survivors" - John Nahmlos
"The Sword of the Spirits" - John Christopher
"Thunder of Time" - James F. David
"The Time Connection" - Thomas F. Monteleone
"The Time of the Great Freeze" - Robert Silverberg
"Time Storm" - Gordon R. Dickson
"The Time Swept City" - Thomas F. Monteleone
"Tomorrow!" - Philip Wylie
"The Trinity Paradox*" - Kevin J Anderson, Doug Beason
"Triumph" - Philip Wylie
"Twilight of the City" - Charles Platt
"Under the City of Angels" - Jerry Earl Brown
"The Vampire Earth Series" - E.E. Knight
"Vandenberg" - Oliver Lange
"Vault of the Ages" - Poul Anderson
"Vector" - Henry Sutton
"Voices of Hope" - David Feintuch
"Voyage from Yesteryear" - James P. Hogan
"Walden Two" - B.F. Skinner
"Wanderer" - Donald E. McQuinn
"War and Peace" - Stanley Schmidt ( editor )
"War Day" - Whitley Strieber, James Kunetka
"A War of Shadows" - Jack L. Chalker
"Warrior" - Donald E. McQueen
"Wastelands" - John Joseph Adams ( editor )
"Watch the Rhine" - John Ringo, Tom Kratman
"Waters of Death" - Irving A. Greenfield
"The Way the World Ends" - James Morrow
"When the Devil Dances" - John Ringo
"When Worlds Collide" - Edwin Balmer, Philip Wylie
"Where The Late Birds Sang" - Kate Wilhelm
"Wild Country" - Dean Ing
"The Wild Shore" - Kim Stanley Robinson
"The Wind From Nowhere" - J.G. Ballard
"Wintermind" - Marvin Kaye. Parke Godwin
"Winters Daughter" - Charles Whitmore
"Witch" - Donald E. McQuinn
"Wolf and Iron" - Gordon R. Dickson
"The Wounded Planet" - Roger Elwood, Virginia Kidd ( editors )
"Year of the Cloud" - Ted Thomas, Kate Wilhelm
"The Year of the Quiet Sun" - Wilson Tucker
"Yellow Eyes" - John Ringo, Tom Kratman
"8.4" - Peter Hernon
"40 Minute War" - Janet & Chris Morris
"1633 ( and sequels )" - Eric Flint
"43,000 Years Later" - Horace Coon
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To name but a few:

David Halfast
Jerry D Young
Thomas Sherry
Travis O Dean
Christopher G Nuttall
Fleataxi
Tired Old Man
Kathy In Florida

All have free stories written on many a forum

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lucifers hammer by larry niven.
island in the sea of time by sm stirling.
empty world by john christopher.
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The Stand -Stephen King. Amazing book.
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Thank you for the recommendations, keep them coming! :D

Pseudonym, I Googled David Halfast and I'm a bit confused now lol! Would that be "Lights Out" by David Crawford? It sounds brilliant anyway! :D
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Duckie wrote:Thank you for the recommendations, keep them coming! :D

Pseudonym, I Googled David Halfast and I'm a bit confused now lol! Would that be "Lights Out" by David Crawford? It sounds brilliant anyway! :D
Indeed it is. :oops: In my haste to type out authors names, I mixed and matched :mrgreen:
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pseudonym wrote:Indeed it is. :oops: In my haste to type out authors names, I mixed and matched :mrgreen:
Lol! No worries, good old Google sorted it! :lol:
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I second S M Stirling and Heinlein

Try

John Ringo, heres a link to free baen ebooks http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ its the "Eye of the Storm" link, DO NOT click on the direct link when you get there (no longer works) instead look to the right and download either the iso.zip or the cd.zip ,,,the cd.zip is the one to go for.

Many other sci-fi authors on there , all legal , have a look round , a lot of it is based around some kind of "teotwawki"


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Thanks Tanstaafl!