![]() | Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics) by Pat Frank
Buy used from: £4.61 An absolute classic featuring the immediate aftermath of a nuclear war for the inhabitants of a small town in Florida.
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![]() | On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.99 A classic following the crew of a US submarine after a nuclear war as they seek sanctuary in Australia.
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![]() | The Postman by David Brin
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £3.20 So much better than the movie - one of my all-time favourites.
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![]() | Last Ship by William Brinkley
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £2.35 Similar to 'On The Beach' in that it features the crew of a US naval ship during and after a nuclear war, but the story is quite different.
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![]() | Level 7 (Library of American Fiction) by Mordecai Roshwald
Buy new: £4.69 / Used from: £12.56 The story of a military officer trained to launch nuclear missiles. The majority of the story takes place in a large underground bunker after he has to do just that.
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![]() | Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
Buy used from: £1.43 A story set long after the apocalypse involving the search for ancient pre-holocaust knowledge.
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![]() | A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £11.72 A huge earthquake destroys civilisation as we know it.
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![]() | Ill Wind by Kevin J. Anderson
Buy new: £4.04 / Used from: £0.37 A microbe designed to clear up an oil spill gets out of hand and all oils and petrochemicals (and some plastics) and the planet are destroyed.
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![]() | The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A sci-fi classic that still reads well today despite its age, about killer plants in the UK.
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![]() | Earth Abides (S.F. Masterworks) by George.R. Stewart
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.69 A small group of survivors try to rebuild society in California after a devastating plague.
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![]() | A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Buy new: £3.79 / Used from: £1.95 A monk worships ancient relics after a nuclear holocaust.
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![]() | World in Winter by John Christopher
Buy used from: £4.93 Severe climate change forces inhabitants of the UK to migrate to Africa.
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![]() | The Penultimate Truth (S.F. Masterworks) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £3.04 An interesting story about a (mostly) fake nuclear war in which most of the population are tricked into remaining in their underground shelters while the elite live lives of luxury on the surface.
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![]() | Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Buy new: £4.20 / Used from: £1.50 Not a personal favourite, but rated highly by most people. Interesting approach using a unique dialect of English unique to the book.
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![]() | Long Loud Silence (Coronet Books) by Wilson Tucker
Buy used from: £4.35 A mixture of biological and nuclear attacks on the USA results in the states east of the Mississippi being quarantined.
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![]() | Plague Year by Jeff Carlson
Buy new: £1.14 / Used from: £1.12 A nanotechnology-based plague kills everyone spending more than a couple of hours below an altitude of 10,000 feet.
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![]() | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.69 / Used from: £2.00 A father and son travel through the US following a major disaster. Not much action but quite poetic with some nice individual scenes.
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![]() | Emergence by David Palmer
Buy used from: £36.47 A genius 11-year-old girl leaves a bunker following a plague that has killed every human on the planet. Luckily she's not quite human.
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![]() | The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Buy used from: £17.34 A story set in the near future where pollution has reached record levels, threatening the end of life on Earth.
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![]() | Long Voyage Back by Luke Rhinehart
Buy used from: £11.95 A group of survivors of a nuclear war try to escape the US in a yacht.
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![]() | Darkness and Dawn (Dodo Press) by George Allan England
Buy new: £16.61 / Used from: £30.85 Written in 1914 and shows it. A man and woman wake up around 1000 years in the future and find a desolate New York.
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![]() | Farewell Party by Bandy
Buy used from: £0.01 Technically pre-apocalyptic fiction I guess. The Earth is due to be destroyed in 3 months and the story follows the reactions of a typical American family.
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![]() | Greybeard (Panther science fiction) by Brian W. Aldiss
Buy used from: £1.37 A couple's journey through England in a world where no children have been born for around 50 years.
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