Post-apoclayptic literature?

[Ryduce]

The discussion on Cormac McCarthy got me to thinking about post-apocalyptic literature.It's a genre that I absolutely love,and I was hoping some members here could give me some titles to check into for future reading.

[Taliesin]

Here are some works of literature in that genre that I have enjoyed:

Harlan Ellisons' short stories "A Boy and his Dog" and "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" are really good although the latter is rather a really nasty dystopia than a classic post-apocayptic work but still very good.
"A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Michael Miller, Jr. is, I think, one of the most important and known works of this genre.
"Damnation Alley" is, to be totally frank, in my humble opinion the worst thing I have read from Zelazny, but the reason for that is that I absolutely love Roger Zelazny and the other things I have read are just ultimate classics.
"Damnation Alley" in itself, isn't a bad work. It's plot is quite a classic for that genre - a man (a convicted killer and the last Hells Angel) traveling across ruined America. Not bad.

[Kafka's Crow]

I read some pages of this Grey Areas by David Durbin here: http://www.greyareas.co.uk/index.htmand it seems like an excellent idea but I don't like this kind of 'action' novels. It is a good idea to put your new work on the internet though.

[Idril]

Rat by Gunter Grass is an interesting take on the post apocalyptic world. A tremendously thought provoking book and well worth a read.

[Ryduce]

I am somewhat familiar with Gunter Grass,but I've heard that Rat was disjointed and overdone somewhat.People seem to either love it or hate it.

I'm not too familiar with Roger Zelazny,but Damnation Alley sounds very interesting.I'll have to check it out.

[PeterL]

"Damnation Alley" is, to be totally frank, in my humble opinion the worst thing I have read from Zelazny, but the reason for that is that I absolutely love Roger Zelazny and the other things I have read are just ultimate classics.
"Damnation Alley" in itself, isn't a bad work. It's plot is quite a classic for that genre - a man (a convicted killer and the last Hells Angel) traveling across ruined America. Not bad.

The original novella version of "Damnation Alley" is quite good. If you read the post-movie full length version, you missed something good.

[Idril]

I am somewhat familiar with Gunter Grass,but I've heard that Rat was disjointed and overdone somewhat.People seem to either love it or hate it.


Oh, it's definitely disjointed, no doubt about that and he may have a heavy touch here and there but as a general rule, I really liked it. His books are always a tad disjointed and this was the 4th or 5th Grass book I read so I was used to it by the time I read this one. :D

[capek]

Basically the entire bibliography of Philip K Dick. There's at least 20 great examples of the genre in there.

[ScottHughes]

I like dystopian fiction, but I am not usually a fan of post-apoclayptic stories. I do not like how religious they usually seem to be. But sometimes they are good. I Am Legend is good.

[Ryduce]

Basically the entire bibliography of Philip K Dick. There's at least 20 great examples of the genre in there.

My English professor swears by him.The only book of his I ever read was The Man in the High Castle.I'm not aware if that qualifies as post-apocalyptic literature,but more dystopian/alternate history.They're all kind of similar to me.Any particular novels of his that you would recommend?

[capek]

Sure. Some of these might fall more into the dystopian genre, but they're all pretty close. And only in the most basic order:

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Dr. Bloodmoney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
A Scanner Darkly (more dystopian)
The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldrich
Martian Time-Slip
Counter-Clock World
The Simulacrum
The Penultimate Truth
Galactic Pot Healer
The Man who Japed

[teejay17]

The discussion on Cormac McCarthy got me to thinking about post-apocalyptic literature.It's a genre that I absolutely love,and I was hoping some members here could give me some titles to check into for future reading.

I loved The Road! Awesome book. However, that's coming from someone who truly savoured A Canticle for Leibowitz and Stephen King's The Stand.
Another wicked fantastic exploration into The End is Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. Love it! I think if you're going to be reading another post-apocalyptic novel, that should be the first one on the list.
Cheers.

[Nico87]

I Am Legend.

[superunknown]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K Dick is a good one.

[teejay17]

I Am Legend.

That's like one of the very first ones!

[Nathan920]

I recently finished book two in the Emberverse series called The Protectors War. In the first book their is a large electrical storm over the island of nantucket. What happens is this extremely large EMP-like phenomena is released at 6:15 PM PST, March 17, 1998. It alters physical laws so that gun powder and high density electricity no longer work. So basically the entire world is plunged into a new dark age. The survivors of society go back to using sword and shield as weapons. That is what drew me to the book. I found it to be a good read although in both books it got quite slow towards the middle. I think the characters are too fortunate in the sense that people with the most random skills that prove useful are all huddled together in and around Portland, Oregon. If you wanna read it, pick up a copy of it at Borders. I would give the book a 7/10, which too me is a good score. So just try it.

[JuniperWoolf]

Riddley Walker was good, but hard to read.

[Genocide]

I was Stumbling Upon a few months ago and found this site (http://brainz.org/10-greatest-apocalyptic-novels-all-time/) and saved it for some odd reason. I haven't read any of them, but you can look at them yourself. :]