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  • Cover of Z for Zachariah
    Z for ZachariahNovel

    Robert C. O'Brien · standalone novel · 1975

    About coming of age and loneliness, set in countryside & village.

    “Sixteen-year-old Ann Burden, on an Amish family farm in an isolated valley, believes she is the only survivor of nuclear war and nerve gas.”

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  • Cover of Have Space Suit - Will Travel
    Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1958

    Space opera, about aliens and space exploration, set in space.

    “One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon - and the next he was out cold and the captive of an insidious space pirate.”

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  • Cover of The Fireman
    The FiremanNovel

    Joe Hill · standalone novel · 2016

    Dark in tone, about plague and pandemic and found family.

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  • Cover of Hole in the Sky
    Hole in the SkyNovel

    Pete Hautman · standalone novel · 2001

    About plague and pandemic and quests, set in desert.

    “Searching for them, Ceej and his only friend, Tim, are attacked by the Kinka, a renegade band of half-mad Survivors who spread the Flu to make more of their own.”

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  • Cover of Damnation Alley
    Damnation AlleyNovel

    Roger Zelazny · standalone novel · 1969

    Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, adventurous in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

    “A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1977.”

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  • Cover of Tripods
    TripodsSeries

    series · 4 books · 1967

    completed

    Alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

    “The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”

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    Start with When the Tripods Came →

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