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- Make Room! Make Room!
Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1966
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Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Harry Harrison exploring the consequences of both unchecked population growth on society and the hoarding of resources by a wealthy minority. It was originally serialized in Impulse magazine.
- Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelmstandalone novel1976
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a science fiction novel by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in 1976. The novel is composed of three parts, "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," "Shenandoah," and "At the Still Point," and is set in a post-apocalyptic era, a concept popular among authors who took part in the New Wave Science Fiction movement in the 1960s.
- The Hopkins Manuscript
R. C. Sherriffstandalone novel1939
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The Hopkins Manuscript is a dystopian science fiction novel by R. C. Sherriff, first published in 1939 by Victor Gollancz. In 1958 it was reissued in a revised edition as a Pan paperback under the title The Cataclysm. The novel was later republished under its original title by The Macmillan Company in 1963 and by Persephone Books in 2002.
- This Is the Way the World Ends
James Morrowstandalone novel1986
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This Is the Way the World Ends is a post-apocalyptic novel by American writer James K. Morrow, published in 1986.
- MaddAddam
series3 books2003
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Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam, 2003-2013) is set around a genetically engineered pandemic unleashed deliberately by the brilliant, disillusioned scientist Crake, who intends the deadly 'BlyssPluss' pill to wipe out humanity and clear the way for the gentler, engineered Crakers he has designed to replace it. Told from the perspectives of survivors including Crake's old friend Jimmy (now calling himself Snowman), the trilogy pieces together the pandemic's causes and its aftermath from multiple, overlapping vantage points.
- Earthseed
series7 books1993
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Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed novels, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, follow Lauren Olamina as she survives the collapse of a climate-ravaged, near-future United States and founds a belief system built on the idea that "God is Change." The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed. Later graphic-novel adaptations retell the same two stories rather than continuing the narrative.
- Shade's Children milieu
series2 books1997
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Shade's Children is set on an Earth where all adults vanished overnight fourteen years earlier, leaving children to be harvested at puberty by the machines that now run the world, unless they escape into hiding with Shade, a mysterious AI-like protector. Garth Nix's 1997 novel is a single, self-contained book rather than a series, though its bleak post-apocalyptic premise has drawn comparisons to his other work.
- The Genocides
Thomas M. Dischstandalone novel1965
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The Genocides is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Thomas M. Disch, first published by Berkley Books as a Berkley Medallion paperback. It was Disch's first novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel for 1965.
- How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsustandalone novel2022
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(Robin MacArthur, in Scientific American): "[A] dystopian narrative set in the near future about an ancient virus that is uncovered by a scientist ... while she is researching melting permafrost in the Arctic."
- Ice
Anna Kavanstandalone novel1967
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Ice is a novel by British writer Anna Kavan, published in 1967. Ice was Kavan's last work to be published before her death, the first to land her mainstream success, and remains her best-known work. Generally regarded as genre-defying, it has been labelled a work of science fiction, Nouveau roman, and slipstream fiction.
- War Against the Chtorr
series7 books1983
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The War Against the Chtorr is a series of science fiction novels by American writer David Gerrold. The Chtorr series was originally planned as a trilogy, but as the story became more intricate, Gerrold realized that three books would not be enough for him to tell the entire story. For a time, he was uncertain how many books there would be in the end but plans on seven. As of 2022, four books have been completed. As of 2017, a fifth and sixth were in the works, 24 years after the publication of the fourth book.
- Gold Fame Citrus
Claire Vaye Watkinsstandalone novel2015
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Gold Fame Citrus is a 2015 speculative fiction novel by Claire Vaye Watkins. It is her second book, but her first novel. The work received positive reviews.
- The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2020
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The Ministry for the Future is a climate fiction novel by American science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2020. Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement, whose mission is to act as an advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights were as valid as the present generation's. While the ministry pursues various ambitious projects, the effects of climate change are determined to be the most consequential. The plot primarily follows Mary Murphy, the head of the titular Ministry for the Future, and Frank May, an American aid worker traumatized by experiencing a deadly heat wave in India. Many chapters are devoted to other characters' accounts of future events, as well as their ideas about ecology, economics, and other subjects.
- The Windup Universe
series3 books2005
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- Ship Breaker
series3 books2010
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Nailer works a light-crew scavenging copper wire and scrap from beached oil tankers on a Gulf Coast reshaped by rising seas and vanished order, until a wrecked clipper ship washes ashore carrying a half-drowned girl from the wealthy world he'll never belong to. Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune. The sequels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War widen the same flooded, resource-scavenging future to new characters and coastlines.
- The Triffids
series3 books1951
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John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951) opens with a meteor-shower-like event that leaves most of Britain's population blind, throwing civilization into collapse just as triffids, an aggressive and mobile species of poisonous plant, become free to hunt the helpless survivors. Simon Clark's authorized sequel The Night of the Triffids (2001) picks up a generation later, narrated by the original protagonist's son as he confronts a new triffid-dominated world, and John Whitbourn's The Age of the Triffids extends the shared setting further still. Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.
- American War
Omar El Akkadstandalone novel2017
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American War is the first novel by the Egyptian-Canadian journalist Omar El Akkad. It is set in the United States in the near future, ravaged by climate change and disease, in which the Second Civil War has broken out over the use of fossil fuels.
- The Wind from Nowhere
J. G. Ballardstandalone novel1962
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The Wind from Nowhere is a science fiction novel by English author J. G. Ballard. Published in 1962, it was his debut novel. He had previously published only short stories.
- The Long Winter
John Christopherstandalone novel1962
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The World in Winter is a 1962 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by British writer John Christopher. It deals with a new ice age caused by a reduction in the output of the Sun.
- The Death of Grass
John Christopherstandalone novel1956
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The Death of Grass is a 1956 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author Sam Youd under the pen name John Christopher. The plot concerns a virus that kills off grass species, including rice and wheat. The Death of Grass was the first of several post-apocalyptic novels written by Youd. The novel was written in a matter of weeks and liberated him from his day job.
- Mother of Storms
John Barnesstandalone novel1994
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From the flaps of the Tor first edition: "It is 2028. A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect. Massive amounts of energy are liberated from the polar ice, suddenly warming the Earth's climate. In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane thousands of miles across is forming, larger than any in human history. A storm with winds of supersonic speed. A storm that changes direction at whim. A storm that refuses to die. A storm so vast it spawns dozens more in its wake... Blinded by intrigue, expedience, and greed, the world's politicians and power brokers have ignored the killer storms threat until it is too late. Already the death toll is in the tens of millions, as it savages the Pacific coast, while its devil's brood of smaller storms are wreaking havoc across the face of the planet. While the survivors scramble for advantage, a handful of courageous men and women undertake a daring, desperate plan to save humanity from total destruction - a plan so visionary it may alter forever the future of the human race."
- The Fireman
Joe Hillstandalone novel2016
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The Fireman is a novel set in a post-apocalyptic time by American author Joe Hill. The novel, Hill's fourth, tells the tale of a deadly spore that has infected most of the world's population. Hill first spoke of the novel in 2013 in promotional interviews for his then-new novel NOS4A2. The novel was released on May 17, 2016.
- The Drought
J. G. Ballardstandalone novel1964
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Dr. Charles Ransom watches his world dry up along with his marriage: an industrial film has coated the oceans, evaporation has stalled, and rivers, lakes and reservoirs are shrinking into cracked mud across the globe. As neighbors flee the drying city for the coast, Ransom refuses to leave, staying behind on his houseboat with others unwilling to go -- a woman running an improvised zoo, a boatman, an architect turning his estate into something like a fortress. As the water keeps disappearing and order breaks down, each of them must decide what survival looks like now. J. G. Ballard's second novel, published in the US as The Burning World.
- The Stone Gods
Jeanette Wintersonstandalone novel2007
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The Stone Gods is a novel written by Jeanette Winterson. Published in the year 2007, the novel is a post-apocalyptic, postmodern, dystopian love story, with themes of corporate government control, the harshness of war, artificial intelligence, and technology. The novel is self-referential as characters make inter-textual references, while certain characters’ story arcs repeat. The novel aims to warn against history's tendency to repeat itself, as well as humanity's inability to learn from past mistakes.
