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Robert C. O'Brienstandalone novel1975
About coming of age and loneliness, set in our world and 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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Damnation AlleyNovel
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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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Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1958
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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Hole in the SkyNovel
Pete Hautmanstandalone novel2001
Adventure, 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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TripodsSeries
series4 books1967
completed
Alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution, set in our world.
“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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The FiremanNovel
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Dark in tone, about plague and pandemic and found family, set in our world.