Find your next SF/F read by mood

series3 books1951

Dark in tone, set in our world and british isles.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Day of the Triffids →

The ChrysalidsNovel

John Wyndhamstandalone novel1955

About genetic engineering and coming of age, set in secondary world and far future.

“An early manuscript version was entitled Time for a Change.”
from the catalogue

Alas, BabylonNovel

Pat Frankstandalone novel1959

Hopeful in tone, set in north america and mid 20th century.

“Classic novel of nuclear war and aftermath in rural Florida.”
from the catalogue

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue

Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

I Am LegendNovel

Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954

Horror, about vampires and last of their kind, set in our world.

“The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague.”
from the catalogue

Farnham's FreeholdNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1964

Time travel, about race and racism, set in near future and north america.

More like The Mergans