Apocalypse Nowish Booklist

Its the end of the world as we know it . . . Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • Oryx and Crake
    Author: Atwood, Margaret
    Publisher: Doubleday $ 26 ISBN: 03885503857 Date: 2003
    star Kirkus star Booklist star PW star LJ
    With command of her material and with her sharp wit and dark humor, Atwood projects a conceivable future of the world, a place left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster, and populated by a cast of characters who will continue to inhabit dreams long after the book is closed.
    Suggested Reading: All Stars | Dystopian Stars
    Updated 4.29.03
  • Armageddon's Children
    Author: Brooks, Terry
    Publisher: Del Rey $ 26.95 ISBN: 0345484088 Date: 2006
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    Fifty years from now, the world is a very different place. Thousands live in highly fortified strongholds, and demons have taken over. The Knights of the Word are on a quest to rescue a group of young people who hold the hope of the world.
    Updated 8.16.06
  • Riddley Walker
    Author: Hoban, Russell
    Date: 1980
    A brilliant, unique, and completely realized work of fiction, Riddley Walker--first published in 1980--is set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), where humanity has regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, represented by a language created especially by Hoban for the book.
    Updated 9.25.06
  • The Rapture
    Author: Jensen, Liz
    $ 25 ISBN: 9780385530446 Date: 2009
    starBooklist star PW
    "A first-class apocalyptic thriller of futuristic science, geophysics, and religion. It's clever, intelligent, and--most terrifying of all--plausible" --Kate Mosse, author of Labryinth and Sepulchre - Publisher Marketing
    Suggested Reading: Cross Genre
    Updated 8.13.09
  • The Road
    Author: McCarthy, Cormac
    Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0307265439 Date: 2006
    star Kirkus star PW star Booklist star LJ
    At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love.
    Suggested Reading: All Stars
    Updated 8.28.06
  • Heavy Weather
    Author: Sterling, Bruce
    Publisher: Spectra $ 21.95 ISBN: 0553093932 Date: 1994
    One of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, Bruce Sterling now presents a novel of vivid imagination and invention that proves his talent for creating brilliant speculative fiction is sharper than ever. The co-author (with William Gibson) of The Difference Engine spins cutting-edge science fiction tale pitting techno-hackers against the forces of nature.
    Updated 9.25.06
  • The Island at the End of the World
    Author: Taylor, Sam
    $ 14 ISBN: 9780143116257 Date: 2009
    star LJ
    A chilling post-apocalyptic tale of how far a father will go to protect his children, The Island at the End of the World is a mesmerizing novel from an exciting new writer.
    Updated 7.15.09
  • Macrolife
    Author: Zebrowki, George
    Publisher: Pyr $ 15 ISBN: 1591023416 Date: 1979/2006
    Selected by "Library Journal" as one of the hundred best science fiction novels of all times, this pioneering tale is a visionary speculation on the long-term future of human and natural history.
    Updated 9.25.06