what are your favorite post-apocalypse books?

[clovis-man]

I wouldn't mind seeing reboot o this film and Id like George Miller to direct and produce it.

Yeah. But then you'd miss seeing Paul Winfield getting eaten by killer cockroaches. For a long time, I thought he'd never survive a movie role.

 

[Nozzle Velocity]

Another shout for the new wave take on this genre, notably the works of JG Ballard (The Drowned World, The Drought, The Crystal World, and really most of his stuff one way or another esp High Rise , Vermilion Sands) and also Moorcock (the Jerry Cornelius books) , Aldiss (Greybeard).

Ballard and Jack Vance are my two favorite writers. I can't describe how much I love Vermillion Sands.

High Rise left me unsettled for days after reading it.

If High Rise left you unsettled, then stay well away from Crash. It won't be getting a re-read from me.

 

[Nozzle Velocity]

More post-apocalypse that hasn't been mentioned.

The Wild Shore - Kim Stanley Robinson
Robinson's debut and I believe his best for years afterward.

Vault of the Ages - Poul Anderson
Good coming of age story with one of the best fight scenes I've read.

A Wrinkle in the Skin (aka The Ragged Edge) and Wild Jack - John Christopher (Sam Youd)
Much of what Youd wrote could be described as post-apoclyptic. A Wrinkle in the Skin gets my vote as his best novel in the adult category. Wild Jack is in the youth category along with the Tripods Trilogy, Burning Swords Trilogy, etc. It's all good.

I read Time of the Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg many years ago, but don't remember much about it other than a society living underground. It's early Silverberg, so I'm sure it's at least interesting. He was always smooth and competent even before his years of brilliance.

Can't remember what I'm forgetting.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Three words: I Am Legend.