Can you help me find a book whose title I have forgotten?

[grekoscifi]

I read a book probably over thirty years ago (probably over 40 years) whose general story I remember but I cannot remember the name of the book. The subject of the book has been in my mind recently and I would VERY much like to find this book again.
The story was about a community that was created to survive the end of the world from a catastrophe. I thought the name of the community was Yggdrasil but I may be confusing this name with a different story. Toward the end of the book it is revealed that there is ANOTHER community that was set up for the same purpose. I know these details are sketchy but I'm hoping someone can help me find this book. I do remember it was not a super long book either.
Worst case scenario is that someone here can recommend other books of a similar theme.
Thanks

 

[nixie]

Sorry can't help but will move to book search and hopefully someone will know.

 

[tachyon]

Any details on the structure/site of the community? Was it underground, a dome city, walled city, pastoral, etc.?

Also anything you can remember about the end-of-the-world scenario would help: zombies, nuclear apocalypse, environmental catastrophe, alien invasion, epidemic, etc.

 

[hitmouse]

What @tachyon said. There are a plethora of these plots. Some background scenary would help narrow it down.

 

[Pyan]

Sounds like one of the books (The Dome in the Forest?) in the Pelbar Cycle, by Paul O. Williams, published about 1980.

 

[Danny McG]

Sounds like one of the books (The Dome in the Forest?) in the Pelbar Cycle, by Paul O. Williams, published about 1980.

Whoa! Blast from the past there mate, I'd forgotten all about that series, I remember going to Manchester just to get the last book...back in those far off pre-interweb days of the eighties

It might be time for a re-read methinks

 

[PaulMmn]

Characters! Was the main character a young girl who spoke a sort of pidgin English? There were at least a pair of stories in Analog magazine (at least 20 years ago for the first) where the girl was alone at home (her father was Someone Important, and was away in Washington DC for a meeting. And the war started. So, our heroine opened the door that led to the bomb shelter under the house and took the elevator down. She was alone. The war was biological. Eventually, the all-clear was sounded, and she returned to the world.

 

[Danny McG]

Characters! Was the main character a young girl who spoke a sort of pidgin English? There were at least a pair of stories in Analog magazine (at least 20 years ago for the first) where the girl was alone at home (her father was Someone Important, and was away in Washington DC for a meeting. And the war started. So, our heroine opened the door that led to the bomb shelter under the house and took the elevator down. She was alone. The war was biological. Eventually, the all-clear was sounded, and she returned to the world.

The stories you're thinking of were expanded into a novel.
Emergence by David Palmer.
Not quite the plot mentioned by the OP

 

[Bagpuss]

The plot description made me think of The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.

 

[hitmouse]

Could equally be The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke, but unfortunately the original description is not really togjt enough to pin it down.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

And to add to the general confusion, Yggdrasil in science fiction (not Norse mythology) was used by Dan Simmons as the name of his great tree ship. So was this community in space? Or was it based on Norse mythology in some way?

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon?