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For Further Reading


What follows is a selected bibliography of post-apocalyptic fiction. The list is not all-inclusive, but is intended merely as a primer for readers looking to better familiarize themselves with the sub-genre. 


Like the stories collected in this volume, I’ve focused this bibliography on books in which the post-apocalyptic elements are vital to the story. There are many books, however, that while not “core” post-apocalyptic titles will be of interest to fans of the sub-genre nonetheless. These books—which employ the themes or settings of post-apocalyptic SF but are primarily noteworthy for other reasons—are marked by asterisks to denote their associational relevance to the sub-genre. 


To learn more about the stories in Wastelands, visit the anthology’s website at johnjosephadams.com/wastelands. 



Aldiss, Brian

Greybeard

— Hothouse

Anderson, Poul 

Twilight World

The Winter of the World

Vault of the Ages

Anvil, Christopher

The Day the Machines Stopped

Atwood, Margaret 

The Handmaid’s Tale*

Oryx and Crake

Ballard, J. G. 

The Drowned World

The Burning World

(a/k/a The Drought)

Barrett, Jr., Neal 

Kelwin

Through Darkest America (et seq.) 

Prince of Christler-Coke

Bova, Ben 

Test of Fire

Brackett, Leigh 

The Long Tomorrow

Brin, David 

The Postman

Brinkley, William

The Last Ship

Brunner, John 

The Sheep Look Up

Budrys, Algis 

Some Will Not Die

Butler, Octavia E.

— Parable of the Sower* (et seq.)

Patternmaster* (et seq.)

Dawn* (et seq.)

Carlson, Jeff

Plague Year

Card, Orson Scott 

The Folk of the Fringe

Christopher, John 

No Blade of Grass                              

— The World in Winter 

— Empty World

— A Wrinkle in the Skin

Crace, Jim

The Pesthouse

Crowley, John

Engine Summer

Dick, Philip K.

Dr. Bloodmoney

Dickson, Gordon R. 

Wolf and Iron

Disch, Thomas M.

The Genocides

Ellison, Harlan

& Richard Corben (artist)

Vic and Blood

Frank, Pat 

Alas, Babylon

Florman, Samuel C.

The Aftermath

Galouye, Daniel F.

Dark Universe

Goonan, Kathleen Ann

Queen City Jazz (et seq.)

Hand, Elizabeth

Winterlong*

The Glimmering*

Harrison, M. John 

— The Committed Men

Heinlein, Robert A.

— Farnham’s Freehold*

Herbert, Frank

The White Plague

Hoban, Russell 

Riddley Walker 

Huxley, Aldous 

Ape & Essence 

Jefferies, Richard

After London

Johnson, Adam 

Parasites like Us

King, Stephen

The Stand

— The Gunslinger* (et seq.)

— Cell*

Kirkman, Robert

& Tony Moore (artist)

The Walking Dead (et seq.)

Koontz, Dean

The Taking*

Kornbluth, C. M.

The Syndic

Laumer, Keith

Catastrophe Planet

Leiber, Fritz

Gather, Darkness! 

Lethem, Jonathan

Amnesia Moon*

London, Jack

The Scarlet Plague

Matheson, Richard

I Am Legend*

McCarthy, Cormac 

The Road

McCammon, Robert R.

Swan Song

McDevitt, Jack 

Eternity Road

McIntyre, Vonda N.

Dreamsnake 

Merle, Robert

Malevil

Merril, Judith

Shadow on the Hearth 

Miéville, China

The Tain*

Miller, Jr., Walter M. 

A Canticle for Leibowitz

— Saint Leibowitz and the Wild

— Horse Woman

Miller, Jr., Walter M. & Martin H. Greenberg (editors) 

Beyond Armageddon 

Morrow, James

This Is the Way the World Ends*

Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle

Lucifer’s Hammer

Norton, Andre

Star Man’s Son

(a/k/a Daybreak 2250 A.D.)

O’Brien, Robert C. 

Z for Zachariah 

Pangborn, Edgar 

Davy 

The Judgment of Eve

The Company of Glory

Still I Persist in Wondering

Pournelle, Jerry (editor)

After Armageddon 

Reaves, Michael

& Steve Perry

Dome 

Robinson, Kim Stanley 

The Wild Shore

Sagan, Nick

Edenborn (et seq.)

Sharpe, Matthew

Jamestown

Sheckley, Robert (editor)

After the Fall

Sheffield, Charles

Aftermath

Shelley, Mary 

The Last Man

Sherriff, R. C. 

The Hopkins Manuscript

Shiel, M. P. 

The Purple Cloud

Shute, Nevil 

On the Beach 

Simak, Clifford D.

Cemetery World

Smith, Mitchell

Snowfall (et seq.)

Stewart, George 

Earth Abides

Stirling, S. M.

Dies the Fire (et seq.)

Swanwick, Michael

In the Drift

Taylor, Justin (editor)

The Apocalypse Reader

Tucker, Wilson 

The Long Loud Silence 

The Year of the Quiet Sun 

Ice and Iron 

Van Pelt, James 

Summer of the Apocalypse

Varley, John

Millennium

Vaughan, Brian K.

Y: The Last Man (et seq.)

Wells, Catherine

The Earth Is All That Lasts (et seq.)

Mother Grimm

Wilhelm, Kate 

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang*

Williams, Walter Jon

The Rift

Wright, S. Fowler

Deluge

Dawn

Wylie, Philip

Tomorrow!

Triumph

Wylie, Philip & Edwin Balmer

When Worlds Collide

After Worlds Collide

Wyndham, John 

Re-Birth (a/k/a The Chrysalis)

The Day of the Triffids

Zelazny, Roger 

Damnation Alley


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