Post Apocalyptic
Post Apocalyptic fiction is set after a major catastrophic event such as a nuclear war, worldwide environmental disaster, impact event, resource depletion or other disaster that has a worldwide effect and generally brings about the end of civilization.
These stories can be set anywhere from immediately after such an event to a time when a pre-catastrophe civilization has been all but forgotten and faded to myth and legend.
Noted Works
Stephen King's Dark Tower Series
Abaddon Book's Afterblight Chronicles
William Tenn's Of Men and Monsters
Peter Heller's The Dog Stars
John Christopher's The Death of Grass
Books Reviewed
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![PandemicA G Riddle]()
Science FictionAs the name suggests, Pandemic explores what happens when a deadly infection takes the leap from epidemic to pandemic. A sobering passage on the cover aknowledges, it's not a question of if but when . There are many things that endanger the human race but with the exception of the zombie apocalypse...
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![Antartica StationA G Riddle]()
Science FictionWhat is your plan for when the apocalypse comes? One of the best things about reading speculative fiction is that you get loads of clever ideas on exactly what to do should a meteor plummet to Earth or the undead rise from their graves. The truth is that your plan is to curl up and inevitably succum...
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![MoonFallAG Wyatt]()
Science FictionWhile most post-apocalyptic novels focus on destruction brought on humankind (or occasionally robotkind), the disaster in Moonfall is much more natural. The Moon has indeed fallen and caused widespread destruction across the globe. The book picks up 20 years after this earth-shattering event and fol...
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![NodAdrian Barnes]()
Science FictionLike all the best novels, Nod develops from a simple premise. Imagine that the vast majority of people around the world suddenly stopped being able to sleep. No deep sleep, no cat-naps and no snoozing at all. It's only a matter of time before society collapses. How many times have we had a bad night...
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![Journal of the Plague YearAdrian Tchaikovsky]()
Science FictionIf you like your science fiction with a dystopian edge, this might be a good book for you. The Afterblight Chronicles is a shared world series published by Abaddon Books. Originating in 2006, with Simon Spurrier’s The Culled and passing through the hands of several different writers over the years,...
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![Service ModelAdrian Tchaikovsky]()
Science FictionThe world will not die with a bang, but with a whimper. Similarly, it won’t be the robots that uprise and destroy humans, but our own incompetence when it comes to programming. Build and programme things correctly and everything should be fine, but this is modern life and doing things correctly seem...
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![The ShipAntonia Honeywell]()
Science FictionIn a future where fossil fuels have dried up, global warming has decimated ecosystems, and governments are culling populations, Antonia Honeywell’s debut sees teenager Lalla escape the ruins of London to live on her father's utopian Ship with 500 others keen to enjoy a 'happy death'. Their destinati...
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![GreybeardBrian Aldiss]()
Science FictionOriginally published in 1964, Greybeard is a post apocalyptic vision by Brian Aldiss, the version reviewed here is for the Gollancz SF Masterworks collection. Greybeard is all about the human ageing process, growing old (and being old) - an idea that reminds me of something a pessimistic friend once...
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![A Boy and his Dog at the End of the WorldC A Fletcher]()
Science FictionAs the world tears itself apart in front of us, there is something comforting about reading a good dystopian novel. If we are going to go out, at least it will not be due to zombies, bombs, viruses or all the bees dying out. Then again, it could be all of these together. Once the nuclear fallout has...
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![Sea of RustC Robert Cargill]()
Science FictionWhile many stories depict the fight between man and machine, Sea of Rust shows a future where the machines have already won. Humankind has been wiped off the face of the Earth by the very robots that were built to serve them. Now the planet is controlled by vast intelligences (known as One World Int...
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![The EnemyCharlie Higson]()
FantasyCharlie Higson is probably best known as part of a series that for many in the UK was one of the funniest things to watch on TV in the 90's - the Fast Show (known as Brilliant in the US). The irreverent and often off-beat humour was guaranteed to make me laugh and still does. Until this year I didn'...
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![Echoes of WarCheryl Campbell]()
Science FictionIn Cheryl Campbell's vision of the future, humanity finds itself enslaved by a genocidal faction of an alien race known as the Wardens. Decades of war has left much of the planet in ruins and threatens the existence of any human (or alien) who offer any form of resistance. Dani thought she had survi...
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![WanderersChuck Wendig]()
Science FictionThere seem to be a worryingly large number of ways we, as a species, could become extinct. From huge extra terrestrial rocks hurtling through space or climate change making our world uninhabitable to Trump pressing the wrong button at the wrong time. A virus that seems to strike at random, causing t...
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![Terms of ServiceCiel Pierlot]()
Science FictionI love a good magic system in a fantasy novel, one that sets the rules in an interesting way and is still able to amaze. It is one of the reasons that I am not a huge fan of Fae magic with all its side clauses and tricks. You never know what you are really going to get or what you can trust, therefo...
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![FiefdomDan Abnett]()
Science FictionDan Abnett and Nik Vincent have come together to tell a tale of a future that feels and sounds not like what one would envision, resembling more our distant past then our near future. Many readers will know of Dan Abnett and his prolific work with Marvel, Abaddon, Games Workshop, and his most succes...
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![Flaming DoveDaniel Arenson]()
FantasyFlaming Dove is a post apocalyptic dark fantasy novel by Daniel Arenson. Outcast from Hell. Banished from Heaven. Lost on Earth. The battle of Armageddon between the angels of Heaven and the minions of Hell was finally fought... and ended with no clear victor. Upon the mountain, the armies of Hell a...
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![RobopocalypseDaniel H Wilson]()
Science FictionIn the very near future the technology that we all take for granted will start to turn against us, rising up across the globe - led by the Artificial Intelligence known as Archos. Archos has decided that in order to save the unique planet called earth and the precious life it sustains he must wipe o...
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![ShelterDave Hutchinson]()
Science FictionHutchinson's writing has, at times, turned out to be worryingly prophetic - he wrote about the break-up of the European Union while Brexit was just a twinkle in David Cameron's eye, in his astounding Fractured Europe series. This time he's writing about life in rural England after an apocalypse. Wor...
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![BloodstoneDavid Gemmell]()
FantasyBloodstone is the third and final volume of David Gemmell's Jon Shannow trilogy, and it brings the saga of the Jerusalem Man to a close with all of Gemmell's customary style and grace. I have said of both earlier books that I consider them among Gemmell's finest work, and I will say it again here; m...
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![The Last GuardianDavid Gemmell]()
FantasyThe Last Guardian is the second volume in David Gemmell's Jon Shannow trilogy, picking up the story of the Jerusalem Man, and it is a worthy and ambitious successor to the magnificent Wolf in Shadow . If you have not read the first book, begin there; while Gemmell takes care to make this accessible,...
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![Wolf in ShadowDavid Gemmell]()
FantasyI will put my cards on the table at once: Wolf in Shadow is one of the finest novels I have had the pleasure of reading, and I would argue it contains some of David Gemmell's very best writing. Gemmell is rightly celebrated as a master of heroic fantasy, but here, in the first full Jon Shannow novel...
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![Autumn - DawnDavid Moody]()
HorrorIt's good to see that we are slowly getting used to living our lives in a pandemic / post-pandemic society. It's a tough time for most people (unless you happen to be a space faring billionaire) but we have vaccines and some promise that with enough people vaccinated, we should at least be able to c...
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![Night TrainDavid Quantick]()
Science FictionI am not a big fan of train travel. The route I take is usually into London on a packed train. I have been made to suffer by standing all the way and having no access to the t oilets. I have considered putting this into prose form in a science fiction thriller but needing the loo and having sore f...
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![Ricky's HandDavid Quantick]()
HorrorI love science fiction, but it can sometimes be hard to relate to the characters if they are flying spaceships in far off galaxies. Sometimes it is nice to read something a little closer to home, bizarre things happening to normal people. David Quantick’s Ricky’s Hand is a twisted Twilight Zone epis...
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![Radio LifeDerek B Miller]()
Science FictionWhat do we expect from the future? I consider myself a half glass full type of person, but even my positivity has taken a battering in the past few years. A world buried under a sea of sand sounds like it may be better in some circumstances. If we do find ourselves roaming a desolate future what w...
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![Station ElevenEmily St. John Mandel]()
Science FictionDay One - The Georgia flu sweeps the globe, a pandemic on a scale not seen before. Reports put the mortality rate at 99%. Week Two and most of Civilisation lies in ruins. Twenty years after the cataclysm and pockets of humanity have rebuilt settlements across the US. Things seem a lot less dangerous...
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![The Queen of the TearlingErika Johansen]()
FantasyKelsea Glynn is the only heir to the throne of Tearling but rather than growing up surrounded by servants and sophistication she has been raised in a woods by foster parents, in secret. Mostly this is due to her real mothers failings - Queen Elyssa was murdered for ruining the kingdom and for 18 yea...
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![CrossedEvelyn Blackwell]()
Science FictionCrossed is riding the heights of topical subjects, that of environment, ecology and global warming. In the very near future a cartoon is created that will ultimately change the world. It follows the adventures of a sea turtle who crosses the ocean and encounters other marine life struggling within a...
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![SkitterEzekiel Boone]()
Science FictionA few weeks ago we reviewed the spider-infested book The Hatching . This was preperation for the launch of the much anticipated sequel Skitter . Skitter follows on directly from the dramatic events of the previous book and once more we are thrown into the middle of spidergeddon. Haven't read The Hat...
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![SouthFrank Owen]()
Science FictionSOUTH is a dystopian fiction set in an alternate America, set in modern times, where a civil war breaks out between the North and the South. The story follows a variety of five characters, each trying to kill, hide or survive. The book follows Garrett and Dyce, on the run from the South’s law enforc...
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![Future's EdgeGareth L Powell]()
Science FictionThe Earth has exploded killing all the inhabitants, the only survivors are those humans that happened to be off planet at the time. Does not sound like the start of a fun Science Fiction novel, does it? Douglas Adams would beg to differ and so would Gareth L. Powell. Future’s Edge is the author’s la...
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![Blood MusicGreg Bear]()
Science FictionBlood Music is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear. BM is a story about an intelligent micro-organism experiment run amok. As the organism is human hosted, I guess that you could call it a DNA based Frankenstein's fantastic voyage-story for the last quarter of the twentieth century. The story may s...
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![Reality 36Guy Haley]()
Science FictionRichard is a Level 5 Artificial Intelligence and a Private Eye, his partner a German ex military cyborg named Klein. Their newest case takes them on the hunt for a killer who has jumped realities, hiding in the artificial construct of Reality 36. Unless Richard and Klein can stop him his powers coul...
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![LeechHiron Ennes]()
HorrorWe have all come to loath the Flu virus and its even worse cousin, but how are we as humans to prevent the spread of life? It will find a way. For mammals it is making babies, for a virus it is infiltrating a host and multiplying, then moving onto the next host. The virus does not care that it destr...
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![WoolHugh Howey]()
Science FictionI missed out commenting about this novel when it was first released. There was such a rush by everyone to say how great it was I felt that I would be adding but a small ripple to a raging Tsunami. Everyone from the big papers to the big authors have commented how magnificent the book is, and they ar...
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![The Drowned WorldJG Ballard]()
Science FictionThe Drowned World is J.G. Ballards first novel. It's written more than twenty years before he writes his, probably, best known novel The Empire of The Sun. Ballard actually wrote about 10 SF novels (and countless shorts) before he writes Empire of the Sun, and if you enjoyed Empire of the Sun and yo...
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![The Drowning EarthJack D Mclean]()
Science FictionI think the pessimistic among us see a future of raised water levels and the UK losing plenty of its coastal land and anything close to our rivers. However, even the most resigned will not have imagined the world that Martin Mulligan and Jack D. McLean have created in The Drowning Earth . Not only a...
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![CladeJames Bradley]()
Science FictionApocalyptic fiction has been growing in popularity for years, with most stories following some big cataclysmic event such as a zombie uprising, sweeping plague, nuclear war or the rise of artificial intelligence. Recently though novels have started to appear that seem much closer to reality, some of...
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![Dreaming of EdenJames Lucien]()
Science FictionDreaming of Eden is a science fiction novel by James Lucien. In the dystopian future of 2049, a ravaged world, divided into four Super States, is locked into a continuous war for diminishing resources. Under the oppression of a totalitarian government, an Elite DHS hacker, a robotics scientist, an N...
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![The Darwin ElevatorJason M Hough]()
Science FictionIt's the 23rd Century and Earth is changed forever following the arrival in Darwin, Australia of the alien "builder" technology that provides a "tether" out into space; humanity finally has a space elevator. No-one knows why, or even if these elusive aliens will return. Some time later the planet is...
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![The Exodus TowersJason M Hough]()
Science FictionThe Exodus Towers is the second volume in the Dire Earth Cycle, picking up right where the cliff-hanger ending left the story. A new Elevator and those strange Black Towers only complicate matters for those survivors of the wasteland that is the Earth. Not all survivors are that friendly either and...
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![The Plague ForgeJason M Hough]()
Science FictionThe Plague Forge is the dramatic conclusion to the Dire Earth Cycle. With the Builders plans still hidden and time running out, can Skyler and his team recover the four remaining relics before the final Builder event takes place? No-one really knows what will happen when the five artifacts are retur...
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![ThreeJay Posey]()
Science FictionIt's true that I have a soft spot for a good post-apocalyptic story, there is just something about the setting that appeals to me. I'm clearly not alone in this regard either, post-apocalyptic scenarios are dominating the film world this year while in the world of books we have excellent examples li...
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![BorneJeff Vandermeer]()
Science Fiction‘We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.’ Jeff VandeMeer’s Rachel summarises the theme of his latest book best. The author’s first novel since his acclaimed Southern Reach Trilogy, Van de Meer’s Borne is a surreal piece of work that examines the idea of identity in...
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![The FiremanJoe Hill]()
FantasyJoe Hill is one of those authors who improve with each book ,and The Fireman is nothing short of spectacular. A highly contagious spore has begun to spread across the World, a pandemic that sees people break out in beautiful gold and black marks before spontaneously self-combusting. Draco Incendia T...
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![Without WarningJohn Birmingham]()
Science FictionWithout warning, on the eve of the second Gulf war an unknown energy blast hits the USA - destroying all fauna while leaving flora and buildings intact. America as we know it vanishes in the blink of an eye. It's 2003 and in Kuwait US forces are poised for the invasion of Iraq, in Paris a covert age...
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![The Death of GrassJohn Christopher]()
Science FictionThe Death of Grass is a classic post-apocalyptic tale of a world without grass. Written in 1956 - just as the post-apocalyptic genre started to gain ground, created by the British author Samuel Youd - under the pen name John Christopher. The Death of Grass was Youd's second novel and was written in...
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![Wastelands 2John Joseph Adams]()
Science FictionThe first Wastelands anthology, released back in 2008 was widely regarded as not only a fine collection of apocalyptic tales but one of the finest anthologies full stop. Big shoes to fill then. The Editor John Joseph Adams is clearly up to the task though and has managed to get together some of the...
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![BarricadeJon Wallace]()
Science FictionThe future vision in Barricade shows a world torn apart by a war fought against humanity and their own artificially created super-humans, known as "Ficials". In the UK (seemingly along with the rest of the World) the results are pretty catastrophic. As you can probably imagine once humanity has crea...
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![PureJulianna Baggott]()
Science FictionI do so love a post apocalyptic tale and they often seem not very far from the reality in these times of economic turmoil. It therefore gives me great pleasure to inform you dear reader of another tale of survival after a world altering cataclysmic event. Pressia can barely remember a time before th...
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![The PassageJustin Cronin]()
HorrorI've been aware of The Passage for years but never had chance to pick it up - even though I have family connections to the Cronin surname (although doubtfully any connection to the author!). Recently the final novel in the series was released which prompted me to begin reading. The book describes a...
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![Where Late the Sweet Birds SangKate Wilhelm]()
Science FictionWhere Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a Hugo award winning post-apocalyptic tale of human cloning. For the Sumner family the recent droughts, floods, blighted crops, pandemic plagues and rising sterility all point to the demise of the human race. Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains provide...
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![JagannathKerry Denney]()
Science FictionThe arrival of the Jagannath changed everything. Humanity did not have time to reflect on the fact that they were not alone in the Universe. This amorphous blob appears unstoppable, simply absorbing everyone in it's path and assimilating their identity and intellect. Growing stronger and smarter as...
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![Ill WindKevin J Anderson]()
Science FictionIll Wind is a 1995 disaster novel by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason, one of nine collaborations between the two and one of the more successful of them. The Anderson credit is the one that sells the book; the Beason credit, less well known to the average reader, is the one that explains why the sc...
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![Oryx and CrakeMargaret Atwood]()
Science FictionI've been meaning to grab this series for quite some time — the combination of Atwood's evocative prose and a post-apocalyptic setting is a highly promising one. Oryx and Crake tells the story of an altered world through the eyes of a man once known as Jimmy. Now known as Snowman and clothed in dete...
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![The Year of the FloodMargaret Atwood]()
Science FictionThe Year of the Flood is the second novel in Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic series and follows the viewpoints of Toby and Ren, members of a religious cult. The book tells the story of some of the events leading up to the cataclysm mentioned in the previous novel Oryx and Crake and there is a goo...
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![BurrowedMary Baader Kaley]()
Science FictionWhen the apocalypse happens, science fiction has taught us that some of us will run below and others will be left on the surface. Pick a side. Down below could be a Fallout or Wool situation, better than being on the surface, dead or a mutant. Up above could be The Time Machine or Mary Baader Kaley’...
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![Apocalypse: Diary of a SurvivorMatt Pike]()
Science FictionApocalypse novels are all the rage these days, and with good reason, as any rational person can sense that we are rapidly approaching some kind of great calamity. There are plenty of choices: climate change, rapidly depleting resources, drug resistant disease, or even a straight up revolution of the...
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![World War ZMax Brooks]()
FantasyA Zombie novel by the son of comic legend Mel Brooks, World War Z is told as a series of interconnected interviews from survivors of the zombie war all over the world. This method of storytelling is very different, there is no central protagonist or contiguous plot, instead we learn about the story...
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![Queen of BabylonMichael Ferris Gibson]()
Science FictionTwins have always had a mystery around them. Two people brought up so closely together that they have their own language. In Michael Ferris Gibson and Imani Josey’s Babylon Twin series, the language that the twins use is called the Twinkling, a speech so intuitive that only they can understand it. I...
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![The Northern Star: The BeginningMike Gullickson]()
Science FictionFrom the back cover: The oil is gone. That way of life, ended. An invention frees the mind. A cyber-world becomes salvation. A boy, a weapon. A soldier, a titan. While nations thrash into antiquity, And a CEO becomes Queen, A man, brilliant and cunning, Plots to rule it all. Imagine a future where o...
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![CryptonomiconNeal Stephenson]()
Science FictionCryptonomicon is a speculative fiction novel by the American author Neal Stephenson. I've been a bit apprehensive about starting on Cryptonomicon. Neal Stephenson is a bit like Vernon Vinge – they both make wonderful books, and they both take their time about it. Also Cryptonomicon is about mathemat...
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![Extinction HorizonNicolas Sansbury Smith]()
Science FictionNicolas Sansbury Smith made his debut with Biomass Revolution , which was quickly followed by the Orbs Series . His latest series is The Extinction Cycle . After rereading book one for this review, I was reminded how effective military science fiction can be as a lens to watch civilization unravel....
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![Legacy of SevenP. J. Flie]()
FantasyOne of the remarkable things about genre fiction is that it can blend so well. Why have a straight fantasy novel when you can mix it with science fiction or horror? How far are we as a human race from backsliding to a medieval style life? A few dirty bombs, no electricity, and some passing decades a...
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![Darkness FallsP. J. Flie]()
Science FictionThere are two ways of writing a trilogy of books. One way is to produce three separate novels that can be read independently or viewed as a whole. The other way is to start each book as soon as the last one ends and power through the tale a great speed. This is how P. J. Flie’s Darkness Falls , star...
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![Hooded ManPaul Kane]()
Science FictionHooded Man collects the three novels Arrowhead, Broken Arrow and Arrowland (along with a short story set between the first and second books), all of which are part of the shared post-apocalyptic universe known as the "Afterbright Chronicles" - which includes this years SF Book of the year School's O...
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![Beyond the Burn LinePaul McAuley]()
Science FictionScience fiction is a brilliant tool for pondering what happens after the inevitable fall of humans. There is only so long that the Earth can sustain us, but that does not mean that other civilisations may not develop after. Beyond the Burn Line by Paul McAuley is a Sci Fi mystery told from the persp...
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![Survivor SongPaul Tremblay]()
HorrorReleasing a book about a pandemic during the middle of a real pandemic is a bold move but one that Paul Tremblay has taken. Although there are some parallels between what is happening in the world today and those within the pages of Survivor Song , they are not enough to make the book off put...
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![The Dog StarsPeter Heller]()
Science FictionHig is a survivor, a lone pilot who's wife, friends and almost all neighbours are long dead. Living in the hanger of a small abandoned airport with only his dog and his gun-toting neighbour for company. He flies his 1956 Cessna around the perimeter looking out for trouble and occasionally sneaks off...
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![The MalicePeter Newman]()
FantasyThe Malice is the follow-up to one of my favourite fantasy reads last year, Peter Newmans The Vagrant . It's a story set in a post-apocalyptic future where forgotten technology intermingles with demonspawn and twisted lands full of twisted mutants. It had the dark, haunted flavour of Stephen Kings D...
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![The VagrantPeter Newman]()
FantasyThe Vagrant was an unexpected delight, showing up totally out of the blue with a mature, confident writing style and a deliciously dark and twisted world. The flawed protagonist known only as "The Vagrant" is a masterstroke — here we have a figure who doesn't give much away. He doesn't speak, but he...
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![The SevenPeter Newman]()
FantasyThe Seven is Peter Newman's stunning conclusion to the post-apocalyptic Vagrant Trilogy, following on from the events of The Vagrant and The Malice . A number of years have passed since the Vagrant journeyed to the Shining City with a baby Vesper and Gamma's sword. Following in her fathers footsteps...
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![The World Jones MadePhilip K Dick]()
Science FictionI must admit that one of the reasons I picked up this novel is that it has my surname on it, the other being that it is of course Philip K Dick who still rates as one of my favourite authors. Written back in 1956 The World Jones Made is one of the authors very early novels and tells the story of Flo...
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![I am LegendRichard Matheson]()
Science FictionI am Legend is a post apocalyptic vision by Richard Matheson, created in 1954 it tells the story of Robert Neville, the last surviving human in the world, surrounded by bloodthirsty vampires - both living and undead. Part of the Gollancz SF Masterworks collection, the novel has received critical acc...
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![Damnation AlleyRoger Zelazny]()
Science FictionDamnation Alley is a post-apocalytic tale of survival by the Hugo and Nebula award winner Roger Zelazny. Set in the decades after a devastating nuclear war, the former USA is a very different place. With mass destruction, dangerous mutants, large areas of deadly radiation and a worldwide wind preven...
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![School's Out ForeverScott K Andrews]()
Science FictionSometimes I feel that reading post-apocalyptic tales are less an escape and more training for the future, after all as a race we aren't doing a great job of preventing this self-destructive outcome. Luckily there is no shortage of literature to teach us about survival in a future wasteland and Schoo...
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![Twilight CandlefliesScott Niven]()
Science FictionTwiglight Candleflies is a collection of three post apocalyptic short fiction stories, written by Scott Niven. The three stories presented here are told in different styles and set in different worlds but all have a post apocalyptic edge to them. While each is a fairly short and sweet story they all...
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![Bringing forth the end of daysSimon Law]()
Science FictionBringing forth the end of days is a science fiction novel of post apocalypse survival, and is the debut novel of Simon Law. The year is 2013 and World War 3 has scorched the earth, on top of a biological attack that has destroyed all plant life, leaving a world without life giving oxygen. Civilisati...
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![The CulledSimon Spurrier]()
Science FictionThere is something gritty and slightly dirty about Simon Spurrier's writing, making it an acquired taste in science fiction at times. Certainly in The Culled, the first book of the Afterblight Chronicles published by Abaddon Books, we are introduced to our main character in a way that parades his vi...
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![The Distant Stars Are My Only FriendsStephan George]()
Science FictionAs a species we are doing a good enough job of messing up our own chances of survival, but what if I told you that we could also mess up another distant planet too? In Stephan George’s The Distant Stars Are My Only Friends , Arax is a traveller who does not go into space, but instead projects his co...
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![The Drawing of the ThreeStephen King]()
FantasyDo not read this review if you have not read the The Gunslinger - it contains spoilers for it. The Drawing of the Three (or DT2) takes off where The Gunslinger ended, with Roland lying on the beach of the western sea. The book tells the tale of Roland as he journeys along this beach and draws "the t...
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![The GunslingerStephen King]()
FantasySometimes when I've read a really bad book it's hard for me to write a review about it - I just want to leave it at "this book is bad - stay away from it" and then forget about the book as fast as possible. With Stephen King's The Gunslinger it's the other way around. A short "Go buy this book at on...
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![The Waste LandsStephen King]()
FantasyDo not read this review if you haven't read The Gunslinger and The Drawing of The Three. Turn off your computer and start reading. If you don't have these books run to your nearest bookstore and get them! Continuing where The Drawing of the Three ended, The Waste Lands takes us through the forest an...
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![Wizard and GlassStephen King]()
FantasyPew! I've been waiting for this book for a looong time, maybe too long. I didn't hesitate one moment when I found the trade paperback, regardless of the fact D.M. Grant mailed the hardcover version to me a month ago (I just haven't received it yet). The book starts of where DT3 ended – on Blain the...
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![Wolves of the CallaStephen King]()
FantasyIt has been six, nearly seven, years since the last volume in the Dark Tower series and if you, like me, didn't even like the fourth volume, it has been an even longer wait. Luckily this book delivers. It's all action, it's all about the Ka-tet and it's about The Dark Tower from front to back. Havin...
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![Code Name AtlasTony Evans]()
Science FictionCode Name Atlas is a post-apocalyptic science fiction tale told by Tony Evans. A war hero trying to leave his past behind finds himself using his skills to survive after the earth is ravaged by unknown forces. In the midst of this destruction anarchy reins and he finds himself raising an army to fig...
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![The Wolves of WinterTyrell Johnson]()
FantasyOn the surface, this post-apocalyptic tale of infection, nuclear fallout and scattered, savage humanity is no different from the many others that have gone before it. But what saves it from being just another drop in the great maelstrom of dystopian novels is the author’s taught and affecting story-...
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![A Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M Miller]()
Science FictionA Canticle for Leibowitz is a post apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M Miller. It is a strange story of a post apocalyptic monastery, which tries to save information about the time before the great destruction. The idea is good enough, but I can't say that I like what Miller has done with...
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![Of Men and MonstersWilliam Tenn]()
Science FictionAfter technologically superior aliens conquer earth, humanity survives very much like mice, living within the walls of the huge homes of the giant aliens. They scurry about under their feet, stealing food and avoiding the ever more devious traps set out for them. As time goes on humanity adapts and...
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