If the world's going to end in a big, messy apocalypse, surely we need more than one measly book to…
Written in 1959, A Canticle for Leibowitz is one of the first real literary science fiction books, and an enduring,…
Oryx and Crake is an excellent book, interesting and strange, that grabs your attention and doesn’t let go. It manages…
Author Jeff VanderMeer is known for his surreal sci-fi Southern Reach trilogy (the first book was Annihilation, which was made…
We're in a Post-apocalyptic Golden Age. Not even during the Cold War were science fiction books about the apocalypse and…
Humans have worried about the end of the world ever since we made up the word "world," and in the…
I’m not usually a big fan of post-apocalyptic stories, but Station Eleven is a great story and exceptionally well-written. (more…)
Roadside Picnic is short, bleak, and fantastic. It has a typical Russian life-is-a-meaningless-struggle-against-absurdity vibe, but there’s enough going on to…
The Girl With All the Gifts is a wonderful book, which is odd praise for a story about zombies. But…
Riddley Walker is a unique, fascinating book. It takes places a few thousand years after a nuclear Armageddon in England…