46 End Of The World SCI FI books YOU SHOULD READ!

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  @susanamargaridasilva · 3 weeks ago

  Hi! Amazing list! Love dystopia and apocalyptic, loved I am legend and the road. Also liked the day of the triffids and the death of grass 😁 have a lot of them in my list and just add many others! The greybeard sounds very good 😊

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  @Philipp31415 · 2 years ago

  I would add The Killing Star by Charles. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski, which is a depressing take on the Fermi paradox and starts with a bang.

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  @BurtonShotton · 1 month ago

  I read Earth Abides when I was about 9 or 10 years old and it hooked me on apocalyptic sci-fi for life.  I'm in my early 60s now and still love the genre.

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  @BurtonShotton · 1 month ago

  Malevil by Robert Merle is an often overlooked 1970s novel about surviving in an old castle after a nuclear war.  It was originally written in French (Merle being a French author), but there has been at least one English language translation (Derek Coltman) released in hardback and one in paperback.

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  @brianedwards7142 · 2 years ago

  "...find their friends missing..." Is the most British of phrases. lol

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  @brianedwards7142 · 2 years ago

  I love a good cataclysm. There are some I will be reading, Earth Abides is on the west face of Mt Toberead.<br><br>As kid I remember when things like Forbidden Planet were still Friday night movies on the TV. So it is that I became a fan of the late great George Pal. You can imagine my excitement to get my hands on a copy of the novel of When Worlds Collide (1933 by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie). Now there are some minor religious overtones in the movie version which I attributed to Pal or a producer but when I read the book I realised I owed them a huge apology.<br><br>It was a very near DNF because a lot of it is written like a sermon about how humanity deserves annihilation (mostly because Jazz exists apparently). I&apos;ve never encountered so much overt religiosity in SF before. That&apos;s like mixing acids and bases, lol.

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  @ChrisJohnson-pr9jq · 1 year ago

  Cracking video Jon. Seveneves is definitely on my radar 🤘

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  @LiminalSpaces03 · 2 years ago

  This was a great video! So many things added to my TBR list!

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  @davidglenn5223 · 3 months ago

  Greybeard. Giant stoats and weasels and a nice twist at the end

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  @PulpMortem · 2 years ago

  Fun, well done video!

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  @mikejcross · 4 days ago

  In the flood/snow section, I would suggest:<br><br>Winter&apos;s Children by Michael G. Coney, and The Twilight of Briareus by Richard Cowper.

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  @SoulsJourney · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve read Greybeard which as you said was beautifully written, loved it. Earth Abides puzzled me with the way Ish kind of made a half-hearted attempt to teach the children, but seemed to give up pretty quickly. Overall I enjoyed it, but had some issues with it. Station Eleven was scarily prescient when it came out in 2015. I can&apos;t stop thinking about that plane that landed at the airport and just parked away from the terminal and nobody ever disembarked... I read A Canticle for Liebowitz a million years ago when I was young and just got another copy so I can re-read it. I remember I loved it at the time, but don&apos;t recall much of the story now. Lots of new-to-me titles here, adding to my TBR!! LOL