The oceans stopped working before Willo was born, so the world of ice and snow is all he’s ever known. He lives with his family deep in the wilderness, far from the government’s controlling grasp. Willo’s survival skills are put to the test when he arrives home one day to find his family gone. It could be the government; it could be scavengers–all Willo knows is he has to find refuge and his family. It is a journey that will take him into the city he’s always avoided, with a girl who needs his help more than he knows
On Monday, we asked for recommendations of your favorite “after the bomb/plague/invasion” stories. There were a TON of great responses. Here’s what you guys suggested in the comments and on Facebook and Twitter. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Passage by Justin Cronin Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon The Silent Land by Graham Joyce The Stand by Stephen King The Dark Tower series by Stephen King Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams Ablaze by Piers Paul Read Flood by Stephen Baxter Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and J.E. Pournelle Ill Wind by Rachel Caine Divergent by Veronica Roth Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament by S.G. Browne The Chrysalids by John Wyndham The Scarlet Plague by Jack London The Last Man by Mary Shelley Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Children of Men by P.D. James World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler One Second After by William R. Forstchen On the Beach by Nevil Shute The Postman by David Brin Hiroshima by John Hersey “A Boy and His Dog” by Harlan Ellison Far North by Marcel Theroux Through Darkest America and Dawn’s Uncertain Light by Neal Barrett Long Voyage Home by Luke Rhinehart Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut After London Or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies News from Nowhere by William Morris
