Any good books similar to Fallout?

[News1982]

I first became exposed to post apocalytic fiction from Mad Max and Fallout 1 but have found no big titles to be anything close to Fallout. The Road was really the only one I was able to read from beginning to end and I didnt think it was that good. Others books seemed too fake, had magic.

[Dakine]

a boy and his dog is my all time favorite movie and if you want something falloutey nothing does it more for me than the book series "Deathlands". Guns,Rape,Murder,n more guns. Plus they dont leave much out in the way of details.

[BlackWater]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Crying Salt:

a boy and his dog is my all time favorite movie and if you want something falloutey nothing does it more for me than the book series "Deathlands". Guns,Rape,Murder,n more guns. Plus they dont leave much out in the way of details.

I wanted to read that series at one point but the closest libary do not have them. Weren't they supposed to have large anti communist themes because of a war with Russia, or I could be thinking of another series.

[Sistercyborg21]

Ursprungligen skrivet av BlackWater:

The Legends of The Duskwalker is a pretty good series as well along with its first book Three. Its a good book about a merc taking a mother and her son to his father. Its a lot like fallout but with a higher grade of tech, for instance a lot of people can access a net remotely through their brain and there is a artificial afterlife that is like a giant server bank.

I can't remember if it has any mutant creaturesbut they do have something like a ferel ghoul but more like a techno ghoul, something like the Husks from Mass Effect.

Sorry to get a little off topic here, but I just finished the Duskwalker series and have to say it is a great recommendation! Please, if you can recommend other books like Duskwalker I would really appreciate it! Thanks

[capnclammy]

Ursprungligen skrivet av turtle-trax:

I know of The Stand by Stephen King but hey OP you just put me on the trail of something new, reading post-apocalyptic novels, thanks! To that end I found this site which looks like a good place to start. I know of a lot of movies but zilch on novels of this topic so I searched......

http://best-sci-fi-books.com/21-best-post-apocalyptic-science-fiction-books/

Stephen King also did The Gunslinger/Dark Tower. I highly recomend these books.

[Baschiro]

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A boy and his dog

I think bethesda said fallout was influenced by this one (as well as mad max)

[enhjester]

A boy and his dog was both a fantastic book, and adaptation into a movie.

I'm reading the After series now...it's not quite exactly like Fallout, but post cataclysmic nonetheless. Wayward Pines was a good book that was somewhat post cataclysmic in a weird way...and don't pay any attention to the travesty that was M. Nighe Shama-lama-ding-dong's version of it on TV.

I have one in my queue to read called The Last Survivors...I think it might have been free on Amazon Kindle.

[EDIT]

I'd check out the Amazon Kindle store, if anything for ideas. They have a huge collection of post cataclysmic books for super cheap.

[Man Of Many Wololo's]

The Emberverse series by S.M Stirling, Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny (great book, terrible, terrible movie)

[Angry Nord-Grunge Syndicate]

There is the Afterblight Chronicles series, multiple authors, same universe.
Common enemies are raiders and crazy cults. Very fallout like, but happens in modern times.

Other and older series there are Survivalist (haven't gotten very far can't say that i like it very much) and Deadlands, haven't read.

Then there are about 9000 zombie apocalypse novels, but too many to list and tend to be rather similar.

[Hrochnick]

Nice thread, got a few good ideas for my reading list and already grabbed the first book in the After series (free kindle edition on Amazon), so thanks.

For something 'vaulty' try the Wool series (and the Silo spin offs) - I thoroughly enjoyed those. Pretty much everything happens underground (above ground is death in minutes) but plenty of intrigue and some good surprises and twists. If I remember correctly I think think the author said he was inspired by the Fallout games (but they are very different worlds).

[SIlverblade-T-E]

wow no one mentioned *THE* classic that started a lot of this?

HEIRO'S JOURNEY by Sterling E. Lanier, and it's sequel, Unforsaken Heiro
set 5000 years after a total nuclear bio chem war, features lot of mutations and psionic battles
damn awesome :)

DEATHLANDS yes that's another great series and very apropos
a mod put the Deathlands characters/things in to New Vegas, to an extent, lol, Word of Pain I think?

[Råb!d]

Wool (similar, bunker setting)
The Remaining by D. J. Molles

[Xyzzy]

Falling Skies tv series, is in Massachusetts, has settlements, has apocalyptic wasteland but caused by aliens not a bomb.
Bodysnatchers-2 and 1...
Looper.

[Moose]

"The White Plague" by Frank Herbert. Read it long ago. Not that well known in the shadow of the Dune books, but it scared the bejeezus out of me.

[Bored Peon]

There was a series written back in the late 80's called Endworld. They were somewhat decent, but, they were from one of them authors that writes a new book like every month or two. They may be out of print.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endworld

[Tokazou]

Since no one mentioned it, Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Instead of nuclear war, this one's about a comet hitting earth. Still a pretty bleak apocalyptic setting though (spoiler: no super mutants).