Haven't read the Niven/Pournelle/Barnes book mentioned above, but when I was a kid, I LOVED Niven & Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer, about an apocalyptic metor strike and its after-effects. Used to fantasize about surviving some kind of holocaust and having a cool Mad Max car.
Also, Dinner at Deviant's Palace, by Tim Powers is awful good. Not quite Anubis Gates good, but getting there.
Jonathan Lethem's Amnesia Moon is kinda postapocalyptic.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Agree that Ridley Walker is good, though I found it slow going. Loved The Road.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian is about the Apocalypse, complete with angels.
― badg, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Does Greg Bear's Blood Music count? It's more apocalyptic than post, but at the end you get a taste of thereafteryness.
And is The Children's Hospital any good? I loved the HC packaging (much less the paperback), but had become wary of the McSweeny's imprint at that point.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm a bit leery of McSweeny's too, but I think The Children's Hospital is a fantastic book, all zillion pages of it.
― badg, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
It does look groovy. I think I will have to take the plunge.
― James Morrison, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link