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Let's talk apocalypse. I want overlooked, underread, interesting if not quality stuff. Fuck off with your middle of the road well known recs.

Preferably biohazard, man made rather than climate. Add your preferences too. I can reccommend Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger novels for starters.
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>>8060560
This is my favorite genre fiction and the only good ones I know of are

The Road - McCarthy
Earth Abides - Stewart
Alas, Babylon - Frank
On the Beach - Shute
Riddley Walker - Hoban

The one by Emily St. John Mandel was a waste of time.
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>>8060571
Well reading the first entry I wanted to say "come the fuck on" but I actually never heard of other novels except perhaps On the beach.

You might want to start with Ballard's short stories and The Drowned World.
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>>8060560
Anything similar to Fallout, or fallout vaults?
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>>8060560
>>8060571
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>>8060575
This board as become trash.
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>>8060575
Don't know of anything exactly like Fallout in literature but there are vaults in Maberry's fiction. It's trash but fun trash in a sense "this guy will do anything for a buck".

Maybe A Boy and His Dog or similar short stories.

>>8060578
Fuck off sperg.
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J.G Ballard's High Rise - not quite an apocalypse but good societal breakdown. Pic related is worth look also.
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>>8060623
I want to read Stand on Zanzibar because the title reminds me of Metal Gear.
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>>8060634
this board is really fucking dead.
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>>8060648
Oh, no! Oh squeeze my cheek and say it ain't so!
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>>8060634
a while since i read that... remember it being good and cynical but Sheep is devastating once you get into it - both are a bit dated in writing style but totally on point otherwise.
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>>8060660
Dated in what way?
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