Question by metallica_rocks0122: anyone have suggestions for books with this theme?
along the lines of Book of Eli, or I am legend.. regarding people living in a destroyed world, how they go on with radiation poisoning etc. or climate change… thanks.
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Answer by Ashlyn
Read the Uglies series. They’re amazing. It’s a dystopian society and the main character and her friends fight back
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Darren Shan is an author who is great with that theme. Some of his books are The Demonata Series, The Cirque du Freak Series, and the Larten Crepsly Saga. I would highly recommend them to anyone.
You should try Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. A meteor hits the moon and pushes it closer to earth, causing all kinds of problems. http://www.shvoong.com/books/science-fiction/2301002-life-knew/
Some other books with that similar theme:
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Gone series by Michael Grant
Happenstance Found (the Books of Umber) by P. W. Catanese
Legend by Marie Lu
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Matched series by Ally Condie
Hope this helps!
http://baen.com/ has a free library where you can find the following books
There Will be Dragons
by John Ringo
Series: Council Wars by John Ringo
Publisher: Baen Books
Paradise Lost
In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.
But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven’s Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the Fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded lion.
But what the jackals do not know is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not all he once was. . . .
1632
by Eric Flint
Series: Ring of Fire Series by Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Books
The Ultimate Y2K Glitch….
1632 In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn’t get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it’s deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn’s sister (including the entire membership of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.
THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED….
When the dust settles, Mike leads a small group of armed miners to find out what’s going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville’s asphalt road is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell; a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter Iying screaming in muck at the center of a ring of attentive men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don’t have to ask who to shoot.
At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of The Thirty Years War.
Another good book is
Lucifer’s Hammer
by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Publisher: Baen Books
Delirium
It’s about a society in the future where love us seen as a disorder, so when they reach a certain age they get the cure for love
If you like action then I would read
Ash fall
Where this mountain exploded killing lots of people and leaving every one to fend for the,selves and survive
If I were you I would just look online for distopian society books
Here’s a list
http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/dystopian-novels