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Fallout 3 is still months away, but you can get in the Fallout spirit (kind of a funky, post-apocalyptic, 1950s vibe) with these books. Summaries are courtesy NoveList Plus, Amazon, and Wikipedia.
Alas, Babylon (1959) Frank, Pat
The survivors of an H-bomb attack are forced to rely on their own resources amidst the ruins of Fort Repose.
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) Miller, Walter M. Jr.,
A monk struggles to preserve spiritual life and wisdom in the years following a nuclear holocaust.
The City of Ember (2005) Duprau, Jeanne
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Damnation Alley (2004) Zelazny, Roger
Facing a life sentence in prison for his various crimes, notorious criminal Hell Tanner is given the chance to escape jail by driving cross-country to deliver a case of antiserum to the plague-ridden people of Boston, confronting radioactive storms, carnivorous predators, mutated scorpions, and other perils along the way.
Dr. Bloodmoney (1965) Dick, Philip K.
In the years following a catastrophic nuclear war a group of survivors struggles to adapt to the radiation, the loss of technology, and the emergence of new species of mutant beings with previously unknown powers.
The Oblivion Society (2007) Hart, Marcus Alexander
Vivian Gray is stuck in a dead-end job with a horrible boss in a town full of aging seniors in Florida. She supports her unemployed brother, Bobby and his geek friend Erik in a small apartment in town. Just when it seems that she has a shot to get out of town, and start a career in modeling, the end of the world happens. Vivian and a rag-tag band of survivors must survive attacks from mutant creatures to make it to a distant sanctuary, that may or may not exist.
The Postman (1997) Brin, David
In the aftermath of a war that has devastated the nation, a traveling storyteller borrows the jacket of a long dead postal worker and is transformed unwittingly into a symbol of hope for America’s future.
Wasteland Book 1: Cities In Dust (2007) Johnston, Antony
Wasteland is set one hundred years after the Big Wet, an unspecified disaster that destroyed modern society and, it is assumed, changed the world’s coastlines. The story takes place somewhere in America, now a barren desert and dustbowl without modern technology.
The World Without Us (2007) Weisman, Alan
A study of what would happen to Earth if the human presence was removed examines our legacy for the planet, from the objects that would vanish without human intervention to those that would become long-lasting remnants of humankind.
Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future (1996) Corn, Joseph J. and Horrigan, Brian
Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore the future as Americans earlier in the last century expected it to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent testimony to the confidence — and, at times, the naive faith — Americans have had in science and technology. The future that emerges here, the authors conclude, is one in which technology changes, but society and politics usually do not.
