Some Will Not Die
9 best books like Some Will Not Die (Algis Budrys): The Dog Stars, Last Day, Alas, Babylon, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, Far North, Kira-Kira, Dragon Springs Road, Summer of the Apocalypse, A Wrinkle in the Skin
| Author | Peter Heller |
| ISBN | 0307959945 |
Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.
But when a random transmission beams through...
| Author | Domenica Ruta |
| ISBN | 0525510818 |
The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday in a thought-provoking debut that brings to mind such novels as Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles.
In Domenica Ruta's profoundly original novel, the end of the world comes once a year....
| Author | Pat Frank |
| ISBN | 0060741872 |
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just...
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
| Author | Victor LaValle |
| ISBN | 0525508805 |
What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love comes to life in original speculative stories that challenge oppression and embrace inclusiveness--from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, and more.
For many Americans, imagining a bright...
| Author | Marcel Theroux |
| ISBN | 0571237770 |
Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved...
| Author | Cynthia Kadohata |
| ISBN | 0689856407 |
kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason and so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move...
| Author | Janie Chang |
| ISBN | 0062388959 |
From the author of Three Souls comes a vividly imagined and haunting new novel set in early 20th century Shanghai—a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that follows a young Eurasian orphan’s search for her long-lost mother.
That night I dreamed that I had wandered out to Dragon...
| Author | James Van Pelt |
| ISBN | 0974657387 |
When a plague wipes out most of humanity, fifteen-year-old Eric sets out to find his father. Sixty years later, Eric starts another long journey in an America that has long since quit resembling our own, but there are shadows everywhere. Shadows of what the world once was, and shadows from Eric’s past....
| Author | John Christopher |
| ISBN | 1587152355 |
A Wrinkle in the Skin (aka The Ragged Edge) is a 1965 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the British author Samuel Youd under the pen name of John Christopher.
A massive series of earthquakes on a worldwide scale reduce cities to rubble, plunging survivors into barbarism. Most...
