The Night of the Triffids

10 best books like The Night of the Triffids (Simon Clark): Down to a Sunless Sea, Damnation Alley, The Grin of the Dark, Felaheen, Xombies, Indigo, Dusk, Grants Pass, One, Terraforming Earth

AuthorDavid Graham
ISBN1416567666

I read this book a long long long time ago, and then lost it. I have wanted to re-read this novel forever, but have never been able to find a copy. I think it is an excellent book and well written with a great story about a collapsing United States and an apocalyptic nuclear war. The whole story take place...
AuthorRoger Zelazny
ISBN0743486625
Hell Tanner isn't the sort of guy you'd mistake for a hero: he's a fast-driving car thief, a smuggler, and a stone-cold killer. He's also expendable - at least in the eyes of the Secretary of Traffic for the Nation of California. Tanner doesn't care much for those eyes. You'd also never mistake Hell Tanner...
AuthorRamsey Campbell
Tubby Thackeray was once the biggest comedian in the world -- people literally laughed themselves to death at some of his performances. But almost nothing of his silent movies has survived, and now Thackeray is little more than a grace note in film history.

Disgraced film critic Simon is determined...
AuthorJon Courtenay Grimwood
ISBN0553383787
In a world where secrets kill, an ex-cop discovers he's got the biggest secret of all. . . .

Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's acclaimed Arabesk series is a noir action-thriller with an exotic twist. Here an ex-cop with nothing to lose finds himself on the trail of...
AuthorWalter Greatshell
ISBN0425197441
I am only about a quarter through but I feel compelled to respond to the many Goodreads reviewers who say this isn't a zombie novel.

It's a zombie novel.

They urghh and arghh like any zombie just a little faster. Just because you place a X instead of a Z doesn't make it different. You can...
AuthorGraham Joyce
ISBN0671039385
Indigo is a color the human eye can never truly see, a slice of the spectrum imbued with the promise of invisibility. But in the dark world occupied by Jack Chambers' father, indigo will also lead to places of unknown treachery, and ultimately, to madness. As Jack tries to fulfill the terms of his father's...
AuthorTim Lebbon
ISBN0553588419
Kosar the thief senses that Rafe Baburn is no ordinary boy. After witnessing a madman plunder Rafe's village and murder his parents, Kosar knows the boy needs his help. And now, for a reason he cannot fathom, others are seeking the boy's destruction.

Uncertain where to begin, Kosar turns to...
AuthorJennifer Brozek
ISBN9197760560
The apocalypse has arrived.

Humanity was decimated by bio-terrorism; three engineered plagues were let loose on the world. Barely anyone has survived.

Just a year before the collapse, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA, was publicly labeled as a place of sanctuary in a whimsical online,...
AuthorConrad Williams
ISBN0753518104
This is no country he knows, and no place he ever wants to see, even in the shuttered madness of his worst dreams. But Richard Jane survived. He walks because he has no choice and at the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a burned, battered country, his son may be alive. The...
AuthorJack Williamson
ISBN0312872003
When a giant meteor crashes into the earth & destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet & establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, they're able to observe the devastated planet & wait for a time when return will become possible. Generations...
AuthorAlgis Budrys
ISBN1587760290
If you don't normally like post-apocalyptic fiction, read this book: it will surprise you. If you love post-apocalyptic fiction, read this book: it will be a refreshing change to most other similar novels.

The premise is simple and has been used many times since: a mysterious plague wipes...
Colossus and the Crab
AuthorD.F. Jones
ISBN0425043274
BETRAYER OF MANKIND

In all his illustrious career Charles Forbin has never faced a challenge as awe-inspiring, and as hopeless! As the man who mediates between Colossus, the Super-Computer, and the rest of humanity, Forbin holds the key to Earth's fate. Now he has voluntarily used his power...
AuthorStephen Laws
ISBN0340666129
Ever wondered where all your negative thought, evil deeds and terrible things humanity does goes? In this book you truly learn the value of the physics definition: for every action there is a reaction. when the small town of Edmonville is devastated by an earthquake the survivors find themselves on...
AuthorCharles Pellegrino
ISBN0380787423
In an idyllic Long Island community, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair is one of the first to suspect that the environment has begun to wage bloody, terrifying war on humanity. What initially appear to be random, unrelated events are actually violent eruptions in a worldwide biological chain reaction....
Greener Than You Think (Classics of Modern Science Fiction 10)
AuthorWard Moore
ISBN0517558661
This was a book that took me a while to read. It's not because is not interesting but because from the second half of the novel it drags a little and it's the same thing over and over again.

Basiclly the plot is a apocalpytic fiction but not the usual types out there. It was not a war, a plague, alien...
AuthorWilliam F. Nolan
ISBN0553114182
Logan's world. . . With the computer system destroyed, Earth has reverted to savagery. Scattered tribes now rule a charred world. Scavengers, who prowl the broken cities. Surviving corps of the elite killers, led by a psychotic ex-Sandman. Sadistic bands of gypsy riders who kill and plunder. When...
AuthorRobert DeCoteau
Is there ever a good time to murder your wife?

Yes.

The best time to murder your wife is when everyone in town has become a brain-nomming zombie and is too busy chowing down on the brains of acquaintances, friends, neighbours and their own wives, to notice that you've murdered your wife.

Is...
Violet Eyes
AuthorJohn Everson
Their bites are more than deadly...
The small town near the Everglades was supposed to offer Rachel and her son a fresh start. Instead it offered the start of a nightmare, when an unknown breed of flies migrated through the area, leaving painful bites in their wake. The media warned people to stay...
The Rage Plague
AuthorAnthony Giangregorio
ISBN1934861197
An unknown virus spreads across the globe, turning ordinary people into ravenous killers. Only a small population proves to be immune, but most quickly fall prey to the infected. Isolated on the rooftop of a school near the outskirts of Chicago, Bill Thompson and a small band of survivors come to the...
AuthorTim Curran
There’s something wrong on Seagull Island. When the atmospheric conditions are right, a doorway opens to a primeval world of monsters. The locals won’t talk about it. They live in denial. But that’s all about to change. Johnny Horowitz, a much despised member of the paparazzi, has gotten a glimpse...
Marvel Zombies Supreme
AuthorFrank Marraffino
ISBN0785151672
The bodies and unpredictable resurrections climax in the most gore-soaked chapter of the Marvel Zombies saga yet!

They were the Squadron Supreme, heroes exiled from another dimension to our own...but the twisted science of the Project Pegasus facility infected these defenders with a virulent...
Neutron Solstice
AuthorJames Axler
ISBN0373485972
A generation after a global nuclear war, Louisiana is a fetid, sullen landscape of impenetrable swamps and grotesquely mutated wildlife. Above the gnarled bayous, radioactive red dust clouds race across the sky on nuclear winds; below, thick mud sucks at a man's boots. Now and then a biting acid rain...
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