Hello everyone. I‘ve been getting that post apocalyptic reading itch again, but I want something a little different. I want to read something where the world has been completely changed by some strange and mysterious calamity. I’m not talking zombies, viruses, nuclear holocaust, or anything manmade, but something else that has changed the world in seemingly unnatural ways. I guess a kind of book like that would have some supernatural/very light fantasy elements to it.
The closest thing I can think of are the Fallout games. Yes, the setting takes place after a nuclear holocaust, but the way radiation works in those games differs greatly from how it actually works in real life. In the series radiation acts almost like some kind of horrific cosmic magic. Sure, it can be observed and measured through scientific means, but the effects it has on the world are weird with a capital W.
So, what do you all recommend?
by GingerBr3adBrad
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The world feels wrong in a quiet, almost cosmic way.
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers. The disaster already happened and no one fully understands it.
A Fair System, Probably. Short dystopia where the end of the world has a front desk. You’re following someone trying to navigate a system that appeared after something strange reshaped everything.
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. Not a global apocalypse, but a specific region that’s been… transformed, and seems to be growing larger. Follows an unnamed biologist on an expedition exploring the area.
The Crystal World by JG Ballard
The Past is Red