Post-apocalyptic novels (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 131. Chapters: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Day of the Triffids, Farnham's Freehold, The Children of Men, Sixth Column, The Last Man, Left Behind, Level 7, Alas, Babylon, The Handmaid's Tale, On the Beach, Long Voyage Back, The Emberverse series, Earth Abides, Dhalgren, Trinity Blood, Roadside Picnic, Deathlands, The Peshawar Lancers, List of book-based war films, Oryx and Crake, The Lathe of Heaven, A Darkling Plain, Logan's Run, Mortal Engines, The Amtrak Wars, Warday, Mockingjay, Prisoners of Power, The Chrysalids, The Survivalist, Final Blackout, Mortal Engines Quartet, Fitzpatrick's War, The Scourge of God, City of Illusions, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, The Quiet Earth, Cloud Atlas, He, She and It, The Purple Cloud, Rough Draft, Brother in the Land, Galápagos, The Book of Dave, Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, The Year of the Quiet Sun, X Isle, The Sunrise Lands, Riddley Walker, After Worlds Collide, Sword of the Spirits, The Sword of the Lady, The Protector's War, The Mark, The Drowned World, The Martian General's Daughter, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, Always Coming Home, Z for Zachariah, Rogue Mage series, One in Three Hundred, When Worlds Collide, Down to a Sunless Sea, Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection, Empty World, The Year of the Flood, The Girl Who Owned a City, Final Draft, The Last Book in the Universe, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, The Night of the Triffids, The World Jones Made, The Last Children of Schewenborn, Greatwinter, Doomsday Plus Twelve, Metal Fatigue, Chronicles of Ynis Aielle, Fever Crumb, Ariel, A Wrinkle in the Skin, Doomsday Warrior, Nuclear Dream, The Miocene Arrow, Metro 2033, The Burning World, Malevil, Eyes of the Calculor, Souls in the Great Machine, Winter of Fire, Ravage, The Last American, The Last Canadian, Deluge, Une rose au paradis, The Voyage of QV66, Niourk, After the Flood, The Aftermath, A Gift Upon the Shore, Implosion, Davy, Two Journeys. Excerpt: The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near future, in a totalitarian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency. The novel was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The Parson's Tale", etc.). The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987, and it was nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. It has been adapted for the cinema, radio, opera, and stage. The Handmaid's Tale is set in the near future in the Republic of Gilead, a country formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States of America. It was founded by a racist, male chauvinist, nativist, theocratic-organized military coup as an ideologically-driven response to the pervasive ecological, physical and social degradation of the country. Beginning with a staged terrorist attack (blamed on Islamic extremist terrorists) that kills the President, a movement calling itself the "Sons of Jacob" launched a revolution, ousted Congress, and suspended the United States Constitution under th...