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Tagged with books post-apocalyptic
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Novel with a college age protagonist in a world where something is causing people to be violent
I recently read a blurb somewhere about a book involving a college age protagonist. Something happens to make people turn violent (signal, virus maybe?) and he is forced to run. He is trying to get ...
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Looking for a book I read in the '70s, post-apocalypse/underground bunker
The main character is a boy whose mother is killed because another child is being born and their population numbers are strictly controlled. I remember a quote from the ritual that takes place: &...
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Book series about a guy who wins the lottery and builds an elaborate post-apocalyptic bunker
This is a series of books about a guy who wins the lottery and spends the money to build a huge and elaborate bunker to survive an apocalyptic event.
I thought it might have been written by Boyd ...
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Christian sci-fi/fantasy book series about teenagers who are put into cryosleep before a nuclear war
It's a Christian-inspired series about teenagers who are put into cryosleep before a nuclear war.
The first book starts with a teenage boy waking up and not being able to recognize his own father, due ...
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Post-apocalyptic novel from the 80s about survivors travelling in a land train across America
I need help finding a book (I read in the 80s):
Post-apocalyptic novel about a group of survivors in some kind of land train traveling across America.
The leaders keep people inside all the time, due ...
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Book about a boy living in a futuristic building underground because of toxic air at the surface
I've been searching for this book for years but still no clues today. I think I read it in high school so it must be between 2012-2014. I don't remember if it was an old or modern book, but here is ...
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Trying to find a sci-fi book about a girl living in a tower post nuclear fallout
The tower was large enough to hold a city/states worth of people. Had water purification, farms, etc. for sustainability. I remember she used the equipment to scale the outside of the tower at one ...
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Post-apocalyptic sci-fi book about a man with metal spikes in his head, like a crown of thorns, who is worshipped by rats [duplicate]
More than a decade ago, I began reading a book. The book got lost before I could finish, and I only remember very few, vague details.
I'm pretty sure it was set in a post-apocalyptic climate. Most ...
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The Aquanauts, series of books in a post-apocalyptic future
YA post-apocalyptic novel from 60's or 70's, quasi-military organization that patrols the oceans for threats both human and animal.
A trio of friends embark on a voyage to discover the remains of the ...
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80's/90's novel about a post-apocalyptic gunman, NOT GUNSLINGER, ending with the first atomic bomb test?
First up, this is NOT Gunslinger by Stephen King. I read this in the 90's, but it could have been from the 80's.
It was about a cowboy type guy in a post-apocalyptic future who made his own bullets ...
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'80s/'90s post-apocalyptic book with people randomly going insane
I read a book from my dad when I was younger and have been trying to figure out what it was for years. He has no idea what it was.
It was a post-apocalyptic book where, I believe, the apocalypse ...
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Book series about a young man who lives in a post-apocalyptic village where all technology is banned and he ends up in a futuristic city
The book series takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. I don't know how the world ended up like that.
The first book is about the main character who lives in a village where all use of technology is ...
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'80s/'90s post-apocalyptic book series about a military-type guy and a cult that lives near nuclear areas
It's a post-apocalyptic/dystopian future that takes place after a nuclear war. The main character is a military-type guy. There's a cult that lives near nuclear areas and gets green spots and try to ...
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Book about people trying to survive in a world where technology has been shut down or destroyed
I'm looking for a specific book, but I can't find it: it was about an electrical shutdown (no, it's not Blackout).
The book was about a virus or something like that destroying advanced technology, and ...
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Early 90's Book Fair book about a post-apocalyptic society where people find skeletons "worshipping" a box - it was illustrated [duplicate]
I'm looking for the title of a book that was likely purchased at a 1990 book fair. It had a blue cover and was likely about people sifting through the rubble, houses, etc. after what seems to be an ...
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