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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
Quite. That brings to mind a book I am very, very glad I read before I saw the movie and which does have two (of its six) sections that are dystopia/post-apocalypse, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. |
Seconded! I loved that book so much - I read it because I wanted to see the movie but read the book first, and that was a really good idea.
I want to throw in a recommendation myself:
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. It's not so much post- but pre-apocalyptic so it doesn't fit your criteria exactly, but I found it really interesting to see how the world's population might react if everyone knew that doom was inevitable (also, the reason why the earth is doomed was sooo interesting to read about!)
Unfortunately, the ending falls flat and somewhat spoiled the book for me - I didn't know that it is part of a series. I have no interest in reading the next book in the series, but up until the end I found the book really, really gripping, and I think I was only disappointed in the book because it started out so strong (and because I expected a stand alone novel when it really wasn't).