Books like Systemic Shock
30 science fiction books to read after Systemic Shock, by Dean Ing, the closest match first.
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Quantrill book 2
1. Single Combat
by Dean Ing
- Same series
- Same author
Single Combat is Dean Ing's sequel to Systemic Shock, in which a survivor of a devastated America and his wife are drawn into a fight with a ruthless enemy.
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Quantrill book 3
2. Wild Country
by Dean Ing
- Same series
- Same author
Wild Country is Dean Ing's third Quantrill novel, a story of survival and self-reliance in a post-collapse world.
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3. Immortality Inc
by Robert Sheckley
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Many of those in the Transhumanist camp believe that sooner or later, in a twisted take on the 'reincarnation' mythos, we'll be able to effectively separate minds from bodies and...
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4. Footprints Of Thunder
by James F. David
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This book was made into a movie, and a pretty good one at that, though by necessity not as complex and in-depth as the book. Crichton does have a habit...
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5. The Disappearance
by Philip Wylie
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The apocalypse here is kind of personal. The world's just fine to start with, but... From one moment to the next all the women disappear from the world of men—and...
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6. Transit
by Edmund Cooper
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First published published in 1964, this novel it hasn't lost anything of its appeal 40+ years later, mainly because its themes are timeless. Two men and two women are abducted...
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The Magicians book 1 Start here
7. The Magicians
by Grossman, Lev
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A prequel novel about a high school senior who is admitted to a school for gifted children, for a magical education in upstate New York. A typical quest story that turns dark. Things are not black and white in this world and the characters are psychologically rich.
School fantasy is often aimed at children, and it's very successful at hitting that market. It's much harder to appeal exclusively to adults, and that's where The Magicians shines. Rather...
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8. The Stand
by King, Stephen
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A popular novel, and possibly King's best, is an end-of-the world story caused by the accidental release of a mutating influenza virus that wipes out 99% of humanity.
You either love him or hate him (and if you do hate him, it's probably because every second sentence is a ridiculous metaphor), but there's no denying that Stephen King...
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9. Planet Of The Apes
by Boulle, Pierre
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The book that launched a cinematic saga is a version of Xenofiction taking place on another planet where apes are intelligent and civilized.
In the year 2500, a French journalist joins an expedition to a planet near Betelgeuse and finds a world ruled by intelligent apes, where humans are mute animals kept in...
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10. The Men In The Jungle
by Norman Spinrad
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On the planet Sangre (Spanish for 'blood') there exists a divided society so brutal that it makes your average Earth-bound slavery society look like a humanitarian enterprise. The sub-class is...
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11. Anthem
by Ayn Rand
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When people hear 'Ayn Rand', they tend to think of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Anthem is a David to her other Goliaths. It may originally have been conceived as...
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12. Mission To Universe
by Gordon R. Dickson
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This is a classic 'first interstellar journey' story by the amazing Gordon Dickson. Impatient with the bureaucracy who is delaying the launch of the new-technology 'phase ship', (very cool technology!)...
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13. Rewind
by Terry England
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What would it be like if your mind, memories, feelings, identify suddenly ended up in the body of a prepubescent child (no sex change involved)? Well, for 17 people that's...
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A Requiem For Homo Sapiens book 1 Start here
14. Neverness
by David Zindell
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Usually when you think of the 80s you think of bouffant hair, jeans tight enough to threaten a man-s ability to father, and high pitched singers wearing neon colors. Fortunately,...
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Francis Sandow book 1 Start here
15. Isle Of The Dead
by Zelazny, Roger
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The protagonist of this story studies to become a telepath and worldscaper--someone who can create and terraform worlds. In this novel, terraforming is an artform.
Zelazny wrote a few stories about immortals, and Francis Sandow is one of them. He was born in the 20th century and ended up in suspended animation on a spaceship....
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16. The Hercules Text
by Mcdevitt, Jack
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The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been underway for over five decades now. (For real, that is!) Somewhere out there, we thinkhope? fear?there may be life forms, alien but...
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17. Immune Response
by Steve Perry
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Suppose someone financed a project to create a drug-and-virus cocktail that could make people essentially immortal. Pop a capsule of the mix and Bob's your uncle. No more illness, quick...
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18. The Blue World
by Vance, Jack
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A spaceship with a bunch of delinquents crashes on a water-covered planet. The survivors manage to adapt to the circumstances and rebuild a kind of civilization, living on the giant...
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Nifft The Lean book 1 Start here
19. Nifft The Lean
by Shea, Michael
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Nifft was a thief and a rogue. Nifft is dead. This is kind of an epitaph in four short tales. You decide whether you'd ever let Nifft get close to...
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20. Blind Waves
by Steven Gould
- On the same lists
Nifft was a thief and a rogue. Nifft is dead. This is kind of an epitaph in four short tales. You decide whether you'd ever let Nifft get close to...
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21. Neanderthal
by John Darnton
- On the same lists
Neanderthal is John Darnton's thriller in which a team of scientists searches for a surviving Neanderthal people in a hidden valley in Central Asia.
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23. Empire Of The East
by Saberhagen, Fred
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ARDNEH (Automatic Restoration Director, National Executive Headquarters) was a super computer that averted nuclear war by—temporarily; or that was the plan—dicking with the local laws of physics and preventing nuclear...
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24. The Postman
by Brin, David
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Made into a much—wrongly!—maligned movie, Postman is set in a post-apocalyptic world, in which the United States has fallen apart into a lawless patchwork of civil disorder. That's what powerful...
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25. The Furies
by Keith Roberts
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Dinosaurs popping up everywhere? How about giant, semi-intelligent wasps? In this novel by the late Keith Roberts we get a different kind of menace, unleashed in apparent consequence of the...
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26. Greenhouse Summer
by Norman Spinrad
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A century hence. Melted Antarctic ice cap and flooded coastlines, drowned cities and low-lying inland areas. Temperatures have risen to making Paris a tropical destination, and Siberia a super-fertile growing...
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27. The White Plague
by Herbert, Frank
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This story is set in Ireland, which doesn't happen in most post-apocalyptic tales. Doesn't happen in most of SF, if the truth be told. Molecular biologist becomes bi-polar as a...
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28. Farnham's Freehold
by Heinlein, Robert A.
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This novel was first published in 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation—a real apocalypse!—still fresh on people's minds. In this...
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29. The Drowned World
by J. G. Ballard
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Remember the fist apocalypse? You don't? I guess you're not all that old then. It's the one with the flood. Heard of it? Noah and the animals and the ship...
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30. The Quiet Earth
by Craig Harrison
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Here's a very cool novel by a New Zealand author, that was made into a pretty good film as well. Geneticist John Hobson wakes up from a nightmare and finds...
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