Hope this is not off-topic but what are people’s favorite post-apocalypse novels?
I just finished re-reading Day Of The Triffids and loved it. Also same author (Wyndham) The Midwich Cuckoos which was not so good.
The genre was invented, some would assert, by the guy who wrote A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller?) as an act of penance for his role in destroying Monte Cassino, the oldest functioning monastery in Europe. He was a navigator.
Lucifer's Hammer is worth reading, and re-reading. Weird things happen in stressful times, such as the proliferation of cults. (paranthetically, in Kiev in 1992, there were many hand-made posters plastered up around town recruiting for the White Brotherhood, a movement headed up by a man and wife who claimed to be the reincarnations of Peter and Paul.)
This is a topic dear to my heart. In fact, I'm working on a dissertation that compares several real-world post-apocalyptic documents, that actually looked beyond the end of the writer's world to envision, and define, the replacement world.