Our friends at Dover Publications have recently released a new series called Doomsday Classics, and they have arranged to give away four books each from the series to two lucky readers!
Barren nuclear wastelands. Weird mutants. Ragtag survivors struggling against all odds. Dover Publications new Doomsday Classic series present reissues of classic, groundbreaking works that paved the way for the postapocalyptic fiction of such bestselling authors as Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, and Suzanne Collins. If you’re a fan of these authors and films like the Divergent and Hunger Games franchises, this is the series for you!
The Scarlet Plague Jack London (1912)
Once the red rash appears, it is too late. The victims die within hours, their rapidly decomposing bodies spreading the disease in the dust. Art, science, and learning die with them while the few survivors degenerate into feral clans. This story takes place in 2073, sixty years after the great pandemic of 2013. A former professor of literature―now a dirty old man in goatskin―tells his incredulous and uncomprehending grandsons, “I am the last man who was alive in the days of the plague and who knows the wonders of that far-off time. We, who mastered the planet―its earth, and sea, and sky―and who were as very gods, now live in primitive savagery.” This pioneering science-fiction novella, like many of the master storyteller’s other tales, explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism.
Lord Of The World Robert Hugh Benson (1907)
Belief in God has been replaced by secular humanism in this gripping tale of the apocalypse. Protestantism is over, Catholicism is driven underground, and the Eastern religions have merged into a single pantheistic creed that poses an ongoing military threat to the West. Without a spiritual dimension to their lives, people are literally bored to death, choosing legal euthanasia rather than an empty existence. A charismatic leader arises amid this culture of despair, and in their eagerness for change, the citizens support the coming of the Antichrist and the end of days. The novel has been hailed as prophetic by Dale Ahlquist, Joseph Pearce, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis, among others.
Darkness And Dawn: The Complete Dystopian Science Fiction Masterwork George Allan England (1914)
A young engineer and his secretary awake in the ruins of a Manhattan skyscraper to discover that they’ve been asleep for 1,500 years. The city’s architecture isn’t all that’s crumbled ― humanity has degenerated into roving tribes of murderous, misshapen creatures. Together, the survivors of the old world must escape from New York and not only survive but also lay the foundations for a new civilization. Originally published as magazine serials, this edition presents all three of George Allan England’s pioneering post-apocalyptic fables: The Vacant World, Beyond the Great Oblivion, and The Afterglow.
After London Richard Jefferies (1885)
A catastrophe has descended upon England. London is now a pestilent swamp, dotted with the ghostly remains of ancient buildings. A giant lake dominates the center of the country, towns have collapsed and given way to forests, and the few scattered survivors have descended into barbarism. Amid the ruins of civilization and a countryside ravaged by warring tribes, a lone hero undertakes a quest to prove himself worthy of his beloved. An avid lover of wilderness, author Richard Jeffries devised a fantasy that places humanity in a state closer to nature.
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