This honestly startled me….because I’m currently finishing the movie series and I thought, “I wonder if there are some books like this”…..and here you are! Haha hope you don’t mind but I’ll be here looking for suggestions as well….but I’m sure you already knew that, mind reader.
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Here are some that might be good:
– **World War Z: The Definitive Edition** by Max Brooks. Written as a nonfiction oral history of the zombie apocalypse that almost wiped out infinity.
– **The Zombie Autopsies** by Steven Slotzman. The medical journal of a doctor who was sent to join a team of scientists tasked with finding a cure/vaccine for the zombie plague before humanity perishes.
– **Southern Reach** trilogy by James Vandermeer. The first book is called *Annihilation.* For years, the government has been attempting to understand a top secret location known as Area X. Almost every expedition team they’ve sent either don’t return, return but quickly die, or return in a state of utter madness. But, a group of women with their own connection to Area X insist that 12th time’s the charm.
– **Wayward Pines** trilogy by Blake Crouch. A secret service agent is sent to a small, idyllic town in Idaho to investigate the disappearance of two FBI agents. As soon as he arrives, he knows that something is very wrong with this place. It’s kind of a slow burn of suspense-building that doesn’t explain itself till the end of the first book, but if he has the patience, I think the twist at the end of the first book will totally be worth the set up to the more action-packed 2nd and 3rd books.
– **Fantasticland** by Mike Bockoven. A journalist interviews the survivors of a heinous massacre that happened in a creepy and isolated amusement park.
– **Otherlife** trilogy by Jason Segel. Technology has evolved to allow us to spend most of our time in a fully immersive virtual reality world, where you can basically do whatever you want in any scenario you want. One real life player starts to question whether the NPCs everyone uses for canon fodder and/or weird fetishes aren’t sentient, and begins to believe he’s actively participating in the genocide of a new digital species. Kind of like a cross between *Westworld* and *Ready Player One*.
– **The Passage** trilogy by Justin Cronin. Post-apocalyptic thriller where, basically, zombies are replaced by vampires.
– **The Peripheral** by William Gibson. A video game prodigy is invited to test out a brand new haptic gaming system, which is freaking incredible. Predictably, we learn that it isn’t a gaming system. It’s a new technology that could save or destroy us all. Maybe both.
– **The Player of Games** by Iain Banks. *Squid Games* on a galactic level… pure mindfuckery. Part of a larger *Culture* series by Banks, which is totally bananas, but this is the only book that is based on a game.
– **Robopocalypse** by Daniel Wilson. Name says it all.
– pretty much anything by **John Scalzi**. His books are always exciting and witty adventures in some combination of action-sci-fi-fantasy-apocalypse-dystopia. Special shout out to his **Dispatcher: Travel by Bullet** and **Fuzzy Nation.**
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This honestly startled me….because I’m currently finishing the movie series and I thought, “I wonder if there are some books like this”…..and here you are! Haha hope you don’t mind but I’ll be here looking for suggestions as well….but I’m sure you already knew that, mind reader.
Here are some that might be good:
– **World War Z: The Definitive Edition** by Max Brooks. Written as a nonfiction oral history of the zombie apocalypse that almost wiped out infinity.
– **The Zombie Autopsies** by Steven Slotzman. The medical journal of a doctor who was sent to join a team of scientists tasked with finding a cure/vaccine for the zombie plague before humanity perishes.
– **Southern Reach** trilogy by James Vandermeer. The first book is called *Annihilation.* For years, the government has been attempting to understand a top secret location known as Area X. Almost every expedition team they’ve sent either don’t return, return but quickly die, or return in a state of utter madness. But, a group of women with their own connection to Area X insist that 12th time’s the charm.
– **Wayward Pines** trilogy by Blake Crouch. A secret service agent is sent to a small, idyllic town in Idaho to investigate the disappearance of two FBI agents. As soon as he arrives, he knows that something is very wrong with this place. It’s kind of a slow burn of suspense-building that doesn’t explain itself till the end of the first book, but if he has the patience, I think the twist at the end of the first book will totally be worth the set up to the more action-packed 2nd and 3rd books.
– **Fantasticland** by Mike Bockoven. A journalist interviews the survivors of a heinous massacre that happened in a creepy and isolated amusement park.
– **Otherlife** trilogy by Jason Segel. Technology has evolved to allow us to spend most of our time in a fully immersive virtual reality world, where you can basically do whatever you want in any scenario you want. One real life player starts to question whether the NPCs everyone uses for canon fodder and/or weird fetishes aren’t sentient, and begins to believe he’s actively participating in the genocide of a new digital species. Kind of like a cross between *Westworld* and *Ready Player One*.
– **The Passage** trilogy by Justin Cronin. Post-apocalyptic thriller where, basically, zombies are replaced by vampires.
– **The Peripheral** by William Gibson. A video game prodigy is invited to test out a brand new haptic gaming system, which is freaking incredible. Predictably, we learn that it isn’t a gaming system. It’s a new technology that could save or destroy us all. Maybe both.
– **The Player of Games** by Iain Banks. *Squid Games* on a galactic level… pure mindfuckery. Part of a larger *Culture* series by Banks, which is totally bananas, but this is the only book that is based on a game.
– **Robopocalypse** by Daniel Wilson. Name says it all.
– pretty much anything by **John Scalzi**. His books are always exciting and witty adventures in some combination of action-sci-fi-fantasy-apocalypse-dystopia. Special shout out to his **Dispatcher: Travel by Bullet** and **Fuzzy Nation.**