I have long thought it would be cool to read a book where people on a cruise ship have to deal with a sudden colapse of society. Something about the ship being it's own little world while also being so dependent on the outside world is interesting to me.
To clarify I don't want the people on the cruise ship to be directly affected by the apocalyptic event. Just inderectly because they can't just head to av port and get all their supplies.
by Holmbone
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Sounds like you need to write a book!
Not a book because I don’t know of one with such a premise – and I really hope someone comes out and comments with a title because now I’m dying to read it – but the tv show Fear the walking dead has a small arch of something similar (it’s a yacht).
John Ringo’s Black tide rising series features a zombie apocalypse. The survivors largely live on boats and ships, and at least one involves clearing zombies off a cruise ship and rescuing survivors. Then they try to rebuild society. Okay if you like gung ho fiction.
Eric Flint’s The Alexander inheritance involves a cruise ship sent back in time to the bronze age and looking for resources.
SM Stirling’s Nantucket trilogy features a US coastguard cutter sent back in time
In The Living Dead by George Romero, a significant part of the novel happens on board of an US carrier
Definitely “The Ship” by Antonia Honeywell. It’s not a cruise ship, but close enough.
Young, naive, and frustratingly sheltered, Lalla has grown up in near-isolation in her parents’ apartment, sheltered from the chaos of their collapsed civilization. But things are getting more dangerous outside. People are killing each other for husks of bread, and the police are detaining anyone without an identification card. On her sixteenth birthday, Lalla’s father decides it’s time to use their escape route — a ship he’s built that is only big enough to save five hundred people.
But the utopia her father has created isn’t everything it appears. There’s more food than anyone can eat, but nothing grows; more clothes than anyone can wear, but no way to mend them; and no-one can tell her where they are going.
As a start, see my [Apocalyptic/Post-apocalyptic](https://www.reddit.com/r/Recommend_A_Book/comments/1ajd1hl/apocalypticpostapocalyptic/) list of Reddit recommendation threads and books (three posts).