As in, low stakes, low drama, good view of the world and its decay. Something more exploratory than action. Societal decay more so than nuclear devastation, but either can work.
Some examples:
After Everyone Died, by Sean Patrick Little – young man survives alone through a Wisconsin winter after a pandemic kills everyone else.
Service Model – a robotic valet travels through an abandoned society with almost no humans left in search of its purpose.
Dies The Fire, by S M Stirling – Follows the lives of survivors of an event called The Change that causes gunpowder and electricity to stop functioning
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User Suggestions
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Slow Apocalypse, by John Varley
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Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
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A Song for a New Day, by Sarah Pinsker
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Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
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Earth Abides, by George R. Stuart
by memorizemee
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maybe Emily St John Mandel – *Station Eleven*?
*Slow Apocalypse* by John Varley will stop your motor. It’s a slow grind into a decaying world with decreasing basic resources as oil in equipment and even in the ground converts to something unstable and unusable.
A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
Possibly Parable of the Sower
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides
The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette