Hello everyone! I recently have been waiting for the new Maze Runner book to come out on Nov 11 but i’m going to be stuck in the airport for 13 hours tomorrow and need something to read while i’m there.
I have found that i’m a super big fan of Stephen King and have worked through a lot of his works. The Stand ended up being my favorite out of all of them. His description of how the plague started and ran its course really hit well with me.
If anyone could recommend another book of the same descriptive level as The Stand with a similar catastrophic event as the center I would much appreciate it.
I’ve already read a few similar but they were young adult fiction and didn’t scratch the itch as well as the gore in Stephens work did.
I’d also take recommendations for book series like The Hunger Games (+os&s) or Divergent I may also give those a sniff.
TIA!
by PettyBirthday
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The Road
* Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys
* The Death of Grass by John Christopher
* The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndam
* Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
* The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling.
*How High We Go in the Dark* by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
>In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.
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>Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects—a pig—develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.
From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resilience of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.