On the recommendation of SF writer (and friend of a friend) Marko Kloos, I recently read Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. It's an excellent book, well worth reading.*
The storytelling is unusual, a complex interweaving of individual narratives that cross and recross over time. The writer handles it neatly, seamlessly, through a harrowing a set of events. Station Eleven fits within the broad category of "end-of-the-word stories," along with A Canticle for Leibowitz, Alas, Babylon, On The Beach, Dean Ing's "Quantrill" trilogy and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Some of them are mentioned in the end-matter of Station Eleven, but the work most like it is conspicuously absent and I don't know why.
The novel begins in a comfortable world and ends on a note of hope, after a succession of terrible journeys. So does Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower. Both include a new religion, too, though in very different ways. If you liked one, I think you'll like the other. Butler, who we lost in 2006, was a talented writer but is often overlooked. She shouldn't be.
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* Trailers I have seen for the HBO series based on the book don't resemble the story I saw as I read. YMMV.
I will check it out. I've read and reread quite a few books and series based on your write-ups. I've yet to be disappointed. Thank you for breaking me out of my fiction reading rut.
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