Which End of the World is This?

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1. The Solanum virus spreads across the world, infecting billions of people. The dead rise up as zombies and attack the remaining uninfected ones. Told from the point of view of a journalist, recording events during and just after the "beginning of the end" for posterity, which book is this? City of the Dead Monster Nation World War Z The Rising

2. Set in what was once Moscow, 200 years after "The Blast", this book is narrated by Benedikt, the Golubchik scribe, who has never read a book in his life. People survive on mice and "wurrums" and the few remaining "Oldeners" (survivors of the original Blast) are mocked and derided for their longing for the life they once knew. Which book is this? The Slynx Omon Ra Ice On the Golden Porch

3. This book tells the story of geology student Isherwood Williams, who returns from a solo trip to the mountains to find he has survived a plague which has killed almost everyone else. He returns to his home in San Francisco and gradually meets up with a few other survivors. They work together to build a new life for themselves amid the wreckage of the old. By the end of the story their descendants are an established tribe, and have a good, albeit very different, lifestyle. Which book is this? Earth Abides By the Waters of Babylon Alas, Babylon Some Will Not Die

4. Meteor shower. Blind population. Poisonous mobile plants. Need I say more? Consider Her Ways The Chrysalids Day of the Triffids The Trouble with Lichen

5. Massive earthquakes shatter the Channel Islands, and the English Channel is left dry, while the southeastern end of England vanishes beneath the waves. This story tells of one man's journey through the devastation, accopanied by a young boy he rescues, to search for his daughter. Which novel by John Christopher is it? Pendulum Empty World A Wrinkle in the Skin The Death of Grass

6. "Captain Trips"; "Walkin' Dude"; "M-O-O-N spells Moon"; atomic bomb goes off in Las Vegas - what else needs to be said? Beyond the Dark River Light a Last Candle The Stand Follow me Down

7. One of, if not the only, book ever written where every single person on Earth is dead at the end, this classic tells the story of the residents of Melbourne facing the approach of deadly nuclear fallout. The last surviving members of the US Navy have taken refuge there in a submarine; they carry out one last mission before scuttling their vessel. Which book is this? Shade's Children Earth Abides On the Beach Alas, Babylon

8. In this novel, a man and his young son journey through a devastated land. The reader never finds out their names, where they have come from, or where they are going to; even the cause of the devastation is left to the imagination. Along the way, the travellers endure great hardship, and also have moments of hope when they find supplies to help them on their way. Eventually the father dies, and the son is taken in by a small family group who are also travelling. Which novel is this? Follow me Down The Road The Rift Empty World

9. This book features just about every disaster there is; first comes a nuclear war, followed by earthquakes and tsunamis. As if that wasn't bad enough, the survivors are then decimated by a plague, while desperate gangs ravage and loot the devastated landscape. Mary Hope and her best friend Rachel try to save as many books as they can, as they eke out a bare living on their small farm, but a group of religious fanatics arrive and call for the destruction of all the books. Which book is this? Fahrenheit 451 A Canticle for Leibowitz From Carthage Then I Came A Gift Upon the Shore

10. Strange glowing red lights streaking across the sky and landing in the sea are at first dismissed as "silly season" news. Soon though, ships mysteriously vanish, and coastal towns and villages are under attack, with the citizens carried off into the sea. The sea levels then begin to rise, and rise, until large portions of the coastlines are underwater. Told by a news reporter based in London, which story is this? The Kraken Wakes Down to a Sunless Sea Drowned World On the Beach