When you wish to enjoy the end of the world, without the negative effects that come with it, then Post-Apocalyptic novels are the best choice. While countless in numbers, there are many such books that can be enjoyed and are just as diverse in their own right.
Patient Zero
If government agencies and bio-weapons is your fancy, then the novel Patient Zero, written by Jonathan Maberry, will surely be to your liking. The story follows the adventures of detective Joe Ledge from Baltimore as he is recruited to be the leader of a special task force that is designed to handle problems which are way over the capabilities of regular security agencies. Known as the Department of Military Science, or DMS, they have to undertake an operation to stop rogue scientists as they are working on creating a bio-weapon designed to be launched into the atmosphere and transform humans into zombies.
The Rising
A more supernatural take on the zombie genre, mixed in with science, is The Rising. In The Rising, a scientific experiment has opened a portal into another dimension that caused demons to pour into our own reality. Once they’ve reached our own world, they started possessing the dead and has caused an infestation that plunged the world into Chaos. Our protagonist is a construction worker, Jim Thurmond, who managed to survive the invasion in a bunker. Faced with the idea of suicide, Jim is only saved from this contemplation when he receives a message from his son, who apparently is in hiding a very long distance away from where Jim is.
Jim decides to set forth to rescue his son, and along the way he forms a party with a very interesting host of characters. We can see a preacher, an ex-prostitute and a scientist join in with him as they try to survive the horrors that have been unleashed upon the world.
World War Z
In World War Z we follow the exploits of Max Brooks who is researching the effects of the Zombie War. The Zombie War was the closest possible event which may have caused the extinction of the human race. Our protagonist travels the globe to gather information from survivors and how they experienced the war. We can see him going from America to the very epicenter of the virus infestation, in New Dachang, China. This is where Patient Zero and the zombie virus originated from. Other horrifying places that are visited includes the southern regions of Africa, where the survivors had to endure soul-crushing hardships.
Brook’s research results in the formation of the ‘’World War Z’’ document and provides insight on many horrible places and the effects of the aftermath. More information can be found on https://booksiren.com/apocalyptic-books/ on these and other such works of fiction.