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Brendan McFeely's avatar

In to note here that Yout, as John Christopher, also penned the highly-influential post-apocalyptic YA series, THE TRIPODS, depicting humanity reduced to serfdom and agronomy after the conquest of Earth by aliens known as "The Masters".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods

(I'm convinced that L. Ron Hubbard ripped this series off and used the milieu and some other details for his own post-apoc, BATTLEFIELD EARTH.)

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Douglas R's avatar

I'll suggest 2 post-apocalyptic books which take place in the distant future. "Riddley Walker" takes place almost 2400 years in the future of southeast England after a thermonuclear war in 1997 (the book was written in the mid '70s) and it is written in the English dialect of that distant time. The "expanded version" has a glossary which is helpful the first time you read it. This is a masterpiece by Russell Hoban

The second book is "Engine Summer" which takes place somewhere in North America at an undetermined future date, but probably two or three thousand years in the future. To say anymore would involve spoilers. It is by John Crowley.

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