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Comment by nchuhoai | Hacker News Reader

Slightly OT, but I'd love any suggestions for books/movies that deal with this topic. Most post-apocalypse media deals with coping with stupid stuff like Zombies, but I'd love to read/watch more stuff towards how humans would deal with rebuilding our society. Would we keep Democracy?

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A Canticle for Leibowitz is a novel where, after a nuclear war, a Catholic monastery transcribing technical texts (they do not understand) over many generations.

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

Anathem is a Neal Stephenson novel about (again) monastic communities preserving knowledge over hundreds or thousands of years.

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

Terry Nation (BBC, creator of the Daleks) created a series in the 70s, called _survivors_ that dealt with much of this. Perhaps a little more human drama than what you're looking for, but gripping.

John Christopher was an author of adolescent science fiction that frequently dealt with post apocalyptic societies. "Empty World" has been my favorite book forever.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/... One Second After (nearly done with it) is focused on a small town in the midst of something described here. Pretty good read on the topic.

Very similar concept to S.M. Stirling's "The Change" novels: http://www.amazon.com/Dies-Fire-A-Novel-Change/dp/0451460413

The Foundation series by Asimov comes to mind.

The "radio drama" is available for free listening here: https://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy

The Road.

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