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Scrap-Tech

Aesthetic capturing raw junk-punk resourcefulness, jury-rigged machinery, and post-apocalyptic survivalist grit.

The thrill of making something from nothing. The ingenuity of survivalists cobbling together functional tech from refuse, and the gritty, lived-in feel of a world patched together from the remnants of the past.

Books

The StandStephen King
The MartianAndy Weir
The RoadCormac McCarthy
CinderMarissa Meyer
A Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M. Miller, Jr.
Oryx and CrakeMargaret Atwood
The Day of the TriffidsJohn Wyndham
The PeripheralWilliam Gibson
Parable of the TalentsOctavia E. Butler
I am LegendRichard Matheson
Swan SongRobert R. McCammon
Crank PalaceJames Dashner
BorneJeff VanderMeer
AngelfallSusan Ee
QualityLandMarc-Uwe Kling
Ship BreakerPaolo Bacigalupi
Into the ForestJean Hegland
WalkawayCory Doctorow
The Inverted WorldChristopher Priest
The Space Between WorldsMicaiah Johnson
Trail of LightningRebecca Roanhorse
RaftStephen Baxter
Where Late the Sweet Birds SangKate Wilhelm
DomainJames Herbert
Children of MemoryAdrian Tchaikovsky
Honor Among EnemiesDavid Weber
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownCory Doctorow
RevengerAlastair Reynolds
The Pastel CityM. John Harrison
The Wild ShoreKim Stanley Robinson
Shade's ChildrenGarth Nix
Hollow KingdomKira Jane Buxton
EnclaveAnn Aguirre
Dust & DecayJonathan Maberry
The Long TomorrowLeigh Brackett
The Girl in RedChristina Henry
Infinite DetailTim Maughan
Green AngelAlice Hoffman
The Beast MasterAndre Norton
Deus IraePhilip K. Dick
GearbreakersZoe Hana Mikuta
The Fever CodeJames Dashner
We Who Are About To…Joanna Russ
Bearers of the Black StaffTerry Brooks
CaliforniaEdan Lepucki
Eternity RoadJack McDevitt
The Protector's WarS. M. Stirling
Gather, Darkness!Fritz Leiber
Cage of SoulsAdrian Tchaikovsky
The reapers are the angelsAlden Bell
The Memoirs of a SurvivorDoris Lessing
The FutureNaomi Alderman
Ashen winterMike Mullin
A Heritage of StarsClifford D. Simak
The godwhaleT. J. Bass
ElysiumJennifer Marie Brissett
ArielSteven R. Boyett
7th sigmaSteven Gould
Archivist waspNicole Kornher-Stace
Moon of the Turning LeavesWaubgeshig Rice

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