The Long Tomorrow – Leigh Brackett (1955)

After a nuclear apocalypse, humanity swears off technology — literally banning cities. Two teenage boys grow up in this neo-Amish America and begin searching for the mythical place where science still survives.
Brackett flips post-apocalyptic tropes on their head: civilization doesn’t collapse into chaos, it collapses into comfort. Her writing is spare, moral, and quietly furious.
If Fahrenheit 451 questioned censorship, The Long Tomorrow questions progress itself.

Rating: 4 / 5