What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I listened to this book series on tapes in the late 90s early 2000s. They may have been written a little earlier but the writing style seemed pretty current at the time meaning they were probably not written in the 50-60s, It was set in post apocalyptic US. There was travel across the US and some sort of underground complexes. Some of the population were mutants I believe. I remember "Badlands" being mentioned a lot I actually thought that was part of the title of the series but cannot find the right books when I search that.

The only thing I can think of is not actually a series, but it is a huge brick of a book Swan Song. He has other dystopian type novels, but I don't think they fit your description.

Not it but thanks! It was for sure a series pretty long one I think I had probably 6 or so of the books on tape and never finished the series. I actually bought them in truck stops while I was traveling for work across the US. It is driving me crazy I cannot remember the name of these!

How about the Amtrak Wars series of 6 books? It starts with this one: Cloud Warrior

I don't know if it was a tape series too, but it was quite popular so could have been. It features huge land trains travelling between former rail stations as I remember it.

There's also the Deathlands series by James Axler. There are lots of these, but I don't expect they have been made into audio books. For example: Pilgrimage to Hell

There are quite a few books like this - do you remember anything else? Anything about the characters? What was the travel for and in what mode of transport?

Deathlands have been made into Audiobooks and they were my thought but I'm not sure if they were on tape. I know they were on CD.

Done by Graphic Audio, they have a full cast with different voice actors and sound effects.

Thank you!!! It was Deathlands! I was close but for some reason I was thinking Badlands instead of Deathlands.

Wow there are a bunch several authors have picked up the series.

Any chance it could be The Dark Tower series by Stephen King? There are 8 books in the series now, but a couple are pretty new. The audiobooks were on tape at one point. The third book in the series is called The Waste Lands and it includes underground complexes and a futuristic computerized train. These books are set in a parallel world, but some action happens in our version of the US and the parallel world is a version of the US. Kansas is definitely mentioned. There are mutants in the first and fourth book and probably others.

Glad you found it, Matt. Yes, it looks like there are over 100 books, so they should keep you busy for a while!