Hi,
I'm Maurice and I've taken a stab at writing my first post-apocalyptic novel - it's called the Lucifer Bug and so far is only available on Kindle.
I came across this site because I was researching the question of whether civilisation could recover to the same level after a global catastrophe, and came to the conclusion that because we'd used up all the readily accessible resources the answer was probably "no". Then I found Lewis's article "out of the ashes" on aeon.co and realised that he'd thought of it first!