BiblioFiles #85: Post-Apocalypic Fiction – Too Soon?
In this special quarantine edition of BiblioFiles, Adam suggests that we talk about…post-apocalyptic fiction. Too soon? We discuss the difference between apocalypic and post-apocalypic fiction, the origins of the genre, our favorite titles in it, and the themes particular to this kind of setting.
Referenced Works:
– The Epic of Gilgamesh
– The Book of Revelation
– The Stand, “The Mist,” and The Shining by Stephen King
– Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
– The Road by Cormac McCarthy
– “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
– A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
– Lord of the Flies by William Golding
– Watership Down by Richard Adams
– Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
– One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandyr Solzehnitsyn
– Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, series directed by Douglas Mackinnon
– The Good Place, directed by Michael Schur
– King Lear by William Shakespeare
– The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian
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