![]() ![]() Although there exist many excellent and thoughtful novels of the post-apocalypse from science fiction writers - Samuel R. The simple truth of the matter is that they are too often bereft of the right kind of imagination to make such a landscape come alive. This is not to say that the apocalypse should be left for writers of literature, of “real” fiction. As an event, it has long the province of the lower order of genre writers, who are more often interested in the end of the world as a nifty device for getting rid of law and order, thusly allowing their heroes to battle across harsh and forbidding landscapes with jerry-rigged, Mad Max-style weaponry. ![]() The apocalypse is not to be tinkered with lightly, or given to writers of lesser caliber - unfortunately this is not a widely held belief. ![]() They were discarded to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long stolen.”– The Road Shriveled and drawn like latterday bogfolk, their faces of boiled sheeting, the yellowed palings of their teeth. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. ![]()
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