Posts tagged

"Apocalypse "

May 14, 2013

World War Z: Now Coming to an eReader Near You

Although a number of great zombie novels have come along since World War Z, none have been able to match Max Brooks’s legendary telling.

February 2, 2013

Ben H. Winters’ The Last Policeman: Law and Order in Light of the Apocalypse

In six months the world as we know it is set to end, but Detective Henry Palace still has one last crime to solve. Winters' first book in a planned trilogy combines a police procedural and dystopian fiction in a thought-provoking mash-up.

October 16, 2012

Justin Cronin’s The Twelve: Book Two Even Better Than The Passage?

At long last, Justin Cronin's second book in his incredible post-apocalyptic trilogy has arrived -- and it's even better than one could have ever wished for.

October 12, 2012

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Father and Son’s Post-Apocalyptic Quest

In McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he creates a future without hope, in which a father and son journey through a ravished post-apocalyptic America, relying only on their bond and each other for the strength and will to survive.

November 9, 2011

Love and Dystopia: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story

Perhaps it is unorthodox to consider Super Sad True Love Story in the context of apocalyptic or dystopian (and really, a dystopia is only one gunshot away from an apocalypse) literature, but make no mistake: This an apocalyptic tale, even if it’s a humorous one.