The Carbon Diaries 2015, by Saci LloydHow the world ends: Global warming that’s lead to radical carbon rationing for everyone, in Britain, at leastWell, not ended exactly — this book is more apocalyptic than post-apocalyptic, set at a time when environmental changes are sending ever-more-severe weather battering at the planet. Carbon rationing means limits on […]
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Remember the plastic bowl I broke a few months ago?Today I cracked the handle of a plastic measuring cup.The bowl dated back to lnhammer‘s early graduate school days. The cup came to Tucson with me (as part of a set) from St. Louis. This means (based on a whole two data points here) that the
The Compound, by S.A. BodeenHow the world ends: An old-fashioned nuclear attack, to start with. Except … I find I can’t discuss this book any further than that without spoilers.*** Spoilers below: ***Except there wasn’t really a nuclear attack, just a dangerously controlling, very rich father who built a shelter in case of nuclear attack,
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I’m a guest blogger at Powells.com today, talking about my post-apocalyptic fascination: What’s So Great About the End of the World?I’ve been thinking about the end of the world lately.Not the real end of the world, which I’d just as soon avoid, thanks very much. I grew up near the very end of the cold
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The Other Side of the Island, by Allegra GoodmanHow the world ends: Global warming, unpredictable weather, and rising sea levels leave the world with only a few habitable islandsAnd those islands are increasingly controlled (and enclosed, and shielded from most weather–in theory), with an emphasis on Safety First and on making sure no one acts
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The Road, by Cormac McCarthyHow the world ends: “A long shear of light and then a series of long concussions”–some sort of nuclear blast, presumably.I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about this book. It’s a vivid book, with its gray landscape over which ash falls everywhere, all signs of non-human life gone
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“The Fall,” by Peter and the Wolf — my very favorite post-apocalyptic song. A hauntingly comforting take on the end of the world:(Slightly higher quality mp3 from the artist — from their Hand-Drawn CD, which gets a lot of play around here.)More post-apocalyptic music:It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I
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(Original post on The Hunger Games.)Okay, I’m slow on the uptake here, but I just remembered that Cinna and Portia are both characters in Julius Caesar.Specifically, Cinna is one of the conspirators against Caesar, and helps to enlist Brutus. (And, lnhammer reminds me, a relative a Caesar’s as well.)Cinna is also a poet who dies
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The Hunger Games, by Suzanne CollinsHow the world ends: The usual–droughts, storms, fires, rising sea levels. When the dust cleared–over what used to be the U.S., at least–we were left with the nation of Panem, with its Capitol surrounded by 12 (once 13) districts that are entirely subservient to it and produce the goods to
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It seems the past few weeks I just keep adding and adding books to the post-apocalyptic YA reading list. Post-apoc YA books that are either new or due out in the next few months include (and I have this suspicion there must be others I’m missing–anything else that should be there?):– The Compound, by S.A.
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