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from: Doug Freyburger
date: 2011-02-14 19:44:20
subject: Re: Post-apocalyptic fiction

Duggy wrote:
>
>> I have read Canticle, Alas, Babylon, Earth Abides, When/After Worlds
>> Collide, and probably many others which could fit the definition.  I'm
>> leaving dystopias out of this--I'm primarily interested in true
>> apocalypses (apocalypsi?).
>
> For a different type of Type 1 or 3 story, see Babylon 5: "The
> Deconstruction of Falling Stars" (and the potential TV series that JMS
> joked about in the commentary).
For more on an interstellar scale see Lensman (includes cycles on planet
in Triplanetary), Foundation, Mote in God's Eye and many more.
> And: Jeremiah... a Type 1 story that had some travel-log elements, but
> a built in miracle-cure(ish), too.
Jericho is another very good TV show produced since Babylon 5 aired in
the sub-genre.
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