Tag: post-apocalypse
Threads: A Horror for the Ages
The mid-1980s were a great time for horror movies–Jason, Freddy, Michael, poltergeists, werewolves, and all their many companions. But […]
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Read This: The Fireman
The Fireman, Joe Hill’s latest opus, is a big, rambling, post-apocalyptic horror novel that is fast-moving and entertaining but, […]
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Read This: Hugh Howey’s Wool
In my experience, the bigger the hype, the bigger the disappointment. And so it is with Hugh Howey’s Wool, […]
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Read This: The Last Vampire
The horror author T. M. Wright passed away on Halloween. By pure coincidence I had just reread his 1991 […]
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Read This: Emergence
I first read Emergence, by David R. Palmer, in the magazine Analog back in 1981. I was thrilled with it then. The protagonist, Candy Smith-Foster, all of eleven years old, was a self-described plucky female adventurer taking on a depopulated post-apocalypse world with the help of her hyacinthine macaw companion. How could I not be thrilled?
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Read This: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller, Jr’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a novel heavy with philosophical observations about faith, hope, and human frailty in the long wake of a nuclear apocalypse. The following is what I took away with me.
In broad outline, A Canticle for Leibowitz tracks the progress of humanity over the eighteen centuries following a worldwide nuclear apocalypse.
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