#apocalyptic fiction
This is the end. My only friend, the end. Or, maybe it’s just an awesome book display at McNally Jackson, New York, NY.
For some reason I just love literature that’s filled with doom and gloom. These books ask questions like: Will the world come to an end? What will happen if it does? In the end, will humans put survival over their own humanity? I haven’t read all these books, but some are right at the top of my list. AndI could ramble on about The Road for hours.
Titles pictured here (from left to right, top to bottom):
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
The Slynx byTatyana Tolstaya
The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard
Death from the Skies! by Philip Plait (below)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian
Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
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