"The End Is Nigh " Topic
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Tango01 | 27 Feb 2014 12:41 p.m. PST |
"The End Is Nigh is the first book of the Apocalypse Triptych, a series of anthologies co-edited and self-published by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey. The other two volumes, The End Is Now and The End Is Come, will take us into the hearts of dozens of apocalypses, and then their aftermaths. But first, the cusp: "Post-apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that have already burned," writes Adams in his introduction. "Apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that are burning. The End Is Nigh is about the match." Matches, really: the apocalypses of The End Is Nigh are numerous and varied, despite inevitable repeats. Some are slated continue, following the trilogy; others stand alone in this volume. And even for the editors, some have come as surprises. "I expected more technology-out-of-control apocalypses, which we don't have a lot of," Howey tells WIRED. "In the '80s, everyone was scared robots were going to take all of our jobs; that's where a lot of the apocalypse stories—everyone had this nightmare that we were going to invent ourselves into extinction." There are also remarkably few conspiracies in The End Is Nigh; one of them is Howey's own, set on the verge of the same post-apocalyptic world as his bestselling novel Wool. There's a lot of paranoia, but notably few sinister intentions as humanity turns on or clings to itself on the cusp of annihilation. There's also very little redundancy in Nigh—in fact this is how the world ends is a shabby summary of the panoply not only of apocalypses, but of angles from which we approach them
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Full article here. link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement Armand |
jpattern2 | 27 Feb 2014 12:58 p.m. PST |
Looks like it could be interesting. I'll wait to read some reviews, though. |
Tango01 | 27 Feb 2014 1:06 p.m. PST |
Wise move my friend. Amicalement Armand |
Herkybird | 27 Feb 2014 2:10 p.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 27 Feb 2014 3:10 p.m. PST |
Many thanks my friend!. (smile). Amicalement Armand |
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