The Soft Apocalypse genre

*io9 is right, there are an absolute ton of these things. And they're going mainstream fast.

http://io9.com/5459999/

*Soft apocalypses shade into the long-established "cozy catastrophe." As Brian Aldiss pointed out decades ago, the essence of the cozy catastrophe is that the hero should have a pretty good time (a girl, free suites at the Savoy, automobiles for the taking) while everyone else is dying off.

*More:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/25/cosy-catastrophe-fiction

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