H. asked Anissa Stringer:

What books have shaped your writing the most?

Anissa Stringer I've always loved apocalyptic fiction. The Stand, Day of the Triffids, The Earth Abides--I devoured them when I was younger. It wasn't until I started to write my own tales of the end of the world that I began to understand why I loved those kinds of stories: The apocalypse strips away the social and cultural baggage that rules our lives; it offers us (the reader and the writer!) the opportunity to explore some of the philosophical topics we don't have the chance to think about much in our busy lives. Plus, it's just fun to wonder how we'd survive if the world ended in various ways!

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