Week 10 - It's the End of the World

[Ashley]

Happy Monday!

I went over to my aunt's house this weekend. The wind had done a number on her deck furniture. The picnic table was completely flipped over, chairs were scattered everywhere, and a small table with a glass top and tipped over and shattered. Something about the scene in front of me had me thinking it looked like something you'd find during the apocalypse.

I admit that dystopian fiction is my preferred genre, but I do enjoy a good post-apocalyptic novel. I have found many authors who were successfully able to convince me that the scenario they created is something that could actually happen. In Ashfall by Mike Mullin, the supervolcano lurking underneath the Yellowstone geysers erupts, causing a catastrophic crisis across the nation. Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It imagines a world throw into chaos after a meteor pushes the moon closer to the Earth and creates meteorological disasters around the globe.

And of course, we have our zombie novels. World War Z by Max Brooks provides an oral history on life after the zombie apocalypse. In Mira Grant's Feed, the cures for cancer and the common cold come at a terrible cost - an incurable infection taking over people and commanding them to feed, and the political ramifications of these new zombies.

Have you read any good post-apocalyptic novels? Do you prefer zombies? Plagues? Natural disasters? Robot uprisings? Let's talk about the end of the world!

[Ingrid]

I love this genre. Mixed with science fiction as well. The 5th Wave, Hunger Games, Maze Runner. So many to pick from!

[Ann]

Bring on the apocalypse! in books. I've found a couple of good ones: The Defiant Series by C.J. Redwine, the Divergent series by Veronica Roth (and a few more who escape me at the moment).