Extollager
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I've started a thread on a Cold War genre here:
1940s-early 1960s A-Bomb Thrillers
This thread is intended for discussions of fictions from the 1940s through the early 1960s that deal with scenarios immediately, or soon, after the bombs have fallen. That cataclysm is taken as a given for the story; now, what happens next?
Baylor mentioned Shute's On the Beach, and that would be a good example of the genre.
These would be stories imagined as being in the near future relative to the author's own time.
I'm not thinking of stories such as A Canticle for Leibowitz or Dr. Bloodmoney, about post-apocalyptic cultures. If there isn't a thread for stories such as those already, someone could start it.
Perhaps Frank's Alas, Babylon could be discussed in the thread linked above or this thread.
1940s-early 1960s A-Bomb Thrillers
This thread is intended for discussions of fictions from the 1940s through the early 1960s that deal with scenarios immediately, or soon, after the bombs have fallen. That cataclysm is taken as a given for the story; now, what happens next?
Baylor mentioned Shute's On the Beach, and that would be a good example of the genre.
These would be stories imagined as being in the near future relative to the author's own time.
I'm not thinking of stories such as A Canticle for Leibowitz or Dr. Bloodmoney, about post-apocalyptic cultures. If there isn't a thread for stories such as those already, someone could start it.
Perhaps Frank's Alas, Babylon could be discussed in the thread linked above or this thread.