Apocalyptic Fiction
Tony
lal_truckee
> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the world?
>
>
After Worlds Collide (1934)
Johnny Tindalos
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> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the
> world?
>
>
_The Forge of God_, by Greg Bear.
Butch Malahide
> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the world?
Bait and switch. Your subject said "Fiction" but now you change it to
books. Too bad, because most of the good end-of-the-world tales are in
the form of short fiction. OK, here are a couple of book
recommendations.
_Cat's Cradle_, a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
_After the Fall_, an anthology edited by Robert Sheckley:
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?FTRTHFLL8D1980
Mike Schilling
> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the
> world?
_The Triumph of Time_, by Blish.
Butch Malahide
_After Doomsday_ by Poul Anderson
Endymion9
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On Nov 5, 5:01 pm, "Tony" <t...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the
> world?
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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_Last and First Men_ by Olaf Stapledon
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> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the world?
A reading list compiled from Aris Mousoutzanis' non-fiction article
"Apocalyptic SF" in "The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction" (2009)
(mostly novels, hardly any short fiction):
<http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-stories-about-disasters.html>
Another list based on personal reading (heavy on short fiction):
<http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/search/label/doomsday?max-results=500>
Both include download links, where available.
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Tony
> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the world?
"_After Doomsday_ by Poul Anderson"
Great examples, everyone. Here are a few I thought of:
Childhood's End
Dramaturges of Yan
God Emperor of Dune
Riverworld series
Earth Abides
Michael Stemper
>What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the world?
Roger MacBride Allen's _The Ring of Charon_ features Earth getting
toasted fairly early on.
In Stehpen Baxter's _Moonseed_, things build up to Earth's destruction.
I can't remember off-hand. Did Greg Bear's _Eon_ include the
destruction of the Earth?
In Kuttner's _The Time Axis_, the protagonists travel through time
to the end of the world. (If it's not the actual end, they're still
far enough along that you can see it from there.)
Greg Egan's _Diaspora_ has (if I recall correctly) the Earth wiped
out by a gamma ray burster, but it wasn't a really important event.
Assuming that you literally mean "the end of the world" rather than
"the end of the world as we know it", post-apocalyptic stuff such
as _Alas, Babylon_ or _Central Passage_ doesn't qualify. There was
quite a bit of this written in the forties through the mid-sixties.
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Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
> In article <0_adnSOT3rOhxG7X...@giganews.com>, "Tony" <to...@hotmail.com> writes:
>> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the world?
>
> Roger MacBride Allen's _The Ring of Charon_ features Earth getting
> toasted fairly early on.
>
Um, no. The Earth is just fine. In The Shattered Sphere they even get
to fetch it back.
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JimboCat
> "Tony" <t...@hotmail.com> wrote innews:0_adnSOT3rOhxG7X...@giganews.com:
>
> > What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the
> > world?
>
> _The Forge of God_, by Greg Bear.
Urgh: I hated that one, though the sequel (sequels?) was ok. But the
one I hate the worst is /Oryx and Crake/ by Margaret Atwood. No, I
take that back, the very, very worst one is a YASID -
Novel, probably read in the 80's. Takes place in Florida after the Big
One. Turns out Miami was targeted by a bigoted US general who wanted
"America for Americans", not by the USSR at all.
It involves a religious cult worshiping two-headed snakes, who <ROT13
reason="because it is really gross">Fyvpr gurve cravfrf yratgujvfr gb
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I really don't care if this one gets identified or not, frankly.
I had one in mind as a favorite not yet mentioned... oh, yes: John
Brunner's /The Sheep Look Up/. Though it's only the end of the US, not
the entire world (which is not very plausible in context, but there
you are).
Jim Deutch (JimboCat)
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current
since at least World War I, yet civilization apparently keeps bungling
the job. World War I couldn't even kill as many people as a flu
epidemic, and World War II, even with atomic bombs, couldn't take out
more than a couple of percent of the total population at the time.
And then the US and USSR so badly bungled the scheduled apocalyptic
nuclear exchange that _nobody got killed at all_.
"Personally, I think Civilization is faking, and doesn't really want
to destroy itself at all. This is just attention-getting behavior."
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Jim Lovejoy
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_The Big Eye_
I'm not sure, but doesn't _The Time Machine_ include the end of the world?
"Nine Billion Names of God" - Ok, a cheat because it's a short story.
_Accelerando_
Robert A. Woodward
"Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <sea...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
> Michael Stemper wrote:
> > In article <0_adnSOT3rOhxG7X...@giganews.com>, "Tony"
> > <to...@hotmail.com> writes:
> >> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the
> >> world?
> >
> > Roger MacBride Allen's _The Ring of Charon_ features Earth getting
> > toasted fairly early on.
> >
>
> Um, no. The Earth is just fine. In The Shattered Sphere they even get
> to fetch it back.
They did? That's not how I remember it ... checking the last
chapter of _tSS_ ... I think you are misremembering the ending.
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Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
> In article <hd1p5l$soh$3...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <sea...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> Michael Stemper wrote:
>>> In article <0_adnSOT3rOhxG7X...@giganews.com>, "Tony"
>>> <to...@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the
>>>> world?
>>> Roger MacBride Allen's _The Ring of Charon_ features Earth getting
>>> toasted fairly early on.
>>>
>> Um, no. The Earth is just fine. In The Shattered Sphere they even get
>> to fetch it back.
>
> They did? That's not how I remember it ... checking the last
> chapter of _tSS_ ... I think you are misremembering the ending.
>
Well, they get to FIND it,anyway, and a whole bunch of other worlds, too.
William December Starr
mste...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) said:
> I can't remember off-hand. Did Greg Bear's _Eon_ include the
> destruction of the Earth?
No. The worst it got was a big stupid nuclear war.
> Greg Egan's _Diaspora_ has (if I recall correctly) the Earth wiped
> out by a gamma ray burster, but it wasn't a really important
> event.
Again, not wiped out. Just rendered uninhabitable for flesh-based
life.
-- wds
Steven L.
> "Tony" <to...@hotmail.com> wrote in
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>> "Butch Malahide" <fred....@gmail.com> wrote in message news:
>> On Nov 5, 5:01 pm, "Tony" <t...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> What are some of the best science fiction books about the end of the
>>> world?
>> "_After Doomsday_ by Poul Anderson"
>>
>> Great examples, everyone. Here are a few I thought of:
>>
>> Childhood's End
>> Dramaturges of Yan
>> God Emperor of Dune
>> Riverworld series
>> Earth Abides
>>
>>
> _The Big Eye_
>
> I'm not sure, but doesn't _The Time Machine_ include the end of the world?
Not really.
The Time Traveler travels millions of years into the future, past the
time when Man has become extinct, to a far-future time when the Earth
has stopped rotating and faces the Sun. Farther and farther he travels,
till the Sun grows dim and Earth freezes, all life extinct.
But the *planet* remains intact. It's not strictly the end of the
Earth, but it's the end of life on Earth.
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