Apocalypse Book Club
It’s the end of the world! And since our eyeglasses are intact, we have time enough at last, to read. We discuss Maureen McHugh’s “After the Apocalypse” short-story collection, Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” and other apocalypse tales we have known. Do zombies have their own David Attenborough, leading expeditions into Cleveland? Why should you be afraid if heavy snowfall combines with the appearance of strange invisible magic ghost sex-dragon monsters? And why does John Siracusa plan to ride out the apocalypse in style? We ask several of these questions, but you’ll have to listen to see if we ever answer any of them.
Listen to this episode (1 hour, 11 minutes)
Links
- "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
- Read "The Naturalist" by Maureen McHugh
- Read "The Kingdom of the Blind" by Maureen McHugh
- Read "Useless Things" by Maureen McHugh
- Read "The Effect of Centrifugal Forces" by Maureen McHugh
- "A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber
- "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank
- "On the Beach" by Nevil Shute
- "The Long Walk" by Stephen King
- "The Stand" by Stephen King
- "Earth" by David Brin
- "Earth Made of Glass" by John Barnes
- "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov
- "The Gate to Women's Country" by Sheri Tepper
- "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- "Footfall" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- "Y: The Last Man" by Vaughan and Guerra
- After The Incomparable #82
- The Incomparable Book Club on Goodreads
- "White" by Tim Lebbon is the snowy apocalypse story John couldn't name
