Apocalypse

[close] The most active group for apocalyptic and dystopian stories! Join a monthly book discussion, get recommendations, or just tell us if you like canned peaches. We're a big, friendly group, but there's always room for more!

[close] The year is 2058. The world has ended. We don’t know if it was the zombies, the government breakdown, or just plain human stupidity. What we know is that human society is over. With everything humans ever built crumbling,and their satellites falling from the sky, the remaining survivors are immune to the virus that turns humans into zombies, banding together into factions to survive.

[close] The Apocalypse is here. You are scared. You are afraid. You are alone You hear a moan at your window. You don't know what to do. You hear banging. You look for a weapon. The window breaks. It has begun.

[close] The term "Climate Fiction" (CF) was first used by Australian novelist James Bradley in 2010 on his online blog Cityoftongues, where he claimed that realistic novels are “hopelessly inadequate” to discuss the implications of climate change, for they would violate the urgency and difficulty of the problem for the sake of coherence. In CF, climate crisis occur in what literary critic Darko Suvin calls novums: fictional worlds validated by cognitive logic. Usually, CF depicts extremely dystopian scenarios characterised by the anthropogenic nature of the environmental threats, which will eventually lead to an apocalyptic scenario. Climate Fiction is at the core of my PhD project at University of Ferrara and I would love to discuss instances of CF with all members of the club.