“Post-apocalyptic books are thriving for a simple reason: The world feels more precariously perched on the lip of the abyss than ever, and facing those fears through fiction helps us deal with it.” A look at the future of post-apocalyptic fiction from NPR, with a mention of our own Emily St. John Mandel‘s Station Eleven.
The Future of the Post-Apocalyptic
A Stirring, Surreal Portrait of AI-Empowered Authoritarianism
This isn’t your classic stream of consciousness, but instead a stream of artificial consciousness—humanity observed rather than experienced.
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