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> Tag: the Earth is doomed

What if the only survivors of the apocalypse were…boring?

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

December 19, 2022 by Bothari43 1 Comment

Ish is the personification of that quote about “god grant me the confidence of a mediocre white guy,” except that he is even more assured of his specialness than usual, because he survived the plague that wiped out most of the rest of humanity. When he finally ventures out of his mountain cabin, civilization is dead and survivors are sparse. He adopts a dog and takes a road trip, looking for other people who are worthy of his company. Finding no one (California to New […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: George R. Stewart, pompous protagonist, post-apocolyptic, the Earth is doomed

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: George R. Stewart, pompous protagonist, post-apocolyptic, the Earth is doomed ·
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A bazillion miles away and still too close to home

Goldilocks by Laura Lam

July 12, 2022 by Bothari43 2 Comments

This is another mid-apocalyptic sci-fi story where the Earth is in trouble and a group of astronauts is trying to save the day. Except it was written in 2020, and the author is taking some of the real life atrocities and pushing it out to the worst possible conclusions, and reading it in 2022, it seems all too plausible. There are multiple plagues and thousands of refugees as climate change makes vast swaths of the planet unlivable. The president is a fundamentalist wingnut, abortion has […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: dystopia, Laura Lam, the Earth is doomed

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: dystopia, Laura Lam, the Earth is doomed ·
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