Tuesday, May 28, 2013

13 post-apocalyptic stories that actually teach valuable lessons

At io9, Amanda Yesilbas, Katharine Trendacosta, and Annalee Newitz came up with thirteen post-apocalyptic stories that actually teach valuable lessons.

One book on the list:
Canticle for Lebowitz, by Walter Miller, Jr.

An even darker (and less whimsical) version of [Olaf Stapledon's] Last and First Men can be found in this horrifically depressing novel, where humanity is doomed to repeat its mistakes and obliterate itself in war over and over again. There is no hope for us to really evolve beyond where we are now — human civilization is always rising only to strangle itself.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue