Science & Society
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1947
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The End of the World as Farce Our road to The Road begins in 1947, with Ward Moore's Greener Than You Think, an apocalyptic comic satire that just cries out for a movie adaptation by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The End of the World as Farce ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:42pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1948
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Written two years after the catastrophic destruction of World War II ended with the initiation of the nuclear age, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence is a graphically violent, sexually explicit, and surrealistic expression of Huxley’s bitter disappointme ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:42pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1949
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With 1949, we arrive at one of the big classics in the post-apocalyptic genre. George Stewart’s Earth Abides is epic in both scope and ambition, a bittersweet story that captures the immense scale on which nature operates, and which portrays the scientific ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:43pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1950
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Our 1950 pick is L. Sprague de Camp and P. Schuyler Miller's Genus Homo, a pulp adventure that takes place a million years in the future after after the genus Homo has destroyed itself, leaving the field wide open for other ape species to evolve highe ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:44pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1951
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For our 1951 pick, we have the work of one of the great British writers of sci-fi’s Golden Age. In The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham presents a horror story of giant, ambulatory, flesh-eating plants that topple humans from their dominance of a world th ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:45pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1953
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Alien Invasion and Evolutionary Succession The possibility of human extinction in End of the World sci-fi is sometimes paired with a consideration of our next evolutionary step- a concept that is less scientific than it sounds (evolution shouldn't be ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:45pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1954
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Nature is never inexplicable ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:46pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1955
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Post-apocalyptic Fundamentalism Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow is one of many post-apocalyptic novels that envision society returned to a 19th century agrarian state. The rural settings of these novels are commonly used to explore life in a socie ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:47pm
- 60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1956
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Survivalism, British Style John Christopher’s 1956 No Blade of Grass is an extremely compelling page turner that portrays our moral traditions and social glue as being so fragile that they can be swept away in a day. Compassion, mercy, and even friendline ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:48pm
- Apocalypse 1957: On The Beach
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There will be no survivors Exactly what nuclear world war would look like was a matter of diverse opinion in the nuclear apocalypse novels of the 1950‘s. Many post-apocalyptic novels of this decade portrayed World War III as an essentially known if more e ...
Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:48pm
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