The End of the World Book: A Novel

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His predictions of doom stem from two factors — demographic decline, and America’s withdrawal from the world system. It is sometimes awesome and sometimes boring; jury’s still out on whether it really works as a novel, but it absolutely gets points for influence.

But except for the areas hit directly by WW2 fighting, humanity did not revert back to a pre-1870 standard of living, as Zeihan predicts could be a consequence of global security chaos. Yes, sure, we had a little protectionist, isolationist spasm under Donald Trump, but Joe Biden has worked quickly and diligently to defend Ukraine from Russian aggression and shore up alliances in Asia.Plot: This story was ok-ish right up until the author decided to destroy the planet in six months instead of letting it happen as it was supposed to. moment), but common themes consistently reoccur: Kafka, Anna Karenina, "cholos," the "musty" smell of male assholes. The plague that ends the world in Ma’s excellent debut is extra scary because we’re all halfway there: when you catch Shen Fever, you continue going about your routine, doing your rote tasks, not that much more of a zombie than you were in life, until eventually you rot away. A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto de Martino (1908–1965) produced a body of work that prefigured many ideas and concerns that would later come to animate anthropology. Ambition-crazed traitor, pirate and murderer John Paul Jones burned part of a ship in Whitehaven and was hailed as “Father of the American Navy”.

A horror novel and an apocalypse novel in one—as if surviving nuclear holocaust wasn’t enough, now there’s a demonic entity known as The Man with the Scarlet Eye, aka Doyle, running around. Lepucki’s debut is probably most famous for being the book Stephen Colbert made famous, but it’s also a beguiling novel about love at the end of the world—though we never really learn what exactly tipped our present into this factionalized and urine-coated future. Of course our narrator is afflicted with the worst possible thing you could have in such a scenario, and also the thing that might save everyone: hyperempathy, meaning she feels the pain of others. But instead of an OP MC with all the advantages, the MC is challenged by other players who somehow were able to advance faster while doing more than the MC.The book starts sixteen years after the apocalypse (“It hardly mattered anymore what had done it—a giant meteorite, a huge volcano, or a nuclear war. Either way, the novel takes up the same themes as many of the others on this list, albeit in its own experimental, literary fashion: what is left when nothing is left? So, perhaps because of this, Tremblay’s novel doesn’t dwell in the black and white, instead choosing to lurk in the murky gray shadows of humanity.