And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. a story about survival that’s not just about you and me, but all of us, together” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes “a magnum opus. And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. This, of course, leads to Chuck Wendig’s Wanderers, the latest (and an instant classic) entry in the apocalyptic novel category.Ī decadent rock star. Coming up closer to our times, there’s the quiet, almost humane apocalypse of George Stewart’s Earth Abides, and of course, the big elephant in the room, the codifier of the Epic Apocalyptic novel, Stephen King’s The Stand as well as Swan Song by Robert R. Going forward several centuries, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) specifies a plague as the cause of humanity’s downfall. The apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic novel…one of the mainstays of Science Fiction for almost as long as the genre has been around and before, with some consideration given to the Epic of Gilgamesh as an apocalyptic epic.
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