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   Charlie E. to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated   
   Re: Post-apocalyptic fiction   
   14 Feb 11 10:56:08   
   
   On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:23:50 -0800 (PST), Duggy   
    wrote:   
   >On Feb 13, 6:09 am, lizardgirl  wrote:   
   >> the recent events in haiti i think bare witness to just how horrific   
   >> and messy a mass die off is.  jumping the story to 'every body's dead   
   >> except we three' feels like a bit of a cheat that white washes all the   
   >> blood and gusts (unless of course everything/one has been vaporized   
   >> during the invasion) and why movies like 'zombie land' are strangely   
   >> appealing, "so, like there was this virus and can you believe the shit   
   >> we have to deal with now.?"   
   >   
   >I think I get where you're coming from.  There's always that "where   
   >are all the bodies"/"why are there suddenly a dead-traffic jam for no   
   >apparent reason?"/"Shouldn't there be more/less structural damage to   
   >the city"   
   >I've found "Life After Man" an interesting documentary to mentally   
   >compare with all the PA films I've seen and think "yeah, I didn't   
   >think there'd be no evidence of civilisation in only 30 years."   
   >   
   >Is this a bad time to say that the other week I left my house to spend   
   >the cyclone at a friend's, looked at the 4 volume set of "How Things   
   >Work" and decide that, no, this wasn't "the end", they could wait for   
   >that evacuation.   
   >   
   >===   
   >= DUG.   
   >===   
   Add in 'Lucifer's Hammer' as a good P-A novel, that tells the messy   
   story of the apocalypse itself...   
   Charlie   
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