Re: Post Apocolyptic Literature

Octavia Butler was concerned with the oppressiveness of hierarchies, not so much post apocalypse.The Comet by W.E.B. duBois is a nifty little short story on the topic that was published in the recently released Big Book of Science FictionYou should also consider M.P. Shiel's The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, and if you extend media, the film version made of it in 1959 starring Sidney Poitier. The Arch Oboler film FIVE also touches on the topic, as does the animated short "The Hole.",  

    On Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:15 PM, "Benbennick, Matthew" <[email protected]> wrote:
 

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Farham's Freeholdby Robert A. Heinlein - 
The Cometby W.E.B. Du Bois
The Jewels of Aptor and Dhalgrenby Samuel R. Delany
Fallout and Clay's Ark and the Imago seriesby Octavia Butler
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
War & Mir trilogy by Minister Faust (Malcolm Azania)
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Domino Falls by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes
Mindscape by Andrea Hairston
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
Octavia Butler's works

From: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv <[email protected]> on behalf of Reynolds, Susan <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [SF-LIT] Post Apocolyptic Literature The majority of the books on this list are YA - http://blog.leeandlow.com/2012/08/30/diverse-dystopias-a-book-list/  I highly recommend The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi which deals with race, gender, issues of genetic engineering and 'human' rights.

My first thought was to check out Octavia Butler's works and other speculative fiction authors of color. The wonder of speculative fiction is the ability to place yourself and the "other" in the story and there are so many examples that while not strictly racially tied to color or ethnicity are analogous to civil rights and race relations in the story.  I think you will have a great time doing your literature search.

Susan Reynolds
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From: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Sullivan
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Subject: Re: [SF-LIT] Post Apocolyptic Literature

> I am looking for assistance in regards to a possible dissertation
> topic. I am interested in finding texts that I can look at more
> closely and consider racial relations in post apocalyptic literature.
> One of the questions that I have been considering is that post
> apocalyptic lit exists in a post racial society. Are there any
> novels/graphic novels that you would suggest for me to look at first? I greatly appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.

"The Year of the Quiet Sun" by Wilson Tucker is the first that comes to mind.

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Bob Sullivan
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library

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