Tag: Apocalypse

• Disaster Reading for Disastrous Times

  I’m stuck at home bored, like almost everyone else, so I thought I’d indulge in my favorite pastime and put together some reading lists! I see a lot of lists like this one on Electric Literature and Book Riot — some of them really good, some of them just frankly a hodgepodge of books the […]

  Shannon Turlington

  April 7, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  Alexandra Oliva, Apocalypse, Ariel Djanikian, Ben H Winters, Books, China Mieville, Disasters, Jeff VanderMeer, John Joseph Adams, John Lanchester, John Scalzi, Max Barry, Nathaniel Rich, Reading list

• Book review: Three Themed Anthologies

  I have never been a huge fan of short stories. I prefer to seek my teeth into something meatier, a novel. Short story collections by a single author have always felt particularly unsatisfying to me. Invariably, the stories vary in quality but share similar themes, insights, and style, so that they all start to run […]

  Shannon Turlington

  September 25, 2015

  Reading

  Anthologies, Apocalypse, Dystopia, Genres, John Joseph Adams, Multiverse, Parallel worlds, Short story collections

• A helpful guide to the apocalypse…

  Note: I originally posted this somewhere else, but I thought it was cute, so I’m reposting it here. With so many ways to die out, it’s a wonder our species can get out bed in the morning. Yet, despite all odds, the sun rises each day, and the planet continues in its natural course. How […]

  Shannon Turlington

  September 9, 2010

  Notebook

  Apocalypse