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