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Marscon survey
Mar. 8th, 2012 08:56 pmSeeing as I'm moderating 2 panels on these topics this weekend.
What's your favorite literary apocalypse and why?
Who's your favorite post-apocalyptic heroine?
For the first one, I admire a few: S.P. Somtow's Starship and Haiku, which now seems eerily prescient. Samuel Delany's Dhalgren; Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz; Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", Nicola Griffith's Amonite; H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds, though I'm not sure I'd call any of them favorites exactly.
As for post-apocalyptic women, I like Tank Girl, Katniss Everdeen, Loup Garron and Sarah Connor (who's post-apocalypse before it even gets here).
Butler's Earthseed I haven't finished yet and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was maddening, for some of the wrong reasons (on the other hand, recent events may prove that she is far more accurate than I am).
What's your favorite literary apocalypse and why?
Who's your favorite post-apocalyptic heroine?
For the first one, I admire a few: S.P. Somtow's Starship and Haiku, which now seems eerily prescient. Samuel Delany's Dhalgren; Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz; Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", Nicola Griffith's Amonite; H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds, though I'm not sure I'd call any of them favorites exactly.
As for post-apocalyptic women, I like Tank Girl, Katniss Everdeen, Loup Garron and Sarah Connor (who's post-apocalypse before it even gets here).
Butler's Earthseed I haven't finished yet and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale was maddening, for some of the wrong reasons (on the other hand, recent events may prove that she is far more accurate than I am).