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Novels That Put The Fun Back Into The Post-Apocalypse
We're All Slaves Of History, In Sprawling Dystopian Novel


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2) To be sure, there have been funny books about the apocalypse forever.
Just thought I'd point that out. In grad school, you'd get the red pen, and a couple of red pen exclamation points.
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In any case, say there were two funny post-apocalyptic books in the past decade. And now there are two at the same time, and they're both getting a lot of buzz. Doesn't that seem like it's more of a subgenre now, and less a collection of flukes?
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If a couple of books of the same theme existed before, it seems like the genre existed before, regardless of the frequency of the occurrence.
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I need shit to read over Christmas break.
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Re-reading Jay Lake's Trial of Flowers at the moment and looking forward to the sequel coming out next week. Super-weird "Urban Fantasy" with creepy mystics, decadent fops, and SEX DWARVES.
All a matter of personal taste, of course.
And now my work here is done, Drunken Book Reviewer Awaaayy!
12/10/08
Oh yeah, I forgot about that review. I guess I'll give it a try.
Is it the fun kind of satire, or the depressing kind? The cover and subtitle look fun, but the slavery shit sounds depressing.
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