Hig has managed to survive a ferocious flu plague that wiped out 99 percent of the population, including his beloved wife. Toss in the quirky attraction of a book set at nearby Erie Municipal Airport, and you have easily the best end-of-the-world novel since Cormac McCarthy’s bleak 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner, “The Road.” Consider the doom boom since the 2008 financial collapse, a wave of literally dozens of books and movies tapping into a gloomy zeitgeist.Īt the top of the latest crop of apocalyptic fiction is Denver author Peter Heller’s “The Dog Stars.” The novel creates a delicate balance between post-civilization wish fulfillment and the deep human need for connection that will appeal to readers of accessible literary fiction. $24.95īut fear of the future can be the catalyst for great - and not-so - art and entertainment. In his fascinating 2008 book, “The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t - and Put Ourselves in Danger,” Canadian journalist Daniel Gardner notes that every generation fears the future and tends to idealize the past - a flawed equation on the face of it, since the past was once the future.
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