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Flowers of Time: On Postapocalyptic Fiction

By Mark Payne
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By Mark Payne
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An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genres

The literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction—stories set after civilization’s destruction—is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod’s Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many others. Traveling from antiquity to the present, Flowers of Time reveals how postapocalyptic fiction differs from other...

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