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revdorothyl at 04:36pm on 18/07/2008 under sf and religion
revdorothyl at 04:36pm on 18/07/2008 under sf and religionI was looking for something else a little while ago, and instead stumbled across this recent Newsweek article:
Maybe it's just all those Andre Norton sci-fi novels I read as a kid (or the C.S. Lewis), but I didn't think kids' books about living through the apocalypse were all that rare . . . even before the Buffyverse gave "apocalypse" a new twist on its pop-culture meaning.
When I shared this article link with a friend, she pointed out that,
I guess the author of this Newsweek article must have had a very sheltered and boring reading and viewing list as a child?
Unhappily Ever After
Remember when children's books frolicked through tales of ponies and princes? The latest kid-lit craze is stories about living through the apocalypse-now. . . .
Maybe it's just all those Andre Norton sci-fi novels I read as a kid (or the C.S. Lewis), but I didn't think kids' books about living through the apocalypse were all that rare . . . even before the Buffyverse gave "apocalypse" a new twist on its pop-culture meaning.
When I shared this article link with a friend, she pointed out that,
Clearly these folks are unfamiliar with kids' sci-fi or even some Wonderful World of Disney fare from the early 80s. And that Ark II live action Saturday morning show. And they must have missed the Tripods series that was made into a BBC thing and aired on PBS after Doctor Who (also initially created for children). . . .
I guess the author of this Newsweek article must have had a very sheltered and boring reading and viewing list as a child?
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