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posted by [personal profile] rahirah at 12:15am on 19/07/2008
I think the attraction of post-apocalyptic novels to kids is that they're usually about rediscovery and rebuilding, whereas adult apocalyptic novels are usually more about "Life sucks and then you die of radiation poisoning."
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 04:54pm on 22/07/2008
Excellent point!

I particularly remember being bummed out in junior high and high school when I started reading 'adult' SF (which, from the 1950's to the then-current late 1970's, could be counted on to contain a hefty dose of "Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down") and found that survival and rebuilding in the aftermath of the unimaginable world-as-we-know-it-has-come-to-an-end disaster weren't such popular themes as I'd expected, based on my reading of 'juvenile' SF.

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