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Is there any literature exploring the ideas of a world after a post apocalyptic event where civilization has somewhat recovered? I don't mean people trying to survive a wasteland or a dystopia, but where humanity is starting to flourish again after a devastating event.

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>> No.21765969

>>21765647
>humanity is starting to flourish again after a devastating event.
I'll take 'post-war German literature' for ten please

>> No.21765980

>>21765969
This, as well as Russian literature written after the revolution and civil war.

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>>21765647
Riddley Walker does this

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>>21765647

The Iliad was primarily an oral story because there was a mass loss of literacy after Indo-European civilizational collapse.

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>>21765647
sounds like KSR or Neal Stephenson

>> No.21766180

>>21765647
This Immortal, Zelazny. You might be interested to look up what year it won the Hugo (back when that meant something), and what book it shared the award with.