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Anonymous Wed Mar 24 00:47:32 2010 No.468892 [Reply] [Original]

So, /lit/, are there any novels written from a post-apocalyptic perspective set in the pre-apocalypse? The concept interests me but I've never heard of an example.

pic somewhat related.

>>	Isabelle Huppert !!IRpnwIFOnYO Wed Mar 24 00:49:32 2010 No.468899 >>468892 Interesting question. Maybe one of James Howard Kunstler's novels? I'm not sure.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 00:51:32 2010 No.468909 What exactly does this mean? A philosopher once spoke of his friend who ran around telling people, "We must live as if the apocalypse has already happened!" Is that the mindset you're looking for?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 00:52:32 2010 No.468918 >>468899 i see what you did there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 00:56:32 2010 No.468936 If I recall correctly, Cat's Cradle?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 01:08:32 2010 No.468998 >>468909 Something like historical fiction from the future.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 01:09:32 2010 No.469008 File: 34 KB, 470x352, 001_small.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>468998

>>	Ser Nemo Wed Mar 24 01:10:32 2010 No.469011 >>468998 A Canticle for Leibowitz?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 01:12:32 2010 No.469026 This thread is made almost daily o-o;

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>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 01:18:32 2010 No.469059 Uhh.... Oryx and Crake?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 01:19:32 2010 No.469071 Can you explain in a way that doesn't make me go cross eyed? Trying to figure out what you want makes me feel like I'm looking at one of those 3D Magic Eye illusions.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 01:41:32 2010 No.469192 A book from the future that is speculative of the past, i.e., the present.

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Anonymous Wed Mar 24 01:58:32 2010 No.469255
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Enhhhh, not that I know of OP. However, this may be of interest to you, it's similar in a way. Lethem presents a post-apocalyptic future (several actually) where no one can remember how it got so following the event, and a protagonist who spends the entire novel trying to remember who he really was before the change.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 01:59:32 2010 No.469261 I don't see what's so hard to understand about this. I'm trying to describe a novel which is set in the present, or any contemporary period, by an author who lives in a post-apocalyptic future.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 02:04:32 2010 No.469279 >>469261 I'ma gonna go blow your mind here: All of em.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 02:10:32 2010 No.469306 >>469261 Sounds like Phillip K Dick would be a good author for you op.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 03:56:32 2010 No.469689 >>469026 It is?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 03:59:32 2010 No.469696 So you want a book written by a fictional author, who is waxing nostalgic about the time before the bomb?

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Anonymous Wed Mar 24 04:37:32 2010 No.469798

>>469696
Exactly, or depending on how far into the post-apocalypse it's set, it could be satirical. Many satires of contemporary society are set in futures which are deemed more or less plausible by audiences because we never have a clear notion exactly what the future will really be like. In a post apocalypse, the future would always be bleak and a writer would satirize their current situation with a utopian interpretation of a past whose details had largely been forgotten.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 04:46:32 2010 No.469811 is that pic from fallout 3

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 05:00:32 2010 No.469838 >>469811 that;s fucking hilary clinton, shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 05:05:32 2010 No.469852 >>469011 yeessssss also, op, listen, try galapagos by vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 06:50:32 2010 No.470099 >>469805 ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 06:54:32 2010 No.470109 my understanding... a book about a writer who lives in post apocalypse times about his times before the apocalypse happens?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 07:07:32 2010 No.470133 >>469811 I see someones been avoiding the movies lately.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 16:18:32 2010 No.471357 >>470133 Which movie is tat from?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 16:25:32 2010 No.471389 It's sounds to me like OP wants something with a post-apocalyptic dystopia...which is pretty much every dystopian story ever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 16:26:32 2010 No.471394 >>469261 well that would just be a regular novel...

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 16:29:32 2010 No.471406 so a writer from the post apocalyptic world writes about the past...

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>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 16:39:32 2010 No.471444 OP, sounds like you should write this book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 16:54:32 2010 No.471527 srsly, wut movie is that from?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 17:07:32 2010 No.471594 File: 22 KB, 350x257, samuel_l_jackson.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This be /lit/. Stop misusing "apocalypse". Muthafuckas need to be buyin a dictionary

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 17:34:32 2010 No.471741 >>471594 What term should be used instead? Nakba? Kali Yuga? Doomsday?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 17:36:32 2010 No.471758 >>471741 how about your fucking birthday. and I don't mean the one that comes every year.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 17:39:32 2010 No.471768 looks like the road

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 17:46:32 2010 No.471812 The Year of the Flood alternates between the lives of the character before and after the apocalypse.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 18:10:32 2010 No.471950 >>471758 wat

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 18:11:32 2010 No.471960 >>471768 Thanks

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 18:14:32 2010 No.471978 >>471950 I guess he meant the other anons birth would have been the apocalypse. I am pretty positive that it was meant as an insult.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 24 21:03:32 2010 No.472724 >>471741 "Eschaton" is nice, if you're Greekin'. How about "The end of the world"?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 25 06:43:32 2010 No.474602 >>472724 after the disintegration of society?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 25 06:48:32 2010 No.474604 What? So like: "Yeah sure is good being in the year 2000, going to MaccDee's EXCEPT IT'S NOT THERE BECAUSE CIVILISATION IS WIP- oh sry, breaking narrative" or wat

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 25 06:56:32 2010 No.474612 Just watch the Animatrix op.

Anonymous Thu Mar 25 06:57:32 2010 No.474614

>>468892
>written from a post-apocalyptic perspective set in the pre-apocalypse

So you're saying someone who lived in a post-apocalyptic world managed to get a time machine and write about his experiences in the pre-apocalyptic world.

I can see how that can be interesting.

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