Apocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat;
it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses
fictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the
imagination of apocalypse from the postwar British disaster novels,
through novels of the countercultural sixties, feminist
interventions, and recent revisions and critiques. As empire fades,
ideas of sexuality shift, and attitudes to nature and to the city
change, so apocalyptic fictions change. The individual subject is
asserted, immolated, transcended, abandoned; individual deaths are
substituted for mass death; death is faked or erased. The subjects
and survivors of catastrophe set about re-establishing
civilization, or they abandon it, finding new ways of being and of
dying; they respond to it when it comes from outside, as an
invasion, or they are immersed in it, as it shifts from being an
event to being a condition. They flee the city for the country, or
accept that they must draw on the energies of the world city in
order to survive. The book includes detailed discussion of novels
by H. G. Wells, George M. Stewart, Nevil Shute, John Wyndham,
Arthur C. Clarke, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Doris Lessing,
Angela Carter, Anna Kavan, Arno Schmidt, Anthony Burgess, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Tom Perrotta, Douglas Coupland, Don DeLillo, China
Mieville, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kim Stanley Robinson.
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