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Managing the Apocalypse
Apr. 11th, 2012 03:00 pmManaging the Apocalypse
This is a more coherent version of my notes for the Swancon 2012 panel Building a Post Apocalytic World. Luckily for me, the guests, Brandon Sanderson and Marianne de Pierres, were also on the panel. Brandon Sanderson is an excellent talk show host as well as author – he said afterwards that he really does do this all the time on a radio show back home – so he made it almost easy and was very good at wrangling my blank moments.
He asked the initial question, why do we like this scenario so much? I think it is the sense of hope these stories have. My favourite books on the subject all have it to some degree. The survivors of whatever catastrophe can't go back to how things were, but they acquire the power to work towards some sort of future, perhaps with much more freedom than they had in the past.
( On Writing the Apocalypse )
This is a more coherent version of my notes for the Swancon 2012 panel Building a Post Apocalytic World. Luckily for me, the guests, Brandon Sanderson and Marianne de Pierres, were also on the panel. Brandon Sanderson is an excellent talk show host as well as author – he said afterwards that he really does do this all the time on a radio show back home – so he made it almost easy and was very good at wrangling my blank moments.
He asked the initial question, why do we like this scenario so much? I think it is the sense of hope these stories have. My favourite books on the subject all have it to some degree. The survivors of whatever catastrophe can't go back to how things were, but they acquire the power to work towards some sort of future, perhaps with much more freedom than they had in the past.
( On Writing the Apocalypse )