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"Nuclear weapons repel all thought, perhaps because they can end all thought"

Martin Amis on the difficulties of writing about nuclear war

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Famished barbarians

The very British fears of Sam Youd's The Death of Grass

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Lord Byron's "Darkness"

One of the earliest works of post-apocalyptic fiction in English, from the "year without a summer"

Jul 31, 2024 • Alex Wellerstein

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Doomsday Machines

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