60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1952
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 13:02
in Mathematics & Economics
Wilson Tucker’s 1952 The Long Loud Silence is The Road of the 1950’s. It’s a pure survival story, one about the complete deterioration of society into a vicious, gritty state of no-holds-barred struggle after a nuclear and biological holocaust. Unlike many other post-apocalyptic novelists, Tucker doesn’t envision much society left at all after total destruction: there is no reversion to a pseudo-Native American tribal state, to early rural 19th century agrarianism, to feudalism, to a theocratic dystopia. A total Hobbesian (or Darwinian) state of nature prevails for decades after the catastrophe. Society does not rebuild. read more