Episode 237 - Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

It's episode 237 and time for us to talk about Post-Apocalyptic Fiction! We discuss the apocalypse, the post-apocalypse, the post-post-apocalypse, androids, dystopias, breaking into people's houses, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Fireman by Joe Hill
• Wool by Hugh Howey
• The Ragpicker by Joel Dane
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, vol. 1 by Hitoshi Ashinano
• Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, narrated by Julienne Irons

Other Media We Mentioned

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Moon of Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
• Scorpio by Marko Kloos
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
• Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhouse
• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
  • Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted
• Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
  • No TV series, but there were several movies
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
• Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
• Silo (TV series) 
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Earthdivers by Stephen Graham Jones, Davide Gianfelice, and others
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  • Episode 083 - The Fifth Season

Links, Articles, and Things

• Libro.fm Audiobook Listening Copy Program
• 'We've Already Survived an Apocalypse': Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi
  • Matthew was wrong, the "We've already survived an apocalypse" quote is from Rebecca Roanhorse
• Waffle House Training - Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method
  • Not Denny's!
    

20 Post Apocalyptic Novels by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki
• Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
• Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
• Zulus by Percival Everett
• Trinity Sight by Jennifer Givhan
• The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
• Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
• The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
• Severance by Ling Ma
• The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Not With a Bang by Temi Oh
• Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
• This is the Year by Gloria Munoz
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• Metatron's Children by Chy Ryan Spain
• Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
• Zone One by Colson Whitehead
  

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 6th when we discuss Cosmic Horror!

Then on Tuesday, October 20th we'll be talking about The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett.