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Tag Archives: apocalypse
Book Review: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #4)
This book is a mess. The prologue is a poorer version of the third’s final chapter. The rest of the book seems clumsily contrived to force out the truth of Roland’s past. And so we are left with 100 pages … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, apocalypse, Flashback, Post Apocalyptic, Prequel, romance, science fiction, Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series, Thriller, western, Wizard and Glass
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Book Review: The Waste Lands by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #3)
“My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the working of his lie On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford Suppression of the glee, that purs’d and scor’d Its … Continue reading
Book Review: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #2)
“Yes, yes, honey, I know you wish to stay up longer, but daddy must watch a gunslinger procure antibiotics from a pharmacist. No honey, I don’t expect you to understand. I expect you to sleep. Yes, daddy loves you, but … Continue reading
Book Review: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #1)
Stephen King writes that there are two types of writers: “architects” and “gardeners”. Architects design their work in detail before even beginning to build and gardeners throw seed to the earth and see what grows. King falls, by his own … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, apocalypse, fantasy, horror, Post Apocalyptic, science fiction, Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series, The Gunslinger, Thriller, western
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Commander Syndrome
Until they are gone, until they are dead I can no more rest my eyes and smile myself to dream than a drunk can will himself to sobriety. I am bound by their lust for a future that sees me … Continue reading
(Comic)Book Review: East of West: The Apocalypse, Year One by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta
This book is like having sex the first time. It’s fast, it’s messy and in the throes of bodies smashed and thrust together you’re bound to miss some things. But in the end you’re left confused, perplexed, but unabashedly certain … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative history, apocalypse, Comic book, comics, dystopia, East of West, ethics, graphic novel, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta, sci-fi, science fiction, western
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Book Review: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
This book should have been easy. I say this with hindsight, with the whole of the apocalyptic genre between myself and it. It should have been easy to follow the last man. It’s episodic, almost self-written. Lonely, thrilling, philosophical, introspective, … Continue reading
After the End
Dressed in enough layers to warm the dead, he wandered in from the street, caked in ash and smelling of chlorine. Through the ashen death coat his eyes showed a perfect green almost glowing in the toneless world behind him. … Continue reading
A Brush with Strangers
I’ve never been fond of fog. No line of sight, no way of knowing which noises are normal and which ones might be The End hunting for you. That’s the problem with living all the way up here with clouds. … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction
Tagged apocalypse, child's play, childhood, dystopian, family, fiction, fire, fog, forest, home, house on a hill, hunting, murder, raiding party
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A Land of Rum and Writing 