Post by account_disabled on Dec 5, 2023 5:16:44 GMT
Apocalyptic fiction is one of my favorite reads, even though I'm tired of reading about zombies and vampires. I read Loureiro's Apocalypse Z and found it banal and copied from various zombie films. I Am Legend was a good read, however, as was Dissipatio HG by Morselli and Goetia by Coltri. McCarthy's path surpasses them all, in my opinion. I enjoyed writing some post-apocalyptic stories, but without going too deep into the details. So I asked myself: if I were to write a good post-apocalyptic novel, how should I create the setting? In reality, a few years ago I wrote some notes for a hypothetical Resurrectio , but for now nothing has happened.
Apocalypse or post-apocalypse? The two terms are Phone Number Data used interchangeably. To be picky, an apocalyptic story should show us how the apocalypse comes about. Examples of this include films such as The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 , otherwise defined as disaster films. But I would say that there is no need to be picky and leave more freedom to readers: in any case, a post-apocalyptic world is also an apocalyptic world. Define the historical period I would start by deciding when to set my story. Usually we tend to set post-apocalyptic stories in the future or at least in the present. But why not write one in the Middle Ages or even at the end of the 19th century? In these latter cases, however, we are in an alternative history.
But it doesn't matter, alternative history is only a literary macro-genre to classify stories set in the past but with different implications from the original ones. So the end of the world fits perfectly. Define the destruction level In my opinion it is the most important part of the story. Why? Because the post-apocalyptic world directly affects the characters and the story. Think of Waterworld : a world made of water. Didn't it affect the whole story? Means of transport, nutrition, society. We don't necessarily have to go into scientific details, but we need to establish what is left of the world we know. And, based on that new environment, redefine society, transportation, food, clothing, everything that human beings need to survive.
Apocalypse or post-apocalypse? The two terms are Phone Number Data used interchangeably. To be picky, an apocalyptic story should show us how the apocalypse comes about. Examples of this include films such as The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 , otherwise defined as disaster films. But I would say that there is no need to be picky and leave more freedom to readers: in any case, a post-apocalyptic world is also an apocalyptic world. Define the historical period I would start by deciding when to set my story. Usually we tend to set post-apocalyptic stories in the future or at least in the present. But why not write one in the Middle Ages or even at the end of the 19th century? In these latter cases, however, we are in an alternative history.
But it doesn't matter, alternative history is only a literary macro-genre to classify stories set in the past but with different implications from the original ones. So the end of the world fits perfectly. Define the destruction level In my opinion it is the most important part of the story. Why? Because the post-apocalyptic world directly affects the characters and the story. Think of Waterworld : a world made of water. Didn't it affect the whole story? Means of transport, nutrition, society. We don't necessarily have to go into scientific details, but we need to establish what is left of the world we know. And, based on that new environment, redefine society, transportation, food, clothing, everything that human beings need to survive.