RARA-AVIS: Re: Year's best novel, apocalyptic

From: Joy Matkowski ( jmatkowski1@comcast.net)
Date: 08 Jan 2008


John Shannon's first three in his Jack Liffey series verge on the apocalyptic: Concrete River, Cracked Earth, Poison Sky. And they're PIs, too.

Joy

>> > Marianne wrote:
>> >
>> > "It's just my strange taste for apocalypses, I suppose."
>> >
>> > Some time ago, I went through a period where a lot of what I was
> reading
>> > or viewing dealt with end of the world scenarios.
>>
>> If you haven't read Fritz Leiber's _The Wanderer_, I highly recommend
>> it. A real master.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> mrt
>>
> you might also like to try M.P. Shiel's 'The Purple Cloud' [1901]
>
> Eric



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