tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post29615040012221209..comments2024-03-07T17:13:54.927-05:00Comments on A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition: Apoca-Litfusenumber8http://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-7888336063988377702007-03-30T13:57:00.000-04:002007-03-30T13:57:00.000-04:00Great follow-up to Jen's post. Now I totally have ...Great follow-up to Jen's post. Now I totally have to read about Donuthead.Sarah Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-65558035405779485452007-03-27T18:07:00.000-04:002007-03-27T18:07:00.000-04:00Thanks for the list, Betsy. Like my Amazon wish l...Thanks for the list, Betsy. Like my Amazon wish list wasn't big enough already....RM1(SS) (ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13101367196599109034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-56718102639278292862007-03-27T09:05:00.000-04:002007-03-27T09:05:00.000-04:00In high school pretty much everyone read Stephen K...In high school pretty much everyone read Stephen King's <I>The Stand</I> when it came out (which dates me) but my preference was for Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's <I>Lucifer's Hammer</I> about a newly discovered comet that hits Earth and all the post-apocalyptic hysteria that ensues.<BR/><BR/>The Jimmy Carter era found a post-Watergate Cold War America feeling very cynical about the future. Movies of that decade (<I>Soylent Green, Logan's Run</I>, &c) though campy by today's standards are just as much mirrored in today's entertainment.<BR/><BR/>Honestly, I think that post-apocalyptic media serves as a thought-provoking framework for teens (and adults) to seriously examine their world and reason out their own viewpoints in their non-apocalyptic lives.david elzeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16653215150526146224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-61354008493416919452007-03-27T01:43:00.000-04:002007-03-27T01:43:00.000-04:00What good timing for this article. Thanks for the ...What good timing for this article. Thanks for the link! It sounds reasonable to me (a delayed reaction to 9/11 and other events). Although personally, I've always been fascinated with such stories, so I do think that there's something deeper at work in terms of why people like post-apocalypse stories. But I can certainly buy that current events are driving the upsurge in new books and movies and TV shows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com