![]() ![]() When Zoo signs up to be a contestant on a reality TV show, she does so intending to have one last adventure before she and her husband start a family. Alexandra Oliva's debut novel, The Last One, is now out in paperback from Ballantine. This slim novel in the form of a diary recounts the efforts of a farmer named Jacob as he tries to protect his family and neighbors in an increasingly chaotic world. In the aftermath of a catastrophic solar storm that destroys the nation's power grid, an Amish community in Pennsylvania struggles to survive. When the English Fall by David Williams (Algonquin). Telling details of life pre- and post-apocalypse amplify this ultimate adventure tale. Walker uses the end of the world as we know it to probe what it means to be human, what it means to survive and what happens when merely surviving is not enough. ![]() is struck by asteroids, everyman Edgar Hill undertakes a cross-country journey on foot to reunite with his family. Here are just a few: The End of the World Running Club by Adrian Walker (Sourcebooks Landmark, paperback). Maybe that explains why I've been on a postapocalyptic reading binge. "We have very little control over anything much at all, individually, so fantasies of staving off the end of the world are fairly benign fantasies of increased agency." So posits William Gibson. ![]()
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