Apocalyptic Fiction

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January 20, 2008

Every good story comes to an end, but in some stories the End is just the beginning. It takes a special kind of writer to create a believable Apocalypse in the pages of a novel, and right now there are a lot of them. In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, Apocalyptic Fiction – new stories about the End of the World. Join us for end times, global panic, space plagues, zombies and lots of other good stuff.

Justin Taylor on "The Apocalypse Reader"

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Jim Fleming talks with Justin Taylor, editor of "The Apocalypse Reader," a collection of 34 short stories about the end of the world.

Kevin Brockmeier on "The Brief History of the Dead"

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Anne Strainchamps talks with Kevin Brockmeier about his novel which concerns the dead who have not yet passed from living memory.

Lydia Millet on "How the Dead Dream"

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Lydia Millet tells Steve Paulson that she lives in the middle of a national park outside Tucson, Arizona, and is always mindful that she is encroaching on the space of the wild creatures when she drives her car.

Scott Westerfeld on His Writing

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Scott Westerfeld writes wildly popular post-apocalyptic and dystopian science fiction for teenagers.  He's the author of the "Peeps" series about parasite-positive vampires,  as well as "Uglies" and "Pretties," who live in a world where plastic surgery is compulsory.

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December 28, 2008
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Justin Taylor

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Kevin Brockmeier

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Lydia Millet

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Scott Westerfeld

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