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  • Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse

    From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Wed Oct 15 14:16:32 2025
    Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse

    Growing up is hard enough without the entire world falling apart around you.

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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Wed Oct 15 18:01:46 2025
    On 10/15/2025 9:16 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse

    Growing up is hard enough without the entire world falling apart around you.

    https://reactormag.com/five-novels-about-coming-of-age-during-the-apocalypse/

    Zippo for me.

    An awesome novel (one of my six star books) along these lines is
    "Emergence" by David Palmer. Being 11 years old and thinking that you
    are to repopulate the Earth can be sobering.
    https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-David-R-Palmer/dp/0553245015

    Lynn


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  • From Tony Nance@3:633/10 to All on Wed Oct 15 20:23:41 2025
    On 10/15/25 10:16 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse

    Growing up is hard enough without the entire world falling apart around you.

    https://reactormag.com/five-novels-about-coming-of-age-during-the-apocalypse/

    It has been so long since I read The Chrysalids that I don't remember
    one thing you mentioned. I haven't read the other four you mentioned.

    Leiber's "A Pail of Air" is a wonderful story that (I feel) fits here.
    I also think Earth Abides and Station Eleven would fit. Earth Abides was
    a pretty interesting read, but I found Station Eleven to be pretty boring.

    Tony

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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Thu Oct 16 12:28:30 2025
    On 10/15/2025 7:23 PM, Tony Nance wrote:
    On 10/15/25 10:16 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse

    Growing up is hard enough without the entire world falling apart
    around you.

    https://reactormag.com/five-novels-about-coming-of-age-during-the-
    apocalypse/

    It has been so long since I read The Chrysalids that I don't remember
    one thing you mentioned. I haven't read the other four you mentioned.

    Leiber's "A Pail of Air" is a wonderful story that (I feel) fits here.
    I also think Earth Abides and Station Eleven would fit. Earth Abides was
    a pretty interesting read, but I found Station Eleven to be pretty boring.

    Tony

    A really wonderful short story.
    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

    Lynn



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  • From Cryptoengineer@3:633/10 to All on Thu Oct 16 16:16:29 2025
    On 10/15/2025 10:16 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse

    Growing up is hard enough without the entire world falling apart around you.

    https://reactormag.com/five-novels-about-coming-of-age-during-the-apocalypse/

    Just the Wyndham for me.

    I know I read it as a teen. A few years ago I heard a BBC radio
    dramatization, and like you was quite take aback by the
    genocide angle at the end.

    pt

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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Thu Oct 16 15:33:34 2025
    On 10/16/2025 3:16 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
    On 10/15/2025 10:16 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse

    Growing up is hard enough without the entire world falling apart
    around you.

    https://reactormag.com/five-novels-about-coming-of-age-during-the-
    apocalypse/

    Just the Wyndham for me.

    I know I read it as a teen. A few years ago I heard a BBC radio dramatization, and like˙ you was quite take aback by the
    genocide angle at the end.

    pt

    In "Emergence", the Russians kill everyone on Earth except for 2,000+
    mutated Homo Sapiens, now Homo Post Hominem, using a genengineered
    virus. And that is the first chapter.
    https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-David-R-Palmer/dp/0553245015

    Lynn


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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Fri Oct 17 02:13:04 2025
    On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:01:46 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 10/15/2025 9:16 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five Novels About Coming of Age During the Apocalypse

    Growing up is hard enough without the entire world falling apart around you. >>
    https://reactormag.com/five-novels-about-coming-of-age-during-the-apocalypse/

    Zippo for me.

    An awesome novel (one of my six star books) along these lines is
    "Emergence" by David Palmer. Being 11 years old and thinking that you
    are to repopulate the Earth can be sobering.
    https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-David-R-Palmer/dp/0553245015

    Lynn

    I dunno - I remember one Scout campout in a winter cabin and our guys
    (about 12-13) had discovered the neighboring cabin was both unlocked
    and had a 4' high stack of Playboy magazines...

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