[kj] "Brighter than a thousand suns" passage from Norman Spinrad's story about Armageddon

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I haven't read the Howard Marks book, but have heard so much about 
Dawkins' book _The God Delusion_ I feel like I've read it. I know 
Hitchens came out with a similarly-themed book not too long after 
Dawkins' work. There can't be too many of those books out there!

If you're into the pocalyptic/post-apocalyptic fiction genre like I am 
("doomer porn" as some folks call it) there seems to be a resurgence in 
it. _The Apocalypse Reader_ is a collection of stories about the end of 
the world (not Christian stuff like _Left Behind_, but a broad, overall, 
secularist take on it, with short stories by folks like Joyce Carol 
Oates); _Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse_ which includes short 
stories by Stephen King and others lesser known; and _Beyond 
Armageddon_, where that "Brighter than a thousand suns" story comes 
from. I got all 3 over Xmas.

I can still recommend Cormac MCarthy's _The Road_, which won the 
Pulitzer prize for 2007, and takes place in a post-nuclear armageddon 
environment. Cormac McCarthy wrote the book that the movie No Country 
for Old Men is based on, too.

-Oliver



Brendan Quinn wrote:

> Cheers Olly, was an interesting read. I need to get back to reading some

> more interesting stuff. Too many tech manuals lately.

>

> Anyone read Mr Nice by Howard Marks? Actually he's written another drug

> anthology one that I really have to get. Am reading Dawkin's 'The God

> Delusion' at the moment, preaching to the converted of course...

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