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Well, to be honest, for Grindavik we could currently be talking about a Pre-Apocalyptic situation :)

by 4ggr0 3y ago

Nifty3929 3y ago
I wonder if this is a fiction genre. Can I read a book that starts with a happy town with not much going on, builds up to just before a catastrophe, and then ends? Maybe like Part 1 of Seveneves.
- rob74 3y ago
  I read this book recently: https://www.amazon.com/Anomaly-Novel-Herv%C3%A9-Tellier/dp/1635421691/ https://www.amazon.com/Anomaly-Novel-Herv%C3%A9-Tellier/dp/1... - don't want to give away too much (that's why I'm not linking to the Wikipedia article), but it fits the genre you are proposing - except spanning the entire world, not just a town.
- 4ggr0 3y ago
  Maybe you can find something on this list, https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/pre-apocalyptic https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/pre-apocalyptic I looked at a few books on this list, but not every book seems to really be about pre-apocalypse. Pre-Apocalyptic fictions sounds like literary edging :D
- mananaysiempre 3y ago
  “The Doomsday Book” by Connie Willis kind of has that feeling for a while. I couldn’t really get into it, though; it’s undeniably a well-written book, just not the kind of book I wanted to read.
- hef19898 3y ago
  That was my hope for Fear the Walking Dead, a show about society collapses under a zombie apocalypse. Instead we got some hints in a pre-zombie LA, went straight to a cordoned of quarantine zone and a time jump to "now the world, except your little suburb, went to hell". Seems writing convincing stories about why everything would collapse is a lot harder than stories set after an assumed collapse.
- 317070 3y ago
  Sounds like the movies "Don't look up" and "Melancholia" Not much really happens, all everybody knows is that doom is imminent. The movies are mainly about how the different characters handle this situation. That said, I am still waiting for a movie that just suddenly ends with a car crash where the main protagonist dies, fully unrelated to the story.
  - prewett 3y ago
    The last episode of Downton Abbey, Season 3 is reasonably close to that.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
    A bit reminiscent of the ending of No Country for Old Men, although you never find out if he actually dies.
- Aerbil313 3y ago
  On The Beach. So much doom I literally can’t finish it. Ok it’s post-apocalyptic but reads like it’s pre-apocalyptic.

Well, to be honest, for Grindavik we could currently be talking about a Pre-Apocalyptic situation :)

by 4ggr0 3y ago

Well, to be honest, for Grindavik we could currently be talking about a Pre-Apocalyptic situation :)

I wonder if this is a fiction genre. Can I read a book that starts with a happy town with not much going on, builds up to just before a catastrophe, and then ends? Maybe like Part 1 of Seveneves.

rob74 3y ago
I read this book recently: https://www.amazon.com/Anomaly-Novel-Herv%C3%A9-Tellier/dp/1635421691/ https://www.amazon.com/Anomaly-Novel-Herv%C3%A9-Tellier/dp/1... - don't want to give away too much (that's why I'm not linking to the Wikipedia article), but it fits the genre you are proposing - except spanning the entire world, not just a town.
4ggr0 3y ago
Maybe you can find something on this list, https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/pre-apocalyptic https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/pre-apocalyptic I looked at a few books on this list, but not every book seems to really be about pre-apocalypse. Pre-Apocalyptic fictions sounds like literary edging :D
mananaysiempre 3y ago
“The Doomsday Book” by Connie Willis kind of has that feeling for a while. I couldn’t really get into it, though; it’s undeniably a well-written book, just not the kind of book I wanted to read.
hef19898 3y ago
That was my hope for Fear the Walking Dead, a show about society collapses under a zombie apocalypse. Instead we got some hints in a pre-zombie LA, went straight to a cordoned of quarantine zone and a time jump to "now the world, except your little suburb, went to hell". Seems writing convincing stories about why everything would collapse is a lot harder than stories set after an assumed collapse.
317070 3y ago
Sounds like the movies "Don't look up" and "Melancholia" Not much really happens, all everybody knows is that doom is imminent. The movies are mainly about how the different characters handle this situation. That said, I am still waiting for a movie that just suddenly ends with a car crash where the main protagonist dies, fully unrelated to the story.
- prewett 3y ago
  The last episode of Downton Abbey, Season 3 is reasonably close to that.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
  A bit reminiscent of the ending of No Country for Old Men, although you never find out if he actually dies.
Aerbil313 3y ago
On The Beach. So much doom I literally can’t finish it. Ok it’s post-apocalyptic but reads like it’s pre-apocalyptic.