![]() ![]() I would like to read more of them, especially because such settings and worlds offer an amazing space for exploring darker themes and commentaries, but it’s difficult to find stories that focus on those darker themes in a manner I find creditable. This also means that many readers, myself included, have grown immensely weary of the post-apocalyptic story. The young-adult market is currently one of the strongest and most profitable in publishing, and whenever a formula sells, it gets repeated over and over and over again-whether or not the writers repeating that formula are good at using it in the first place.Īs a result, there is a great big glut of post-apocalyptic stories on bookshelves. ![]() There, they battle each other to the death, watched by thousands of cheering, screaming spectators. ![]() Most attribute this rise in popularity to Suzanne Collins’ young-adult trilogy The Hunger Games, set in a post-apocalyptic United States where every year, two children are chosen from areas called districts, and then are thrown into an arena with other children from other districts. While the idea of humanity struggling to survive in the aftermath of a catastrophic event is nothing new, it appears to have had a resurgence of popularity in recent years. ![]() Currently, post-apocalyptic stories appear to be all the rage. ![]()
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