Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Problem With Apocalyptic Fiction...

...is that a lot of it sounds alike. Something bad happens to a culture, and now everything sucks. All apocalyptic novels are a variation on that scenario. Suzanne Collins didn't have to copy anything to make The Hunger Games sound similar to an array of earlier books and movies. That is the nature of the genre. It's pretty narrow.

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