Personal Apocalypses

To commemorate the end of the first Pandemonium collection and the release of A Town Called Pandemonium, I was asked to write a guest post for Pornokitsch:

Rather than going for a broad, Cracked.com-style top five list for my Pandemonium guest post, I’m doing something a little smaller and more philosophical. I’m not enough of an Armageddon expert to be able to proclaim a top five with square-jawed authority, but there’s something about apocalyptic fiction that drives it straight into the territory of the Big Questions.

Of course, just because a story can get there, it doesn’t mean it’ll have convincing answers. Some of the books and films on this list get right to the edge of significance and then fuck it up, like a tourist at the Grand Canyon taking blurry photos of the bus. But even these disasters can be educational. So the apocalypses below aren’t necessarily my favourites. They’re just the ones that, intentionally or unintentionally, have made me wonder what’s really going on with post-apocalyptic fiction.

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