How's that for scary?Īlthough I really appreciate what this author was trying to do, and there were some powerful moments in Soft Apocalypse, I admit that I had a hard time getting into this book and then sticking with it. It might even be happening to us right now. You still hungry? Trying to sell a few tampons for a piece of bread? How about all that murdering of illegal immigrants by the trainload? You wake up from your 1980s' dream to see the 2010's. You wake up from your 1950's dream to see the 1980's. There are still dicks with guns and politicians without a clue and nuclear warheads going off in this novel, but events are spread out as the apocalypse comes to a full boil. Doing good where you can or letting it all rot, trying to find a bit of happiness in the crap and sticking with friends where you find them. And all the while, just trying to get by. But what will it REALLY be like? Especially if it's SLOW? but what happens when we run out of resources and our natural cupidity and incompetence drags us down? :) We might not like to admit it, of course, and all these dystopias like the plagues and the radiation and the zombie outbreaks.

We're damn suckers for that kind of destruction. You know, putting a frog in a pot and set the temp to low. The title is okay but it really should be named SLOW Apocalypse. Maybe not as good as, say, The Postman or The Stand, maybe, but out of all the last decade's dystopian runs, I like this because of the freaking REALISM. I think I may have just found my favorite dystopian SF.

Soft apocalypse by will mcintosh