Group 4, Preventability and the Human Reaction to Apocalypses Collection
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Title
Group 4, Preventability and the Human Reaction to Apocalypses Collection
Creator
Norman Davis, Hannah Dunnous, Jenalee Janes, Devinn Jani, and Caroline McDonough
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Description
The objects in this collection offer looks at a number of apocalypses after they’ve occurred — some of them preventable and some of them not, but all of which they now have to overcome in their own ways.
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Date
Fall 2019
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Language
English
Rights
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Collection Items
Doomsday + 1
Many Science Fiction stories that portray man-made apocalypses use nuclear war as the inciting incident. The Doomsday + 1 comics are an example of this in displaying a possible outcome of a nuclear war between two of the world’s most powerful…
Damnation Alley
Damnation Alley is a story about a man named Hell Tanner being pardoned for murder in exchange for going on a suicide mission from what was formerly Los Angeles to what was known as Boston before the war, across a nuclear wasteland where winds are…
False Dawn
False Dawn is a compelling story of Thea, a female mutant “Pirate”, and Evan who are thrown together by chance, striving to stay alive in a new twenty-first century world that can no longer support a vast human population due to war, disease, and…
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Leibowitz is set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war; the book takes place over the course of thousands of years as civilization attempts to rebuild itself.
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids is a story about a man named Bill Masen who, along with the people he meets along the way, has to try to save the world as he knows it from the invasion of killer aliens called “triffids,” which crash-landed on Earth with…