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  • August 21, 2026 at 6:54 pm #165487
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    Took a break from my dystopia/post-apocalyptic reading. (My favorite post-apoc book so far has been Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi)

    Started a book called Kill Billionaire, by Anders Lustgarten. I’m only on page 50 or so, and its already my favorite little book of the last few years. Its perfect. Thats all I’m saying. And it will never be reviewed by any MSM site.

    A bit on Anders, fwiw:

    Anders Lustgarten is Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where his first two plays, The Insurgents (2007) and Enduring Freedom (2008), were produced. Other work includes The Punishment Stories, (shortlisted for the 2007 Verity Bargate Award), an adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek’s The Police (BAC 2007), The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (2010) for the National Theatre Studio and If You Don’t Let Us Dream Then We Won’t Let You Sleep (Royal Court, 2013). Anders is a political activist, has taught on Death Row, been arrested by the Turkish secret police, and holds a PhD in Chinese politics from the University of California. He also won the inaugural Harold Pinter Playwrights Award with a commission from the Royal Court in 2011.

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    August 21, 2026 at 7:33 pm #165492
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    wv wrote:

    Took a break from my dystopia/post-apocalyptic reading. (My favorite post-apoc book so far has been Windup Girl by Paulo Bacigalupi)

    Bacigalupi has some good short stories too. But the novel is pure dystopian. You don’t have P-A fiction if technological and economic civilization is intact, even if it’s located in a planet-wide degraded environment.

    To use films as an example, the original Soylent Green is dystopian. Whereas The Road Warrior> is post-apocalyptic.

    Think of it this way. Dystopian fiction is about inhumane future civilizations. P-A fiction is about the absence of civilization, which has been destroyed on a global scale (by war or disease or matural disaster etc.).

    Here’s an example of a PB short story (also dystopian but set in an environmentally degraded world): https://windupstories.com/books/pump-six-and-other-stories/people-of-sand-and-slag/

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