At the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
Jeff Somers tagged ten top books with fictional apocalypses...and gave them a plausibility grade. One title on the list:
On the Beach, by Nevil Shute
Nuclear war is, sadly, still one of the most likely ways civilization and all human life could end on the planet. Set largely in Australia as the population awaits a huge cloud of deadly radiation stemming from a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere, the story remains a gripping and horrifying glimpse of an end of the world that could still happen—at any time.
Plausibility rating: One tweet more likely, anyway.
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another entry on the list.
On the Beach is among
Rebecca Jane Stokes's seven books not to bring to the beach,
Ben H. Winters's three books to read before the end of the world,
Sloane Crosley's five depressing beach reads, and
Michael Evans's top six books on nuclear war.
--Marshal Zeringue
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