Ren: Not that this directly deals with climate change.Īdam: No, post-apocalyptic novels don’t, and I don’t know if that’s a hang-up of the nuclear age or not wanting to think too much about the impending horrors of climate change. I’ve been a bit involved with Extinction Rebellion in the past year, but certainly you see with the school strikes on Fridays that the real push towards climate change activism is coming from the young. It definitely feels quite timely that there would be a Young Adult - well, I’m sure there’s a few Young Adult survivalist post-apocalyptic novels.Īdam: I guess especially with the increased youth concern around climate change. Which are survivalist, and have elements of the post-apocalyptic.
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And also, I guess the similarity of series like The Hunger Games or The Maze Runner to the post-apocalyptic genre. I think it’s quite a small press.Īdam: Which is surprising perhaps, given the popularity of post-apocalyptic films and video games over the last decade? You referred to The Road earlier, and also think of the Fallout games. Ren: No, it came out in 2014, and it’s not very well-known either. But when I looked down it was a paperback book instead, and it was this book! And that’s how I found it.Īdam: Oh great! And presumably you made it back to civilisation.Īdam: It’s not a terribly old book, right?
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Ren: Uh, I was on a long deserted dusty road, backpack on my back, flask of water nearly empty, the crows were circling over head, I saw what looked like a patch of grass, I thought maybe I could suck some dew from the leaves. Well you can imagine that if anything were to survive the apocalypse it would be a sturdy can of Coca-Cola. Ren: It’s like The Road, without the product placement.Īdam: What was the product placement again?Īdam: Ah, of course. Ren: It’s like The Walking Dead with kids!Īdam: I think that’s pretty dead-on actually! This is immediately post-apocalypse, nearly everyone’s dead, small band of survivors, that sort of thing.Īdam: So survivalist fiction, I’d almost call it? With the exception of The Crysallids but that’s more post-post-apocalypse. Ren: Good evening, Adam! Welcome to our podcast about The Garden of Darkness by Gillian Murray Kendall, which is our first outing into post-apocalyptic fiction on this podcast. I’m Ren Wednesday, my co-host is Adam Whybray and this time we’re chatting about The Garden of Darkness by Gillian Murray Kendall from 2014. Ren: Welcome to Still Scared: Talking Children’s Horror, a podcast about creepy, spooky and disturbing children’s books, films and TV. Outro music is by Joe Kelly, and their band Etao Shin are at .uk Artwork is by Letty Wilson, find her work at /lettydraws If you want to follow us on twitter we are and our email address is Intro music is by Maki Yamazaki, and you can find her work at.
In this episode we discussed The Garden of Darkness by Gillian Murray Kendall from 2014.
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