Jennifer Walker
What was invented when? All about phones
What do you call that gizmo you carry around with you 24/7? You probably call it a "phone" even though that's probably not how you use it...
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Jennifer Walker
May 27, 20211 min read
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
I'm not sure what I expected when I picked this up but it wasn't quite this. This is the story of a young woman from the near future who...
Jennifer Walker
May 16, 20211 min read
What was invented when? Ten technologies and their release dates
Presumably your apocalypse is going to render obsolete most if not all technology, but you still don't want your 80s teen protagonist...
Jennifer Walker
May 12, 20213 min read
Z is for Zachariah, by Robert C. O'brien
I don't often throw books across the room when I'm finished with them - I love books! - but this one went skidding across the carpet as...
Jennifer Walker
Apr 22, 20212 min read
How does your world end? Common causes of fictional apocalypses (and examples)
Writers have been creating end-of-times scenarios for centuries. Even Noah and his ark is a tale about a watery apocalypse survived only...
Jennifer Walker
Apr 20, 20211 min read
The Death of Grass, by John Christopher
Originally published in 1956, The Death of Grass remains a relevant and insightful page-turner; having read this in early 2021, with...
Jennifer Walker
Apr 16, 20210 min read
Jennifer Walker
Apr 15, 20212 min read
Dies the Fire, by SM Stirling
Dies the Fire was published in 2004 but feels like novels written 20 or even 30 years earlier. Set in the late 1990s, it feels more like...
Jennifer Walker
Apr 14, 20210 min read
Jennifer Walker
Apr 10, 20211 min read
Reading list for the post-apocalyptic writer, part 3
Part 3 of the reading list for post-apocalyptic writers includes one or two hidden YA titles; the end of the world is no picnic for...
Jennifer Walker
Apr 9, 20210 min read
Jennifer Walker
Apr 8, 20211 min read
The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal
The story opens in the early 1950s with a meteorite crashing into and obliterating Washington DC and much of the eastern seaboard....
Jennifer Walker
Mar 31, 20211 min read
Reading list for the post-apocalyptic writer, part 2
Have some openings on your nightstand? Here are 20 more post-apocalyptic novels every writer in this genre should consider reading. I...
Jennifer Walker
Mar 31, 20211 min read
Reading list for the post-apocalyptic writer, part 1
You wouldn’t pull up to your keyboard to write a steamy romance if you’d never read one, and you wouldn’t try to pants your way through...
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