Monday, 9 June 2025

After

What happens after a disaster?

After the Apocalypse and the Ragnarok, a new heaven and a new earth.

After Armageddon at the end of James Blish's Black Easter, the events of the sequel, The Day After Judgement.

After Earth has been sterilized in Poul Anderson's After Doomsday, an American all-male spaceship crew and a European all-female spaceship crew find each other.

After this universe in Anderson's Tao Zero, a new universe.

After this universe in Anderson's "Flight to Forever," the same universe in a temporal cycle.

Near the end of this universe in Anderson's The Avatar, a powerful race influencing the formation of a new universe.

After the Terran Empire in Anderson's Technic History, two appropriately entitled volumes: The Long Night and The Night Face.

After Earth has had to be evacuated in Anderson's "The Chapter Ends," human participation in Galactic civilization.

After the inundation of Ys in Poul and Karen Anderson's The King Of Ys, the Dark Ages but also the seeds of medieval feudalism.

Neil Gaiman's Inn of the Worlds' End is continually created by the ending of worlds.

Something will happen after us.

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