Karin wrote:
". . . my favourite book about what might happen after a
nuclear war is Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon. It tells about the
residents of a small Florida town who learn to become
self-sufficient as all the big cities are destroyed and most
modern technology is rendered useless."
I haven't read that, but it reminds me of Denis Johnson's
great Fiskadoro, which is set in the quarantine zone of the
Florida Keys after Miami went up in a mushroom cloud. The
quarantine is near its end as the book opens. It's more
slipstream than noir (not that they're mutually exclusive),
but some of Johnson's other books are unequivocably noir,
especially Angels and Jesus' Son, and probably Resusitation
of a Hanged Man.
As for post-apocalyptic stories, I went through a phase a few
years ago where much of what I read (or movies I saw) seemed
to be along those lines. Among the best were some of Ted
McKeever's comics, such as Eddy Current and Metropol
AD.
Mark
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