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jfz9580m

(17,910 posts)
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 09:35 PM Aug 2025

I support post-apoplectic books

;-/..
Auto-correct eh? I hate that thing
Coincidentally, I have been feeling post-apopletic off and on lately..but never post-apocalyptic …lol

I can’t recommend it since I haven’t read it yet. But I was intrigued by this book and bought it and plan to read it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Skin_(novel)]

And I bought and loved Harry Harrison’s “Make Room! Make Room!”. It’s the book that Soylent Green (which I have never seen) is loosely based on.

It struck me as a very realistic take on the human future at this rate. I would barely call it science fiction or even fiction. It’s the reality humans try to ignore while hoping that obviously bogus futuristic stuff or really anything but that could eventually result from the ways of a species like ours. The elites are well aware of it, hence the hoarding. Gangsters and gangsters molls heading up a society of a dazed strained crowd of humans is the future! When I read it I realized that this is my prediction of the future. A nightmarish enough one.

Lol…well this eldster has to go work..

So that’s two recs:
1. Under the Skin - Michael Faber
2. Make Room! Make Room! -Harry Harrison

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