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End of the World Reading Challenge
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HRO
Posted 2014-01-19 7:35 AM (#6152)
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"What will the world be like...when it ends?"

For this challenge, read 12 books that could be tagged "apocalyptic, post apocalyptic, near future, dystopia, utopia, etc."

Sign up for this challenge HERE
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Posted 2014-01-19 9:30 AM (#6157 - in reply to #6152)
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Posted 2014-01-19 10:18 AM (#6158 - in reply to #6152)
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Well since I've got 8 on the TBR that match I gotta have a go.
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Posted 2014-01-19 4:55 PM (#6164 - in reply to #6157)
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Administrator - 2014-01-19 10:30 AM Great challenge and a great banner!


Thanks so much!
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HRO
Posted 2014-01-19 4:57 PM (#6165 - in reply to #6158)
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justifiedsinner - 2014-01-19 11:18 AM Well since I've got 8 on the TBR that match I gotta have a go.


Thank you for signing up JS.

I think this could be a very easy challenge (if you're into these particular subgenres) and works well with many of the other challenges.
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Posted 2014-06-28 9:35 PM (#8009 - in reply to #6152)
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Location: The Wilds of Washington		A notion that got batted around one of the Futures list serve this month was the idea that we (Americans in particular) can more easily imagine the end of the world, than we can imagine the end of the capitalism system. (See this years crop of summer block busters for reference.) And yet, when you really start doing high level trend analysis and possible outcomes, there's nothing intrinsically improbable. It's possible, some would even say a preferred future.
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Posted 2014-09-02 2:34 PM (#8414 - in reply to #6152)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		Hi everyone! I joined this challenge after realizing I had already read 9 EotW books and will be at least another 3 by the end of the year.
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Posted 2014-09-02 5:24 PM (#8419 - in reply to #6152)
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Location: Neither here...nor there		Welcome spoltz! The end of the world is a hot topic in sff so it's pretty easy to find books to qualify for this challenge.
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Posted 2014-09-03 10:47 AM (#8423 - in reply to #6152)
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Location: Neither here...nor there		State of the Challenge (as of today Sept. 3)

17 participants
97 books read
41 books reviewed

1 participant has completed the challenge and several others are very close with 10 or 11 books read.

Three of my favorite books so far this year have been read for the End of the World Challenge - A Gift Upon the Shore, Mockingbird, and When She Woke.

Is everyone enjoying the books they are reading?
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Posted 2014-09-03 1:33 PM (#8428 - in reply to #6152)
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Location: SC, USA		This one contained many authors that I had been meaning to read for a long time--Maureen McHugh, Suzy Charnas, Cory Doctorow, Lauren Beukes, and Lois Lowery. I was won over by all their books, except for Beukes' Moxyland. However, Emil has talked me into giving Beukes another chance (Well, I was going to anyway, but he is such a good advocate)
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