A novel in this genre that consists of anthropological records of the fictional Kesh people is Ursula K. LeGuin’s Always Coming Home. A novel in this genre opens with an actor playing King Lear suffering a heart attack and involves a Shakespeare troupe traveling around the Great Lakes. Overly pleasant novels in this genre such as John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes are derisively labeled “cozy.” A novel in this genre ends by describing trout whose backs were “maps of the world in its becoming.” This genre includes (*) Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. In a 2006 novel in this genre, an unnamed father and son who claim to “carry the fire”travel with only a shopping cart while evading cannibals. For 10 points, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is in what sci-fi subgenre set after major catastrophes? ■END■
ANSWER: post-apocalyptic fiction [accept word forms like post-apocalypse; accept dystopian fiction; accept“cozy catastrophe” before “catastrophes”; prompt on science fiction; prompt on speculative fiction]
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