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Love in the Time of the Apocalypse

Author : Gregory Blecha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595792641
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of the Apocalypse written by Gregory Blecha and published by . This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a dystopian novel hovering over the imminent collapse of American civilization at the hands of a techno-authoritarian state, "Love in the Time of the Apocalypse" is also a book about the triumph of love and humor over the fatal gravitas of life and death. It is part future nightmare part whimsical farce of the present. Love in the Time of the Apocalypse is a work of playful conspiritorial pop-delirium and pastiche full of lovable terrorists, state run breeding houses, Amish casinos, vulgar action scenes, the antichrist, tongue and cheek hyper-masculinity ("perhaps sit-ups can save the world") and a bourgeois love story to top it all. Readers who love Science Fiction, Dystopian Literature, and Conspiracy Theory will find this book chock full of fresh and clever fare. The speculative details are much more subtle than works on the post-apocalypse. The reader can feel both drawn into a bit of a future shock while at the same time remain anchored in a familiar, albeit, terrifying present. Blecha has a way of pulling from current trends of government suppression of freedoms and stretching them ever so softly to their possible conclusion. Thus, rather than a world of utter totalitarianism such at Orwell's 1984, we are presented with a more plausible, more friendly fascism that a society founded on consumerism and entertainment might bring about. Without coming across as a writer with an agenda, Gregory Blecha offers a strong but playful critique of State power, the smothering inefficiency and corruption of bureaucracy, and the role of the over-stimulated, under-critical herd of middle class consumers and middle managers of a collapsing North America. Tramps,plague victims, nihilists and nymphomaniacs along with the main character, a WASP drawn into their exciting world, make for the heroes of the story. The villains are the lifeless and systematic processes of the Federal Government, the Department of Health, the Department of Overpopulation, and the technological control systems of modern life, and yet even these are rendered with an air of playfulness that allows the reader to smile as the world comes crumbling down.

Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse

Author : David Perez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935904243
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse written by David Perez and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Poet Laureate of San Jose, these poems salvage memories from the wreckage of the Challenger disaster, drink shots with the poltergeist haunting the local dive bar, and resurrect the wisdom in the harsh words of departed lovers. In his debut poetry collection, Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse, David Perez takes snapshots of a world under collapse to show us the parts worth saving. His images activate a new way of seeing. The mundane is no longer insignificant- the nightmare no longer insufferable. At times, Perez is terse and pragmatic. Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse beckons us into dark corners in ways that let our eyes adjust, revealing a splendor we would have otherwise surely missed.

Love in the Time of Apocalypse

Author : T. E. Mark
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548014421
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Apocalypse written by T. E. Mark and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the sky is ripped by a commanding voice with the grim verdict, that the Intergalactic Affairs Committee has declared the Earth unsalvageable and a danger to the universe, people shudder, shake and fall to their knees in prayer. But not Perry Brambles, a cynical, opinionated journalist who is desperately trying to finish his copy for the morning news and can't really be bothered by some 'blithering pain in the ass omnipotent being from another galaxy, universe, dimension, or what-have-you.' After voicing his comments, rather descriptively, he's whisked away to another planet and tasked with guiding Earth's cumulative leadership to a better understanding of their duties with hopes of saving the world from this damning decree. And it will be here in space, and time and even space-time that Perry will regain his youth and favourite sweater. He'll learn the truth about nature, and human nature, and all nature, really, and how, at the end of the day, what truly matters are peace, happiness, acceptance, children, love, and.... dusting.

Love in the Time of the Apocalypse

Author : Gregory Blecha
Publisher : Gregory Blecha
ISBN 13 : 0595341632
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of the Apocalypse written by Gregory Blecha and published by Gregory Blecha. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a dystopian novel hovering over the imminent collapse of American civilization at the hands of a techno-authoritarian state, "Love in the Time of the Apocalypse" is also a book about the triumph of love and humor over the fatal gravitas of life and death. It is part future nightmare part whimsical farce of the present. Love in the Time of the Apocalypse is a work of playful conspiritorial pop-delirium and pastiche full of lovable terrorists, state run breeding houses, Amish casinos, vulgar action scenes, the antichrist, tongue and cheek hyper-masculinity ("perhaps sit-ups can save the world") and a bourgeois love story to top it all. Readers who love Science Fiction, Dystopian Literature, and Conspiracy Theory will find this book chock full of fresh and clever fare. The speculative details are much more subtle than works on the post-apocalypse. The reader can feel both drawn into a bit of a future shock while at the same time remain anchored in a familiar, albeit, terrifying present. Blecha has a way of pulling from current trends of government suppression of freedoms and stretching them ever so softly to their possible conclusion. Thus, rather than a world of utter totalitarianism such at Orwell's 1984, we are presented with a more plausible, more friendly fascism that a society founded on consumerism and entertainment might bring about. Without coming across as a writer with an agenda, Gregory Blecha offers a strong but playful critique of State power, the smothering inefficiency and corruption of bureaucracy, and the role of the over-stimulated, under-critical herd of middle class consumers and middle managers of a collapsing North America. Tramps,plague victims, nihilists and nymphomaniacs along with the main character, a WASP drawn into their exciting world, make for the heroes of the story. The villains are the lifeless and systematic processes of the Federal Government, the Department of Health, the Department of Overpopulation, and the technological control systems of modern life, and yet even these are rendered with an air of playfulness that allows the reader to smile as the world comes crumbling down.

Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse

Author : Carolyn Baker
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583948996
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse written by Carolyn Baker and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the daunting, dire predicament in which we find ourselves on this planet, what is described by social critic James Howard Kunstler as a "Long Emergency" may in fact become a "Last Emergency" for humanity. Whether we encounter a "long" or a "last" emergency, Carolyn Baker seeks to offer inspiration and guidance for inhabiting our remaining days with passion, vitality, empathy, intimate contact with our emotions, kindness in our relationships with all species, gratitude, open-hearted receptivity, exquisite creations of beauty, and utilizing every occasion, even our demise, as an opportunity to invoke and "inflict" joy in our world. Love in the Age of Ecological Apolcalypse addresses an array of relationships in the Last Emergency and how one's relationship with oneself may enrich or impede interactions with all other beings. Drawing upon her deep experience as a life coach, Baker writes of the specific need to understand our key relationships in a society in collapse, and how to navigate through differing levels of acceptance of collapse, trauma, and grief. Key relationships include those with our partners, children, friends, neighbors, as well as relationships with our work, our bodies, our natural resources, food and eating, animals, future generations, Eros, and indeed, the powers of the universe. Baker's writing is engaging, inspiring, and often beautiful in its depth and candor. She introduces a variety of spiritual practices facilitate our developing a relationship with the deeper Self. With these practices and giving and receiving support from others who are walking a similar path, we begin to live more frequently from the deeper Self, or at least are able to access it more quickly when we find ourselves becoming embroiled in the ego. Table Of Contents • Introduction • Chapter 1: Living, Loving, and Preparing With A Reluctant Partner • Chapter 2: Children And Collapse • Chapter 3: Friends, Neighbors, and The Community • Chapter 4: Work and The Creative Soul • Chapter 5: Our Relationship With Resources • Chapter 6: Loving The Body As The World Falls Apart • Chapter 7: Our Relationship With Food: Mindful Eating As A Spiritual Practice • Chapter 8: Loving The Time Of Your Life • Chapter 9: What An Animal You Are! • Chapter 10: Darkness Matters • Chapter 11: Ensconsed In Eros, Bathed In Beauty • Chapter 12: Our Relationship With The Powers of The Universe • Chapter 13: Near-Term Extinction And Waking Up To Death • Chapter 14: Empire, I Wish I Knew How To Quit You • Chapter 15: Grief And Love In A Culture Of Congestive Heart Failure • Chapter 16: Our Relationship With Future Generations

Love in the Time of Cholera

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101911115
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Cholera written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Love in the Time of Zombies

Author : Cassandra Gannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549870927
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Zombies written by Cassandra Gannon and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotlyn Summerline was having a bad day even before the zombies attacked. Her diet was blown, her credit cards were all maxed out, and she was working the nightshift at a sleazy miniature golf course in Las Vegas. An army of the undead rampaging through the city is just the final proof that bad things happen to nice girls. Now Scotlyn is on the run with her irresponsible boss, trying to find a way out of town. Possibly, she's had a crush on Zeke since she first saw the incredibly gorgeous jerk. Possibly, he's spent his life until now squandering his potential on sci-fi movies and strippers. Also, possibly, he's a werewolf. But Zeke's still her best shot at survival.Ezekiel Macready is not a werewolf. He's a shape shifter. Zeke has always been different from the rest of his pack, living among the humans and studying ancient legends. Still, even he's shocked when zombies show up on his golf course. As walking corpses take over Vegas, Zeke's only thought is to protect Scotlyn. His beautiful, bossy secretary is the one person he can't live without. To keep Scotlyn safe from the zombies, Zeke knows he has to reconnect to his supernatural roots. Whether he likes it or not. Now, the two of them are stuck with Zeke's overprotective "brother," a wiseass vampire who likes nail polish, her megalomaniacal boyfriend/ kidnapper, and a shape shifter in a trucker hat. No matter what it takes, though, Zeke's determined to get Scotlyn to safety.... And convince her that he's exactly the kind of shape shifter a nice girl needs at the end of the world.

Love in the Time of Global Warming

Author : Francesca Lia Block
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805096272
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Global Warming written by Francesca Lia Block and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.

Love in the Time of Zombies

Author : Jill James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692376638
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Zombies written by Jill James and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influenza swept the planet. In months, two billion were dead. In the decimated United States, President Andrew Thomas signed an Executive Order to spray the national food and water supply with a flu vaccine. It spread and mutated up the food chain. The infected craved the flesh of the living and the undead walked the earth. Overnight, Emily Gray's privileged world was ripped away. From pampered trophy wife to sharpshooter zombie hunter. From an elite address in San Francisco to the outskirts of an East Bay farm town. You never know what event will define you. The apocalypse showed Emily what she was truly capable of doing to survive. Seth Ripley was a truck driver with simple dreams. Pay off his mortgage, not live paycheck to paycheck, and take care of his mom. The end of the world as he knew it stole all that away. His home and livelihood are gone and the only dream he has left is for his mother to awake from her diabetic coma brought on from the trials and tribulations of getting out of Oakland ahead of the horde of undead. When surviving day to day is all you ask of life, love seems an unrealistic dream. Who would ever think that something as terrible as the zombie apocalypse could bring Seth and Emily something as wonderful as their other half, their soul mate, their true love? Now all they have to do is survive death, destruction, and a madman who wants to control what is left of the world they knew.

A Promise of Love in the Time of Zombies: A Romance Novel

Author : William Cruz
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3755436418
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book A Promise of Love in the Time of Zombies: A Romance Novel written by William Cruz and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenna, a single mother trying to hold her life together in "A Promise of Love in the Time of Zombies," meets Lucy, a blind waitress, at a convention. A zombie apocalypse breaks out before they get a chance to explore their desire, leaving them in a frantic battle for survival while sparks fly. Jenna and Lucy start to view each other in a new way as they hunt for food and shelter and battle the dead. As they jointly confront the harsh realities of their new environment, they become close. Jenna tells Lucy about her traumatic background, including her scheme to get vengeance on her violent ex-husband. She has the courage to confront her issues thanks to Lucy's encouragement. But when Jenna's ex-husband appears, bringing violence and danger with him, their joy is short-lived. The furious attacker and a group of zombies have trapped Jenna and Lucy, and they must battle for their life. In spite of the odds being against them, Jenna and Lucy succeed. They understand that their emotions for one another go beyond a fleeting desire. As they embark on the journey to reestablish their lives in the post-apocalyptic world, they make a commitment to stick together and support one another. The compelling love tale "A Promise of Love in the Time of Zombies" is set against the background of the zombie apocalypse. It examines topics like emotional closeness, survival, and the everlasting power of the human spirit. For lovers of romance, horror, and post-apocalyptic literature alike, this book is a must-read since it has LGBTQ representation and a varied group of characters.

Love in an Undead Age

Author : A. M. Geever
Publisher : Undead Age
ISBN 13 : 9781733773713
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Love in an Undead Age written by A. M. Geever and published by Undead Age. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving the zombie apocalypse was hard, but finding true love may be fatal. Urban farmer Miranda Tucci is lucky to be alive in what's left of California's Silicon Valley, despite a love life that's dead on arrival. Then an old flame turns up at nearby Santa Clara University, and she wonders if her DOA love life might have a pulse. A ruthless governing council controls the cure for the zombie virus. When Miranda joins a plot to steal it, the ghosts of her past collide with the present. Will the vaccine continue to be used for political advantage, or can Miranda survive long enough to usher in a new age of civilization? It's only the fate of humanity that's suddenly resting on her shoulders. If she can bring her love life back from the dead, how tough can saving the world be?

The Key to Survival

Author : Kate L. Mary
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542850063
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Key to Survival written by Kate L. Mary and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding her fianc� in a compromising position, Jane heads to a private island resort in Key West to clear her head. There she meets Austin, six years younger than she is and the exact opposite of her fianc� in every way, he seems like the perfect prescription to cure her heartbreak. But everything changes when the virus that had previously only been a minor nuisance morphs into a full-blown epidemic. Four miles from the mainland and surrounded by ocean, Austin and Jane believe they're safe from what's happening in the world, but a virus no knows borders and it isn't long before other guests start coming down with the illness. Zombie isn't a word that anyone likes to throw around, but it's the only explanation the couple can think of when one of the other hotel guests tries to eat Austin's face off. As things go from bad to worse and Jane leans on Austin more and more, she soon finds herself wondering if her little trip to Florida wasn't just the key to her survival, but also the key to finding a man who will love her the way she deserves.

Apocalypse and Allegiance

Author : J. Nelson Kraybill
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1441212558
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse and Allegiance written by J. Nelson Kraybill and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively introduction, J. Nelson Kraybill shows how the book of Revelation was understood by its original readers and what it means for Christians today. Kraybill places Revelation in its first-century context, opening a window into the political, economic, and social realities of the early church. His fresh interpretation highlights Revelation's liturgical structure and directs readers' attentions to twenty-first-century issues of empire, worship, and allegiance, showing how John's apocalypse is relevant to the spiritual life of believers today. The book includes maps, timelines, photos, a glossary, discussion questions, and stories of modern Christians who live out John's vision of a New Jerusalem.

Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse

Author : Carolyn Baker
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583949003
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Love in the Time of the Apocalypse

Author : Rouba Shishakly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781987594119
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of the Apocalypse written by Rouba Shishakly and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love. A terrible, debilitating thing," he mused. "I've always been so repelled by the prospect of love and death, both of which I regard to be inherently mortal afflictions that must plague mankind." The clock is ticking to create a cure for the virus that currently grips the world. But as the deadline approaches a key mission is sabotaged and Mira Iliev, a government scientist, finds herself unwittingly allied with the most hated man in Eastern Europe. Demir Gudelj turns himself in after a very successful career as an international Drug Lord. But when his meticulously planned contract with the government goes awry, he finds not only his promised, full pardon, at risk but also his lifelong beliefs. What follows will test Demir's wits, his will to survive, and his heart. "Mira wonders if she could love Demir like she does if they were both on the same side. In the meantime, the war continues, and part of her is glad. Maybe he'd been correct? Maybe survival in times like these required more than peacetime morals? Maybe the meek did not have what it took to inherit the earth." A story of corruption, repentance, and forgiveness.

Apocalypse Child

Author : Flor Edwards
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1683367707
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse Child written by Flor Edwards and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first thirteen years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God. The group's nomadic existence was based on the belief that, as God's chosen people, they would be saved in the impending apocalypse that would envelop the rest of the world in 1993. Flor would be thirteen years old. The group's charismatic leader, Father David, kept the family on the move, from Los Angeles to Bangkok to Chicago, where they would eventually disband, leaving Flor to make sense of the foreign world of mainstream society around her. Apocalypse Child is a cathartic journey through Flor's memories of growing up within a group with unconventional views on education, religion, and sex. Whimsically referring to herself as a real life Kimmy Schmidt, Edwards's clear-eyed memoir is a story of survival in a childhood lived on the fringes.

Notes from an Apocalypse

Author : Mark O'Connell
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385543018
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Notes from an Apocalypse written by Mark O'Connell and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with the future, by the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine. “Deeply funny and life-affirming, with a warm, generous outlook even on the most challenging of subjects.” —Esquire We’re alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt. Everywhere you look there’s an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on earth is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O’Connell is consumed by these questions—and, as the father of two young children, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization’s collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited—real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. What emerges is an absorbing, funny, and deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with what’s ahead.