From the LA Review of Books: The apocalyptic novel has many mutations.  In an increasingly modern and mechanized world, the anxiety of the apocaly...

The novel is action-packed, moving from the terrifying hailstorm that plunges the reader right into the thick of things to the chemical weapon which changes people's personalities to the powerful cliffhanger ending.

Julie Kagawa didn't plan on writing a vampire book. She felt there were so many good vampire books already out on the market and didn't think she had anything to add. Boy, does she now!

The most appealing aspect of these stories is that the creative characters and landscapes leap off the page and most importantly, how these stories make us think.

I recently read the gentlest, most thoughtful post-apocalyptic novel I've ever read. It's about how our lives would change if we simply... ran out of...

Disaster porn is no longer the point of the apocalypse. It doesn't matter how the world ends, just that it does. Making it to the End doesn't mean the...