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		<title>The Pool of Fire, by John Christopher (1968)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/30/the-pool-of-fire-by-john-christopher-1968/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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After the discussion of trilogies (and Martini-Corona&#8217;s eternal John Christopher obsession), I decided this project wouldn&#8217;t be complete without a Tripod book. The Tripod trilogy (&#8230;heh) might have been the first major YA science fiction trilogy, and is certainly a classic.

If you somehow missed these books, the premise is that aliens invade, in giant metal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Turning Place, by Jean E. Karl (1976)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/25/the-turning-place-by-jean-e-karl-1976/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Apocalypse how? Aliens. The Clordians didn&#8217;t want to compete with humans for habitable planets to colonize, so they wiped us out. The Clordian Sweep &#8220;rapid[ly] disintegrat[ed]&#8230; all carbon compounds, which destroyed all life.&#8221; (Not to mention all paper records of knowledge, all wooden structures&#8230; the thoroughness of this destruction is impressive.)

Some people, plants, and animals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Morrow duology, by H. M. Hoover (1973, 1976)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/13/the-morrow-duology-by-h-m-hoover-1973-1976/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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In Children of Morrow, we meet Tia and Rabbit, slightly deformed (and oh P.S. telepathic) outcast children in a post-apocalyptic village. The primitive village grew out of a military base, worships a dead nuclear warhead, is patriarchal to a degree that would make Margaret Atwood blush at the crass obviousness of it all, and generally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exiles of ColSec, by Douglas Hill (1984)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/07/exiles-of-colsec-by-douglas-hill-1984/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/07/exiles-of-colsec-by-douglas-hill-1984/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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A group of bad-ass teen criminals get kicked off Earth to be the lead team of colonizers of the planet Klydor. If they die, eh, no harm done. If they survive, ColSec &#8212; Colonization Section, part of the massive government that runs Earth &#8212; shows up to claim a nicely broken-in planet. There are giant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Time of Darkness, by H. M. Hoover (1980)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/04/this-time-of-darkness-by-h-m-hoover-1980/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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All Amy knows is the endless corridors and grimy roach-infested apartments of the city. She&#8217;s marked as a possible troublemaker because she knows how to read, but if she keeps her head down and makes enough deliberate mistakes on the school vids, maybe they&#8217;ll send her to a training dorm to learn a trade. Until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eva, by Peter Dickinson (1988)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/01/eva-by-peter-dickinson-1988/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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This is the precursor to popular recent books like The Adoration of Jenna Fox and the Skinned trilogy. Attractive, athletic Eva is in a coma after a horrible car accident. To save her, her parents agree to an experimental treatment: re-growing her mind in the body of a chimpanzee.
In Jenna Fox and Skinned, the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old-School Apocalypse April!</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/01/old-school-apocalypse-april/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/04/01/old-school-apocalypse-april/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parenthetical.net/?p=998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I wrote a lot about apocalypses and dystopias, a perennial favorite topic here in Parenthetical-land. Those posts, and Presenting Lenore&#8217;s Dystopian February, inspired my own theme month:
Welcome to Old-School Apocalypse April!
I&#8217;ve been re-reading some childhood favorites from my YA Apocalypse Bookshelf (yes, I really have such a thing). Some hold up brilliantly, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graph&#8230; of DOOM</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/03/07/graph-of-doom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One last piece of dystopiana: Research Reveals That Apocalyptic Stories Changed Dramatically 20 Years Ago.
Chanda Phelan wrote this article based on her thesis, for which she looked at a ton of apocalyptic literature from 1826 to 2007 and charted the nature of the apocalypse. Click the image at the top of the article for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dystop-a-rama</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/26/dystop-a-rama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/26/dystop-a-rama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parenthetical.net/?p=956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Post-apocalyptic and/or dystopian fiction!  It&#8217;s: a) pretty much all I read as an adolescent, b) what made the hippie I am today, c) ridiculously popular all of a sudden in YA lit, or d) all of the above?
D, obviously.  The YA lit world is exploding with talk of dystopias.  This article from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Tomorrow, by Jean Karl</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/06/strange-tomorrow-by-jean-karl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/06/strange-tomorrow-by-jean-karl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Hey, everybody, it&#8217;s post-apocalyptic YA from the &#8217;80s!  Home, sweet home.  It even has a watercolory cover and a fresh-faced, all-American heroine named &#8220;Janie Johnson&#8221;!  This book was brought to my attention recently [and by "recently," I mean about six months ago, when I actually read it -- Ed.] by an old [...]]]></description>
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