None of these works pretend to be a survival manual. That said, survivors of a wide variety of apocalyptic events could certainly use the accumulated wisdom of the resourceful, empathetic, and honorable heroines of these five post-apocalyptic stories. For that reason alone, I recommend that everyone keep a copy of the following books on their shelves at home.
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the year of the flood by margaret atwood
the handmaid’s tale is the one that really got things going in the literary bets of the women of the apocalypse, a feminist classic that is difficult to leave behind as both a reader and a writer. however, it presents an older view of women facing imminent death, a view born out of 1970s feminism. We have changed, and so has Margaret Atwood. in the year of the deluge, the pioneering author makes a new and admirable second return to her own theme. the female protagonists of the year of the deluge continue to be victims of the sexual madness of men (always worse in recent times) but in this new scenario they survive (mostly) taking care of each other. there are no good men in vans coming to save the day: the sisters are doing it for themselves. First, they do a pretty good job of just surviving some sort of devastating man-made plague. then, armed with little more than a reckless amount of grit and character, they go out on their apocalyptic path to find and save their friend from a pair of angry beast-men. female camaraderie and gender loyalty may not be the only themes of the year of the flood (environmental destruction, insatiable consumerism, quack religion, and demeaning sexual politics vie for our attention), but they are certainly the lights in the dark that make this the second book in the maddaddam trilogy really shine.
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the book of the nameless midwife by meg elison
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Almost everyone is dead from an unknown plague that comes back like a fever from time to time. there are no live births. only one in ten survivors are women, many of them chained to gangs of men who use them for sex. most of the world has become savagery. decent men and free women are rare and vulnerable creatures, safe only in terrible and total isolation. danger lurks in desolate corners and boldly stalks empty highways. the nameless midwife enters, dressed as a man, armed as a cowboy, capable of surviving on her own, and sometimes willing to save others. Written in both the first and third person (a slightly unnerving literary device that offers both emotional proximity and critical distance), this is a surprisingly powerful story of one woman’s physical and emotional ingenuity under the most dire of circumstances. An apocalyptic page turner that picks up where Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale left off.
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daughters of the north by sarah hall
sarah hall’s daughters of the north may have received a mixed bag of criticism (too much intense political debate and little drama/the wrong kind of political debate and little drama), and it’s certainly not encouraging that our heroine can only talk to us through police questioning, but remains a personal favorite. I love the idyllic rural setting, I like to experience vicariously the everyday rhythms of life in an all-girls apocalyptic boot camp, and I don’t mind the aggressive tone of some of the women. these are emotionally scarred fugitives from an environmental and social disaster, not political ladies. I’d be happy to have one of them watching my back and if I ever find myself imprisoned by a regime of gender oppression then I too will dream of a posse of foul-mouthed women in the Cumbrian hills; working the land by day, making love by night, and daring to fight even when fighting is the stupidest thing to do. congratulations to the brave and lost sisters of the carhullan army.
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seven times by neal stephenson
Not all apocalyptic books have unhappy endings, and that’s a literary fact. they just all start with a terrible premise. in seven times, the moon explodes. it’s the end of the world as we know it, well do it in two years, but in this case not everyone uses that as an excuse to misbehave. A collaborative global group of politicians and scientists races to make the International Space Station the last great hope for humanity’s survival. there are many pages detailing the minutiae of this momentous task. Along the way we meet an eclectic group of female astronauts and other smart and talented women. in the last days of life on earth, a thousand justly chosen and diverse souls are sent into space. As uplifting as that part of the story is, things don’t go exactly as planned. Warning/Spoiler Alert! Only seven of the space station’s colonists survive. seven women: the seven vespers (not seven eaves as she expected, having misread the title). thank you, neal stephenson, for this miraculous victory over obstacles both physical and literary. seven great female characters who use their collective intelligence to save the human race. what a spectacular way to give women their apocalyptic comeuppance.
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eliseo by jennifer marie brissett
Last but not least, a postmodern, gender-bending story in which a woman’s life and relationships survive only as snippets of code. Elysium is a delicate end-of-days story seen through the eyes of an alternate heroine with more heart and soul than weapons. While there’s certainly enough hard stuff in this book to call it dystopian fiction, Adrian/ne and anthony/antoinette’s story is ultimately a softer, weirder take on life after the end, one that transforms the notion of memories. post-apocalyptic and offers us a different way of seeing the end itself. Offering a startlingly different doomsday narrative, an unusual female narrator (most of the time), and an alien twist, Elysium is a book that I imagine will make the sentimental reader cry and the practical reader check their backup computer systems.
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Jackie Hatton is the author of Flesh and Wires (Aqueduct Press, November 2015), a post-apocalyptic, post-alien novel that imagines women as agents of their own destiny.
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