It seems like quite a few books I’ve read recently that are set in the future have assumed some world-wide catastrophe, usually man-made, but not always, that completely destroyed life as we know it and forced the survivors to recreate it. Why is this?
A few examples:
Star Trek
The Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy farmer
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
You can add “Wind in the WIllows” to that list. Badger discovers things that were man made. It seems like the forest they live in used to be a big city, Washington D.C. or New York. I didn’t pick up on those clues until I read it as a grown up. :book: