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
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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: