Hacker News with Generative AI: Apocalyptic Fiction

The dark side of the Moomins (newstatesman.com)
Tove Jansson’s beloved stories, which turn 80 this year, are not cute: they are angry tales of apocalypse and breakdown.
Children's Literature, Finland, Apocalyptic Fiction
310 points by SebaSeba 13 days ago | 99 comments
JG Ballard's Apocalyptic Art (newstatesman.com)
“It took me 20 years to forget, and 20 years to remember.” JG Ballard’s comment on his life in wartime Shanghai is the key to the novel he wrote on the subject, and to all the visionary writer’s work.
Art, Literature, Apocalyptic Fiction, Shanghai, War
112 points by thinkingemote 225 days ago | 29 comments