Welcome to the Apocalypse Blog Hop, hosted by Heidi of Rainy Day Ramblings, Maja of The Nocturnal Library and Christy of Love of Books.
It’s the end of the world as we know it. Maybe we do feel fine?
Sometimes I give talks to library groups (or librarian groups) on romance and other genre books. One of the questions is usually about post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction, and what the heck are they, anyway?
I generally say it’s about where are we going and how did we end up in this handbasket? If the society knows how it ended up in the handbasket, it’s post-apocalyptic. If they don’t know or don’t care, it’s just dystopian.
Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel (reviewed here) is still the best YA post-apocalyptic steampunk zombie romance I’ve ever read. And it’s still the only YA post-apocalyptic steampunk zombie romance I’ve ever read. Dearly, Beloved is on my TBR stack.
On the other hand, Black Dog Blues by Rhys Ford is a totally excellent (reviewed at Book Lovers Inc) bit of post-apocalyptic urban fantasy. Not the only, but very recent and quite, quite good.
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Oh wow…good question. I would say Asteroid one mighty, fiery, instantaneous explosion. Easy way to go! Thanks, Marlene for joining Apocalypse!
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Oh that’s a hard one… I would let my 4 year old twins loose on the world. You would be amazed at how much chaos they can cause!
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All we have to do is keep throwing away and buying new. Soon we will use everything up.
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… destroy all source of electricity… i’m sure people would get down and teh world with them since they have become too dependent of it
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By wizardry and witch craft, mwahahahaha *evil laugh*
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Sit back and have a cup of tea. The world is already doing itself in.
interesting question 🙂 Ummm… get the major powers into a real war and see them destroy the world….
I’d destroy the world with a big bang from the center of the earth. That will result in chunks of earth hurling through space. I just hope people won’t suffer much.
EASY!! This answer has been around since the old Westerns on TV. Spoil the water supply. And now in the twenty first century–also bring the power sources down. Electricity and phones, etc.
I’d spread a deadly virus around!
A plague
Genetically engineered plague, of course.
By a plague.
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Best blog hop question evah! I send my minions to volcanoes and earthquake zones to have them trigger enormous lava flows, debris clouds, earthquakes and tsunamis.
I would send my minions to launch a series of devastating tornadoes that would end in the world being covered in darkness and no more sunshine. I would then use my minions to remove electricity from the world and cause all the rivers to flood over until there is nothing left.
I would probably turn the earth into ice. Again… 😉
Awesome hop!
Destroy the Internet, duh. People can’t survive without it. They won’t know how to get anywhere, what the weather will be like tomorrow, or what Kate Middleton will name her baby – all the things essential to life.
A deadly plague.
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GOOD LUCK WITH THE HOP AND THANKS FOR THE GIVEAWAY! I GUESS A PLAGUE.
Thanks for the giveaway! I would poison all the food and water. 😉
I’d take away everyone’s handheld Internet devices, and program TV with shows that only *I* like!
Spread a deadly virus, although that sounds like an awful thing to do. Thank you!
Zombie Apocalypse!! Spread the zombie virus.
Poison the water supply. Without water, life does not exist.
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Wow! Great question! Lets see I would destroy the world as we know it by letting off a massive nuke to destroy everything. Thank you for taking part in this giveaway hop and for making me think.
I think that removing all books and reading material would destroy the world. Thank you for participating in the apocalyptic fun.
Take out the government heads and subordinates of every country in the world, leaving only the “every day” people. Then, restrict all access to computers and books world wide. People will destroy themselves.
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starting in the dry lands-Fire, starting off where no one would notice so it can grow to an unstoppable force. Meanhwhile, Large cities face a deadly virus takign away many that may have been able to fight the fires. And destroy water supplies via destroying dams, water pipes, poison, etc. What doesn’t get you one way will get you another. Mwahahahaha
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Bury everyone with candy!
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Tell each world power that another big world power had nuclear weapons aimed and them. And then have one “accidentally” go off.
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I would destroy the internet and cell phone towers.
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Dragons like in Reign of Fire, I loved that movie.
honestly i would hate to do anything cuz i have a bad guilty conscience.. but i would taint money.
I just couldn’t do that, so evil 🙂
I would poison all sodas! 😀 Everyone drinks soda!
Poison the air with a virus that turns people into raging lunatics and watch them battle it out. Gruesome. Thank you for the giveaway and enjoy your week. 🙂
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Mind control on people’s TV’s, computers, and radio’s that turns them into bloodthirsty freaks!
I make the entire population addicted to giveaways so they don’t spend time away from their computers. 🙂
A disease that spreads quickly
Destroy the world ?? Hmmm.
Easily done. No need to waste my resources when most of the humans are doing that themselves !
If pollution doesn’t end the world first the quickly depleting earth’s resources will !
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Unfortunately, I don’t think I am gonna have to worry about that because I believe in the Rapture and Tribulations, so it’s going to be bad. I read what the Bible says is going to come up from Hell. I have a vivid picture of half man half scorpions stinging the crap out of people but they aren’t allowed to die. That would be truly mind boggling!
Control the world’s supply of chocolate.
And if that doesn’t work… flame thrower.
Bombs. Really big bombs.
Blow it up!!!!
nuclear explosion
Via computers and a worldwide game of RISK!
The biggest earthquake possible.
Some sort of deadly virus…
Nuclear bombs…
I’ll steal the moon… haha
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Tell people they were unsafe and start to regulate guns, health care, and money
Genetically engineered plague
I would have a hard time with it! Thanks!
*clears throat* Steal all CHOCOLATE! I wouldn’t throw it away of course! I’d eat it all myself 🙂
I’d find a way to break the internet. Chaos ensues.
Supervolcano!
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superfreeze the planet. Thank you for the giveaway, funny question too.
Using Pay It Forward but in a different angle by doing it bad. Revenge will rule the world!
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I would breed super-mutant cockroaches that eat everything in their sight, no matter what size or what its made of.
I can’t believe nobody has suggested to destroy the world’s oil supplies!!! How would people get around anymore?!?! If that doesn’t work, I like the deadly virus idea. Maybe it would result in vampires or zombies!
Destroy the world,may be a Super Nova.
Destroy all the crooks.
The same way I do every night, Pinky! hahaha, great question and thanks for the giveaway 🙂
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Probably I’ll be opposed to the idea
Contaminate the food and water supply with a super virus.
Destroy the world ? …. B-but the world revolves around me! Aww crud, this just got insanely difficult.
It will most likely be some science experiment gone bad. A deadly virus !
Hmmm…. I would have to say destroy every food source.
Umm..never really thought about it. Maybe a fast-spreading disease?
I would poison all the food and water
find someone to help out
I would never! But I once told a friend that if I ever tried to take over the world, it would be with cat-penguin-vampire-bat mutants, so I suppose destroying it could be done that way as well.
You can read about it in my novel, Daughter of the Sun. But basically after a nuclear war, Earth’s surface becomes a desolate, frozen wasteland 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Plague. 🙂 Thanks for the awesome giveaway! 🙂
The water. Everything uses water, if it is bad then everything dies…sad but effective.
considering we are almost half way there, why even move a muscle. I guess a viral virus could work, like on the Happening movie.
A worldwide plague, nuclear winter or, better yet, dragons! I loved this idea in Reign of Fire movie with Christian Bale:)
The book I’m about to read has something that spread because of a diet drink. I’d go with something like that…something that everyone wanted…maybe like something you contracted via internet waves….
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nuke is from space, only way to know for sure
Mhh interesting question. Get rid of all the electricity! Then everyone would die from the sweltering heat! Just kidding. Ohh! Have vampires/magic take over! xD
I would never be able to go through with it, but I’d probably use a nuke or something to destroy the planet.
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