Post-apocalyptic fiction used to be disreputable, a source of pulpy thrills and nuclear terror. Flourishing in the post-World War II period, works like Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow (1955), John ...
Andrew Hoberek
Andrew Hoberek is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri, where he teaches classes in 20th- and 21st-century US fiction and other arts. His book Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics is forthcoming in October from Rutgers University Press’s new Comics Culture series. 
No Man Is an Island
Early on, Andy Weir’s novel The Martian—about an astronaut left to fend for himself on Mars when his team thinks he has died during a crisis—falls into a reliable pattern. Mark Watney, the team’s ...