The story begins in Metter, Georgia, about half a centimeter ** east of the midpoint between Macon and Savannah, where Jasper and what he calls his tribe are harvesting wind energy from cars passing on I-16 ***. While that does sound like the fate of many liberal arts majors these days *, where Soft Apocalypse differs is that it begins in 2023, ten years after an economic depression that has left 40 percent of Americans unemployed.
Soft Apocalypse is the story of Jasper, a college graduate with a sociology degree, no job, and nowhere to live. Apocalypse fiction has been around for many years, usually in the form of a cataclysmic event - asteroid impact, nuclear bomb, giant space squid - that destroys a good chunk of the entire planet and leaves the survivors to fend for themselves in a world gone mad.īut after reading Will McIntosh’s new novel Soft Apocalypse, I can tell you that sitting in the belly of an intergalactic Sarlacc might actually be better than the road we’re on now.
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