POST-APOCALYPSE NOW!: PLAGUES, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (IN MANDEL AND KINGSNORTH)

When I wrote the post ‘Preparing for Disaster: Reading Post-Apocalyptic Fiction‘ in 2015, Covid-19 was still almost five years away into the future (the virus broke out in China’s city of Wuhan in December 2019, hence its name, but it spread worldwide in early 2020, with a three-month state of alarm and lockdown being declared […]