From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 7, Round 3 - Literature - Post-Apocalyptic Fiction   
   >   
   > 2. Douglas Adams, 1979.  Alien bureaucrats demolish Earth to make   
   >    way for a hyperspace bypass, to the chagrin of the protagonist,   
   >    Arthur Dent.  He ends up in a series of cosmic misadventures   
   >    with a travel writer, a depressed robot, and many others.   
      
   Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy   
      
   > 5. Margaret Atwood, 2003.  A genetically-modified virus wipes out   
   >    most of the population, except for small groups of child-like   
   >    herbivorous humans who were specially created to survive it.   
   >    Unaffected by the virus, a man called Snowman tries to survive,   
   >    pursued by strange hybrid animals.  Flashbacks explain how a   
   >    world dominated by bio-corporations made all this possible.   
      
   The Handmaid's Tale   
      
   > 9. John Wyndham, 1951.  Most people in the world are blinded   
   >    by an apparent meteor shower.  A mysterious species of mobile   
   >    3-legged carnivorous plant, widely grown for its valuable oil,   
   >    starts stinging the blind survivors and devouring them.   
      
   The Uprising of the Triffids?   
      
   (I read the book in Swedish, but it was very long ago, and I am not   
   even 100 per cent sure about the Swedish title. I never paid attention   
   to the title in English, so I will have to construct it.)   
      
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