But my real specialty is end-of-the-world books. You’d be surprised at just how many respected writers (Nevil Shute, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, to name a few) have written end-of-the-world books. In many of these books, the end of the world comes from a virus. In others, the end comes from a nuclear war. It’s understandable why a book written in 1959 would expect nuclear Armageddon to cause the end of the world.

Source: Hindustan Times April 18, 2020 21:52 UTC