The essays selected by the editors to ex plore these apocalyptic visions are: "The Re making of Zero: Beginning at the End," by Gary K. Wolfe; "The Lone Survivor," by Robert Plank; "Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End," by Robert Galbreath; "World's End: The Imag ination of Catastrophe," by W. Warren Wagar; "Man-Made Catastrophes," by Brian Stableford; and "The Rebellion of Nature," by W. Warren Wagar. Wolfe sees in these postholocaust narra tives a central attraction--"the mythic power inherent in the ...
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The essays selected by the editors to ex plore these apocalyptic visions are: "The Re making of Zero: Beginning at the End," by Gary K. Wolfe; "The Lone Survivor," by Robert Plank; "Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End," by Robert Galbreath; "World's End: The Imag ination of Catastrophe," by W. Warren Wagar; "Man-Made Catastrophes," by Brian Stableford; and "The Rebellion of Nature," by W. Warren Wagar. Wolfe sees in these postholocaust narra tives a central attraction--"the mythic power inherent in the very conception of a remade world." This power derives from three sources: the emergence of a new order from the ashes of the old system, and thus a kind of denial of death; the reinforcement of one set of values as opposed to another; and as something always replaces whatever was destroyed, a promise that nothing can anni hilate humanity.
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