Comments on: Doomsday Giveaway

By: Jeremy D Brooks

Jeremy D Brooks — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:54:18 +0000

Best doomsday story…hm…when I was little I read Clarke’s “Childhood’s End” about a dozen times. Not sure if it counts, since doomsday is pretty much the end of the story, but the whole thing is leading up to the apocolypse/rebirth, so I guess it counts. And I, too, fell in love with The Road earlier this year.

Best usage of 2nd person narrative: the old Twist-a-plot books I read when I was in elementary school. Building a web-based, database-driven version of those stories has been on my to-do list for like five years.

By: Jonny Kelly

Jonny Kelly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:00:41 +0000

Favorite doomsday movie: Donnie Darko.
I love second and first person perspectives when writing and reading. But increasingly more and more editors want 3rd person only, shame.

By: A.M. Donovan

A.M. Donovan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:44:16 +0000

Favorite Doomsday Books (please don’t hurt me!) I never claimed to have GOOD taste!
Titles are:

I, Martha Adams by Pauline Glen Winslow

and

Dies the Fire by SM Stirling

and (of course)

I am Legend by Richard Matheson

By: Cate Gardner

Cate Gardner — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:33:53 +0000

Favourite Doomsday movie has to be The Omega Man.

By: Charles Gramlich

Charles Gramlich — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:59:17 +0000

I’ve written a couple of stories in second person. I personally tend to find that it works best at fairly short lengths. I don’t know if I’d want to read a long story or a novel in second. I’d probably get used to it like anything else, I suppose.

Recently, my favorite Doomsday novel is “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. I’m aslo a big fan of the Jerry Ahern Survivalist series, which is about doomsday and post doomsday.