Thread: Armageddon / End of the world books?
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Old 12-09-2010, 06:53 PM   #53
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You might also enjoy the "Rings of the Master" series by Jack Chalker. Start with "Lords of the Middle Dark: (#1)". While not strictly end-of-the-world, it deals with a world where a super-computer has dumbed-down humans to live without technology so they cannot endanger themselves. Groups of humans become overseers for a year at a time and are smartened up temporally to manage disasters/health issues and some of them discover what has gone on - and that there is an over-ride...
The plot sounds similar to that of The Machine Stops, a novella by E.M. Forster first published in 1909.
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