Citations:peri-apocalyptic

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English citations of peri-apocalyptic

during an apocalypse[edit]

  • 2002, Pete Smith, cross of green hollow: elegies, allegiances, thefts[1], Wild Honey Press, →ISBN, page 20:
    One man's Mapplethorpe's another's fist-fuck to say nothing of taste which hardly comes mm it although a fin-de-siecle-peri-apocalyptic-post-aesthetic might embrace the leper's shed member in an ecstatic kiss, a performance-person might feign shock here in an attempt to foreground an audience.
  • 2006 February 17, Rosa Cao, “theater review: Urinetown: It...ll Remind You of What You Know”, in The Tech[2], →ISSN:
    Yes, you’re in Urinetown, a peri-apocalyptic pasquinade where the stars are piss, desperation, and poverty with a capital pee.
  • 2009 April 27, Bobba Lynx, “Not Your Cheney Kind of "Water Program," But Close”, in Cranky In Academe[3]:
    Shi[f]t happens, and before Profs. O'Connor and Taylor and their ilk go scrambling in peri-apocalyptic survival mode, offering human sacrifices in hopes of appeasing forces over which they sense only minimal —if any— control, let's really get at that thought experiment: the larger questions that are diminished by the defensive mentality exhibited in Taylor's piece.
  • 2012 January 28, Peter Joseph Lewis, quoting Mathieu Gallant, “Mathieu Gallant - Outage”, in Why Did You Write That?[4]:
    Outage is 150,000 word novel of a genre I’d call peri-apocalyptic. It’s not post-apocalyptic because it doesn’t take place after the “end of the world,” but during.
  • 2013 January 1, “Resolutions? Who, me?”, in razorsmile's journal[5]:
    In the spirit of not giving up, one of the quality bits of reading I recently discovered was Worm, a long-form web serial taking place in a peri-apocalyptic superhero setting.