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Although Stephen King’s The Long Walk and The Running Man are both due to be released later in 2025, the author’s best post-apocalyptic dystopian novel is an unrelated book, The Stand. Among Stephen ...

THE CLUB: The Freebird Brooklyn Post-Apocalyptic Book Club— created on Valentine's Day in 2008 out of "a morbid fascination with the quasi-genre of post-apocalyptic fiction." Founder Peter Miller ...

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J. Spencer Fluhman and Christopher James Blythe discuss Blythe's new book 'Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse' on a YouTube live broadcast. (YouTube) Institute director ...