London at the Brink
Every generation rewrites London’s last days. Wells gave us Martians stalking the suburbs; Herbert sent the rats; modern storytellers drown the city in rising tides or tear it apart with plague.
We keep returning to these visions because London is a city built on endings – fires, floods, invasions, rebuilds. Fiction simply lets us watch the next one unfold from a safe distance, imagining how we’d move through the ashes.
How Fiction Looks at London’s Last Days
These blog posts examine the ways in which works of literature addresses the collapse of London.
End of London
Stay in touch to explore the last days of London through reviews of books that capture the city on the brink.
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