book rec that focus on the very beginning of an apocalyptic or civilization-collapsing event, not years after everything has already fallen apart
like the movies
Red dawn
Civil war
Don’t look up
The mist
Contagion
Geostorm
.
What I’m really interested in is the first days, weeks, or months—watching people realize something is wrong, seeing the news reports, government responses, panic buying, evacuations, infrastructure failing, and society slowly unraveling.
I’m open to any type of apocalypse (pandemic, invasion, asteroid, natural disaster, EMP, etc.) as long as a significant part of the book focuses on the initial collapse rather than jumping straight to a post-apocalyptic world.
u/lostlands33 — 2 days ago