Recovering bookseller and RNZ producer Robert Kelly has been thinking about why deserts and frozen wastelands make such good settings for fiction.
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Suggested Wasteland fiction:
- Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
- American Rust by Phillip Meyer
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Concrete Island by John G. Ballard
