Earthquakes in literature
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Earthquakes are among the most powerful natural phenomena. They fascinate the human mind probably since his very first consciousness. Since then people try to explain to themselves what is the driving force causing earthquakes.
This article is not going to deal with the vast scientific knowledge accumulated for the last few hundred years. Instead, it is going to review how earthquakes have influenced and inspired authors to write works about them, either fiction, non-fiction, prose or poetry. This seems a much narrower subject than the scientific one.
[edit] List of Earthquake fiction
- Richard Laymon, The Quake, 1995.
- Arthur C. Clarke & Mike McQuay, Richter 10, 1996.
- Albert J. Alletzhauser, Quake, 1997.
- Lee Riordan, Jishin, 1997.
- Haruki Murakami, after the quake, 1999.
- Walter Jon Williams, The Rift, 1999.
- Voltaire, Candide, ou l'Optimisme (Candide or Optimism), 1759.
- Curt Gentry, The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, 1969.
[edit] See also
- 'Earthquakes in mythology' from the Wikipedia's "Earthquake".
