If you’re thinking of writing a post-apocalyptic story right now, you might want to hold off for a bit and work on other things. At the moment, it seems like at least 75% of the SF we’re seeing is, if not strictly about post-apocalyptic life, is set in a post-apocalyptic future–so much so that we’ve got good stories we might need to pass on just because we’ve got too much similar in inventory.

Don’t get me wrong; I love me some post-apocalyptic “wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell’s pork and beans, defending one’s family from marauders”* as much as the next guy, but unless we’re going to change the name of the magazine to Mutants and Marauders Monthly, we’ve got to draw the line somewhere.

*From John Varley’s “The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged).”