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Asimov’s Lije Bailey novels + Empire novels are a really slow earth apocalypse over many generations, but that’s *too* slow
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If there’s such a thing as an end-times mass psychology I think we’re experiencing it now. Not just an isolated cult with cartoon doomsday beliefs, but a sort of now-or-never endgame mentality. Putin logic is everywhere. It’s a kind of iterated prisoner’s dilemma defection era.
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Everyone mentioning the Peripheral… as I understand, that’s the before/after of the jackpot not the “during”
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There's Kim Stanley Robinson's 40 Signs of Rain trilogy and Ministry for the Future, both deal with real climate change, not quite sure if they cover the timescale you are after but they definitely are about a slow-moving catastrophe.
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I guess the bible is basically different guys warning other guys about different apocalyptic events and then doing whatever they were doing anyway
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