[echudnoff]

Hi, I just read through the collection Wastelands (ed. J. J. Adams) and as I was reading I noted a common plot element--people eating dogs. These are people that come from cultures in which dog eating was taboo. But now that they're in a post-apocalyptic world, they are forced to do it. So that's the plot element.

Paolo Bacigalupi explores it in depth in 'The People of Sand and Slag.' David Grigg gestures toward it in passing in 'A Song Before Sunset.'

It occurs in Ballard's High Rise, which though not quite a post-apocalypse story, does explores some of the themes common to the sub-genre. And Ellison reverses the idea in 'A Boy and His Dog.'

I'm writing to ask for more references to dog eating in books and stories that explore life after the end of the world.

Thanks.

Eli

[Triffid]

Lol - the years most obscure thread!?!

page 249 "the book of dave" by will self mentions dog eating, I'm just reading it. See the other thread for a comprehensive list of PA fiction.

Non fiction but you might want to look at true accounts from survivors of Stalingrad in world war 2. dogs, cats & people went into the pot there.