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Remus2 ๐Ÿšซ
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There is one being written in reality as we speak for the US/North America.

Price of fuel is way up. The idiots in charge floated the idea that release of strategic oil reserves would ease the prices. The other end of the political spectrum blames lack of drilling. Both are wrong.

Shutting down various pipelines is more at fault. It doesn't matter if the country was swimming in oil, if that oil isn't refined, or it can't make it to a refinery to be refined, there will be a shortage of gas. The same applies to natural gas. No refining or pipeline, no heat from natural gas, or heating oil.

The tapping of more oil and gas will make no difference. Neither will releasing any reserve. The resources already tapped are enough.

Where this becomes a real problem is shutting down those lines long term.

Those pipelines are not designed to be mothballed. Shut them down too long and they will waste away without the ability to restart safely.

Give it long enough, and the cost of diesel will triple, which will be passed on to consumers. Much longer than that, and it simply will not be available at any cost.

With the projected weather this winter, a lot of people are likely to die.

Europe is now beholden to Putin/Russia for their natural gas needs. Which Euro country is going to do anything when Russia overruns Ukraine. They will do nothing when their people will freeze if they try.

A story based on that would be timely.

kungfufool45 ๐Ÿšซ

@Remus2

I don't know based on that but I do know a pretty decent apocalypse story. If you are okay with a harem(a practically loveless one at that) then I think you'll like this one.

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Remus2 ๐Ÿšซ

@kungfufool45

What story would that be?

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kungfufool45 ๐Ÿšซ

@Remus2

https://storiesonline.net/s/71259/zombies-werewolves-vampires-and-other-improbable-things

LonelyDad ๐Ÿšซ

@Remus2

There are several apocalypse stories on here. I know SW Mo Hermit has one, as does Howard Faxton. There are several more, but I can't call the authors to mind right now.

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Remus2 ๐Ÿšซ

@LonelyDad

I'm aware of several of those stories. Few of which had any realism to them.

Dominions Son ๐Ÿšซ

@Remus2

How many lypse are in apocalypse?

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Remus2 ๐Ÿšซ

@Dominions Son

How many lypse are in apocalypse?

https://ilsype.sda-ltd.com/ilsype/workspaces/public/wiki/LSYPE

Around 15,500 according to that link.

richardshagrin ๐Ÿšซ
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@Dominions Son

How many lypse are in apocalypse

Lips usually come in pairs, so there are probably two. Unless lypse isn't lips. Maybe you pronounce it differently.

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awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

@richardshagrin

It's an anagram of 'ape calypso': monkeys were dancing in the streets after the dinosaurs got wiped out ;-)

AJ

LonelyDad ๐Ÿšซ

@Remus2

A great deal depends on your definition of apocalypse. One can range from a catastrophe/breakdown in civilization resulting in a fall back into a previous level of civilization, from early industrial (ala early 1800s) to pre-industrial (1500s-late 1700s) to essentially totally rural (like Roman era to first millennia Europe) all the way back to tribal hunter-gather living.

Radagast ๐Ÿšซ

@Remus2

With the projected weather this winter, a lot of people are likely to die.

Thats a feature, not a bug.

saemon.snowlock ๐Ÿšซ
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@Remus2

If "real books" are okey then 'Soft Apocalypse' by Will McIntosh, its exactly what the title suggests, a slow disintegration of society around the narrator. It doesn't have a virus or nuclear bomb that causes everything to fall apart, more the problems of economic and environmental issues that seem much more plausible, a very interesting book and much better than recent semi-apocalyptic novels like California or even Station Eleven (which I still enjoyed but never really got into).

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LonelyDad ๐Ÿšซ

@saemon.snowlock

That brought to mind a story on here. Prices are skyrocketing, and things are getting scarce. The main character moves south, I want to say Florida but it could have been one of the Carolinas, etc. Buys a big plot of land and basically starts a commune as a kind of kingdom, basically ignoring rules and regulations in favor of what is needed and what works.

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lnettnay ๐Ÿšซ

@LonelyDad

Could be https://storiesonline.net/s/67646/the-great-escape by https://storiesonline.net/a/Howard_Faxon

Lonny

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LonelyDad ๐Ÿšซ

@lnettnay

That's the one. Thanks. I forgot about him knocking over a couple of armored cars to get startup funds.

Remus2 ๐Ÿšซ

@lnettnay

That one is along the lines I was thinking of. Thanks for posting the link.

Remus2 ๐Ÿšซ

@saemon.snowlock

I'm assuming this is a dead tree book?

Grey Wolf ๐Ÿšซ

@Remus2

I can think of quite a few dead-tree apocalypse / post-apocalypse stories. Far fewer on SOL.

Mike Cropo's Time of Eden and Elves (https://storiesonline.net/s/74428/time-of-eden-and-elves) counts, though in the context of future stories it might count less than it otherwise does. Still, it counts.

There are a large number of post-apocalyptic stories on SOL - I just haven't read them. It's a genre I enjoy, so, perhaps I will at some point. Or attempt to write one. After all the other things on the 'maybe I'll write this' list :)

samuelmichaels ๐Ÿšซ

@Remus2

Backscatter by hammingbyrd7 starts like that, but most of the story is focused on science-fictional tales.

hammyngbyrd7 has multiple other stories with apocalypse as a major plot element, although they are not in any way traditional tales.

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