I’m looking for fiction books set during the COVID pandemic. Ideally I’d love something the captures the feeling of the initial stages of the pandemic – the fear, the sense of entering the unknown, but also the camaraderie (people clapping for the NHS, that kind of thing).
I have fairly broad tastes – literary fiction is ok, and I will happily give most genre fiction a shot – but I’m not a huge fan of unremittingly bleak work or books that are very shallow.
Any suggestions very much appreciated
by Rmcmahon22
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The two books that come to mind are very genre
“Kaiju preservation society” by John Scalzi
I heard him talk about it once and it was basically his way of dealing with the pandemic – he was on a cruise ship when the news broke – and they were lucky not to get quarantined when they got back
Anyway the book is supposedly lighthearted lol – and it’s got big kaiju in it – but also deals with the beginning of the pandemic
Second book:
“And put away childish things” by Adrian Tchaikovsky
It’s a novella that is basically a “what if Narnia was dark?” exploration
To be honest, I don’t think it’s a great fit to the prompt
But the reason I include it is because there is a haunting scene when he comes to London in the middle of the pandemic
It’s a really interesting parallel to me where the portal world (dark Narnia) is weird – and then he comes back to the real world – and it is also weird
There was something very interesting about reading that bit
Anyway, those are my two ideas
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