Wednesday, October 18, 2023

OTR Halloween 2023 Day 18: "Adam and the Darkest Day"

"I don't know whether you ever heard of a place called Chicago or not but I knew it very well in my youth. I've forgotten how long ago that was even. There was a lake- beautiful, big, wide lake that could be bluer than the sky of a summer morning or gray as- Well, that's odd. I can't think of anything that's gray the way the lake was on a stormy day. Gray like the trees used to be? No, more alive, like the gray of steel. Steel? Oh, that's a metal we used to have. Forget about it."

Following World War II, science fiction began to imagine what a future dystopia might look like, and such a tale is Wyllis Cooper's "Adam and the Darkest Day." The story concerns three people who might be the only survivors on Earth after its near-destruction. Our protagonist is named Adam, which seems like a promising name to rebuild humanity... but Adam isn't certain whether humanity should persist.

"Adam and the Darkest Day" was originally broadcast November 7, 1948. You can listen to the episode at Quiet, Please.org.

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