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I remember friends who only read what was required, and nothing more. They weren’t interested in reading for fun. Textbooks aren’t my thing. Assigned reading was more my speed, and free reading was most certainly my favorite part of English classes growing up. That’s why I wanted to dig deeper and find out what other people enjoyed in their middle/high school years.

Alternate realities have long since been a genre (or theme) in books, as well as finding “the end.” It could be a death, the end of society or the extinction of an animal. I sat down with Phil LaMarche, a SUNY Canton professor and published author, to discuss dystopian and apocalyptic societies in literature for a lively conversation about books, recommendations and reality.