Poll time

[valarltd]

I've been kicking around a Post-Rapture Romance Novel. It'd be a rather bleak one, a pair of lovers set against the massive disappearances and destruction.

And I have questions.

BTW: if you answer "other" please explain in a comment.

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Comments

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I think the Rapture is so inextricably tied to fundamentalist Christianity that any book with it as the premise is going to be assumed to be Christian lit. Upon reading the back cover copy, I would immediately put the book back on the shelf, and I'm a Christian. The fundies naturally aren't going to pick it up because it's homoerotic. I think if you want to do a post-apocalyptic homoerotic THE STAND, find another reason for the people to vanish. You could have a nutter think it's the Rapture, if you really want to get into that stuff.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of playing with the post-Rapture world.

I'm trying to find out if most people even know what it is, or if only the fruitcakes would even pick it up.

I recently encountered a graphic novel that postulated the post-rapture world in a much more interesting way than the Left Behind books, which kinda gloss over it all. It intrigued me

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I think most people are aware of the basic concept. I think you'd have to define your terms and theology in your particular Rapture, though. :)