ABSTRACT
This chapter examines six apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic novels by Scottish authors, John Burnside’s Glister and Havergey, Jenni Fagan’s The Sunlight Pilgrims and Louise Welsh’s trilogy A Lovely Way to Burn, Death is a Welcome Guest and No Dominion. It investigates the way they use the futuristic postulate to set the present as an object of historical scrutiny, to reflect on the historical, environmental and political ‘juncture’ we are at, and raise the issue of the displacement of memory.
