COSY CATASTROPHE

COSY CATASTROPHE
   A term coined by Brian W. ALDISS in Billion Year Spree (1973) to describe the comforting ambience shed by the sort of DISASTER tale told by UK writers like John WYNDHAM (see also HOLOCAUST AND AFTER).
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