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This page was last edited on 5 December , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This is 8th season of American Horror Story. Directed by Alberto De Martino. Takes place alternative were an attempt to counteract global warming through climate engineering backfires catastrophically, causing an ice age and extinguishing nearly all life; only animals that can adapt to sub-zero temperatures and the inhabitants of Snowpiercer remain.
A post-apocalyptic shoot-e'm up by Vlambeer , where humanity mutated into horrible monsters. These mutants are looking for the fabled Nuclear Throne. An episode of Arch Oboler 's popular s and '40s radio horror and mystery anthology serial, Lights Out. A deranged university chemistry student creates what turns out to be an "super-dissolving substance", with the potential, among other uses, to become "a doomsday chemical superweapon ".
The story is set in between the events of Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil 7: The story is set in the 31st century, in a world where humans have regressed to primitive tribal societies as a result of some unspecified calamity. Their technologically advanced predecessors are vaguely remembered as the "Old Ones. Originally broadcast on the NBC television network. The film's original director, Boris Sagal , died in a freak mishap during filming, and was replaced by his successor, David Greene. The teleplay was written by Robert L. Arcade video game designed by Dave Theurer and developed by Atari, Inc.
Later ported to many different home computing and gaming platforms, for many years afterward. Considered one of the most notable classic video games of all time. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes is threatened by a band of human survivors of a devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. The game takes place 45 years in the future, after a calamitous virus outbreak, known as Radical-6, has exterminated almost the entire human civilization. A military android questions its continued existence, after the last of its human comrade-counterparts dies out from the effects of a mysterious doomsday super-weapon that was unleashed at the end of a generations-long global atomic war.
The Late, Great Planet Earth. Bestselling blockbuster Bible prophecy -based "mockumentary" novel, co-written by Hal Lindsey and Carole Carlson, and later adapted into a feature-length theatrical motion picture narrated by Orson Welles. Epic , and its follow-up sequel Inferno. Published by Ocean Software now Atari. Published by gaming company Avalon Hill. Eco nuclear waste explosion on the moon, followed by earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc. Created by Gerry Anderson and wife Sylvia Anderson. This "rare and unusual" series of shows featuring many top Hollywood film performers of that era was written, produced, and directed by Arnold Marquis , as part of a special postwar campaign aimed at convincing the public to place the then-newly developed technologies of nuclear energy and weaponry under United Nations control.
Created by independent British game developer Introversion Software , and inspired in part by the film WarGames. Countdown to Looking Glass. Shadow on the Hearth. Judith Merril ; later adapted for television in Backstory featuring a satirical fake TV news story regarding the final depletion of the Amazon rain forest and game play take place in the year , in which a powerful alien attack force threatens to obliterate the Earth.
PlayStation 3 online game depicting a new world war 20 years after a meteor strike hits much of the Earth's surface. A fungal spore infection turns most of humanity into monsters and a small band of survivors try to live on. Novel by Sakyo Komatsu about a lethal supergerm that kills humanity in months; later adapted into a movie.
The Diamond of Darkhold. The Prophet of Yonwood. The People of Sparks. The Last Book in the Universe. Louise Lawrence - A scientist uses a time machine to travel to the future and film the results of a nuclear war in a bid to prevent it from happening. However, his actions could have serious repercussions for the mutated descendants of the human race.
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Frederik Pohl under the pseudonym James MacCreigh. The Skin of Our Teeth. Masamune Shirow - Japanese manga and subsequent anime adaptations. Yukito Kishiro - manga series containing post-apocalyptic elements and taking place in a highly futuristic dystopian world. Yukito Kishiro - a continuation of the former manga series containing the same elements as previous but goes into greater detail as to how the dystopia came about.
A World of Women [12]. Beresford - A global plague has decimated England's male population and the once-predictable Gosling family is now free to fulfill its long-frustrated desires. Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville - regarded as the first story of modern speculative fiction to depict the end of the world [13]. Usune Masatosh i - ongoing manga series later adapted into an anime. Clamp - ongoing manga series. Song by the band Warrant on the Dog Eat Dog album; depicts an Earth devastated by war where life lives on only by artificial means.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - series of concept albums depicting the end of life on Earth in due to, among other factors, a catastrophic nuclear war. Edwin Muir - deals with society's regression to pre- Industrial Revolution conditions in the wake of a nuclear war. Peter Porter - written in the style of a radio broadcast warning of an impending nuclear attack.
Song adaptation of the above Porter poem, written and recorded by the Scottish post-punk group the Scars. With virtually all of humanity wiped out by a meteor strike, the game follows the exploits of an army of survivors, fighting bandit raiders and hostile armies across the planet's desolate remains. PC video game, from Pipeworks, set in the post-apocalyptic earth in which Earth has been destroyed by crystals. Novel series created by Mark Ellis , aka James Axler.
John Christopher - novel series, made into a TV series in the '80s. An alien alliance called the Covenant begin attacking human colonies in By , almost all of the human colonies are destroyed and the Covenant are attacking Earth. Crytek - A near future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the ground on an island in the East Philippines sea. Fowler Wright - A huge flood devastates the world; only the English Midlands survive. Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow. Hoover - set in California several centuries after pollution has all but wiped out the human race; published in and respectively.
North America has retreated into hunter-gatherer societies and military kingdoms some years after an apocalyptic ice age. The Mara and Dann novels. Doris Lessing - Mara and Dann , and sequel: Other Lessing novels like Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta deal with apocalyptic themes. The first book was originally published as two books, starting in An ancient whale species recreated through a genetic experiment turns out to have been telepathic, and the whales issue a telepathic call which cause most of humanity and other large land mammals to walk into the oceans and drown.
Nitrome Limited - flash game by about a character in a yellow hazmat suit attempting to free the world from a race of robots with a variety of bombs. A sequel, Toxic 2 , was released in Flight of the Conchords. Le Temps du Loup. Only the nobles possess futuristic ships, and the richest have domed cities where the debilitated earth can still support life. Wolves are proclaimed extinct, but found a way to enchant humans.
Five wolves are on a quest to find 'Paradise', along with a Flower-Maiden, who was created from a Lunar Flower by a Noble. A second apocalypse ends the series, with a presumable renewing of the planet. Four of the five characters are seen in the renewed world. Uses computer animation to simulate the sort of creatures that may evolve from present-day animals.
In the world depicted in the series, the human race has left Earth to colonize the stars. The future descendants of humanity have sent probes back to Earth to record what has become of it. The Book of the New Sun. Heinlein -human society on a future Earth is slipping into a gradual, but inevitable, collapse. Much to the dismay of the only male left, the women of the island continue the human species for thousands of years where they evolve into seal-like creatures. Planet of the Apes. Published between and The Dark Tower Series.
First book published in To Serve The Master. Created by Gene Roddenberry ; ran between and The British science-fiction sitcom ; first ran between and , was restarted in Against the Fall of Night. The City and the Stars.
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Dan Simmons - a sequel The Rise of Endymion. The Mote in God's Eye. Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle. Manga by Yasuhiro Nightow , published between and David Drake , published between and Larry Niven - An expedition from earth to find a futuristic planet, a ring surrounding a star, results in the members finding that a meteor puncture in the ring's floor and power failure caused the cities to break apart and civilization to collapse. Series by Douglas Hill - a lone soldier fights to bring down the organisation which unleashed a deadly radiation against his planet, killing all his people and rendering the planet uninhabitable.
Stirling and David Drake , published between and Don McKellar - follows the lives of several individuals as they cope with their final six hours on Earth before the apparent incineration of the Earth by the sun the cause of the apocalypse is never directly stated. The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. The episode of Babylon 5 - written by J. The End of the World. The episode of the television series Doctor Who. Songs of Distant Earth. Clarke - in which the last survivors of Earth arrive at a distant colony unexpectedly.
Frank Lillie Pollock where a second sun's light incinerates the Earth. Limited series by Garth Ennis depicting the adventures of a man traveling on Earth's surface a few years after a solar event called The Burn. Followed by a sequel, Just a Pilgrim: Film series based on the book series, concerning the Rapture. The manga and subsequent anime movies and TV series by Kia Asamiya - The story is set in a Blade Runner -style world which has been invaded by demonic beings. Season 4 and 5 are based around the pre-apocalyptic world in which the angels are gearing up for a battle between heaven and hell.
James Blish - a black magician brings about the end of the world by releasing all the demons from Hell.
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Brian Keene - And its sequel City of the Dead. Rather than the zombies being an infection, as in most zombie fiction; these zombies are reanimated by demonic entities, the sisquisim, from the Old Testament. Brian Keene - a Lovecraftian tale of one of the last survivors on earth. In the novel, the world floods causing several monsters appear, mainly gigantic, maneating earthworms. Garth Nix - A novel in which a group of extradimensional beings invade earth and cause all human adults over the age of 14 to vanish.
Dean Koontz - A novel in which a malevolent demonic force kills off the majority of the human race. The Shadow of Yesterday. The role-playing game, in which the unification of all people in a fantasy world under a single, supernatural language results in the destruction of a world by what is presumed to be an asteroid that becomes that world's new moon, one that eclipses the sun for a week out of each month.
A role-playing game, in which an advanced civilization is threatened and destroyed by supernatural forces that religion is knowingly, and in some ways unknowingly, centered on. The reasons for the Dayworld dystopia seems to be a combination involving overpopulation, ecological catastrophe, some sort of disaster that rendered petroleum unusable, and World War III.
This is hinted at in the second book. Stirling - Ongoing series of novels and short stories. A disaster of indeterminate cause most speculation within the novels concerns an all-powerful outside force, often facetiously referred to as " Alien space bats " causes electricity, combustion engines, and modern explosives to cease functioning. A series of novels set in a world created by Storm Constantine - humanity is replaced as the planet's dominant species by a race of mystic hermaphrodites.
War and plague ravage the human population, but no single cause is specified. Ongoing comic series, which takes place roughly years in the future, where North America is a dustbowl and lacking modern technology. The Last Man [14]. The Book of Machines. The novel Erewhon ' s section The Book of Machines. Richard Jefferies - the nature of the catastrophe is never stated, except that apparently most of the human race quickly dies out, leaving England to revert to nature.
Wells - Towards the end of the book The Time Traveler witnesses the Suns expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth. The War of the Worlds. Shiel - A volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas. Forster - A short story emphasizing machinery instead of computers. Jack London - Sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet, James Howard Smith tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.
William Hope Hodgson - the Sun burns out and the last of humanity is sheltered in an arcology from the hostile environment and the creatures adapted for it. George Allan England - two characters wake from suspended animation and find that some great disaster has torn an enormous chasm in the Earth and created a second moon. Play by Karel Capek - notable for coining the term ' robot '.
The War of the Giants. The Shape of Things to Come. Filmed as Things to Come in Only a group of children survives and forms a strange new humanity. Things to Come [17]. A future second world war leads to a breakdown of civilization in most of the world, with technology returning to medieval levels by By the Waters of Babylon. Philip George Chadwick, when a near-invincible army of artificially created soldiers - the flesh guard - falls into the hands of an untrustworthy power, continental Europe forms an alliance and invades Britain. The resulting carnage, involving poisonous electric gas, "humanite" atomic bombs, and the unfeeling march of the Flesh Guard, reduces whole cities and towns in Europe to smoking rubble.
A cartoon short by Hugh Harman - animals rebuild a post-apocalyptic world after humanity has fought wars to the point of extinction. Pat Frank - Depicts a world in which a nuclear power plant explosion renders the entire male population infertile. Not with a Bang. Asimov, Isaac - a later book, Robots and Empire gave a different explanation. There Will Come Soft Rains. Ray Bradbury in The Martian Chronicles. Arch Oboler - the film shows the aftermath of a nuclear war, centered on a group of five survivors. Ray Bradbury - short story in The Illustrated Man.
When Worlds Collide film. The Day of the Triffids. John Wyndham - Initially thought to be a blinding meteor shower, but later suggested to be a manmade satellite based weapon accidentally discharged, allowing the bioengineered Triffid plants to dominate. A new primitive society emerges long after a nuclear war. Invasion USA [ citation needed ]. Star Man's Son [14].
Norton, Andre Also published as Daybreak: Daphne du Maurier - survival horror. The short story The Birds by Daphne du Maurier - made into the film The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock - in which birds begin launching spontaneous mass attacks against humanity. Gerald Heard ; a mildrew-generated fog appears to undermine civilization. The Nine Billion Names of God. Clarke - A short story taken from the short story collection of the same name. Wylie, Philip - Cautionary for its time , civil defense -themed "tale of two cities": Some Will Not Die. Slaves To The Metal Horde.
The Last of the Masters. Dick - short story novelette by Dick, Philip K. Elsewhere, the last government, a highly centralized and efficient society, is in hiding from the Anarchist League, a global militia preventing the recreation of any government. Day the World Ended [19]. John Wyndham - U. The aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Canadian community. The Long Tomorrow [28]. Brackett, Leigh - in the aftermath of a nuclear war scientific knowledge is feared and restricted. World Without End [22]. Edward Bernd, starring Hugh Marlowe , Rod Taylor - Robust 20th Century men—narrowly escaping the ubiquitous "time warp"—kill giant spiders, help pale nerds and their beautiful women emerge from underground, and retake the post World War III surface from troglodyte mutants.
Fritz Leiber - A small family struggles to survive at near-zero temperatures after Earth is ripped from its solar orbit. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. John Christopher - A virus that destroys plants causes massive famine and the breakdown of society. Made into the film No Blade of Grass. Nevil Shute - also the films based on the book. Rand, Ayn - American society slowly collapses after the country's leading industrialists mysteriously disappear.
Teenage Cave Man [19]. Jones , The world's machinery grinds to a halt after comet dust arrives. Terror from the Year A made-for-television play by J. Several of the issues brought up in the programme were discussed in an hour-long debate following its conclusion. A group of survivors from an atomic war become trapped in an underground station - During the play, broadcast live on Armchair Theatre , one of the actors Gareth Jones actually died whilst the show was on the air.
George, Peter - filmed as Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick. The poem from Collected Poems — by George Macbeth. On the Beach [33]. The World, the Flesh and the Devil [19]. Shiel 's The Purple Cloud. A TV adaptation of a play by Marghanita Laski. Pat Frank - the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community. The Twilight Zone - numerous episodes, and its revivals. Atomic War Bride [ citation needed ]. A Yugoslav science fiction drama film directed by Veljko Bulajic. Shigeaki Hidaka, a Japanese film about a third world war started when the US accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Korea Japanese title: Yonju-ichi jikan no kyofu.
The Time Machine [22]. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Miller, Jr, Walter M. Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. The Last Woman on Earth. The Earth's oxygen levels drop suddenly, suffocating most life—survivors in an oxygen-producing jungle speculate that this happened because of "a bigger and better bomb" but the reasons are not made clear. Beyond the Time Barrier. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Ballard - First published novel. World destroyed by increasingly powerful winds. Panic in Year Zero! A movie about a family that escapes Los Angeles after the city is devastated by a nuclear attack.
This Is Not a Test. Loosely based on the John Wyndham novel of the same name. The film Triffids are a venomous space-borne plant, and arrive on Earth via meteorites. Brian Aldiss - Presents a dying Earth where vegetation dominates and animal life is all but extinct. Ballard - Climate change causes flooding. Anthony Burgess - Global over-population and famine leads to mass chaos. John Christopher - A decrease in radiation from the sun causes a new ice age. Comic books series by Gold Key Comics. Novel by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer. Adapted to film in by the same name.
A forty-something woman while vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains discovers that a transparent wall has been placed that closes her off from the outside world; all life outside the wall appears to have died, possibly in a nuclear event. War novel by Ralph Peters. Islamic extremists launch a series of dirty bomb attacks against the West, which results in a backlash against Muslims.
A radical Christian government takes over the US and sends the Army, Marines, and a National Guard full of evangelicals to invade and retake a long-nuked Israel. The Last Man on Earth. The Time Travelers [ citation needed ]. The Dalek Invasion of Earth. The Doctor Who serial. Some examples from the relaunch are in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday , and in The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords though it could be argued that only the Master is alien. The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Ballard - A super drought evaporates all water on earth.
Brian Aldiss - The human race becomes sterile. Time of the Great Freeze. Robert Silverberg - Another ice-age has engulfed the earth. A group from New York travels over the ice to London in the year Nuclear War Card Game. Thomas Disch - Alien flora is seeded on Earth, and quickly comes to dominate all landmasses, threatening Human extinction.
John Christopher - Civilization destroyed by massive worldwide earthquakes. Television adaptation of the Novel of the same name. Daleks - Invasion Earth AD. The jungle in Africa starts to crystallize all life and expands outward. Harry Harrison - Made into the film Soylent Green directed by Richard Fleischer - showing a world where humanity had become massively overpopulated, and a vague ecological disaster is creating a growing dust bowl, and the entire economy is collapsing.
Late August at the Hotel Ozone. Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon [47] [48]. In the Year [ citation needed ]. Journey to the Center of Time [ citation needed ]. Kavan, Anna - earth threatened by Nuclear winter. Planet of the Apes [22]. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick - basis for the film Blade Runner. John Brunner - Set in a future of extreme over-population. The Bed Sitting Room [51]. Originally based on a play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. Roger Zelazny - made into a movie and a Hawkwind song Marco Ferreri Italian title: Il Seme dell'uomo [54].
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Michael Moorcock - Set in a new ice age on earth. Beneath the Planet of the Apes [55]. The second film in the Planet of the Apes feature film series. Kir Bulychev - in Russian language. No Blade of Grass [56]. Based on the novel The Death of Grass.
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Doctor Who serial Inferno in which attempts to tap the Earths core for power leads to a volcanic apocalypse. Glen and Randa [22]. The Omega Man [59]. Kit Pedler , Gerry Davis. A microbe designed to eat waste plastic gets loose. Directorial debut for Douglas Trumbull. An ecologically-minded astronaut struggles to save the last bio-dome preserving what's left of Earth's wildlife. Adventures with uncooperative droids and the rings of Saturn ensue. John Brunner - The United States is overwhelmed by environmental irresponsibility and authoritarianism.
The End Of The Dream. A Thief in the Night. In , a crew of space travelers tries to colonize Venus after Earth is destroyed by a " doomsday device ".
Directed by Herbert J. Leder , Lee Sholem , and producer Harry Hope. Battle for the Planet of the Apes [ citation needed ]. The fifth movie in the Planet of the Apes feature film series. Refuge of Fear [ citation needed ]. El refugio del miedo [61]. Directed by Peter Fonda. A research team discover a way to travel into the future, and in doing so discover that a worldwide ecological catastrophe is imminent.
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They send a group of earnest teenagers forward in time to repopulate the Earth after the disaster - but it doesn't end well. Flight of the Horse. A manga series by Go Nagai that tells the tale of a Japan devastated by a massive earthquake and mass volcanic eruption and isolated from the rest of the world, with the remnants of humanity divided between the strong and the weak. A sequel to Nagai's Devilman series. Stephen King - An unknown phenomenon makes Earth's machines turn against humanity. It was later made into the movie Maximum Overdrive , which added an alien invasion subplot. The Camp of the Saints.
Swiss film, French title: Made for TV movie. A mutated virus created by a solar flare destroys virtually all of the human population. One family has survived, and endeavors to travel across America to their family home. James Herbert - The last two novels of The Rats trilogy show how after a nuclear war, humanity is overthrown by mutated Giant Black Rats.
A Boy and His Dog [22]. A young man Don Johnson and his dog Tiger, the dog actor struggle for survival and encounter strife in a harsh, post-apocalyptic wasteland where food, water, and women are scarce. Based on the writings of Harlan Ellison. Black Moon [ citation needed ]. The Noah [ citation needed ].
Daniel Bourla - An American soldier becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear war. A Doctor Who story that also features alien invasion. Guerrillas from the future explain that they are attempting to kill someone because he caused an explosion at the peace conference, starting a series of wars that left humanity vulnerable to Dalek conquest. Return to the Planet of the Apes.
The Coming of the Horseclans. Robert Adams - followed by seventeen other books in the horseclans series. Series by Robert Adams - first book The Girl Who Owned a City. Society is chased into domes by an ecological disaster, and holds a ceremonial death ritual for all citizens who reach the age of 30 to control the population. A man who formerly helped control the population flees the domed city to avoid his own ceremony. BBC series about the daily struggles of British survivors of a plague which kills most of the world population. The People Who Own the Dark [ citation needed ].
Amando de Ossorio Spanish title: Dick - in collaboration with Roger Zelazny. Eckert - The stability of the Earth comes into question. The Winter of the World. Poul Anderson - Civilization and a new species has emerged from a deadly Ice Age that has destroyed all previous life. Ralph Bakshi - A good wizard and his evil brother battle some two millennia after Armageddon.
Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle - A comet impact. John Christopher - A virus wipes out the weak and the old, until the planet is populated by young teenagers only. Heine - The planet is decimated by a virus, as told through the eyes of one survivor. Stephen King - Collected in the book Night Shift. Short story, tells the tale of a virus which turns males into female-hating psychopaths when sexually aroused. Deathsport [ citation needed ]. An anime series by Hayao Miyazaki. Supermagnetic WMDs devastate Earth and causes virtually all land to be submerged underwater. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Two humans search for a way to survive in toxic wasteland.
Game from TSR, Inc. Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Mostly futuristic in appearance, but outside of the gleaming Utopian city lies apocalyptic ruins swarming with mutants. Australian movie; depicts a declining civilization through the eyes of the titular character who seeks revenge.
John Crowley - Civilization transformed several millennia past an unspecified collapse of civilization. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Choose Your Own Adventure. Larry Collins , coauthor Dominique Lapierre. This Time of Darkness [74]. Japanese film also known as Virus , directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The Shadow of the Torturer. The Road Warrior [19]. The second installment in the Mad Max series. This movie follows the titular character as he interacts with a community based around a small oil refinery and a group of marauding bandits.
Film version directed by Christian de Chalonge. Jerry Ahern - Series. First book , Total War. Game from Fantasy Games Unlimited. Series of seven books by Paul O. Williams - first book , The Breaking of Northwall A thousand years after a series of nuclear exchanges. Craig Harrison - Adapted into the movie of the same name.
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The Day of the Triffids TV series. Post-apocalyptic Italian film [75] [76]. Returning astronauts encounter bikers and mutants in a post-nuclear setting. Released as "Zombie Aftermath" in the UK. Cyberpunk manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo published by Dark Horse Comics - about a group of young bikers in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo who clash with the government and psychics with incredible power. Adapted into a animated movie. Human Highway [ citation needed ]. A low-budget B-movie - an extremely loose adaptation of the novel She by H.
Rider Haggard , starring Sandahl Bergman as a post-civilization warrior. Warriors of the Wasteland [22]. After a nuclear way humanity is reduced to starving tribes with roving gangs seeking to take what they can by force. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross. The anime series and its sequels rewritten and combined with The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada to create Robotech ', which dealt similarly with post-apocalyptic themes.
An Italian film set in featuring a mercenary out to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth. Exterminators of the Year [ citation needed ]. Le Dernier Combat [83]. Warrior of the Lost World [22]. Yor, the Hunter from the Future. Patrick Tilley - series, set at the end of the 3rd millennium. Series by William W.
Johnstone - first book , Out of the Ashes. Fist of the North Star. Influential shonen manga series by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara - A warrior trained in a powerful martial arts style rights wrongs and battles evil warlords in a post-apocalyptic world. Inspired the landmark anime series, a live-action film, and many games. The Last Children of Schewenborn. Series by Hideyuki Kikuchi - first book , Novels and later anime movies , set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in ,.
Dark Enemy [ citation needed ]. In the Cell saga of Dragon Ball Z , a time traveler arrives from a post-apocalyptic future where two powerful killer androids have destroyed much of the world, and attempts to stop the same thing from happening in the main timeline. After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in a bunker, then they find the keys to the last MX missile. All men, except two who were hibernating, die after a war with the use of an M-bomb that kills only males.
Whitley Strieber , coauthor James Kunetka. Hayao Miyazaki - Based on the manga of the same name. Michael Swanwick - Also an alternate history Story - the Three Mile Island reactor incident resulted in a very large release of radioactivity, devastating the Northeastern U. An adaptation of the first two books in the trilogy by John Christopher. Landmark post-apocalyptic anime series based on the manga of the same name.
Game from Game Designer's Workshop - set in a world where a Sino-Russian war degenerates into a limited nuclear conflict that eventually drags in Europe and America. Series of films dealing with a future devastated by a war between humans and machines, the attempt of the machines to kill the hero of the human resistance in the past, and the attempt of the hero and others to prevent this future from ever coming to pass. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome [22]. The third installment in the Mad Max series. This film follows the titular character as he interacts with the post apocalyptic community of Bartertown.
Warriors of the Apocalypse [22]. After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life. Children of the Dust. David Brin - A novel set in Oregon after the apocalypse. Series as a basis for the movie of the same name. The Steel, the Mist and the Blazing Sun. This is the Way the World Ends. Nourse - Follows the progression of a new outbreak of Black Plague and the struggle to survive as society collapses. Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle - Baby elephant-like invaders hurl asteroids at earth, humans revolt.
Margaret Atwood - Dystopia is fueled by rampant infertility caused by pollution. The Legend of Orin. The Adolescence of P GamebookAnd its source books, supplements and sequels was the first role-playing game from Palladium Books, conceived and written by Kevin Siembieda. In Colorado, years after a nuclear war in the USA, humanity is back to the stone ages. Fist of the North Star [ citation needed ]. Animated Japanese film based off the manga of the same name. When the Wind Blows.
Jimmy Murakami - adapting the graphic novel by Raymond Briggs. Series by David L. Robbins - first book Stephen King - Aliens remotely control machines trucks, cars and even vending machines to kill the human population before invading. Based on the Stephen King short story Trucks.
Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. The End of the Whole Mess. Stephen King - short story The End of the Whole Mess a distillate of a Texas aquifer, originally harvested and distributed worldwide to reduce human propensity for violence—curses humanity with premature Alzheimer's disease and senility. Cherry [ citation needed ]. Death Run [ citation needed ]. Hell Comes to Frogtown [ citation needed ]. The Soviet Union blames the U.
Based on the Jerry Ahern pulp novel series. Three technicians working in an underground laboratory discover that a nuclear war has destroyed most of the above ground world. Series by Isobelle Carmody - first book War interstellar , Aliens ancient civilizations , Disease Mutations , Technology Use of Artificial Intelligence , Supernatural Daemons and Sorcery , Future collapse Isolation of colonised planets , Social collapse Return of medieval superstitions , Human decline Negligence of fundamental human rights. The Eldar , a technologically advanced race who dominated the galaxy until the 29th millenium and was superior to the nascent human race, fell into moral decadence, causing the disfigurement of reality to numerous star systems colonised by the people of Earth fuelled by the negative emotions of countless sentinent species brought into instability and unending conflict merely for survival, while at the same time the majority of humanity's population had degraded to a pre-industrial society due to the loss of technology due to a massive confrontation with artificially intelligent machines over thousands of years, until an Empire forcefully united most humans under a fascist totalitarian theocratic regime that conducted an unending war for the genoside of every other advanced lifeform, including some affected by supernatural factors.
David Gemmell - The world is devastated by huge tsunamis. Most of the technology left in the world is on par with the mid to late s but there are some newer weapons around. Twilight of The Gods. In the Country of Last Things. Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. After a war against the machines in which the humans lost, a small group of resistance fighters must keep humanity alive against the evil forces of Lord Dread.
Groundbreaking anime movie based on the manga of the same name. Miracle Mile [ citation needed ]. She-Wolves of the Wasteland [ citation needed ]. The Gate to Women's Country. A computer game set in an alternate timeline where the earth's population is enslaved by an alien species known as the Orbs. Miniature wargaming Miniature wargame by Games Workshop - A role-playing game franchise composed of the game and associated novels and short-story anthologies set within the Dark Future universe. Pat Cadigan - A novel set in a cyberpunk world following a vaguely described natural cataclysm.
War of the Worlds: The second season of this television spin-off from the movie was set after a successful alien invasion. The Blood of Heroes [22]. Australian film written and directed by David Webb Peoples. Empire of Ash II [ citation needed ]. Empire of Ash III [ citation needed ]. Folk of the Fringe. Orson Scott Card - novella "West," plus several short stories. A racing game by Atari Games set in the aftermath of nuclear war with races taking place in the wastelands left over from the war.