But now, all four sexy princes want her for themselves. Four Princes is only. Paranormal romance Release Date: February 22, Cover Design: Until he meets Scottlin Glover. Scottlin is very intrigued by the elven. Welcome to the secluded mountain town of Havenwood Falls, home to sexy men, strong women, and neighbors who bite. Epic fantasy for the thinking man, that's what R Scott Bakker's fantasy series is.
Full of characters who are not what they seem and featuring some wicked action and a grim story, The Prince of Nothing is a different type of fantasy series. It's not a series that everyone is comfortable with, but it's a series that doesn't follow the standard fantasy mold. I find the Prince of nothing series a refreshing breeze in an otherwise stagnant fantasy genre. A Land Fit for Heroes. Epic fantasy with a different face. All the standard conventions are there, but they are reshaped, twisted and painted with shadows.
This is dark fantasy folks, strong on sex, violence, and gritty atmosphere. If you are expecting hero soldier finds magic sword and kills all the bad guys, you are NOT going to get that sort of book here. Morgan has a knack for taking something that's been done already many times, and spray painting a fresh coat on it -- you can see the shape but the color's different. And in this case, he starts with the hero. The hero, you see, is gay. The villains are good This is complex, epic fantasy from a master storyteller. If you can get over the author playing around with gender gay hero , this atmospheric fantasy series is a great read.
An epic fantasy with one of the more interesting magic systems, a hell of a lot of action, dark gods and powerful baddies to defeat, and an good old fashioned coming-of-age tale. If you want to be entertained by your fantasy, well, this series will certainly do that. Nor is it a vast gritty chess board of brutal politics, unchecked treachery, and morally ambiguous heroes that A.
But what it is some non stop action, adventure, and plain old fun. If you like your epic fantasy with powerful heroes, powerful villains, and over-the-top heroic action, then The Lightbringer Series delivers a bus load of it. Book one was so so, but book two brought it big time improving on what was a mediocre start with the first book to something really special. Book three carries the torch, though dropping it lower a bit. Overall though, the force is strong with this series. Book four is one of my most anticipated fantasy reads.
Not exactly epic high fantasy in the traditional sense, but there's enough fantasy elements to land it on the list. Amber is, for many new fantasy readers, almost an unknown series. But it's a fantasy series that should be read. There's complex political scheming, a cast of warring noble siblings, and parallel worlds. More than a few accolades name this as the greatest fantasy series ever written. And it's true that this is one of the most original and complex fantasy worlds you'll find outside of Tolkien.
The plot is pretty complex, but this is one series you should just pick it up and start reading without looking at the plot summary. One of the greatest joys I've ever had reading a book came from discovering how this book unfolds as I read it. The Long Price Quartet. Another epic fantasy that doesn't necessary fit the classical definition of an epic fantasy. Anyone who's tired of the generic Tolkien-derived fantasy and paper-thin characters won't have anything to complain about with this series.
This is a more "literary" fantasy series and the author is quite the wordsmith. Those of you who want a slower paced, more complexly plotted book with non-standard fantasy characters leading the story, The Long Price Quartet is a series you'll want to sink your teeth into. Feist, this series won't be for you. For the rest of you who want to read character driven epic fantasy that doesn't fit the USUAL mold of epic fantasy, then this is an awesome series. An epic fantasy by a really talented writer.
This is not your standard epic fantasy. Or rather, it's epic fantasy with a lot of emphasis on characterization. Yes, there is the good guys versus dark lord plot in the series, but the series is not so much about slaying bad guys as it is the story of how normal people react in bad situations -- both the good and the bad. Don't take this to mean this series is boring -- it's not. But rather, this series is a far more intelligent epic fantasy than many of you may be used to. If dark fantasy married epic fantasy and had a child, The Coldfire Trilogy would be that child. This series is pretty damn dark with more than a few aspects from the horror genre tossed into the mix as well.
Characters are well drawn and complex -- there are no paper deep characters here, no generic fantasy landscape borrowed from Tolkien. Cold Fire sets itself apart from any other fantasy series out there, both with the novel's unique setting and the cast of characters. The protagonist is also an anti-hero character, which makes the story and plot even more interesting. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
A fantasy tale that people love to love or love to hate -- there is very rarely any middle ground when it comes to Thomas Covenant. My recommendation is that you should read the first series, if only to see what all the damn arguing going on in the comment section is. The series takes a unique view of the classic epic fantasy.
Instead of a hero, there's an anti-hero -- one who's pretty damn selfish. The series, if it was left to that, would be too depressing for most people to finish. But the series is also one about transformation and redemption. Through the Chronicles, you slowly start to see Thomas Covenant move from anti-hero to hero, from selfish bastard to altruistic hero. There are three trilogies about Thomas Covenant. The first is the best, the second nearly as good, and the last The series follows the story of Sabriel and her children as they venture from the New Kingdom the modern world into the mysterious Old Kingdom, a magical world behind a wall bordering the two realities where strange things happen -- the dead haunt that land, magic exists, and evil lurks around every corner.
The series is exciting and chilling at the same time. If you want to feel scared while reading epic fantasy, this series will do it! Especially good is the first book which will just blow your socks off. Read it with the lights turned down when you are by yourself and expect to be scared. Not so much your classic epic fantasy but more of an epic tale of revenge. It's basically the story of a young boy who leads a brutal crusade to regain his throne -- a throne he abandoned when he fled from his home after watching his mother and brother being brutally murdered.
This is one hot fantasy series, a dark, gripping fantasy that has some similarities to K. Parker's works, though set in a more typical fantasy landscape. The Demon War Cycle. This doesn't do anything smart, new, or fancy. But what it does, it does pretty damn well: This is a dark epic fantasy with a lot of zing to it. If you are looking for some GREAT heroic epic fantasy with a lot of action and character building with a pretty cool magic system , The Warded Man delivers this in full force. It's also one of the more exciting and memorizing fantasy reads to come out the past decade or two.
The two sequels with the last book the worst failed completely, pretty much destroying what was once one of the most promising fantasy series to come around in a long while. Apparently, Brett saw the thread and it gave him some depression. This is unfortunate, but I hope it spurs the author to fix what he's doing so very wrong. Should you read this series? On the strength of the first book, yes. But don't keep your hopes up for good reading after the first one -- it's all downhill from there.
The Dark is Rising. One of the best YA epic fantasy series. Well-developed characters that are stereotypical but still exhibit a surprising amount of depth. A standard save-the-world plot, but one that still evokes a good deal of pleasure as you watch the characters struggle to save the world. This one is a lot of fun; I'd even go as far as to say it's one of the most entertaining standard fantasy tales in the genre. Duncan takes the standard fantasy cliche's and makes them his own with some deft plotting, a cast of well-developed characters with complex relationships, one of the more interesting magic systems out there, and a lovable underdog hero you just love rooting for when the odds are stacked against him.
This series is written with such earnestness and passion that you can't help but love it. If you want some sort of existential tale that celebrates a good man's ability to do bad things rather than a feel good novel about heroes who actually make you feel good about yourself, than don'tread this. But if you want a standard fantasy tale where heroes are actually, well, good and one that rises far above the standard fantasy derivatives out there, read.
A beautiful and deftly woven fantasy tale that rings strong with a lot of the elements that make Lord of the Rings so captivating. Why might you want to read this? Let's look at a little checklist: A mysterious landscape that's almost poetic. A strong mythos of the world underlying the conversations, references, and history. Magic is mysterious and rare. The world is under threat by some unknown force. This three-book series proves you don't need to have ten-thousand page books to tell a proper high fantasy tale. If you love reading epic fantasy with rich history and myth built into the story, complemented by beautiful language, pick this series up.
You certainly won't go wrong reading it. Magic is very much a mystery in this series; part of the pleasure of reading this series is the sense of mystery and wonder. If you want to get lost in mysterious lands on a quest to save the land from an ancient evil, this should be your next series. It's epic fantasy that's got a lot of the familiar themes, but it's damn well written epic fantasy.
Another classic fantasy tale that's just pure joy to read. Follow along with Morgan as he seeks to solve the mystery of his birth. Maybe along the way he's save the world and find true love. Classic epic fantasy that's beautifully written. However, this massive epic fantasy saga is wholly original. It's massive, ambitious, and well worth the read. I gleefully lost myself for a few weeks in this very addicting saga.
If you like the hero-driven, magic-riddled worlds of Robert Jordan, and Raymond E. Feist, then you will probably love the Deathgate Cycle saga. Epic fantasy has become so cheap it's now at the dime-a-dozen price range. Every author and wannabe-author is trying to pour out epics faster than beer at a Irish pub on St.
It makes for some seriously substandard, watered-down reading. Tad Williams has his own style of epic fantasy; he doesn't copy Jordan, Martin, or even Tolkien. Some of the greater Tolkien elements are there, as are some of the fantasy archetypal characters. But Williams is best when he's writing an epic. Everything is so finely detailed that it can take a while to get the story rolling -- this is something that some love or hate about a Williams novel. But if you give his works a fair shake and invest some time plowing through the slow pacing of the first few hundred pages, you're treated to something majestic.
Shadow March combines some of the elements from A Game of Thrones with the mythos and world building of Tolkien. There's a vast wall of mist in the very northernmost part of the lands that separates a race of mysterious fairies from humans. There's an emperor in the southern desert lands dreaming of conquering the entire world and mortality itself. There's a kingship dispute, treachery, and invasion. And there is a firm mythos woven into the story threads, giving insight into the world as it used to be eons ago, stories that do connect with the current plot. I really enjoyed how Williams incorporates faeries into the story.
The series are full of ancient mythology, lost realms, strange magic, and just a whole lot of adventure. And of course, as a Tad Williams novel, there's great characterization and beautiful writing present too. This is an epic fantasy for those who like to read good fantasy.
Williams doesn't always give everything to you right away and you are required to dig into the books a bit before things get moving. Williams spends more time than you like detailing the daily routine of the settings around the characters, but on the whole, it's a great series and one that you should read. You might also call this one The Lord of the Rings of horror books -- a somewhat apt description that describes what this is.
It's not a book that will appeal to everyone fans of easy-to-read epic fantasy where all the cards are laid out on the table by page 10 probably won't , but what I will guarantee is that Imajiica is a feast of the senses and the imagination.
The Celtic Vampyre Saga by C.K. Farrell
Not all 'epic fantasy' is derivative of Tolkien or Jordan. Imajiica is an epic fantasy with a new face -- rather than an all-consuming struggle against an implacable and unstoppable outside force of evil, it's a struggle to save mankind from itself. This is a monster of a book at almost pages, but it's a book that will have you captivated the whole way through; there is no useful filler, only laser-sharp plotting and even sharper prose.
The 4th Dominion, our world, has been separated from the other 5 worlds. The last great attempt to reconcile our world with the other 5 backfired, and nearly all the metaphysically talented people died Shamans, Magicians, etc. But now, things are again ripe for another attempt, and this time if the worlds are not reconciled, mankind will certainly destroy itself in the future. Barker is famous for writing his stories where there is another world underpinning the reality of our own, just a pin prick away, if one knows exactly where to prick. One of the more complex fantasy works on this list, The Folding Knife is another one of those epics that don't initially made the standard epic fantasy criteria until you start digging down deep to find the bones of it.
The Folding Knife is an example of an epic fantasy that lacks many of the epic fantasy qualities that you are familiar -- like magic while still maintaining the high stakes involved in an epic. The Folding Knife is an epic that focuses on the ethics of things -- specifically on the making of difficult ethical decisions.
There's a lot going between the pages and while there is no standard evil dark lord to slay or a detailed magic system, but it's a story about a man's willingness to do anything and everything strengthen the kingdom he comes to lead. This novel is probably the most eclectic of the books on this list especially added to an Epic Fantasy list , but don't just it and give it a read.
You might find there's a real power The Folding Knife and become a life long fan of one of the best -- and most underrated -- authors in the genre. 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. 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. Al Sarrantonio - About a worldwide uprising of werewolves. Rogers - Combines themes of the rapture and zombies. Story by Joe R. Bacteria causes the dead to rise. Bounty Hunter chases quarry and encounters evil cult. The Handmaid's Tale [].
The Girl from Tomorrow. Australian children's drama in which a girl from the 31st century after the Northern Hemisphere has been destroyed in the Great Disaster, later revealed to be a nuclear holocaust becomes stranded in the 20th century. In the sequel, Tomorrow's End , she and her friends fight to prevent history from being changed in such a way that the Southern Hemisphere is destroyed as well. Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg extension written by Silverberg of the Asimov story of the same name.
A nuclear exchange triggers the return of Ley Lines and Interdimensional Rifts or portals. These Ley Lines and Portals subsequently cause several natural and supernatural disasters. A mysterious plague has swept over the entire world, causing everyone to suffer from amnesia, leading to the collapse of civilization.
Based on a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi. ITV show, about 3 people who lived after everyone else in England was turned to dust by a chemical that was accidentally released by a television presenter. The City, Not Long After. Pat Murphy - In the wake of a devastating worldwide plague, a handful of artists transform the City of San Francisco, and fend off marauders with a touch of magic.
Also known as Dark Angel , directed by Craig R. Taking place in the year , the loss of the ozone layer has left most of the planet a desolate wasteland scattered with highly radioactive Death Zones. Dickson - A man and a wolf band together to survive in an America devastated by financial collapse. The Captain Planet two-parter Two Futures , in which the character Wheeler gets a glimpse of what could happen if damage to the environment was allowed to continue unchecked. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle , and Michael Flynn - Space-based civilization exists despite the government's wishes during an ice age.
A film following the one woman who is able to conceive life after a third world war leaves the world's population sterile. Al Sarrantonio - The galaxy passes through a 'cloud' in space, which causes all previously expired creatures on Earth to return to life as bloodthirsty skeletons shrouded in ghostly mirages of their former selves. Cyborg 2 [ citation needed ]. Robot Wars [ citation needed ]. UFO Defense and subsequent follow-ups. Parable of the Sower. One man's quest for revenge in a world where toxic waste has driven the remains of civilization into the Arctic Circle.
The Fifth Sacred Thing. Norman Spinrad - The results of global warming. Ben Elton - The Earth 's population is forced to live in Biodomes for 50 years while the environment recovers from humanity's actions. Takes place long after a time of environmental collapse that destroyed the world's older advanced civilizations. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. In which dinosaurs reclaim the earth. Based upon the comic series " Xenozoic Tales ". Mega Man X series. A computer game series created by id Software - about a demonic invasion of human colonies on the moons of Mars. The sequel to the original game, Doom II: Hell on Earth , sees the demons invading Earth itself.
Made for TV movie that was designed to be a pilot for a post- Apocalyptic spin-off from the original Knight Rider.
- Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation (Gifford Lectures).
- Navigation menu.
- Naturally Healthy Cats.
- .
- .
A Super NES game were a comet passes next to Earth, which is a malicious being whose light turns humans into monsters. The story takes place in an altered reality, where to approaching comet already changed timeline and reality. Titled Final Fantasy III in its initial American launch, this RPG features a plot twist in where villain Kefka moves magical statues out of their intended alignment, which in turn causes the balanced fictional world to fall into ruin, and for Kefka to become its new god while protected by the powers of the same statues.
And sequels, from Sierra Entertainment. Looking Glass Technologies - incorporates elements from Alien invasion theory. The Winchester Mystery House "The House" serves as a focal point for parallel universes and inexplicable energies that are changing the world and its post-Vanishing children. Hitoshi Ashinano - Japanese manga series, set in a peaceful post-cataclysmic Japan, after an untold environmental disaster. Live-action martial arts film based on the manga of the same name. Loosely based on the comic by Jamie Hewlett. The console game, where modern civilization is at risk of being destroyed by an alien parasite in AD.
Global Warming has caused all landmasses on Earth to be covered by the sea. The remnants of humanity survive on "atolls," mechanical floating cities that are constantly attacked by pirates with steam-driven ships. Some humans have evolved to become amphibious to live among the old wreckage beneath the waves. Many people live in hope of finding the mythical "Dryland," the place safe from the seas which turns out to be the Himalayan Mountains. John Barnes - A tactical nuclear strike in the North Pacific releases massive amounts of methane, spawning worldwide super hurricanes.
Anderson and Doug Beason - A microbe consumes all materials based on petroleum. Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith. A vertical shoot-em-up scroller game, with two layers for Nintendo's Virtual Boy video game system. Humanity's unearthing of a being known as Adam brings about Second Impact , a catastrophic shockwave which destroys Antarctica and subsequently leads to the extinction of thousands of organisms, the destruction of much of the civilized world, and the deaths of billions.
Millions more die from the social and economic troubles which follow this impact and the ensuing wars. The third installment of the Mortal Kombat series. Supernatural warlord Shao Kahn has taken over the realm of Earth, taking the souls of much of the populace. Extermination squads roam the land in search of the few surviving Kombatants that oppose him. A radioactive, self-replicating alien crystal known as Tiberium crashes on Earth in and gradually renders most of the Earth's surface uninhabitable over the next several decades. The sequel to Escape From New York , the film is set in an America that has become a theocratic dictatorship.
Central to the plot is Los Angeles Island, the remains of what was once the city of Los Angeles after "The Big One," where those who break the government's new laws are deported to. First Contact [ citation needed ].
Harry - limited nuclear war between the United States and Russia. Based on the trading card series Mars Attacks Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski - Aliens conduct a preemptive strike against humanity with relativistic missiles. Anderson - Edited by Kevin J. Anderson is an anthology of short stories set during the events of The War of the Worlds by H. The Tale of IG The House of the Dead. The House of the Dead series of Sega video games. Curien finds a way to reanimate the dead, though not without disastrous results.
Later in the series' timeline, Caleb Goldman uses the undead in his mission to destroy the human race and protect the Earth from further destruction by humans. The episode " Resurrection " and the episode " The Human Operators ". In the series' backstory, a brutal war sees multiple space colonies dropped on Earth, rendering much of the world uninhabitable. Partly based on the David Brin Novel.
- C.K. Farrell | About.
- Wisdom From the Five Amigos and a Gal: Messages 2011;
- Colonel Chabert, Le (French Edition).
- Ashes of Creation Gameplay Update - Live Stream Replay - theranchhands.com?
A mining accident unleashes a virus from within the colonized moon Io. Races are held to determine the winner of the last seat in the last shuttle leaving. LeVar Burton - American civilization crumbles after a civil war pitting blacks against whites and a devastating earthquake. Set in an unspecified post-apocalyptic region on an Earth shrouded by an impact winter and plagued by a dangerous mutagenic substance called "Archessence" - the game centres on a technologically regressed medieval-like society.
Stephen Baxter about a manned mission to Titan while China directs an asteroid to hit Earth. The Chosen, a group consisting of a corporate- and government-determined human elect, depart a heavily polluted Earth via a fleet of starships, returning as a force to reoccupy Earth, fighting against the titular 7th Legion, a coalition of the most advanced post-apocalypse humans on Earth. A setting for the GURPS role playing system, where machines have taken over the world after a war with humanity that the humans lost. Features a deleted scene restored to the film in the Alien Quadrilogy box set in which Ripley and the other survivors land the Auriga in a devastated Paris.
The cause of the destruction is never made clear. A nuclear war in devastates much of the US. Players start out in underground shelters called Vaults. Vehicular combat game from The 3DO Company. Nearly all women around the world are killed in a nuclear war and few female survivors are prized by men. Directed by Robert Rodriguez - Six students are about to find out their teachers really are from another planet. The OVA, where a combination of a nuclear missile and amorphous alien Invaders results in a war with the fate of humanity at stake.
Charles Sheffield - Alpha Centauri goes supernova and causes cataclysmic climate change. Charles Pellegrino - All the insect species on Earth die out, and the ecology crashes as a result. Is the sequel to KKnD , as part of its plot, Series 9 are advanced farming robots that have taken it unto themselves to destroy all life. PlayStation game set in a world with two nations fight with weapons found in ancient ruins. Also human fossils are all recent in the planet. Also, the series of films made in the s and s by Cloud Ten Pictures.
It's an Endless World. The — anime series in which a man made disaster has caused Earth's moon to fragment, resulting in a constant rain of meteor strikes on the planet and forcing humanity to move out into the solar system. Now and Then, Here and There. An Anime series that takes place 10 billion years into the future, where humanity lusts for power, and children are forced into military duty. The Last Train []. The console game, where in alternate time lines modern civilization was destroyed by an alien parasite in AD.
PCDeveloped by Outrage Entertainment, which explains that mostly mining robots attacked by an unknown virus and now attacking people. PCDeveloper Relic Entertainment - A small human civilization on the desert planet of Kharak on the edge of the galaxy is brought to the brink of extinction for violating a forgotten year-old treaty forbidding them from developing hyperspace technology. The survivors, however, are fortunate to have the use of the recently completed Mothership - a large colony vessel meant to take them back to their ancient and forgotten homeworld near the center of the galaxy, Hiigara - The game was succeeded by sequels Homeworld: Cataclysm and Homeworld 2.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. The New Zealand TV series, that takes place in a near-future in which all the adults have been killed by a man-made Virus and the children have to survive on their own. Series of films dealing with a future where machines have trapped humanity in an illusory world, and the struggle of the surviving humans of the post-apocalyptic real world to free the rest of humanity from the illusion.
Similar Recommendations
On the Beach [ citation needed ]. Also Earth The world is destroyed in and people settle on mars in A Nintendo 64 game where the main character, Link, has three days to save the world of Termina from its moon that has broken from orbit. Based on the novel of the same name by L. Is a squad based action adventure computer game developed by Rebellion. John Shirley - revolves around a demonic invasion of Earth.
After terrorists detonate a nuclear weapon in the Earth's orbit, all computer data is destroyed, bringing about an economic collapse, but with minimal loss of life. Created by James Cameron and Charles H. Series by Phillip Reeve - first book , Set in the distant future after a nuclear war.
Cities are turned into machines on wheels which hunt other cities and 'eat' them. The first book follows the story of two children who have fallen off a city, and are trying to find it again so they can get back on, while the dictator of their city plans on using a weapon to destroy all of the land dwellers - people who haven't upgraded their cities to be on wheels. Ever Since the World Ended [] []. The Night of the Triffids. PlayStation 2 game centered in a fictional continent years after an asteroid crashes at several locations. CGI animated film about spirit-based aliens roaming Earth after an asteroid crash over 30 years before.
Earth created robotic lifeforms allegedly to mine Titan's resources, though in reality they were to be used as a secret army. When the plan surfaced, the World Council lost power but the robots returned and occupied the planet in the name of their creators. And its sequel, the video game Pikmin 2 , is set on an unnamed planet simply called as the planet of the Pikmin , inhabited by animals and plants. Although it is unnamed in-game, several cutscenes shows it as Earth, or at least a very Earth-like planet. Further hints is man-made objects in both games like the Abstract Masterpiece, a bottle cap , and the Remembered Old Buddy, a R.
Brawl , Distant Planet, which its data refers to as Earth. Kiyoshi Kurosawa - In which the world is overrun by Humanoid Ghosts , and everything is destroyed by them. Based on a novel of the same name. Equilibrium [ citation needed ]. After barely surviving another worldwide conflict, humanity rejects all emotion and outlaws all forms of expression which might encourage emotional response. Ordinary citizens are forced to fight through hordes of rabid zombies after a virus ravages Britain.
Set in the post-apocalyptic future where majority of humans die from a mysterious viral plague, the remaining humans have conformed to primitive tribalism. Directed by Larry Clark. The Years of Rice and Salt. PCVideo game featuring a group of ex-soldiers who spent ten years underground after the Spontaneous Genome Degeneration Syndrome SGDS , an artificially created virus raged across the globe in , nearly wiping off humanity.
Although the virus was released to make money with the antidote, it wasn't distributed for some reason. Downfall of man caused by the Moon breaking apart and bombarding Earth with rocks after extensive lunar mining. The tenth Friday the 13th film, Earth became a polluted wasteland by - Humanity left Earth and colonized a planet designated as Earth 2.
The Legend of Zelda: Video game in which a flood has decimated the fictional world of Hyrule. Anderson - Part of the Dune universe. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed.
The Celtic Vampyre Saga by C.K. Farrell
Anime Series involving a war between naturally-born humans Naturals and genetically enhanced humans Coordinators. Game for the Personal Computer by Reakktor Media. Showtime cable television series, based on the comic of the same name. In the year , 15 years after a virus kills everyone over the age of puberty, the child survivors have grown up, living on the scraps of the old world. Legends Of Dune trilogy. Vaughan and published by Vertigo Comics. Homeward Bound [ citation needed ]. Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana. The Third World War. The computer game and its sequels UFO: Afterlight by Altar Games.
Set in the year , the Earth's surface is in a cataclysmic upheaval, much of it transformed into wasteland by unstoppable storms the byproduct of the destruction of the ozone layer. It was directed by Oscar Luis Costo. Part of the Dune universe by Kevin J. The Polish role-playing game from Portal Publishing. Ion Storm developer Eidos Interactive publisher. After total global economic collapse an event known simply as "The Collapse", all religion is collected into one, which is in conflict with the new world order. Throughout the game, the player can choose to be on either side, affecting the game's outcome.
Casshern [ citation needed ]. Based on two Japanese anime series. A race of super-robots led by their leader, Black King, take over the world. David Mitchell - one of the six novellas is set in a post-apocalyptic future. Dawn of the Dead. Individuals try and survive a zombie outbreak by securing a shopping mall. Remake of movie. A Planet for the President. The asteroid Bay-Leder 7 was found to be powerful enough to wipe out the whole civilization.
Although a top-secret experimental satellite weapon was able to cut it in two, the smaller piece impacted in West Russia, turning Europe into an ice-covered "death zone". The Day After Tomorrow. Adam Roberts - The world is buried under kilometres of unnatural snow. The television movie Category 6: Day of Destruction where Chicago is suffering from a series of tornadoes from numerous changes occurring in the climate.
This series was followed in by Category 7: The mini series Last Days of Gaia. The focus of the game is the deep story and the unique characters, with living environment offering many well thought sidequests. Gameplay similar to the Fallout series, although with a more traditional RPG approach in which the player can assemble a whole party in order to improve chances in battles and include specialists with complementary skills.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. The Battle of Corrin. A manga series created by Takuya Fujima. A role-playing game set in the midst of a war between humans and a worldwide computer intelligence. The Reverie of a Little Planet. Takes the premise that with no natural predators to thin the population of the world, evolution simply rewards whoever can pass on their genes the fastest, who are depicted as sexually promiscuous drunken brutes.
The average IQ is 80 by , 60 by , and 40 by Anime series, set in a future Japan that is a wasteland. In the Great Kanto Desert, scattered humans eke out a living in the hot sand. Scott Westerfeld - Uglies , Pretties , Specials and the companion novel, Extras , take place in a future civilization that arose after our current civilization collapsed because of an engineered bacterium that attacked not people, but oil, changing its chemical composition so that it exploded on contact with oxygen first explained on p.
Dance Of The Dead. An episode of Masters of Horror directed by Tobe Hooper - It has a triple apocalyptic theme as it features a man made virus causing a zombie outbreak after World War 3. Series by Dmitry Glukhovsky - Set in the metro tunnels of post apocalyptic Moscow.