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Alex Scarrow
Alex Scarrow is a British author, whose books include Last Light, A Thousand Suns, and October Skies.
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Andre Norton
Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton (b. February 17, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio – d. March 17, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction) under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston. Norton published her first novel in 1934, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the SFWA in 1983.
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Bill Murray
William "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films including Caddyshack (1980), Ghostbusters (1984), and Groundhog Day (1993). He gained additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and a series of films directed by Wes Anderson, including Rushmore (1998), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). He is widely regarded as one of the most talented and unique comedic actors of his generation.
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Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (born 18 August 1925) is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He is also (with Harry Harrison) co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. His writings have been compared to those of Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear and Arthur C. Clarke. His influential works include the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
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Brian K. Vaughan
Brian Keller Vaughan (born 1976) is an American comic book and television writer. He is best known for the comic book series , Ex Machina, Runaways, and Pride of Baghdad, and was one of the principal writers of the television series Lost, during seasons three through five. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the fourth season of Lost. The writing staff was nominated for the award again at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the fifth season.
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Canadian
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Catalan people
The Catalans are the people from, or with origins in Catalonia, a historical Nation and today an Autonomous Community in Spain. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France (known in Catalonia proper as Catalunya Nord, and in France as the Pays Catalan) are sometimes included in this definition.
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Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, ranging from the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He received a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel, All the Pretty Horses.
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David R. Palmer
David R. Palmer (b 1941 in Chicago), Highland Park High School (Class of 1959) [http://www.hphs1959.com/], is a science fiction author who has been nominated three times for Hugo Awards. He is married and lives in Florida [http://www.iblist.com/author2450.htm], where he works as a court reporter.
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Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland (pronounced COPE-lund) (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller , popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. Coupland has been described as "...possibly the most gifted exegete of North American mass culture writing today." and "one of the great satirists of consumerism". A specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture.
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E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
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Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the "best-selling science fiction novel of all time," and the series is widely considered to be among the classics in the genre.
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George R. Stewart
George Rippey Stewart (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His 1959 book ''Pickett's Charge'', a detailed history of the final attack at Gettysburg, was called "essential for an understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg".
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H.G. Wells
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.
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J. T. McIntosh
J. T. McIntosh (born February 14, 1925 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland) is a pseudonym used by Scottish writer and journalist James Murdoch MacGregor.
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Jack London
Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild, set in the Yukon Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and The Sea Wolf, of the San Francisco Bay area.
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Jeanne DuPrau
Jeanne DuPrau (born 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (born August 7, 1933) is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog.
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John Wyndham
John Wyndham was the pen name used by the often post-apocalyptic English science fiction writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969).
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José Saramago
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Kodi Smit-McPhee
Kodi Smit-McPhee (born June 13, 1996) is an Australian actor, probably best known for his role in The Road.
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Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California) is an American science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven also writes humorous stories; one series is collected in The Flight of the Horse.
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M. P. Shiel
Matthew Phipps Shiel (21 July 1865 – 17 February 1947) was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name.
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Manuel de Pedrolo
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina (1918-1990) was a Catalan author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays. He's mostly known for his sci-fi novel Second origin typescript.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.
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Mordecai Roshwald
Mordecai Roshwald (born May 26, 1921) is an American academic and writer. Born in Poland, he later emigrated to Israel. His most famous work is the novel Level 7, a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel. He is a "professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota, and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide."
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Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels .
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Noah
Noah (or Noe, Noach; ; Arabic: نوح ; Greek: Νωέ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs. The biblical story of Noah is contained in chapters 6–9 of the book of Genesis, where he saves his family and representatives of all animals from the flood by constructing an ark. He is also mentioned as the "first husbandman" and in the story of the Curse of Ham. Noah is the subject of much elaboration in later Abrahamic traditions.
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American filmmaker, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood. His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting and chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. Welles's long career in film is noted for his struggle for artistic control in the face of pressure from studios, which resulted in many of his films being severely edited and others left unreleased. He has thus been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur."
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Pat Frank
Pat Frank (May 5, 1908 – October 12, 1964) is the pen name of the American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant Harry Hart Frank. Frank's most well-known work is the 1959 post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon. His other books include Mr. Adam and Forbidden Area.
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Pia Guerra
Pia Guerra is an award winning Canadian comic book artist best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title .
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Richard Jefferies
John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not."
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Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, Duel, and I Am Legend, all four of which have been adapted as major motion pictures. Matheson has also written for several The Twilight Zone television show episodes such as Nightmare at 20,000 feet.
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Robert Rodat
Robert Rodat (born Keene, New Hampshire, 1953 is an American screenwriter. After noticing his son's birthday (June 6) shared the same date as the Battle of Normandy, he was inspired to write his Oscar-nominated script for Saving Private Ryan (1998). Though others have written, "Rodat first came up with the film's story in 1994 when he saw a monument dedicated to four brothers born to Agnes Allison of Port Carbon, PA, who died during the American Civil War." See Wikipedia entry for Saving Private Ryan. He also wrote less-acclaimed scripts, for films like Fly Away Home with Vince McKewin (1996), and The Patriot (2000). He recently worked on the revision of the script for the 2008 film 10,000 BC. He is working on a screenplay for the Warcraft film.
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S. M. Stirling
Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author.
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Saint Malachy
Saint Malachy (Middle Irish: Máel Máedóc Ua Morgair, Modern Irish: Maelmhaedhoc Ó Morgair) (1094 – November 2, 1148) was the Archbishop of Armagh, to whom were attributed several miracles and a vision of the identity of the last 112 Popes (see Prophecy of the Popes). He was Canonised by Pope Clement III, on July 6, 1199. He was the first Irish saint to be canonised by a pope.
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Samuel Youd
(Christopher) Samuel Youd (born April 16, 1922) is a British science fiction author. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.
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Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Clodagh Ronan (; roughly ; born 12 April 1994) is an Irish actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Atonement, City of Ember and The Lovely Bones.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been made into many movies. He is known for novels such as Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, It, Misery, and the seven-novel series The Dark Tower, which King wrote over a period of 27 years. As of 2010, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories including Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, and ''Everything's Eventual''. Many of his stories are set in his homestate of Maine. He has collaborated with authors Peter Straub and Stewart O'Nan. Some of his novels have been also been turned into comic books, such are The Stand, The Talisman, and The Dark Tower series.
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg, (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and video game designer. In a career spanning six decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the founders of DreamWorks.
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William W. Johnstone
William Wallace Johnstone (October 28, 1938—February 8, 2004) was a prolific American author, mostly of western, horror and survivalist novels.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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Libya
Libya ( ; Libyan vernacular: Lībya ; Amazigh: ), officially the '''Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ( , also translated as Socialist People's Libyan Arab Great Jamahiriya'''), is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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Portugal
Portugal (, ), officially the Portuguese Republic (; ), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are also part of Portugal.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely-settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million.
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Toronto
Toronto (, colloquially or ) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which is home to over 8.1 million residents—approximately 25% of Canada's population. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,113,149, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 5,555,912 in the 2006 Census.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Washington DC
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Top Ten Post Apocalyptic Films
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Note: This is my personal top ten. Comment on what are yours Top 10 Post Apocalyptic films: Children Of Men Waterworld Book Of Eli Terminator: Salvation Resident Evil: Extinction Escape from New York Blade Runner 12 Monkeys A Boy and his dog Mad Max 2 Music: Blue Öyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization either through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in an agrarian, non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain.
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Eater of the Sun - a Post Apocalyptic Short-film
"Eater of the Sun" A young man seeks a cure for his illness in a mysterious post-apocalyptic world in the far future. -Filmed in Iceland and Southern Germany with the Canon 5D Mark II. Produced / Written & Directed by, Thor T. Schneider & Sindri Gretarsson Co-Producer & Post Production Supervisor Arthur Haag Starring: Sindri Gretarsson Nökkvi Jarl Bjarnason Una Thorsteinsdóttir Comments are welcome. Copyright, THOR Films. 2010
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Breathe - A post-apocalyptic film by Warner Brown
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Post-apocalyptic America is divided by breathable oxygen zones & uninhabitable zones. A downed rebel pilot, pursued by government agents, fights for his life. Breathe. a post-apocalyptic short sci-fi film Format: 16mm starring Krishna Chaitanya. Written & directed by Warner Brown. Original soundtrack and digital effects created by Warner Brown. Part of the upcoming "Jettison" series based 20 years before the era in this. BREATHE © Copyright 2009. Warner Brown. This motion-picture photoplay is protected by copyright and other applicable laws in the United States and other nations and may not be duplicated, distributed, re-broadcast, or used in any other manner without the expressed written consent of the copyright owner. This material is intended for personal use only and the public exhibition or broadcast of this material is prohibited by law
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Post Apocalyptic Mayhem: Trailer
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Get ready for car racing and destruction in Post Apocalyptic Mayhem. Check out this gameplay from the PC game and get your off road wheels ready. IGN's YouTube is just a taste of our content. Get more: www.ign.com Want this week's top videos? Sign up go.ign.com
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Stable Minds - Short Film - post apocalypse
EDIT: This was the first film I made after being sent overseas to Iraq for over a year. I also sold my HPX170 and switched to a DSLR after I made this. After a virus wipes out most of humanity, the rest do what they can to survive by mugging and stealing from the rest. Real human nature comes out. $0 Budget Shot on a HPX170 Edited in Adobe Premiere Special Effects done in Adobe After Effects
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HOW TO HAVE A POST-APOCALYPTIC THEME PARTY (ON NEW YEAR'S DAY)
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- Published: 31 Dec 2010
- Uploaded: 06 Nov 2011
- Author: whycantihavespaces
Party. Party never changes. A handy guide for anyone who wants to spend new year's day recreating some of their favourite moments from classic post-apocalyptic movies and games. Ever watched someone in Fallout or Mad Max or 28 Days Later or The Road wandering round an empty destroyed city filled with ravenous subhuman flesheaters and thought this would make a great theme for a party? Then this is the video for you! DO NOT REPLICATE ANYTHING IN THIS VIDEO THAT IS ILLEGAL OR DAMAGING TO YOUR HEALTH ALSO, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thought of, directed and edited by Will Tribble Produced, filmed and lit by Geoff Gedroyc Written by Will Tribble and Geoff Gedroyc (with extra suggestions from Dan Evans, Sam Bailey and Babara Soumet-Leman) Music and sound design by Ben Ash and Candle Music. "Turbo Charged" by Yorke. Also we used a couple of sound effects from the Freesound Project. Main guy: Alessandro Visentin Party people: Sam Bailey, Adam Levy, Sarah Marsh, Mo and Salmaan Mirza Beer guy: Geoff Gedroyc Car guy: Will Tribble Middle-aged couple: Hilarie and Wady Gedroyc General film helpery: Alex Buckmaster Zardoz costume design: Alice Kristina Rose Searle Thanks to Babara Soumet-Leman for the use of their house Thanks to Nezih Savaşkan for the use of his fine microphone Thanks to Andrew Tribble for his biker clothes Special thanks to the Gedroycs for lots of stuff
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Are Violent Video Games Preparing Kids For The Apocalypse?
Panelists debate whether games like Fallout 3 and Gears Of War 2 are teaching children skills they'll really need in the End Times.
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WTF Is... - Post Apocalyptic Mayhem?
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- Published: 21 Mar 2011
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- Author: TotalHalibut
store.steampowered.com TotalBiscuit checks out a small combat racing game that's light on content but pretty heavy on enjoyment
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The Accidental Sea
A short film about my favorite post-apocalyptic hell-hole, the Salton Sea. Music composed by Michael Picton. Download the song on CD Baby: www.cdbaby.com A few people have asked in the comments if I'm a writer. Yes I am! My first novel comes out in a few weeks, and can be pre-ordered here: www.amazon.com My equipment: Canon 5DmkII 24mm lens & 100mm lens Steadicam Merlin Final Cut Studio & Color An awesome composer named Michael Picton, who would probably object to being listed as "equipment" but also will probably not read this. Also, to those considering a visit to the salton sea, be warned that it can get up to 110-120 degrees, you'll be far from a garage should you break down, and it can smell pretty awful. Late fall and early spring are much better times to go!
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Yogpod Animations - "Teletubby Post-Apocalypse": YoGPoD Podcast Fan Animation 11
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- Published: 11 Apr 2011
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- Author: BlueXephos
Welp, this one is more horrifying than I remember, and particularly creepy with Fred's black and white animations! I think the general idea was that we were trying to imagine a world in which the only available TV's were actually teletubbies. Our podcast can be found on iTunes here: itunes.apple.com Thanks so much to Fred for the animation, check out his channel here: www.youtube.com If you don't use iTunes, this is the rss link to the YoGPoD! yogpod.libsyn.com If you want more of these, or think you can do better, post on our forums at www.yogiverse.com
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Top 10 List of Post Apocalyptic Novels
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- Published: 25 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 29 Oct 2011
- Author: DrGull1888
Warning! Reading is a hazard to ignorance and may cause education!
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Post Apocalyptic Mayhem gameplay
New game I found on steam
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Gadding About LittleBigPlanet ~ Post-Apocalyptic by anpostteller
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- Published: 08 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 23 Sep 2011
- Author: PSNGreyMRP
Description tomorrow. I'm way too sleepy right now ~_~
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Post Apocalyptic Mayhem Trailer
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- Duration: 1:54
- Published: 16 Feb 2011
- Uploaded: 02 Oct 2011
- Author: GamingShogun
GamingShogun.com presents a new trailer for Steel Monkeys and Meridian4's upcoming vehicular combat game, Post Apocalyptic Mayhem, or PAM for short.
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Troika Games Untitled Post-apocalyptic RPG
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- Duration: 4:39
- Published: 29 Jul 2006
- Uploaded: 07 Nov 2011
- Author: FilmNoir82
An engine demonstration of an un-titled post-apocalyptic themed game that was in the early stages of development before Troika Games closed its doors in February 2005. The music is titled Prophecy Theme by Brian Eno and featured in the 1984 film Dune.
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Post Apocalyptic Music (John Frizzell - The Battle)
Post Apocalyptic Music (John Frizzel - The Battle)
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Post Apocalyptic Mayhem - PC Gameplay FRAPS recorded in HD 1080P
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- Published: 19 Mar 2011
- Uploaded: 02 Oct 2011
- Author: toutagamon
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem - PC Gameplay FRAPS recorded in HD 1080P Played and FRAPS recorded on a Core i7 860 and GTX 570
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Zombieland - Where´s my twinkies!
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- Published: 02 May 2010
- Uploaded: 03 Nov 2011
- Author: POTTERANDMATRIXFAN
Tallahassee (from the movie Zombieland) does everything for his beloved twinkies. Song: He´sa pirate(metal version).
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Nyan Cat - Post Apocalypse
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- Published: 22 Oct 2011
- Uploaded: 08 Nov 2011
- Author: blamesocietyfilms
When the world ends and the internet is just a memory how will it live on? THIS is how. The Blame Society Facebook App: apps.facebook.com Our Second Channel: www.youtube.com
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The Stepford Wives (1975) Recut Trailer
High Quality: www.youtube.com "I'll just die if I don't get this recipe!" This is my second recut trailer, making the satirical horror film "The Stepford Wives" (Dir. Bryan Forbes) look like an upbeat chick-flick comedy! I've been working on this new recut trailer for the last few days, and now it's finally finished! I actually had the idea for this ages ago in October of last year, but I've only just found the time to invest in it. I'm glad that I've put it off until now, though - I've done some fun things with the titles that I wouldn't have thought of last year. The original film is quite a subtle one, so there weren't many dramatic physical scenes that I could turn into slapstick comedy. Nonetheless, I hope it's turned out okay! The music used is: "What A Beautiful Day!" by George Fenton (From the soundtrack of - what else? - "You've Got Mail") "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind NOTE: This next week I won't have any videos up since I am helping out with "Exchange TV", which is a week-long project that covers the events of the Exchange Festival. See here: www.exchangefestival.com
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Epic Meal Time - Post Apocalypse
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- Published: 10 Oct 2011
- Uploaded: 08 Nov 2011
- Author: blamesocietyfilms
An epic tale of bacon strips and bacon strips and bacon strips and... The Blame Society Facebook App: apps.facebook.com Our Second Channel: www.youtube.com Aaron's Facebook: www.facebook.com Matt's Facebook: www.facebook.com Aaron's Twitter: twitter.com Matt's Twitter: twitter.com
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THE END | HD Post Apocalyptic 16mm Short Film (Kodak 50D and 500T) | 2011
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- Published: 25 Apr 2011
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- Author: strangentertainment
At the end of the world the last man left alive struggles to find redemption for the part he played brining the world to an end. Directed By ROWAN STRANG Cinematography by NICK JACKSON Produced by ROWAN STRANG, NICK JACKSON and VICTORIA EASTON Edited and Mixed by BRETT SWEDEN Original Music by GUY HOBSON Executive Producer | Richard Bell Key Grip | ANDY DEAN Field Sound | TAVIS HUGHES 1st AC | LISA CUSHING Colorist | JON NEWELL Clapper/Stuntman | KARL STANLEY Staring MICHAEL ELSWORTH with JOHN ASHTON, NATHAN MUNN, BRIAN SULLIVAN, DON DONNER, RICHARD DERAINE and WILLIAM ROSS Special Thanks to Richard Bell from Shurken for the use of his s16 Aaton Camera/lens'/Equipment www.shuriken.co.nz Special Thanks to Andy Dean from Lakefly Productions for this use of his time as a Grip and Gaffer as well as the use of his Grip Equipment and Lights www.lakeflyproductions.com Shot on on Location at Zealandia Greenhouses in Christchurch. Special thanks to Zealandia www.zealandia.co.nz Also shot at the offices of Mortlock McCormack Law. Special Thanks to the partners at Mortlock McCormack Law for allowing us to film in their boardroom www.mortlock-mccormack.co.nz A STRANG ENTERTAINMENT/NEW ZEALAND BROADCASTING SCHOOL PRODUCTION
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Chocolate Rain: Post Apocalypse
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- Published: 04 Oct 2011
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- Author: blamesocietyfilms
Years after the world ended all we have left are epic tales of what was once known as: The Internet. Let us know in the comments what Epic Tale you'd like to see next. Coming Soon: Nyan Cat, Friday, Epic Meal Time and more. The Blame Society Facebook App: apps.facebook.com
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Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, Technological Singularity, Dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, Divine judgement, Ecological disaster, resource depletion or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in an agrarian, non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain. There is a considerable degree of blurring between this form of science fiction and that which deals with dystopias.
Apocalypticism
Doomsday event
Dying Earth subgenre
List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
List of apocalyptic films
Survivalism
Survivalism in fiction
Zombie apocalypse
Empty World - A website dedicated to apocalyptic fiction
Sub-Genre Spotlight: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction - an overview of the sub-genre at Internet Review of Science Fiction
Quiet Earth - A website dedicated to post apocalyptic media
The genres gained in popularity after World War II, when the possibility of global annihilation by nuclear weapons entered the public consciousness. However, recognizable apocalyptic novels have existed at least since the first quarter of the 19th century, when Mary Shelley's The Last Man was published. Additionally, the subgenres draw on a body of apocalyptic literature, tropes, and interpretations that are millennia old.
Ancient predecessors
Numerous societies, including the Babylonian and Judaic traditions, have produced apocalyptic literature and mythology, some of which dealt with the end of the world and of human society. The scriptural story of Noah and his Ark describes the end of a corrupt civilization and its replacement with a remade world. The first centuries AD saw the creation of various apocalyptic works; the best known (due to its inclusion in the New Testament) is the Book of Revelation (from which the word apocalypse originated, meaning "revelation of secrets"), which is replete with prophecies of destruction. In the study of religious works, apocalyptic texts or stories, are those that disclose hidden secrets either by taking an individual literally into the heavens or into the future. Most often these revelations about heaven and the future are used to explain why some currently occurring event is taking place.Outside of the corpus of New Testament apocrypha also includes apocalypses of Peter, Paul, Stephen, and Thomas, as well as two of James and Gnostic Apocalypses of Peter and Paul. The beliefs and ideas of this time, including apocalyptic accounts excluded from the Bible, influenced the developing Christian eschatology.
Further apocalyptic works appeared in the early Middle Ages. The 7th century Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius includes themes common in Christian eschatology; the Prophecy of the Popes has been ascribed to the 12th century Irish saint Malachy, but could possibly date from the late 16th century. Islamic eschatology, related to Christian and Jewish eschatological traditions, also emerged from the 7th century. Ibn al-Nafis's 13th century Theologus Autodidactus, an Arabic novel, used empirical science to explain Islamic eschatology.
Modern works
Pre-1900 works
The first work of modern apocalyptic fiction in English may be Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man, in which the last portion becomes the story of a man living in a future world emptied of humanity by plague. Containing recognizable elements of this subgenre, the novel is sometimes considered the first science fiction novel, though that distinction is more often given to Shelley's earlier, more famous novel, Frankenstein.The 1885 novel After London by Richard Jefferies is of the type that could be best described as genuine "post-apocalyptic fiction"; after some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The first chapters consist solely of a description of nature reclaiming England: fields becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals running wild, roads and towns becoming overgrown, London reverting to lake and poisonous swampland. The rest of the story is a straightforward adventure/quest set many years later in the wild landscape and society; but the opening chapters set an example for many later science fiction stories.
Published in 1898, H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds depicts an invasion of Earth by inhabitants of the planet Mars. The aliens systematically destroy Victorian England with advanced weaponry mounted on nearly indestructible vehicles. Due to the famous radio adaptation of the novel by Orson Welles on his show, Mercury Theatre, the novel has become one of the best known early apocalyptic works. It has subsequently been reproduced or adapted several times in film, television programming, radio programming, music, and computer games.
Post-1900 works
Nuclear war
The period of the Cold War saw increased interest in this subgenre, as the threat of nuclear warfare became real. Paul Brians published Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, a study that examines atomic war in short stories, novels, and films between 1895 and 1984. Since this measure of destruction was no longer imaginary, some of these new works, such as Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7, Nevil Shute's On the Beach and Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon, shun the imaginary science and technology that are the identifying traits of general science fiction. Others include more fantastic elements, such as mutants, alien invaders, or exotic future weapons such as James Axler's Deathlands. A seminal work in this subgenre was Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), in which a recrudescent Church (Catholic or other), pseudo-medieval society, and rediscovery of the knowledge of the pre-holocaust world are central themes. Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker (1980) also has religious or mystical themes. Also, Orson Scott Card's post-apocalyptic anthology The Folk of the Fringe deals with America post nuclear war.According to some theorists, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in its modern past has influenced Japanese popular culture to include many apocalyptic themes. Much of Japan's manga and anime is filled with apocalyptic imagery. Andre Norton wrote one of the definitive, post apocalyptic novels, Star Man's Son (AKA, Daybreak 2250), published in 1952, where a young man, Fors, begins an Arthurian quest for lost knowledge, through a radiation ravaged landscape, with the aid of a telepathic, mutant cat. He encounters mutated creatures, "the beast things," which are possibly a degenerated form of humans.
In 2003, children's novelist Jeanne DuPrau released the first of four books in a post-apocalyptic series for young adults. The City of Ember has since been made into a film starring Bill Murray and Saoirse Ronan.
Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road (2006) is a recent work of post-apocalyptic fiction, which was made into a film by director John Hillcoat starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The cause of the event that partially destroys the world is never explained in the text.
William W. Johnstone wrote a long series of books over the course of twenty years (35 books all containing the word "Ashes" in the title) about the aftermath of worldwide nuclear and biological war.
CBS produced the TV series Jericho in 2006-2008, which focuses on the survival of the town after 23 American cities were destroyed by nuclear weapons.
In 1984 BBC made Threads, a television program showing the Before/During/After a nuclear bomb is detonated over the British town of Sheffield after the Soviets refused to dismantle a nuclear launch base in Iran.
The series of post-apocalyptic video games Fallout focuses on a world after a massive nuclear war destroys most of the great powers in 2077. The games are usually based around "vaults", safe underground bunkers for long-term survival, and exploring the outside wasteland, in locations such as California or Washington DC.
Pandemic
The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel, published in 1901, is a "last man" novel in which most of humanity has been killed by a poisonous cloud.The Scarlet Plague by Jack London, published in 1912, is set in San Francisco in the year 2072, 60 years after a plague has largely depopulated the planet.
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949), deals with one man who finds most of civilization has been destroyed by a plague. Slowly a small community forms around him as he struggles to start a new civilization and preserve knowledge and learning.
Survivors was a 1970s BBC television series, recently remade in 2008. The series focused on a group of British survivors in the aftermath of a genetically engineered virus that has killed 99.9% of the world's population. The first series examined the immediate after-effects of a pandemic, while the second and third series concentrated on the survivors' attempts to build communities and make contact with other groups.
Empty World a 1977 novel by John Christopher about an adolescent boy who survives a plague which has killed off most of the world's population.
In 1978, Stephen King published The Stand, which follows the odyssey of a small number of survivors of a world-ending influenza pandemic. Although reportedly influenced by the 1949 novel Earth Abides, King's book includes many supernatural elements and is generally regarded as part of the horror fiction genre.
The award-winning novel Emergence by David R. Palmer (1984) is set in a world where a man-made plague destroys the vast majority of the world's population.
The Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago wrote Blindness in 1995. It tells the story of a city or country in which a mass epidemic of blindness destroys the social fabric. It was adapted into the film Blindness in 2008.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood is an example of dystopian post-apocalyptic fiction. The framing story is set after a genetically modified virus wipes out the entire population except for the protagonist and a small group of humans that were also genetically modified. A series of flashbacks depicting a world dominated by biocorporations explains the events leading up to the apocalypse. This story was later followed up with The Year of the Flood.
Atwood's short story "Freeforall" deals with a totalitarian society attempting to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Richard Matheson's I Am Legend deals with the life of Robert Neville, the only unaffected survivor of a global pandemic that has turned the world's population into vampire-like creatures.
The White Plague (1982) a novel by Frank Herbert. When a bomb planted by the IRA goes off, the wife and children of molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill are killed on May 20, 1996 in a terrorist attack. Driven insane by loss, he plans a genocidal revenge and creates a plague that kills women. O'Neill then releases it in Ireland (which he hates for supposedly supporting the terrorists), England (for oppressing the Irish and giving them a cause), and Libya (for training said terrorists); he demands that the governments of the world send all citizens of those countries back to their countries, and that they quarantine those countries and let the plague run its course, so they will lose what he has lost; if they do not, he has more plagues to release.
Y: The Last Man comic series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra deals with the life of Yorick Brown and his monkey Ampersand after a plague wipes out all but three male life forms on the earth, leaving the whole planet to be controlled by women.
Author Jeff Carlson wrote a trilogy of novels beginning with his 2007 debut, Plague Year, a present-day thriller about a worldwide nanotech contagion that devours all warm-blooded life below in elevation. Its two sequels, Plague War and Plague Zone, deal with a cure that allows return to an environment that suffered ecological collapse due to massive increases in insects and reptiles.
Failure of modern technology
In E. M. Forster's 1909 novella The Machine Stops, humanity has been forced underground due to inhospitable conditions on Earth's surface and is entirely dependent on "the machine," a god-like mechanical entity which has supplanted almost all free will by providing for mankind's every whim. The machine deteriorates and eventually stops, ending the lives of all those dependent upon it, though one of the dying alludes to a group of humans dwelling on the surface who will carry the torch of humanity into the future.In René Barjavel's 1943 novel Ravage, written and published during the German occupation of France, a future France is devastated by the sudden failure of electricity, causing chaos, disease, and famine with a small band of survivors desperately struggling for survival.
Half a century later, S. M. Stirling took up a similar theme in the 2004 Dies the Fire, where a sudden mysterious worldwide "Change" alters physical laws so that electricity, gunpowder and most forms of high-energy-density technology no longer work. Civilization collapses, and two competing groups struggle to re-create medieval technologies and skills, as well as master magic.
Afterworld is a computer-animated American science fiction television series about the failure of modern technology.
Harlan Ellison's short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", published in 1967, is set after the Cold War, where a super-computer, named AM (Allied Mastercomputer/Adaptive Manipulator), created to run the war office, becomes self conscious, and destroys all but five human beings. In a vast subterranean complex, the survivors search the shadow of the former world in search of food, whilst being tortured by AM on the way.
Extraterrestrial threats
Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" has two souls in the afterlife discussing the destruction of the world by a comet that removed nitrogen from earth's atmosphere; this left only oxygen, resulting in a worldwide inferno.In the 1933 novel When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, Earth is destroyed by the rogue planet Bronson Alpha. A selected few escape on a spaceship. In the sequel, After Worlds Collide, the survivors start a new life on the planet's companion Bronson Beta, which has taken the orbit formerly occupied by Earth.
In the 1954 novel One in Three Hundred by J. T. McIntosh, scientists have discovered how to pinpoint the exact minute, hour, and day the Sun will go "nova" - and when it does, it will boil away Earth's seas, beginning with the hemisphere that faces the sun, and as Earth continues to rotate, it will take only 24 hours before all life is eradicated. Super-hurricanes and tornadoes are predicted. Buildings will be blown away. A race is on to build thousands of spaceships for the sole purpose of transferring evacuees on a one-way trip to Mars. When the Sun begins to go nova, everything is on schedule, but most of the spaceships turn out to be defective, and fail en route to Mars.
Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven (1977) is about a cataclysmic comet hitting Earth, and various groups of people struggling to survive the aftermath in southern California.
Falling Skies by Robert Rodat and Steven Spielberg is a 2011 tv show that follows a resistance who are fighting to survive after extraterrestrial aliens destroy and attempt to take over Earth. The resistance force in the story bases its operation in Massachusetts.
Cosy catastrophe
The "cosy catastrophe" is a name given to a style of post-apocalyptic science fiction that was particularly prevalent after World War II among British science fiction writers. A "cosy catastrophe" is typically one in which civilization (as we know it) comes to an end and everyone is killed except for the main characters, who survive relatively unscathed and are then freed from the prior constraints of civilization. The term was coined by Brian Aldiss in Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973). Aldiss was directing his remarks at English author John Wyndham, especially his novel The Day of the Triffids, whose protagonists were able to enjoy a relatively comfortable existence with little associated hardship or danger despite the fall of society.The Catalan author Manuel de Pedrolo wrote Mecanoscrit del segon origen (Second origin typescript). It was published in 1974 and is a post-apocalyptic novel where two children accidentally survive an alien holocaust that eradicates all life on earth. They take up the mission of preserving human culture and repopulating the Earth.
Post-peak oil
James Howard Kunstler has written a novel World Made By Hand that imagines life in upstate New York after a declining world oil supply has wreaked havoc on the US economy and people and society are forced to adjust to daily life without cheap oil.David Graham also explored a similar theme in his 1982 book Sidewall in which the world is forced to look for alternatives to oil when OPEC cuts production for political purposes. The story covers the construction of a nuclear powered, near-supersonic ocean-going craft and the attempts to stop it by various terrorist groups and nations in order to keep the world dependent on oil.
Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland's 2010 book Player One deals with four individuals taking refuge in a Toronto airport bar following peak oil.
Last Light and its sequel Afterlight by Alex Scarrow narrate the fall of British civilization after a war in the Middle East eradicates the majority of the Earth's oil supply.
See also
Notes
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