Wasting Away ~ A Zombie Novel (Waiting to Die Book 2)

Some of my favorite Jenni and Katie funny quotes: The damn Russkies are behind it, I know. We never could trust them. View all 11 comments. Recommended to Brainycat by: I bought the trilogy based on recommendations I found on another forum. It really wants to be a great story, but it gets bogged down by over explanations.

The character development reminded me of Robert Jordan - give each character Their One Trait, then never pass up a chance to cut'n'paste The One Trait into the narrative, even if it breaks the flow of the story. The action is thin and predictable, but I kept reading through it expecting the cha I bought the trilogy based on recommendations I found on another forum. The action is thin and predictable, but I kept reading through it expecting the characters to become interesting.

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Unfortunately, I never felt emotionally invested in the characters, and by a third of the way through I decided I was going to give it another third to become interesting. Not only did it not get interesting, it started reading like a young adult romance. Not my thing, though if the sales figures for Twilight are any indication I must be in the minority.

The writing style is very expository. It felt a little droll; like reading an objective recollection rather than fighting side by side with our heroines while society collapses around them. The author 'tells' more than 'shows', which is fine but I like a more vivid, descriptive style in my horror. Obviously, a lot of people like this book so please give it a try. I found it VERY reasonably priced at kobo. Readers like me, who enjoy vivid violence, gore and sex and uniquely quirky characterization will be disappointed. However, if you like your romance and horror "PG" I expect you would like this a lot.

Full review to come when I have time to write it, but for now, here's Readers intrigued by the rarity of a zombie-survival story being told entirely from a woman's point of view will have some fun with this, even though the author never fully capitalizes on the concept. View all 7 comments. Recommended to Eva by: I'm almost at a loss as to what to say here because I know next to nothing about zombies or this type of book.

I picked this up for two reasons and two reasons only. One was because the reading challenge I'm doing this spring has a task where I needed to read a sci-fi book. I asked my friend Felicia what she would recommend and she sent me this book. I figured that at worst I would be able to plow through it and at best it would be milding entertaining. I've always been way more of a non-fiction I'm almost at a loss as to what to say here because I know next to nothing about zombies or this type of book. I've always been way more of a non-fiction person because it seemed to be more worthwhile in a way, like I was always learning something, that the reading wasn't just frivolous fun.

Well, this was an immense amount of fun although I wouldn't call it frivolous at all! I can't wait to read the sequel and then the third installment!

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I was and still am amazed at how Frater was able to make everything, not just some parts, everything , realistic as hell. And I mean, it scared me bad. I'm not by nature a jumpy person but this book really got me thinking the whole 'what-if' scenario all throughout. I'm thrilled that I found a new genre to read and I will always remember this book as being the first great zombie book I read! The characters were out of this world literally , if I had to pick a favorite I don't know where I would start. I like Juan a lot Katie and Jennie, the two main characters in the first one make the best team and Frater has their personalites matching perfectly without making them the 'same'.

The plot line and situations they had to go through were absolutely riveting. I found myself wanting to page through a little bit to "just see what happened" numerous times although I made myself wait and the end result was even more delicious. To not read this would be missing out At least give it a shot. Like I told Felicia- I would have laughed in the face of anyone if someone would have told me I'd like this kind of story. Even up until a week ago I'd have laughed my ass off. Hopefully the second is just as good as this one because I can't wait to find out what happens next.

The ending of this was just right- she left it so the reader is wanting more but also so you're surprisingly "full" too. As the World Dies: We quickly come to realize that those tiny fingers belong to her now undead son. Somehow she manages to flee t As the World Dies: Somehow she manages to flee the house and is rescued by Katie, a prosecutor who was rescued by a priest, but is now alone, except for a brave zombie warning dog, Jack. Together they set off to find a safe place to settle and wrap their minds around what's happened.

Along the way, the meet some amazing people, all doing what they can to survive. They are "the funeral of the world Jenni, once almost catatonic, has come to almost love her new role as, nicknamed by Katie, "a deadly Tinkerbell of death" , killing the zombies that remind her of all that she's lost. In the end, Frater writes, "The worst is yet to come View all 4 comments. It delivered but didn't WOW - it has all the normal cliches of a zombie apocalypse but with an added bonus. Our heroine is introduced as a lesbian and is fighting her inner turmoil over her lost wife and the chance to have a new relationship with Travis.

I loved the characters but got really pissed off at some of the townspeople and their narrow mindness over the LGBT lifestyle. It's weird but I foun Ahhh It's weird but I found myself connecting more with Jenni than Katie Good book overall and can't wait to see what happens next!! View all 8 comments.

I forced myself to finish this as about a little more than half way through I was ready to give up. So not my kind of zombie novel. Aug 11, S. Munt rated it it was amazing Shelves: Lots of time in cars on the highway, lots of foraging, the building of forts and the banding together of people. It's nicely paced- so it goes minute by minute and day by day without skipping large sections of time, the zombies are how zombies ought to be with nothing fancy thrown into the mix, and the writer's got the goods as far as world building goes and paints what one 5 Zombie Stars This was just a straight-up good Zombie book, and has basically everything I look for in a Zombie adventure: It's nicely paced- so it goes minute by minute and day by day without skipping large sections of time, the zombies are how zombies ought to be with nothing fancy thrown into the mix, and the writer's got the goods as far as world building goes and paints what one can only presume is a fairly realistic account of how things would play out when the shit virus hits the fan.

The characters are the best aspect of the book for me. For all intents and purposes, I think Katie is supposed to be the main character, but it's Jenny who I think really adds some spark to what could have been an otherwise generic story. She's a bit crazy and has a lot of issues, but though her mind doesn't work well- I like the way it works: It took a while for me to realise that this series was going to be told from a primarily female POV, and was also written by one, and though my husband is a huge fan of this series, he has grumbled occasionally, that the she-power is a little much. While I don't agree that anything the women do can be considered extra-ordinary or uber-feminazi, I will admit that the male characters tend to come down on the 'soft' side of things.

Travis and his gun issues, for instance- WTF? It would take a lot of guts and killer instincts to survive an ordeal like this- and we're reading a story from a Survivors side of things, right? If not, there would be three paragraphs and then a lot of demonic growling… What's wrong with it? Travis can get on my nerves sometimes I really like strong men- which is possible without them having to come off as Rambo and Travis can be a bit spineless, so Juan's my favourite and I had some issues with how quickly Katie rebounded.

Okay, you like men and women too, so by all means- have at this new dish now that your wife is dead, but while she was humming and hawing about it being too soon for her to be considering jumping into someone else's arms- I tended to agree and couldn't believe that she was even contemplating it yet. I think maybe two weeks had lapsed between death of a wife, and want of another partner? That's okay in Jenny's 'battered wife' case and would even make sense if Katie's wife was still alive, and Katie's feelings were merely splitting proving them to be not so strong in the first place … but the emphasis on her desire for Travis struck me as highly inappropriate for a grieving widow, and didn't make sense given how much time Katie spends grieving, moping, sulking… etc etc over her darling Lydia.

As much as I like the emerging relationship, I wish that the writer had left the notion of her having any feelings for Travis- at all- until at least the second novel, and then maybe a month down the line. In the same vein- I don't think that Jenny has mourned the loss of her children nearly enough, and the fact that she forgot her step-son for even ten minutes horrified me. I have a step-daughter and I can tell you that worry for her would be at the top of my priority list despite how much I was grieving or in shock over the loss of my biological children. No one's perfect, after all, and Jenny has clearly been in need of a mental tidy for awhile, but I hope this issue is touched on again.

In the very least, I'd like to see her go into shock once or twice when encountering a zombie child. I mean, my kids are alive, and I still can't stomach zombie kids in movies. But i digress- these are only minor criticisms in an otherwise awesome story. I'm already onto book two, so it';s a page turner, no doubt, and would like to commend Rhiannon Frater for pulling off an incredibly suspenseful and often nail-biting series, without having to go all game Of thrones or Walking Dead, and kill off all of the important or favoured characters to add to the shock value!

Jun 25, DoodlePanda rated it did not like it Shelves: This book kept showing up on my recommended list, and the blurb sounded good. A zombie story with two women kicking ass? Unfortunately, for me, the story just didn't follow up on the promise. I think it was a combination of several things that didn't work for me. Mainly it was the way the author describes A lot of it seems like it doesn't have any place in the story.

Like it's been put in as a page filler. Over time this really started to bug me. And some of the descriptions were just The other thing that bugged me was the conversations. They sounded fake to me. And the descriptions of feelings were over the top.

In addition to this there were some things that just didn't make sense to me personally. Like the way Katie and Travis reacted to each other I'm not going to go into detail as there might be minor spoilers involved. I felt the way Jenni reacted to Travis strange too. Just seems strange to me. I got halfway through the book, I really liked the first chapter and I kept hoping it would get better again. Then today when I started the audio I accidentally skipped a chapter.

It took me a few minutes to realize why it suddenly seemed like I had missed something. Then, after I understood what had happened, I actually considered not jumping back to see what I missed, as the book would be finished quicker. That's when I realized that I was not enjoying it at all, and that I have so many other books I could be enjoying instead!

She did an ok job with what she had to work with I think. The only thing I didn't like was how she did the voices. Or rather didn't do the voices. She seemed to have one female and one male voice. No accents or anything to keep the voices apart. Which got a little confusing now and again. But all in all it was ok. This book seems to have a lot of positive reviews, so if you have read the blurb and think you're going to love it then I think you should give it a go. I honestly think the underlying story is ok, it just really needs some good editing Aug 14, Katrina rated it did not like it.

DNF I rarely ever rate books that I don't finish, but this one was that bad. I just couldn't get through it She is a complete idiot. This woman is fully aware that she is in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, and she refuses to buy toilet paper at a gas station with her still functional CREDIT CARD because it is "too expensive," thinking that she won't be able to pay it off. She is aware that these creatures terrorizing the town are zombies and is the one to i DNF I rarely ever rate books that I don't finish, but this one was that bad. She is aware that these creatures terrorizing the town are zombies and is the one to inform Katie of this fact.

Well, what are they then? It's zombies,' Jenni said. The city has gone insane-' 'With zombies,' Jenni added helpfully. Who knows how many more there are? Called them reanimated dead. Nobody wants to say zombie. Jenni's baby died, and the image of those "tiny fingers" under the door of her house haunt her memory every other page. Physically, she is a BAMF and is an extraordinary shot. Mentally, she is the narrator of Rebecca reincarnated.

She likes to constantly remind you that she doesn't want to be the leader. She is a follower. She wants Katie to be the one in charge at all times. For some inexplicable reason, both of these women think about how pretty the other one is at random times. Katie's wife just died and Jenni's family is dead, but who cares, right? Look at those beautiful facial features of the stranger I just met!

And some sentences were just off. Or is this trying to tell me that she has three arms? The writing was just juvenile. This book is categorized as horror. How can I be horrified if the writing is so bland that it doesn't give me any emotion? I have never been afraid of zombies - but I am now!

This book is so intense that I ended up with a cramp in my hand because I was holding on to the book so tightly. Action packed and fast paced. Readers should be warned that it is fairly graphic in it's descriptions. I found the first chapter to be the most difficult to get through so if you can make it through it then you have no worries about being able to handle the rest. Loved the characters and I'm really worried that some of my fav I have never been afraid of zombies - but I am now! Loved the characters and I'm really worried that some of my favorites will be victims in future books.

I will be reading the next book as soon as my hand cramp is all healed up ; May 07, Trudi rated it liked it Recommends it for: I had a helluva good time reading it even though at times a few of the characters Jenni and some of the dialogue seriously grated on my nerves. In Book 1 of a trilogy, Frater offers up a textbook genre zombie story, borrowing a lot from Romero canon who she gives ample homage to and a little from Danny Boyle damn those quick-moving zombies!!

At first I questioned the seething hatred experienced by some of the characters — why they should so immediately loath the zombies and lust to kill them. Killing anything is pretty traumatic and I felt it would take longer for survivors to become adept at it or need more time to fuel the flames of their hatred.

While some of the overkill seemed out of place, at the same time Frater is probably completely spot-on in her observations of human behavior. There is also a scene at the beginning of the book that makes this book worth picking up. Children are usually exempt from zombie stories, but Frater dares to go there and she does it very effectively. While I will probably forget most of this book, I will never forget that scene. This is the utmost compliment to Frater — I do need to know what happens next and so will you I bet. I could literally NOT put that book down! Yesterday I read about 3 chapters, and then today it was like a freight train.

I couldn't stop reading if my life depended on it. Where the heck do I even start? The book starts off with the most heart wrenching scene I've ever read before, or it's up there at least. This is a mild spoiler, I suppose, but I'm not hiding it because it is actually the very first scene you will read. The book starts off with a woman standing in shock on h Holy Bajeebers!!!! The book starts off with a woman standing in shock on her front porch as her 3 year old son, now a zombie, reaches his hands under the door, scraping the skin off, trying to get to her At the window her undead 12 year old son and husband also clamoring to break the glass and devour her, the latter having killed his sons.

I can't even imagine the horror of this moment for Jenni. Right before she's toast a woman pulls up in a truck and saves her life. They go on the run, on a mission to save Jenni's last remaining son who's away at camp, and also to find a safe place where they can try to survive. This book was edge of your seat from start to finish.

One horrifying moment rolls into the next, and you're just steamrolled right along with it. Jenni and Katie the rescuer bond immediately, as you would in that type of situation because life and death will do that to you. Katie is the rational heroine, the calmer one. Jenni is insane, duh after what she saw, but it works in their favor because she's one tough bitch.

Then you have Travis picture Blake Shelton as a hero in the zombie apocalypse who's your laid back Texan, with a gentle side. And Juan, the Mexican American with a potty mouth loved him! Nerit and Ralph, Jason, Jack, and a whole host of characters all fighting to stay alive and build a life. My only complaint, sometimes their reactions were a little unbelievable. Jenni doesn't feel as grief stricken as you would think that a woman would be after witnessing the death of her children. I think think the book could have been a lot more original if she hadn't held back with the character emotion.

Overall, what a ride. I'm still feeling my heart pound with adrenaline over here. Thanks Leea my fellow Golden Girl , for letting me tag along on your read! I'm so glad I decided to be a copycat! View all 5 comments. Genres getting skewed all over the place? October Group Read 2: The First Days 74 Dec 12, She was born and raised in Texas where she currently resides with her husband and furry children a.

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In an abandoned New York City set in , military virologist Robert Neville tries to find a cure to a man-made virus that killed almost everyone on earth, while at the same time trying to survive against the vampiric zombies it left behind. Written, shot and directed by Gareth Edwards. Directed by Pearry Reginald Teo. About the conflict between a wealthy couple and a poor laborer after a worldwide terrorist attack isolates them in a small remote ranch.

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American remake of the Spanish horror film REC. Jim Munroe art by Salgood Sam - a post-Rapture graphic novel. Turn Left Doctor Who story Russell T Davies writer. Explores an apocalyptic parallel universe in which British society has collapsed due to the death of the Doctor. James Kunstler - Explores life in an agrarian village in upstate New York after America collapses under the combined trauma of plague, peak oil , global warming , and nuclear terrorism.

The Series , document life on earth after all humans have instantly disappeared. The shows does not mention a cause of their disappearance. The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Astro Boy, a robotic reincarnation of his creator's lost son lives in highly advanced metro city; last of its kind floating above the clouds in the skies of post-apocalyptic earth. A virus changes most of the populace into vampires sometime around At the point where vampirism is considered "normal", the remaining humans attempt to escape being farmed for their blood, while also attempting to find a cure.

Directed by Benjamin Rocher. The film is set in one of French tower blocks, wherein a small group of people trying to make their way out of it thrusting through hordes of zombies. Rod Glenn - Five friends struggle to survive 20 years after the collapse of civilisation. Set in northern England. The sequel to Left 4 Dead. Expanding upon the original game with new characters, maps, and weapons.

Paolo Bacigalupi - In future Thailand, where calories are the most needed energy source, an unexpected girl struggles to live like as she wants. The ABC Special Earth explore the future if humans do not take actions to help the eco-system that can prove to be disastrous. Lucy, the speaker, explains about this world and wonders how she was one of the lucky humans to have survived.

The Power Rangers protect the last remnants of humanity, who are now settled in the domed city of Corinth, after the accidental release of a government created computer virus known as "Venjix". Malicious and self-aware, it leaves most of the planet in nuclear fallout, constructs an army of attack bots and begins cybernetic experiments on human prisoners. The Forest of Hands and Teeth.

Carrie Ryan - Set generations after the zombie apocalypse, a girl struggles against the religious order in her village hoping for life beyond the fences protecting them from the Unconsecrated zombies in the surrounding forest. Tells of a story where the end of the world, caused by a solar flare erupting onto the solar system, is accurately predicted.

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James Wesley Rawles - An apocalyptic survivalist novel about a total socio-economic collapse. Les derniers jours du monde. Depicts the story of a man, Robinson, who travels across France and Spain during the end of the world. Reality television style drama about a group of survivors forced to live in a warehouse in the virus ravaged city of Los Angeles, California. Together, the three brave the ruined city and try their best to make it home safely. The Age of Misrule. Trilogy of novels World's End, Darkest Hour, and Always Forever by Mark Chadbourn following several characters in England through the slow collapse of modern technological civilization as the previously suppressed world of natural magic and mystical, godly beings rises to take over the course of human events.

Humanoid creatures or Titans are giantic human flesh-eating monsters that lived outside of the humanity's curtain Wall Maria and the civilization was on the erge of extinction, but some are force to fight back by joining the muilitary, called Survey Corps.

But there are some humans that transform into titans to fight and kill other humans, and titans. The adventures of Jake the dog and Finn, the only known remaining human in the post-apocalyptic land of Ooo hundreds of years after the "Great Mushroom War". Although never directly stated, enormous craters can be seen throughout the film and characters mention an event called "the Flash".

The writer, Gary Whitta , stated he wanted the audience to figure out the nuclear event slowly.

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Low-budget film - On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state. Directed by George A. Rodger Ten years after a devastating global pandemic, the lives of two survivors collide in a sequence of events that threaten both their sanity and their lives.

Justin Cronin - A virus turns humanity into vampire-esque creatures, leading to the collapse of civilization, while survivors eke out a bleak existence. A gigantic meteor enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris. A comet makes an unexpected turn towards the earth where all life may cease to exist within days if small town heroes fail to find a solution.

Rex is an evo working with the military organization Providence, to put an end to the outbreak of violent monstrous human mutations known as evos which are created when people are exposed to unsafe nanites, a nanobot technology developed to fight diseases within humans. Wars between evos and humans ensued when nanites started to get out of control. Aliens or creatures called Skitters, Mechs and Overlords attack Earth, as the series is showing the struggles six months after the initial attack on Earth. Davis Schneiderman - Lake Michigan mysteriously empties of water, and an end-of-time cult occupies the lakebed, waiting for a reflooding of the zone by the power of giant Worm.

A Story of 22nd-Century America. A comedy survivalist book by Forrest Griffin. Vincent Gessler - A novel in which Syn the trapper and Ack, his cybernetic wolf, survive in a world covered with forests, facing robots and humans. A video game by Daedalic Entertainment, in which climate change has made the Earth uninhabitable. A US-television series featuring the world overrun by zombies. Zero Reverse was a disastrous event in which the evolutionary use of quantum mechanics in the Enerdy system led to its reactor exploding and causing a massive tectonic shift that separated a chunk of Domino City from the rest of the landmass, splitting it in two and creating an island later known as Satellite, which was the area hit hardest by the energy release, while the Earthbound Immortals were released from the Underworld.

Fist of the North Star: MultiA floating self-sustaining city contains what may be the final remnants of humanity, after global warming causes sea levels to rise. A Novel of the Coming Collapse. A worldwide pandemic of unknown origin causes every human to begin losing their five traditional senses one at a time. A century-spanning war between humans and vampires has devastated the Earth's surface and led to a theocracy called The Church. Set in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North America once existed.

Based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. An asteroid is announced to hit Earth as a man searches to find his significant other before the impact occurs. Terri Blackstock - novel series covering how people react and survive after a natural EMP blast from a distant star knocks out all electronics all over the world. A Japanese schoolgirl, Sakura, finds her average life in a small town turned inside out when all the males suddenly become zombies and begin to attack and kill females.

A particularly virulent strain of bird flu kills a large majority of humanity, leaving birds to become the dominant class of animals. The protagonist is one of the few humans naturally resistant to the flu. A plague, primarily on the Eastern coast of the United States , is spreading rapidly, causing diseases over the majority of those infected and granting special abilities to some individuals, designated as Conduits, while one of them, Cole MacGrath, in the Evil alternative ending of the game, manages to absorb the powers of his rival John White who had been renamed as "The Beast" due to the rampage he caused by the use of his powers over several weeks, and united most mutants under his leadership while waging a successful battle against the authorities, while Joseph Bertrand, a corrupt tycoon who had been secretly transforming into a bestial form known as the "Behemoth", managed before dying to sell the technology mutating normal individuals, usually into either poisonous reptilian monsters or muscular savages with control over ice, to several terrorists, including Osama bin Laden.

The promotional trailer shows many trademark DC Comics heroes and villains fighting each other to the death with Lex Luthor emerging as the ultimate victor, but as immediately after the culmination of the traditional battle between those legendary characters, Brainiac according to statements manages to conquer Earth unhindered by its defeated protectors as most of them have already ended up killing each other and enslave humanity's population, until Luthor alongside Batman manage to survive and time travel back towards the past to warn their respective factions to cease their everlasting war and cooperate against the approaching enemy, with the custom player-controlled heroes contributing for the preparation of both previously hostile sides to confront the anticipated invasion as soon as it arrives.

A PlayStation 3 video game that depicts the West Coast of USA that was hit by several disasters, like tornadoes, earthquakes, rains, and thunderstorms. A film about the psychological unraveling of a group of survivors, who have holed up in the basement of their apartment building during a nuclear attack. Edward Richtofen, a Nazi German scientist attempting to succeed in conquering the world during World War II despite the failure of Adolf Hitler , creates an army of zombies army as well as various advanced infantry weapons and biological enhancements using an alien substance, called Element , and invades a space station on the Moon while cooperating with American Patrick Dempsey, Soviet Nikolai Belinski and Japanese Takeo Masaki in his effort to survive from the zombie horde until he manages to control it, and succeeds in transforming the Earth into a wasteland after attacking it with missiles that is overrun by the endless tide of zombies in which almost everyone died.

A PlayStation 3 video game about a futuristic Tokyo that has become deserted by humans and overrun by many types of animals. Animated web series created by and starring Tom Hanks. A webcomic where children play a game called Sburb which causes multiple meteors to hit Earth. They survive by abandoning Earth. A fighting-style game where a meteor hits Earth and wipes out modern technology, reducing them to several Stone Age -type tribespeople. The continents are rearranged, and seven dinosaur -like deities fight for control over the new Urth.

Christmas with the Dead. Earth's population has been almost entirely taken over by alien parasites that created a perfect planet. Human civilization is replaced by synthetic replica's that never age. When the last biological humans who are drunk from drinking too much beer confront the supreme intelligence with the possibilities that humanity might not want to be "improved", this contradiction leads to a crash in the simulant network, destroying most of the world as a result and throwing the planet into a new dark age without technology.

A disease transforms many humans into zombies and isolates them from society, despite a lot of them managing to retain most of their consciousness. In the aftermath of a global war, the surviving nations introduced a ban on all firearms in an attempt to quell man's appetite for destruction. Hypothetical docudrama concerning humanity's efforts to seek out a new home on a distant Earth-like planet, in the face of Earth's eventual destruction by an approaching neutron star.

Video game by Ice Water Games. The destruction of lifespan-extending technology installed in major cities led to massive outbreaks of fatal illness, followed by wider social collapse. The Rise of Echsenfriedl. Absurdist sci-fi comedy film. The growing tension between the last two remaining superpowers - China and Google - escalates in the early 21st century, and results in the global inferno of the "Google Wars". Days of Future Past. Machines built to identify and eliminate mutants eventually target most humans as well. With much of the world destroyed, one mutant is sent back in time to try to prevent this future from ever happening.

A Syfy series focused on the days after a zombie apocalypse has killed most of the world's population. One man was experimented on before society's collapse and his body contains the only know antibodies to the zombie virus. The only survivors of a nuclear war live in a space station, which is falling apart. Short story and collection by T.

A graphic novel and podcast series set on a failed terraforming colony. The series focuses on the daily struggle to survive on a distant planet with extreme resource scarcity. A millennium from now, in Japan, exists a utopia. The protagonist, Saki Watanabe, lives in an idyllic village barred from the outside world.

Her world is ruled by the people who possess the "gods' power" of psychokinesis. Novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. Southwestern United States suffer social collapse because of a water shortage. Song by the band Muse from the album called " Drones ". The Death Gate Cycle. Set in New Zealand, survivors of nuclear war known as The Oil Wars attempt to rebuild society while fending off the ambitions of a militaristic despot who has based himself in a mobile, armoured vehicle. Breath of the Wild. Set years after Hyrule has been largely destroyed by Ganon. Might and Magic series original universe.

The games are set in colonies of the Ancients, an advanced spacefaring race, several thousand years after all contact with the Ancients was lost due to them being engaged in interstellar war with an alien race called the Kreegan. This event, called the Silence, caused the colonies to regress into a medieval state and consider Ancients and their technology as mythical in nature. An attempt by Aes Sedai researchers to tap into a newly discovered source of magic more advanced than the One Power leads to an experiment to bore a hole in the Pattern. It goes awry when it is discovered that the Bore leads to the Dark One 's prison, allowing the Dark One to influence the world.

This causes the male half of the One Power to be tainted, driving all male Aes Sedai mad and causing the Breaking of the World. The society regresses from futuristic to Renaissance -era, with only a few artifacts of the Age of Legends remaining. The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. The game's main antagonist Malefor the Dark Master claims that it is the destiny of all purple dragons to bring about the world's destruction. He is almost successful when the Destroyer, a massive golem he resurrected to cross the Belt of Fire and issue the world's end, completes its circle until he is defeated by the game's protagonist Spyro and Cynder and sealed away by the ancient dragons' spirits into the world's core and Spyro unleashes a powerful Fury wave to rebuild the world.

First three issues started already reveals that everyone who have negative thoughts are unknowingly infected with Nantie virus that Velma, her team and her brothers created, In third issue begins mutated negativity infected festival goers where Velma's research complex located and surrounding area of most locals into monsters, eventual few issues are seem more people mutating regionwide leaving remaining uninfected people and includes main characters to survive. The current issues after twenty-one issue now take places an three months after event happens.

A action adventure game based on the Mad Max franchise. The fourth installment in the Mad Max series. This film follows the titular character who ends up in the fight between Immortan Joe, who rules as a god out of his settlement the Citadel, with his War Boys against Furiosa one of his lieutenants. This movie features a change in actors for Max with this movie starring Tom Hardy.

At the end of Part 3, the main characters are forced to deliberately awaken the supposed "dark god" Yune in order to avoid her being awoken accidentally by a war which has spread across Tellius. The goddess Ashera, upon learning that the beorc and laguz have long since broken a covenant forbidding military conflict between the races, petrifies nearly all inhabitants of Tellius despite Yune's protests.

This calamity leads into Part 4, where Yune, while considering how to revive the petrified people, tasks the survivors with preventing Ashera from finishing the job. Glenn Talbot , under the corrupting influence of gravitonium , inadvertently destroys Earth in a careless attempt to mine more of the substance, forcing humanity's survivors into the Lighthouse, a subterranean bunker under Lake Ontario.

The first arc of the season involves S. The series follows two girls, Yuuri and Chito, as they navigate the ruins of civilization after an unknown apocalypse, and as they travel in their modified Kettenkrad , they seek food and supplies while surviving day-to-day. Impact with celestial bodies meteorites, asteroids, planets, etc. Near-impact knocks earth out of orbit. Ecological catastrophe Global climate change causing a new ice age Global warming melting of icecaps, global flooding Global pollution.

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They take note of it and start running for the escape pods. They reach the next cell block but they see a young Wookiee in one of the cells with his dead family around him. Trig insists they help the young one and unlocks the doors. They try to get the youngster to go with them but the little one stays with his family and holds them. The boys leave and when they reach the end of this cell block, they hear the young Wookiee screaming and a noise that sounds like something is eating it. Sartoris finds that he too is immune and goes to the warden's office.

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He picks up two E blaster rifles and kills anyone who seems infected near him. He gets to the wardens office to realize that the warden is infected. Sartoris demands the launch codes for the escape pods. The warden gives them up and asks Sartoris if he wants to know what he scored on the psychological exam. Sartoris says "I think we both know the answer to that question" and pulls both triggers on the blasters, disintegrating the warden's head. Zahara, now with an anti-virus in hand, decides she is going to get it to anyone alive on the barge. She goes to the bridge and asks to do a bioscan of the ship.

The ship states that there are six people alive, two of which are in solitary. She reluctantly goes down to solitary, tripping over bodies while getting there. She finds a note that one of the guards was going to give to his wife. She takes it and pockets it. She reaches the first solitary door and opens it, blaster in hand.

But no one is in there. She goes to the next one and as soon as she opens it, a huge Wookiee comes out screaming and getting ready to attack Zahara. She yells at him to stop and he does. Zahara unlocks the next door and a man comes out. He introduces himself as Han Solo and the Wookiee's name is Chewbacca. She insists that they take the anti-virus but they are defiant, until they see the bodies around the corner. Han takes it first, then Chewbacca. But Chewbacca did not get it in time and started showing symptoms of the other victims.

He starts screaming and going insane and his throat is swelling up. He begins to pass out and Zahara quickly takes the syringe and empties the blisters starting around his neck. The swelling goes down and Chewbacca returns to normal. They get up to leave but they realize the bodies Zahara had stumbled over before are missing.

They go back into the medical bay, which is now completely empty, and look for Waste. They find him on the ground in critical condition. Zahara asks what happened to the bodies and Waste replies that they came back and ate. Soon after, Waste deactivates and Zahara turns around to realize Han and Chewie are gone. Kale and Trig get to the escape pod and are trying to figure out how to work it when Sartoris appears. He tells them both to get out, he gets in, activates the launch codes, and launches away.

Kale quickly realizes that there is another escape pod opposite of the position they are in. They start running that way because they feel the thing that was eating the baby Wookiee is following them. When they reach the other escape pod, they run into Han and Chewie. The boys hold their blasters at them but Han and Chewie quickly disarm them.

Zahara comes around the corner and tells them to stop and that they are all getting out together. They realize the escape pod's hatch has been sealed because of security measures. So Han, Chewie, and Zahara go to the bridge to disable it, while Kale and Trig stay at the escape pod. The Longo brothers hear something outside and Kale leaves to investigate. Trig hears something moving inside the escape pod and scratching at the door. Despite his pleas, Zahara opens the pod. When Kale comes back, he sees his brother is gone and the escape pod is opened.

He frantically starts searching for him. He finds him in a maintenance tunnel all scratched and scared. Then Kale hears things moving toward him through the tunnel. Kale picks up Trig and runs to the bridge. Zahara opens the escape pod but doesn't hear anything back on the comlink.

Soon after, the bridge's computer says that there are more life-forms since that last bioscan. They look at the map the computer brings up and realizes all the life-forms are headed for the bridge. Soon after, Kale bursts through with Trig in his arms and yells at them to run. They run to the turbolift, which leads to the Star Destroyer, and activate it. Trig comes to and sees his father. Trig runs for his dad, and Kale grabs him and throws him back.

But their dad gets Kale and bites him on the leg. When Kale awakes, they are in the hangar bay of the Star Destroyer. Kale realizes he has been bit but when he stands up, blood starts spurting out of the wound. Zahara says that she and Kale would stay there and Han, Chewie, and Trig need to get to the bridge to start the engines. Trig at this point is having some issues since he just saw his dead father bite his brother. Reluctantly, he leaves with Han and Chewie. Han, Chewie, and Trig are walking along a corridor when the ceiling explodes and hundreds of the zombies come pouring out of the hole.

They take off running and end up running in circles. Zahara and Kale are sitting next to the turbolift when Kale tells her to cut his leg off. She notices that his entire leg is turning grey and after some arguing she goes to cut it off but realizes it has moved into his abdomen. Zahara quickly cuts into his stomach and pulls out a big infection cell. As she holds it in her hand, she sees it moving around and trying to find an opening to get into.

She quickly disposes of it and cleans up the wounds on Kale.

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