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He battles the evil corporate and military regimes that have taken over the United States, while simultaneously struggling not to lose his humanity. Hercules DC Comics as portrayed in the DC comic book series titled Hercules Unbound , which featured the adventures of Hercules in a post-apocalyptic future. It made use of characters and concepts, such as The Atomic Knights and the intelligent animals from Jack Kirby's Kamandi series as an attempt to tie in some of the future series.
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S President "Bad" Bob Booth in The majority of the world was left an irradiated wasteland filled with hostile mutant lifeforms, with the surviving population being centralized in the so-called Mega-Cities, massive urban sprawls covering entire states created to deal with overpopulation during the 21st century.
Further massive conflicts during the comics present, such as the "Apocalypse War" against East-Meg the government of the former Soviet territories and the "Day Of Chaos" has caused even more destruction. Axa comics is set on a post-apocalyptic Earth in the year Axa is a woman who, having grown sick of the regimented and stifling society inside a domed city, flees into the untamed wilderness. The strip mixed elements of science fiction and sword-swinging barbarian tales the lead character herself bears more than a casual similarity to Red Sonja. Meltdown Man SAS Sergeant Nick Stone finds himself flung into the far-future by a nuclear blast, where the last remaining humans are led by a merciless tyrant called Leeshar and rule over the eugenically - modified animal castes known as 'Yujees'.
Accompanied by catwoman Liana, bullman T-Bone and loyal wolfman Gruff, Stone is intent on ending Leeshar's dark reign by leading the slave-like Yujees in rebellion. The series featured Samson, a barbarian adventurer, and was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Frank Thorne. Druuna is an erotic science fiction and fantasy comic book character created by Italian cartoonist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri. Most of Druuna's adventures revolve around a post-apocalyptic future, and the plot is often a vehicle for varied scenes of hardcore pornography and softcore sexual imagery.
Romero 's Night of the Living Dead , and its five sequels, including Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead , popularized the concept of a zombie apocalypse , focusing on the breakdown of American society in a world where the dead are reanimating as mindless, undead cannibals due to some unknown disease, implied to be extraterrestrial in origin, and anyone bitten will soon become a zombie as well. The first series of both versions examine the immediate after-effects of a pandemic outbreak of the flu, while the subsequent series concentrate on the survivors' attempts to build communities and make contacts with other groups.
The film 28 Days Later and its sequel 28 Weeks Later revolves around a virus in Britain that turns anyone infected into a mindlessly violent psychotic, though still alive and not undead, in a variation of the classic zombie theme.
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This also makes the infected more dangerous, as they can run very quickly and as their bodies are not decaying. The plot centers on groups of both uninfected survivors and a handful of virus carriers who are immune to the effects of the disease. In the comedy film Zombieland , a disease mutates most Americans the rest of the world is not mentioned and turns them into animal-like creatures hungry for human flesh. The story is about a group of people who stick together and to try survive against the zombies. Another comedy film, Warm Bodies , adds a romantic twist to its story, as a zombie falls in love with an uninfected woman and protects her from his fellow zombies.
It centers around a group of people in the state of Georgia who struggle to survive and adapt in a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies called "walkers" and opposing groups of survivors who are often more dangerous than the walkers themselves.
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The popularity of the series has led to a spin-off franchise comprising an aftershow Talking Dead , a companion television series Fear the Walking Dead , a prequel with different characters from the source material , video games e. Season Two and The Walking Dead: Season Three webisodes including The Talking Dead webisodes and the Fear the Walking Dead web series , and numerous parodies and spoofs.
World War Z is an apocalyptic action horror film based on the novel of the same name by Max Brooks. The film focuses on a former United Nations investigator who must travel the world to find a way to stop a zombie pandemic. The Last Ship is an American action-drama television series, based on the novel of the same name by William Brinkley. The Rain TV series is a Danish post-apocalyptic web-television series.
After a rain born virus is released over the region of Scandinavia , causing a pandemic. Simone Andersen played by Alba August and Rasmus Andersen, along with their mother and father, must make it to an underground bunker. Things soon go astray when the father must leave to find a cure and the children are forced out of the bunker due to lack of food in search for their father.
Mary Shelley 's The Last Man , published in , is set in the end of the twenty-first century. It chronicles a group of friends, based on Lord Byron , Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, moving through Europe as a plague kills most of the world's population. The Scarlet Plague by Jack London , published in , is set in San Francisco in the year , sixty years after a plague has largely depopulated the planet.
Written in by George R. Stewart , Earth Abides is the story of a man who finds most of civilization has been destroyed by a disease. Slowly a small community forms around him as he struggles to start a new civilization and to preserve knowledge and learning. Empty World is a novel by John Christopher about an adolescent boy who survives a plague which has killed most of the world's population.
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Originally published in , Stephen King 's The Stand follows the odyssey of a small number of survivors of a world-ending influenza pandemic, later revealed to be the man-made superflu "Captain Trips". It was eventually adapted for a miniseries of the same title starring Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald. Gore Vidal's novel Kalki also involves an apocalyptic event caused by a man-made pandemic. Written in , the novel Emergence by David R. Palmer is set in a world where a man-made plague destroys the vast majority of the world's population.
The novel was nominated for several awards and won the Compton Crook Award. It was adapted into the film Blindness in Published in by Margaret Atwood , Oryx and Crake 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 novel was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
A sequel, The Year of the Flood , was published in followed by MaddAddam , in , the trilogy's conclusion. Richard Matheson 's novel 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 zombie -like creatures.
The novel has been adapted to film three times: 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. The book is a collection of individual accounts of desperate struggle during and after a devastating global conflict against a zombie plague, narrated by an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission.
It also describes the social, political, religious, and environmental changes that result from the plague. John Mandel 's Station Eleven takes place in the Great Lakes region after a fictional swine flu pandemic , known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in May James Dashner 's The Maze Runner trilogy —11 takes place after sun flares have scorched the earth. As a result, the governments of the world released a virus to kill off some of the world's population to save resources.
The virus turned out to be highly contagious, and it made you lose control of your mind until you were an animal inside your head. This led to it being nicknamed, "The Flare". The third in the series, The Death Cure is set to come out in The Nemesis Project takes place in after the United States has been almost wiped out by a deadly plague. The disease started on the east coast, and communication with the west coast ceased within 72 hours. The last few groups of survivors stopped broadcasting after six days, and the overwhelming majority of the country's population has been wiped out.
The player leads a team of eight genetically altered supersoldiers to defeat an infestation of a global genetic plague which slowly turns into a superorganism. The Left 4 Dead series first released in is set in the days after a pandemic outbreak of a viral strain transforms the majority of the population into zombie-like feral creatures. The games follow the adventures of four survivors attempting to reach safe houses and military rescue while fending off the attacking hordes.
The PlayStation 3 title The Last of Us revolves around the premise of a mutated cordyceps fungus spreading to humans, resulting in the deterioration of society within the United States. Virtue's Last Reward takes place years after a virus outbreak exterminated almost the entire human civilization. Apocalypse Survival Simulation is set during an ongoing Apocalypse, after a Hellgate opens on Earth and a host of demons enter the world.
The player controls a group of survivors that found a base to fight back and find a way to repel the invasion. Metro is set in the ruins of Moscow following a nuclear war, where the survivors are forced to live in underground metro tunnels. Players control Artyom, a man who must save his home station from the dangers lurking within the Metro.
The Microsoft Windows exclusive real-time strategy game They Are Billions is also an example of a post-apocalyptic future, in which players must establish, manage and defend colonies amidst a zombie apocalypse. Tom Clancy's The Division takes place in a pandemic-ravaged New York City that's become overrun by escaped prisoners, gang-members and a faction of 'Cleaners' that are determined to end the epidemic by incinerating anything that might possibly be infected. Ghosts is set in a near future that follows the nuclear destruction of the Middle East. The oil-producing nations of South America form the "Federation of the Americas" in response to the ensuing global economic crisis and quickly grow into a global superpower, swiftly invading and conquering Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico.
In the movie, England is reduced to rubble by a prolonged conventional, chemical, and biological war. Survivors are depicted living under the rule of a local warlord who raids his neighbors in an attempt to get his fleet of rotting fighter planes in the air again. At the same time, surviving engineers create a technological utopia.
The film Panic in Year Zero! It was partially remade in in the film 12 Monkeys. In the BBC produced The War Game , but it was considered too horrifying to broadcast at the time; it was only in that it was shown. It portrays a nuclear attack on Great Britain and its after-effects, particularly the efforts of the Civil Defence system. Genesis II television film, created by Gene Roddenberry. Dylan Hunt, a NASA scientist, begins a multi-day suspended animation test right before an earthquake buries the underground laboratory. This television pilot, if picked up, would have followed Dylan and a PAX team as they reach out to the remains of humanity in a post-apocalyptic world by means of a long forgotten underground sub-shuttle rapid transit system that spanned the world right before the Great Conflict.
A second pilot, Strange New World , also failed to be picked up as a television series. Testament is a drama film based on a three-page story "The Last Testament" by Carol Amen which tells the story of how one small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after a nuclear war destroys outside civilization. The BBC television film Threads depicts life before, during, and after the detonation of a Soviet nuclear bomb over Sheffield, England.
The Terminator film franchise first introduced in depicts an artificial intelligence called Skynet becoming self-aware in and trying to exterminate humanity by instigating nuclear war between the United States and Russia, which results in the death of three billion people. Many of the survivors eventually band together to destroy Skynet and its army of robots called "terminators". The series follows resistance leader John Connor and his mother, Sarah Connor , and their adventures before and after the nuclear strike called "Judgment Day" in the film series.
The Tribe is a television series that deals with a mysterious virus which wipes out the adult population, leaving the children of the world to fend for themselves. The kids are divided into different tribes and war against each other for their survival. The show focuses on the tribe called the Mallrats, who take shelter in the city's mall to protect themselves from the dangers outside. Later in the series, the virus begins to infect the children and the Mallrats are forced to search for the rumoured antidote to virus that is hidden in government buildings.
CBS produced the TV series Jericho in —, which focused on the survival of the town after 23 American cities were destroyed by nuclear weapons. The Cartoon Network series Adventure Time which began airing in takes place a thousand years in a future after a nuclear war referred to as "The Great Mushroom War" where once existent but eventually forgotten magic is recreated and humans are nearly wiped out with all kinds of creatures that had taken their place.
Tom Hanks ' web series Electric City is a story based on a post-apocalyptic world. In this world, a group of matriarchs the "Knitting Society" impose an altruistic but oppressive society to counter the aftermath of a brutal war that brings down modern civilization. However, in time, even this new "utopian" order is ultimately called into question by the inhabitants of the new society. The CW Channel's The which began airing in is a television series based on a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear war, Earth was uninhabitable and the only survivors were those on space stations which eventually came together to form the Ark; 97 years later on an undeterminable year the Ark is dying and prisoners under the age of 18 are sent to see if Earth is now survivable.
There they are faced with the challenges Earth brings and those who survived the nuclear war. The movie Zardoz is a surreal take on the genre, revolving around a post-apocalyptic future England where a warrior caste called Exterminators worship a giant, floating stone head known as Zardoz, which gives them weapons and ammunition. The movie The Book of Eli released in Starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman , a story of a lone wanderer trying to deliver a book through the wastelands after a nuclear apocalypse. Oldman runs a town with access to water and supplies and tries to take the last copy of the Christian Bible, in braille, from Washington seeking its power.
At the time he does not realize the Bible is in braille. According to some theorists, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in has influenced Japanese popular culture to include many apocalyptic themes. Much of Japan's manga and anime are filled with apocalyptic imagery. Judith Merril 's first novel Shadow on the Hearth is one of the earliest post-World War II novels to deal with a post-nuclear-holocaust world. The novel recounts the ordeals of a young suburban housewife and mother of two children as she struggles to survive in a world forever changed by the horrors of a nuclear attack.
Several of Ray Bradbury 's short stories of The Martian Chronicles take place before, during, and after a nuclear war on Earth. The people flee Earth and settle on Mars but have constant conflicts with the native Martians. Several of these stories have been adapted to other media. Fors begins his Arthurian quest through a radiation-ravaged landscape with the aid of a telepathic mutant cat.
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He encounters mutated creatures called "the beast things", which are possibly a degenerate form of humans. Wilson Tucker 's novel The Long Loud Silence posits a post-nuclear holocaust America in which the eastern half of the country has been largely destroyed and its surviving inhabitants infected with a plague and barred from crossing the Mississippi River to try to find refuge in the unscathed western part of the country. A nuclear war occurs at the end of Bradbury's dystopian futuristic novel Fahrenheit , with the outcasts who had fled an unidentified American city to escape a despotic government which burned books in order control the public by limiting knowledge left alive to re-establish society.
Re-Birth , set in a small community untold centuries after a nuclear holocaust not expressly told, but strongly hinted at with genetic mutations, glowing ruins, landscape baked to glass , tells the story of David, part of a small group of teens who share a limited form of telepathy that allows them to communicate with others who have the same talent.
However, the fundamentalist society they live in, regards the slightest difference from the norm as a blasphemy and affront to God. The group attempt to remain hidden, then failing that, survive during a war between mutants and the fundamentalists while waiting for members of a distant advanced telepathic human civilization to rescue them. Poul Anderson 's Maurai series — takes place after a nuclear war, and his Hugo and Prometheus award-winning story " No Truce With Kings " takes place after a cataclysmic war. Both show the interactions among various kinds of societies that have developed in the centuries of recovery.
Robert Heinlein 's novel Farnham's Freehold follows the story of a group of people that have survived a nuclear explosion. The group survives the attack in a fallout shelter but are taken to a future in which Africans rule. A film adaptation of the novel was released in It was adapted into a film of the same name as well as a companion graphic novel titled Vic and Blood.
The weapons used were not nuclear, but ultra-magnetic that tore and submerged the continents.
The story was adapted in the anime Future Boy Conan Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker , set in the English county of Kent around two thousand years after a nuclear war, also has religious or mystical themes and is written in a fictional future version of English. Johnstone wrote a series of books between and 35 books all containing the word "Ashes" in the title about the aftermath of worldwide nuclear and biological war.
David Brin 's novel The Postman takes place in an America where some are trying to rebuild civilization after the "Doomwar". It was adapted into the film The Postman Paul Brians' Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction is a study that examines atomic war in short stories, novels, and films between and I am working on the long, "true" version of Nicolas and Mary's romance.
I am also working on about 10 others short to medium length stories of various ideas erotica, romance, time travel which I hope to have finished up over the next few years to post here and elsewhere. Who are your favorite authors? Ahhh, a tough one. Dick, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain What inspires you to get out of bed each day? Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
I did not like that the prince was rather docile when saving Sleeping Beauty so I incorporated Rambo into the mythology and he was the one to save the day. When you're not writing, how do you spend your time? When I am not writing I am at work Or I read a book or story and that plays around in my head until I have another idea that I feel that I need to get out.
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