Questions tagged [post-apocalyptic]
Post-apocalyptic refers to the time frame beyond the catastrophic end of a civilization.
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A post-apocalyptic novel with a mutant girl covered with fur [duplicate]
I read this post-apocalyptic novel about 20 years ago. I am positive that I read it in French, in a paperback. But it might well have been a translation, quite possibly from English.
At the beginning, ...
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I'm looking for a short story I read 10-15 years ago about a man exploring post-apocalyptic Britain
The story involves a man exploring post-apocalyptic Britain. All the people have gone, and he doesn't know why. Nature is reclaiming the land. The bit that really stuck with me, although it wasn't a ...
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Novel with a college age protagonist in a world where something is causing people to be violent
I recently read a blurb somewhere about a book involving a college age protagonist. Something happens to make people turn violent (signal, virus maybe?) and he is forced to run. He is trying to get ...
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Short story: Post[-post]-apocalyptic, about a girl who lives in a mansion with a caregiver (NOT WondLa or Keeper of the Isis Light)
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I remember very little about this story. I probably read it in the early to mid 2000s, but I don't know how old it is. It ...
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Post-pocalyptic story featuring a dome (dome city?) and a robot zoo
Please help me identify a story. I haven't read it or watched, and unfortunately I don't remember if it was an anime or not, but I believe I stumbled upon it about the time I looked Ergo Proxy on ...
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Looking for a book I read in the '70s, post-apocalypse/underground bunker
The main character is a boy whose mother is killed because another child is being born and their population numbers are strictly controlled. I remember a quote from the ritual that takes place: &...
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A post-apocalyptic novella, where water disappears and earthquakes eventually finish mankind off. Probably originally in French
I read this post-apocalyptic novella, perhaps a short novel, at least 40 years ago, in French. I think it was in a collection. Or perhaps, alone in a book, but then it had to be a rather thin one. I'm ...
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Book series about a guy who wins the lottery and builds an elaborate post-apocalyptic bunker
This is a series of books about a guy who wins the lottery and spends the money to build a huge and elaborate bunker to survive an apocalyptic event.
I thought it might have been written by Boyd ...
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Post-apocalyptic story - shaman learns Latin names for animals
In this short story, probably from Analog (in the 80s perhaps), a tribe of humans in a post-apocalyptic world has a shaman bless the hunting party before each venture. The shaman tries to use the ...
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Post-apocalyptic movie from the 1980's; mutants live in a wasteland and are assigned color-codes that dictate who they can mate with [duplicate]
I saw a movie on TV, probably in the early 1980's about a post-apocalyptic society whose members explored the wastelands in some sort of high-tech RV/battlewagon and had occasional run-ins with ...
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Future primitive society. Tribespeople find a rocket labelled USA. Protagonist's young child brother is important to plot twist
I read this short story online, maybe in an online magazine, about 2020. The magazine artwork looked very professional.I think there was an orange drawing of the rocket. SF Magazines I remember ...
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Christian sci-fi/fantasy book series about teenagers who are put into cryosleep before a nuclear war
It's a Christian-inspired series about teenagers who are put into cryosleep before a nuclear war.
The first book starts with a teenage boy waking up and not being able to recognize his own father, due ...
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Manhwa where the main character travels to the future via dreams to a zombie apocalypse
I'm looking for a series I read a while ago about a boy who has the ability to see/go to the future when they sleep or get knocked out.
Some details I remember are:
There was a love interest/friend ...
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Post-Apocalyptic Desert Movie With Fast Car
I've been trying to remember a movie I watched in my childhood that was likely from the 80s or first few years of the 90s, on late-night cable (maybe on Up All Night on the USA Channel).
I seem to ...
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Movie about a robot restoring the human population with a machine that can create human babies
The entirety of humanity has become extinct, but there is a base with a machine that can create human babies. The machine creates a baby and a robot starts to take care of it. The baby grows up into a ...
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