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Your favourite post apocalyptic fiction?

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Not strickly P.O but....

Books:

Earth Abides
Ridley Walker
The Road
A Canticle for Leibowitz
I Am Legend
The Drowned World

Film:

A Boy and His Dog
Cyborg
Mad Max
Time of the Wolf
Judge Dredd
Children of Men


TV

Survivors
Threads
The Last Train



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One of my favorite films is Zardoz.
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Books:

Nearest I've come to apocalyptic literature is Level 7 and Cats Cradle, both by Kurt Vonegut(sp?)

Film

Dr Strangelove
The day after tomorrow
I am Legend
The War Game (banned in 1965, shown on the quiet in Brighton in the 1980s)
Terminator II
Planet of the Apes
MM II (the one with Tina Turner)


TV:
The Last Train (interestingly, like Threads, set in Sheffield)
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FILM/TV
Survivors, the 3 original series, not the recent one
Day of the triffids, again the old film not the new one.
Threads
1984
Solylent green
Mad max
The day after armegedon
28 days later

BOOKS
Day of the trifids
Last light
Afterlight
One second after
Lights out
Flood
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RenewableCandy wrote:Books:

Nearest I've come to apocalyptic literature is Level 7 and Cats Cradle, both by Kurt Vonegut(sp?)

Film

Dr Strangelove
The day after tomorrow
I am Legend
The War Game (banned in 1965, shown on the quiet in Brighton in the 1980s)
Terminator II
Planet of the Apes
MM II (the one with Tina Turner)


TV:
The Last Train (interestingly, like Threads, set in Sheffield)
I love Strangelove.

By the way, when the Pope was here and attempted to speak English (it was him, not an interpreter?), his accent reminded me of Dr Strangelove.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iesXUFOl ... re=related
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film;

children of men

book;

the road

tv;

the colony(us)
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Although not strictly of this genre "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck and "Empire of the Sun" by JG Ballard pretty much fit the bill.
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Roger Adair wrote:Although not strictly of this genre "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck and "Empire of the Sun" by JG Ballard pretty much fit the bill.
Certainly recomend "the grapes of wrath", not directly PO related, but certainly relevant to the last great depresion, and therefore perhaps to the next one also.
As an aside, the accounts of emergency repairs/bodges to motor cars could not possibly be done with a modern car.
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woodpecker wrote: By the way, when the Pope was here and attempted to speak English (it was him, not an interpreter?), his accent reminded me of Dr Strangelove.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iesXUFOl ... re=related
Oh come on...that's never the Pope!
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Haggis wrote:film;

children of men

book;

the road

tv;

the colony(us)
Agree witht the 1st 2, not seen the 3rd. Good choices. I bought Children of Men the other day coz I found it in a shop for £1.99, will be watching it in the next week or so. Really good film.
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