These TV shows all focus on the potential end of the world including viral outbreak, post-apocalyptic, nuclear, alien invasions, machines and environmental catastrophes. The term was coined by Brian Aldiss in Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973). Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra deals with the lives 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. Developer: Naughty Dog. In a post apocalyptic anime world overrun with mutated beasts called Limbeekoon or Filth Monsters, humanity is forced to live in large mobile cities called Regios and learn to use special weapons called Dite, by harnessing the power of Kei to defend themselves. Copyright © 2010–2021, The Conversation US, Inc. NZ - where the billionaires seek sanctuary. Since this measure of destruction was no longer imaginary, some of these new works, such as Nevil Shute's On the Beach (1957), which was subsequently twice adapted for film (in 1959 and 2000), Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7 (1959), Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon (1959), and Robert McCammon's Swan Song (1987), shun the imaginary science and technology that are the identifying traits of general science fiction. The apocalyptist provides a beatific vision of Judgement Day, revealing God’s promise for redemption from suffering and strife. It also features a doomsday device when it's discovered that the nuclear arsenal could be triggered by an earthquake in a chain reaction. The people flee Earth and settle on Mars but have constant conflicts with the native Martians. The 2011 TV series Falling Skies, by Robert Rodat and Steven Spielberg, follows a human resistance force fighting to survive after extraterrestrial aliens attempt to take over Earth by disabling most of the world's technology and destroying its armed forces in a surprise attack. Abomination: The Nemesis Project (1999) takes place in 1999 after the United States has been almost wiped out by a deadly plague. Publisher: SIE. Post-Apocalyptic scenarios were a common theme in the music of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, most notably the song "Wooden Ships" and the album Blows Against the Empire. Druuna is an erotic science fiction and fantasy comic book character created by Italian cartoonist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri. Summary . 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. GIF. Eventually they return to Earth to find a couple colonies of survivors struggling on a harsh planet completely different from the Earth the Remnants knew. [11][9][8] You stop in one of the many post-apocalyptic trading posts that offer various items most often needed for survival in the "New World". 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'. Nausicaä is the princess of The Valley of the Wind who, rather than destroying the Toxic Jungle, decides to study the flora and fauna in the hopes of co-existing with the forest.[35]. 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. A few isolated pockets of humanity survived in underground bunkers, while others quickly reverted to pre-technological savagery. [4] Variants of this story also appear in Buddhist and Jain scriptures. 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 narrator, Howard, wants to tell us how everything ended. Adventure. The music video for the song "Mankind Man"(1995) by the Barstool Prophets depicts various adults being dragged into a kangaroo court by several youths, before being tried and condemned, in a seemingly dystopian, post-apocalyptic world. 3.67 avg rating — 6,546 ratings. World War Z (2013) is an apocalyptic action horror film based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Max Brooks. Escape From New York and its sequel Escape From L.A., as well as supplementary materials published as comic books, is set in a fragmenting United States with rampant crime, pollution, and overpopulation. The War of the Worlds (1898) depicts an invasion of Earth by inhabitants of the planet Mars. It was adapted into the film Blindness in 2008. A sequel, Metro: Last Light was released in 2013. S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat (9.5/10) And here we are, the top of the crop, STALKER. However, in time, even this new "utopian" order is ultimately called into question by the inhabitants of the new society. In E. M. Forster's novelette "The Machine Stops" (1909), 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 humankind's every whim.