Questions tagged [post-apocalyptic]
Post-apocalyptic refers to the time frame beyond the catastrophic end of a civilization.
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Why do so many post-apocalyptic science fiction stories depict a return to medieval-style societies? [closed]
In several science fiction and fantasy works, especially those set in post-apocalyptic futures (e.g., The Book of Eli, The Postman, A Canticle for Leibowitz), we often see societies that resemble ...
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An SF movie where efforts to use time travel to prevent an epidemic fail
I saw this SF movie about 20 years ago, on French television, probably a rather early airing. So it was probably first shown in movie theaters in France only a few years before, roughly around 2000.
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'80s post-apocalyptic comic series by DC?
This is a specific one. Rather than trying to be dark and depressing, this was more sword and sorcery, with a blonde heroine with a severe pulled back blonde hairstyle, wearing a legless blue onesie. ...
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Novel title search: Post-apocalyptic science fiction novel about a moonbase sending teams to repopulate an obliterated Earth
I'm looking for the title of a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel that I read around 2009. I remember some parts of the story as follows. The Earth is being destroyed by wars, as a group forms and ...
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What is this post-apocalyptic film with two buildings?
A woman and man find two apartment buildings with a walkway connecting them. They move into one and venture across to the other where there is a possibly supernatural guy living and there is an empty ...
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Looking for a story about mutated plankton [duplicate]
It's a futuristic story I read in a magazine in the 80's about a man working as a mutated plankton harvester. He knows he can't touch the plankton, because he'll get Infected, and every infection is ...
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Story Identification: A novel about a failed space colony hundreds of years later
Back in 2012 or 2013 when I was in middle school, I read a novel from the school library. The synopsis of the story has always stuck with me, but I've forgotten what the book actually was. These are ...
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Trying to remember late 80s or early 90s cartoon show about super hero team fighting global plague/virus
I don't remember a ton about this show, but I remember seeing a few episodes as a kid very vividly. It has confounded me for years trying to track it down.
Details I remember:
The premise is a team ...
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Post-Apocalyptic movie with girl with red hair and a bus or van with "Pandora" written on the side
I was traveling on Sunday and saw parts of a live-action movie someone in the row in front of me on the plane was watching and haven't been able to identify it. I only saw bits of it, but it appeared ...
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Book with an underground society where if they stop working they will run out of momentum and die?
I read this over ten years ago, and looking back I think it might have been a metaphor for the economy. Details are a very hazy!
Possibly because it’s too cold outside, everyone is under ground. I ...
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Post apocalyptic book that switches perspectives every now and again. Maybe mid 2000s
The surface gets destroyed by some alien/galactic force. Humanity is forced underground into these bio dome-like bases. I remember one being underwater and one being underground and the book going ...
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Short story where everyone had to get a daily injection to obscure their dystopian world
I am desperately looking for a dystopian short story about a 'perfect' world with no pain in which a group of boys challenge each other (or are being bullied) into not taking their injection just to ...
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Movie about a post apocalyptic world with a scorching hot sun
I remember there being a lot of robots cause they can survive in the heat, there was def a robot dog
Humans die if they go out in the heat too long
I think MC dies but not sure, a tennis ball is ...
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Young adult novel featuring sci-fi agriculture, class struggles, and possibly cloning
I read this book 2010-2011 in an 8th grade English class. Certain elements of the story stick out strongly in my mind, but the plot is very scattered. Here are the details I remember.
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Late 90s/early 2000s cyberpunk/post-apocalyptic cartoon series starring a female soldier called Mayday
I watched this series in Sri Lanka in late 2002 or early 2003, on a channel called Art TV, along side Mega Babies and Extreme Ghostbusters, in a block called crazy cartoons. Don't know if that will ...
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