The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The book’s protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Published in 1895
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Short review of Cloud Atlas: A Novel by David Mitchell.
The Stand (The Complete & Uncut Edition) – A Guest Review
If you’re a fan of this blog, chances are decent that you’re also a fan of Stephen King’s The Stand. But if for some reason you haven’t ever read it, here’s a guest post by Lazarus of Lazarus’ Lair doing his part to explain why you should.
Wow, Just Wow – Finally Watched Zardoz
Wow, yeah, ok… that was… um… that was something alrght. I’m not sure what it was, but it was sure something; something very wierd and very strange.
Knock (X Minus One)
Based on the short story by Frederick Brown the story starts and ends with “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”
Top 10 Post Apocalyptic Novels: Plagues and Pandemics from The Guilded Earlobe
This would be a great article, even if I wasn’t quoted in it. You can read the original post, the most recent in a series of posts about post apocalyptic literature and audiobooks, on The Guilded Earlobe.
Sweet Their Blood and Sticky by Albert Teichner
They weren’t human–weren’t even related to humanity through ties of blood–but they were our heirs! Published in 1961.
Is Zombieland Really a Zombie Movie?
So apparently someone was nice enough to let their good friend, The Internet, borrow their full DVD quality rip of Zombieland, and then The Internet passed it on to me. And I’m glad they did, because it’s a great flick.
Watched O-bi, O-ba – Koniec cywilizacji
O-bi, O-ba – Koniec cywilizacji is one of those foreign language post-apocalyptic films I discovered on the IMDB list of post-apocalytic media.
Salute of the Jugger
Probably the greatest post-apocalyptic sports movie ever made, Salute of the Jugger is David Webb Peoples single directorial credit.
On the 8th Day – Nuclear Winter Documentary from 1984
On a recent episode of Podcast at Ground Zero, Jarred mentioned that he was on the lookout for a British documentary called On the 8th Day, that had been shown in the US after the airing of Threads on TBS in 1984.
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
Released in 1958, The Day the Sky Exploded is regarded as the first Italian scifi film, The film tells how scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collision course with Earth, causing global scale disasters: tidal waves, wind, fire storms and earthquakes.