A Tale by Edward Thomas
There once the walls
Of the ruined cottage stood.
The periwinkle crawls
With flowers in its hair into the wood.
Finis by Frank L. Pollack
Finis is the story of a new star that is discovered which turns out to be a new, hotter sun. It is a short, but hard hitting story which shows a man and woman, who stay up the night to watch the expected new star arise.
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
The Scarlet Plague might not be the absolute grand-daddy of apocalypse by plague stories (Mary Shelley’s The Last Man was written 75 years earlier) but it’s certainly one of the first.
Watched Damnation Alley
Damnation Alley is a 1977 post-apocalyptic film directed by Jack Smight, loosely based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Roger Zelazny.
Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines
Ex-Heroes is ostensibly a zombie apocalypse novel, but it’s got something that sets it apart, or really many somethings. Things with names like The Mighty Dragon, Stealth, Gorgon, Cerberus, Regeneraor and Zzzap, or to put it another way, superheroes.
Elegy Beach by Steven R Boyett
A review of Elegy Beach by Steven R Boyett, the squel to his novel Ariel.
The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago — in our time, more or less — Eurasia fought a war to end all wars, a war that meant, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Old World. Published in 1916.
Finally got to read Day by Day Armageddon
I’d been keeping an eye on the book Day by Day Armegeddon by JL Bourne for a while, but it was really hard to find a copy unless you were willing to pay big bucks for it on Ebay or something
Neon City – A Post-Apocalyptic Road Trip
Neon City from 1991 is Stagecoach in the post-apocalypse, with toxic clouds, concentrated sun storms, and a few Mad Max-style road chases thrown in to keep the characters on their toes.
Deluge – One of the Earliest Post-Apocalyptic films from 1933
Wikipedia’s list of Apocalyptic films begins with a film called End of the World from 1916, and…
Half Novel / Half Survival Guide – Pulling Through by Dean Ing
Pulling Through by Dean Ing is a classic nuclear war survival story from 1983, but also a practical “how to survive” guide.