The Wheel
In this post-apocalyptic fable, Owen and Topsie cross the near-endless Desert of Glass, staying one step ahead of the radio-active glowwinds. Produced by Seeing Ear Theater.
In this post-apocalyptic fable, Owen and Topsie cross the near-endless Desert of Glass, staying one step ahead of the radio-active glowwinds. Produced by Seeing Ear Theater.
Mankind has retreated underground to escape the horrors of a surface decimated by World War Three, leaving the machines to continue the fighting. Story by Philip Dick.
Aftermath follows several groups of survivors after a limited nuclear attack on Great Britain.
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.
Now that the final book in the trilogy, Mockingjay, is about to be released, I figured it was time to start the series and see if it lived up to all the hype.
The basic plot of the movie follows one family in a small California town after a nuclear war of some sort silences most of the rest of the country.
A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction.
Even though The Long Loud Silence wasn’t exactly what I was expecting, I’m still happy to have read it, and to be able to cross it off my list. If you happen to come across a copy for a good price, I would definitely suggest you pick it up.
This is one for all you fans of ruins, or post-apocalytic imagery – A lecture entitled Life in Ruins by Dr Robert Macfarlane.
Review of 28 Days Later – The Rage, a fan-made short film that takes place in the 28 Days Later universe.
“Ozymandias” is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.
The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826.