Post-apocalypic refers to the time frame beyond the catastrophic end of a civilization.
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1970s story: man living alone with robot servants on an estate invaded by hoodlums
The setting is during or after the fall of social order, somewhere in England. An old man is holed up on an estate, his only company a robot butler and other robotic assistants. The house is invaded ...
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A Story about humanity in a dead locked nuclear war
Can't remember all of the details, but it was a comic book story about Earth in a future war having reached a stalemate and there was a time machine involved. I vividly recall the ending, which had a ...
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When I was in elementary school, I read a series of books that I can't seem to find anywhere
The series is about a group of kids being woken up one by one throughout the series after an apocalypse and each kid can do something special (I can't remember if it was magical, but it could have ...
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Boy and girl living in an underground city (post nuclear?)
I probably read this children's science fiction story in the late 1960s, so the similar-sounding 1980 book, "This Time of Darkness" by Helen Hoover can not be it. It may have been a short story, but ...
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Short story: post nuclear holocaust, the human race has mutated into an ape-like being and old style humans are viewed as an abomination
I'm trying to identify a short story I read (probably in the 80s) where the protagonist, a young woman, is captivated by the beauty of a servant, a bronzed, muscular youth working in the garden. The ...
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Why do diesel cars not work in Revolution?
Revolution is a post-apocalyptic TV series, where the main premise is that some sort of technology was used to disable electricity (as in not just the mains but electricity even in batteries doesn't ...
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A book my brother-in-law read when he was growing-up in the 70's/80's, possibly post-apocalyptic.
It sounds like a post-apocalyptic story from what he told me. The only details he could give me other than that was a character called Kincaid (unsure of spelling) and a group called the Kriss (again ...
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Searching for short story in 70s anthology that was post apocalyptic. Character's name is Saura
A very powerful story written by a "new" writer at the time in a collection of short stories sometime in the 70s. A mother and daughter (named Saura) live in a cabin and discuss going further South ...
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Is Eli blind, or can he just read braille?
In the Movie "The Book of Eli" we discover at the end
Does this imply that
Or is the punchline of the movie that
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Post-apocalyptic novel: an astronaut returns to an Earth reverted to the stone age
I read this scifi post apocalyptic book back in mid 90s. It revolved around an astronaut who had been in deep space, and upon returning to Earth, he found that civilization had returned almost to a ...
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Dystopian book: inhabitants of an underground city have no books and don't know the war has ended
This has been bugging me for years. I checked it out from the juvie fiction section of the library in Texarkana, Texas, probably around 1990 or so, but can't say when it would have been written. ...
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Are there any novels that treats post-apocalyptic world in a more real way? [closed]
There are plenty of stories in a post-apocalyptic Earth nowadays, but I've never seen one that is meant to be "real". For example, there's always electricity, but having no one to work on power plants ...
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What book was a post apocalyptic, nuclear-age, old world war style
I read a book about 5 years ago that was a post-apocalyptic, nuclear age, maybe a World War III type book. I remember that there was a lot of radiation disease and that there was some guy with a stash ...
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Is there any official reference to the story Julia Ecklar's “The Hand of God” is based on (if it is based on one)?
I'm trying to find out what story "The Hand of God" by Julia Ecklar (lyrics here: http://mindstalk.net/filk/handofgod) is based on. The song is from her 1986 album Divine Intervention.
The details ...
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A postapocalyptic comic in the US published in the 80's?
I can't remember the name of a Comic book series that I read in the middle to late 80's.
The books were about two young men/boys after an apocalyptic event in the US where society was broken down and ...
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Why does Lyra-a have two belly buttons?
In the 1973 TV movie Genesis II, Lyra-a, a Tyranian (a mutant played by Mariette Hartley), shows Dylan Hunt her belly buttons. Did Gene Roddenberry provide an in-universe explaination as to what ...
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Why was Ulysse the first human to speak?
In Pierre Boulle's novel Planet of the Apes (aka Monkey Planet), Humans had been used as Ape slaves and exposed to their speech for generations, possibly since the long distant Ape apocalypse. Speech ...
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Looking for a story told by intelligent nuclear bombs about the war they had with humanity
I'm looking for a short sci-fi story I read in a magazine about 20 years ago, with a very similar premise to Dark Star. The story was narrated by an artificial intelligent nuclear bomb, telling about ...
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Who is the author and the title of the science fiction book pre 1988 with “Necromancers?”
It is not Gordon Dickson nor William Gibson. I got a paperback book from the library in 1987 or 1988 and then returned it. It was a great story and I have been looking for the author and or title ...
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Book about a brother and sister living in a futuristic world
It was 1981-1982 when I read it. My female English teacher told me to read it...not the class. Not sure when it was written? I remember it was written from the sister's perspective. There seemed ...
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Did the author ever explain origin of the disasters in The Day of Triffids?
The post-apocalyptic book The Day of the Triffids features not one but (at least) three seemingly separate disasters:
triffids themselves, obviously
blinding lights in the sky
plague
I somehow ...
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Movie where a girl in a swing disappears when a solar flare hits
What's the name of the movie where there was a girl in a swing and a solar flare hit. The girl instantly disappears. There was also a scene where an incubator was made from a fishtank. Any ideas?
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What's up with the Gyro Pilot in Road Warrior and the pilot in Beyond Thunderdome?
Bruce Spence appears in both the Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome as (apparently) the same character, a post-apocalyptic bush pilot. I say apparently, because I found this on IMDB:
Bruce ...
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In S. M. Stirling's Emberverse series, is it ever revealed what actually caused “The Change”?
I have only read the first book in S. M. Stirling's Emberverse series, Dies the Fire, but found myself frustrated that the underlying cause of “The Change” was not revealed and thus did not continue ...
