New answers tagged post-apocalyptic
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Children's book about intelligent bears or maybe cats
Hiero's Journey was published in 1973. The story takes place 5000 years after the Death destroyed most of the ecosystem. The story is framed as a fantasy adventure but clearly takes place in a post-...
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Manga where the main character can travel to a post-apocalyptic future filled with monsters when he sleeps and has a cultivation technique
Based on your description, the manga or manhwa you might be looking for could be "Login 10,000 Years in the Future." In this series, the main character gains the ability to teleport to a ...
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Short story about a boy living on a flooded Earth, with aliens that are helping clean up the climate damage in a deal with the government
Managed to find it!
The story was "The Choice" by Paul McAuley, and had appeared in "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6" (2012) edited by Jonathan Strahan.
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Choose your own adventure style: medieval post-demon apocalypse
This is Dead of Night (Fighting Fantasy #40, 1989) by Jim Bambra and Stephen Hand.
This review mentions the demon attack and the need to cross a demon-infested land to get to your destination.
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Old TV episode about a rich man and his guests trapped in his high-tech underground bunker after a nuclear disaster
Might it be "One More Pallbearer" from The Twilight Zone?
Millionaire Paul Radin tries to convince three people who wronged him in the past to apologize to him by offering them shelter from ...
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Book about a boy living in a futuristic building underground because of toxic air at the surface
I believe it's Wool (2011) by Hugh Howey.
The story of Wool takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Humanity clings to survival in the Silo, a self-sustaining subterranean city with 144 floors. No ...
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Post-Apocalyptic / Dystopian novel - Technology is forbidden, boy discovers something and village is going to kill him so he runs
I think this is Eternity Road (1997) by Jack McDevitt! Here is the description:
The Roadmakers left only ruins behind—but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. ...
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A post-apocalyptic short story where very sick people from our future save people in our timeline that would be killed in plane crashes
The John Varley short story "Air Raid" (1977) (that was later expanded into his novel Millennium, and adapted as a movie) seems to fully match your question.
They are grabbing fatalities (...
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