Mike777 wrote:
Are there any fans of Mad Max, The Postman, The Day After, Threads, etc.?
Tell me how did you become a fan of the genre and what movies/games/books do you like the most.
Personally, I've became interested in PA after playing first Fallout games somewhere in the late 90s. I find it fascinating to see how a globar war may break out and how would mankind deal with it and its aftermath. Well, I hope we won't end up like this.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, toward the end of the Cold War era. I've always thought that my enjoyment of PA movies, literature, etc. comes, at least in part, from living in a time when global nuclear war was a possiblity we were forced to confront all too often. There was some comfort to be had in the thought that there could be some kind of "after", at all.
I like the movies Omega Man, Planet of the Apes (the whole series), Road Warrior, and I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting. There is a black-and-white, French movie called Le Dernier Combat ("The Last Battle") that is quite good if you can find it. Soylent Green is another good one, although I don't know if it's technically PA.
Since I was a kid, I've played the "Gamma World" role-playing game, which is a kind of PA D&D mixed with 1950s B-movie science. No computer or video games though - I just don't have the time.
I've read too many PA books to list them all, and other folks have already listed some classics. I'll post more if I think of them.
JSB