Your favorite postapocalyptic stories

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John Wyndham: Chrysalids
Simon Clark: Blood crazy
Nevil Shute: ”On the beach”
The movies ”Terminator” and ”Testament”

The Fifties classic " A Canticle For Liebowitz" (I forget the author) is a touchstone in the post apocalyptic genre.

A darkly witty future history.

The aforementioned "Time Machine" by orson welles is good.

In 1932 aldous huxley wrote the novel "the Shape of Things to Come"- a history of the next 100 years.

Two main events both came true within the first fourty years - a second world war, and people orbiting the Moon.

However though he correctly predicted that a global war would start around 1940 he had it last 30 years and the war collapses the world back into the dark ages ( apocalypse without even the invention of A bombs).

The book was made into a major British motion picture in 1936. An interesting film for many reasons - among them- the fact that it was the first film to depict World War Two.

Since it was filmed three years before the War even started its safe to say that its the first!

In one scene- London gets bombed - and set aflame by waves of airplanes.
A bit crude even by the special effects of the thirties ( half the planes are bi-planes, and they all look like models on strings). But when you consider the fact that you're watching a depiction of the London Blitz created four years before the London Blitz even happened its remarkable-even a bit eerie.

The Stand and Robert McGammon's Swan Song

As far as movies, the original Planet of the Apes.

City by Clifford Simak
A Canticle for Leibowitz and Dark Benediction by Walter M. Miller
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

After reading the Wikipedia page on him, I can already tell that he's an imbecile.

This is what he predicted for this year:

"Celente predicted in his "Top Trends 2009" Trends Journal (written in December, 2008) that food-producing gardens will appear on people's lawns in tribute to President Bush's failed tenure: "The new 'Grow your own food because you don't have money to buy it' trend was dubbed 'Bush Gardens.' Celente also says to escape the mood of economic depression people will be delighting in entertainment and alcohol. Other predictions for 2009 and beyond include a possible revolutionary advance in renewable energy technologies, miracle cures from stem cell research, a shift toward holistic healing practices, and a crash of the overpriced college-industrial complex."

He might be a nut, but I know lots of people who have started growing their own food, because it's cheaper than buying it.