The state of civilization in 2015 New York will closely resemble that of England in the early days of Saxon settlement — primitive people will dwell sparsely in patriarchal stockades and will fight and hunt with bow and arrow. Published in 1906.
Recorded in the early 1970’s by WUHN radio in Peoria, Illinois, The Peoria Plague is an audio dramatization of a zombie outbreak presented through a series of fictional news casts.
Unseen for years and made public for the first time by the National Security Archive, the film depicts the U.S. Air Force’s implementation of war plan “Quick Strike” in response to a Soviet surprise attack against the United States.
Escape Pod is a long running podcast featuring Creative Commons-licensed audio narrations of great science-fiction short stories. Driving X by Gwendolyn Clare was featured in episode 319, and can be described as both dystopian and post-apocalyptic, and is definitely worth a listen.
Peace on Earth is a one-reel 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals.
If you call yourself a fan of the post-apocalyptic genre and you haven’t seen Threads, then something is wrong with you. Luckily, I can help with that.
I came across this today, and really liked it. It’s one of the first (non-religious) examples of an apocalypse scenario in which the world devolves into war, famine and death.
1962 Popular Mechanics article on the effects of a hypothetical nuclear war on the United States.
Nothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life … and the trespassers had wrecked that for all time. The return journey to pick up the treasure would be a cinch … they smiled. Published in 1952.
This would be a great article, even if I wasn’t quoted in it. You can read the original post, the most recent in a series of posts about post apocalyptic literature and audiobooks, on The Guilded Earlobe.
This is one for all you fans of ruins, or post-apocalytic imagery – A lecture entitled Life in Ruins by Dr Robert Macfarlane.
Hanna Barbera’s 1955 remake of 1939’s Peace On Earth featuring updated and even more destructive forms of warfare technology.