Skree000 Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 I think the 'Rifts' series also dealt with an apocalyptic war that killed so many people at once, the massive departure of souls from the planet ripped open space and time rifts and pretty much collided many dimensions together or something like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk4219 Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 The Half Life series. It gives you a good impression of everything going wrong in Black Mesa. In Half Life 2 and onward, you get the alien apocalypse idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am0eba Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Judge Dredd. Both the movie (blarg) and the comic have plenty of wasteland-type elements to them. And the other movies in the Road Warrior series (Mad Max; Thunderdome) both have interesting post-apocalyptic, wasteland elements, even though they are terrible and pale in comparison to Road Warrior. _Dave_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnholyShadow Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 The RoadBy Cormack McCarthy. Extremely gritty post apocalyptic novel.I second this. The Road is a great novel, it's also extremely fallout-ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederov Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 In 1985 or 86 I read a novel called Starman which was about a young woman who is living hundreds of years after a apocalyptic event. She leaves her village and explores the land and a ruined city which might have been Washington DC. I remember there were ghoul type critters in the city, and she had the company of a empathic big cat of some sort. Turns out the starman reference is to the star-like badge that sheriffs use today, and in this post-apocalyptic world the badges represent people who travel and learn about the old world. I don't know who the author was though :wallbash: Anyone else read that book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wastelander_29 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 never even heard of it, sry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadbum Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 The best book series I've ever read is the Deatlands and Outlanders series by James Axler (GoldStar publishing) The Deathlands series deals with a group of people traveling around a blasted landscape 100 years after a nuc war. They deal with mutants, insane Barons who run the small settlements, and their sec men who give them grief. Most of the time they "fast travel" via mat-trans units located in abandoned government redoubts. There are a lot of similarities with Fallout. The Outlanders series takes place 100 years later and is less like Fallout (dealing with aliens who instigated the war and run the world, still there are some similiar themes. Check out the Deathlands books you'll see what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wastelander_29 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Judge Dredd. Both the movie (blarg) and the comic have plenty of wasteland-type elements to them. And the other movies in the Road Warrior series (Mad Max; Thunderdome) both have interesting post-apocalyptic, wasteland elements, even though they are terrible and pale in comparison to Road Warrior. _Dave_ Mad Max and Judge Dredd is the way to go, man! yeah!! :banana: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumbler Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 In 1985 or 86 I read a novel called Starman which was about a young woman who is living hundreds of years after a apocalyptic event. She leaves her village and explores the land and a ruined city which might have been Washington DC. I remember there were ghoul type critters in the city, and she had the company of a empathic big cat of some sort. Turns out the starman reference is to the star-like badge that sheriffs use today, and in this post-apocalyptic world the badges represent people who travel and learn about the old world. I don't know who the author was though :wallbash: Anyone else read that book? The author was Andre Norton and the book was written maybe 1960 or so. I remember reading it, but that's about all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skotte Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I'd nominate "Tank girl" a silly movie, but civilization has essentially fallen apart from a world wide mega-drought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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