The following year saw dueling big-budget summer blockbuster movies Deep Impact (1998) and Armageddon (1998), both of which involved efforts to save the Earth from, respectively, a rogue comet and an asteroid, by landing crews upon them to detonate nuclear weapons there in hopes of destroying them. In the comedy film Zombieland (2009), a disease mutates most Americans (the rest of the world is not mentioned) and turns them into animal-like creatures hungry for human flesh. [4] Variants of this story also appear in Buddhist and Jain scriptures. Offer valid for new subscribers only.† Conditions apply. Please see your welcome email for exclusions and details. Become a Study.com member to unlock this The shocking spiritual trips of a journalist powered by intention, love and gratitude from his physical body all the way to the source of everything. In the first chapter of Revelation, the writer St. John the Divine explains his divine errand: "Write the things which thou hast seen, the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter" (Rev. Its two sequels, Plague War and Plague Zone, deal with a cure that allows return to an environment that suffered ecological collapse due to massive increases in insects and reptiles. THf ARTS Books 32 The Destruction of Black Civilization (Great Issues of A Race, from 4000 B.C. Axa is set on a post-apocalyptic Earth in the year 2080. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, the way to maintain the human race alive and together as one, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). This book must be in every Black library. Please try again. Dylan Hunt, a NASA scientist, begins a multi-day suspended animation test right before an earthquake buries the underground laboratory. The first series of both versions examine the immediate after-effects of a pandemic outbreak of the flu, while the subsequent series concentrate on the survivors' attempts to build communities and make contacts with other groups. The music video for the song "Mankind Man"(1995) by the Barstool Prophets depicts various adults being dragged into a kangaroo court by several youths, before being tried and condemned, in a seemingly dystopian, post-apocalyptic world. Williams remains a key figure in the Afrocentrist discourse. After a nuclear war, Earth was uninhabitable and the only survivors were those on space stations which eventually came together to form the Ark; 97 years later on an undeterminable year the Ark is dying and 100 prisoners under the age of 18 are sent to see if Earth is now survivable. The film Panic in Year Zero! The Cartoon Network series Adventure Time (which began airing in 2010) takes place a thousand years in a future after a nuclear war (referred to as "The Great Mushroom War") where once existent but eventually forgotten magic is recreated and humans are nearly wiped out with all kinds of creatures that had taken their place. The Rain (TV series) (2018) is a Danish post-apocalyptic web-television series. The video game The Long Dark (2017) depicts survival in the wilderness of northern Canada during winter after a geomagnetic disaster has disabled all modern technology. Most of it takes place two millennia later. Services, Africa: Nationalism, Modernization & Conflict (1884-2014), Working Scholars® Bringing Tuition-Free College to the Community. However, the focus of the story was how a group of protagonists tried to get the power back on while opposing the efforts of a tyrannical militia leader to understand it first (so that he can take absolute power). Marly Youmans' epic poem Thaliad (2012) tells the story of a group of children after an unspecified apocalypse from the sky, perhaps connected with solar flares or meteor impact, resulting in people and animals having been burned and the skies having filled with ash. The following ISBNs are associated with this title: Sign up to get exclusive offers, the best in books & more.Plus, enjoy 10% off your next online purchase over $50.†. Slowly, a small community forms around him as he struggles to start a new civilization and to preserve knowledge and learning. It also describes the social, political, religious, and environmental changes that result from the plague. Please try again. "Race Organization" here means a nation-wide organization of Blacks only. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) is an apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. American Book Award winner, Black against Empire provides an ultimate overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. One of my all time favorite books. José Saramago's 1995 novel Blindness tells the story of a city or country in which a mass epidemic of blindness destroys the social fabric. The Last Ship (2014) is an American action-drama television series, based on the 1988 novel of the same name by William Brinkley. It was adapted into a film in 2009. A summary of Part X (Section6) in Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon. The sequel Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma (2016) details the events that lead to the virus being released. I had a 1st edition, but it was stolen. The Christian-themed Left Behind series of 16 novels published between 1995 and 2007, and four film adaptations produced between 2000 and 2014, posits a world in which the righteous believers have suddenly been raptured, en masse, up to Heaven, leaving behind an increasingly troubled and chaotic world in which the Antichrist, foretold in the Book of Revelation, arises to despotically rule over those unfortunate enough to have been "left behind". Others include more fantastic elements, such as mutants, alien invaders, or exotic future weapons such as James Axler's Deathlands (1986). In it there is a battle over the end of the world between the "Dragons of Heaven" who wish to save humanity, and the "Dragons of Earth" who wish to wipe out humanity. A sequel, The Year of the Flood, was published in 2007, followed by MaddAddam in 2013, the trilogy's conclusion.[24]. 12 Monkeys (1995) is a science fiction film which depicts the remains of human civilization after an uncontrollable pandemic wipes out 99% of the human population. The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. For aftermath of, The sixth and final volume was written by, "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction", Learn how and when to remove this template message, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse, List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, "Why Are So Many Movies And Shows Set In The Post-Apocalypse? The book is a collection of individual accounts of desperate struggle during and after a devastating global conflict against a zombie plague, narrated by an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission. Poul Anderson's Maurai series (1959–1983) also takes place after a nuclear war, and his Hugo and Prometheus award-winning story "No Truce With Kings" takes place after a cataclysmic war. This item can be requested from the shops shown below. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. In Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer's novel When Worlds Collide (1933), Earth is destroyed by the rogue planet Bronson Alpha. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. In the obscure 2013 Australian film These Final Hours, a massive asteroid hits the Atlantic ocean dooming all life. Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in a non-technological future world or a world where only scattered elements of society and technology remain. 2000–1500 BC, details a myth where the angry gods send floods to punish humanity, but the ancient hero Utnapishtim and his family are saved through the intervention of the god Ea. Fallout, an ongoing series of post-apocalyptic role-playing games first published in 1997, depicts a world after a series of resource wars that culminates in a massive nuclear exchange between the U.S and China in 2077. The Destruction of Black Civilization was written by Chancellor Williams and is a profound text on African history. A nuclear response fails, and the planet devours Earth, leading to the extinction of mankind aside from a group of characters surviving in a durable, airtight shelter that is left floating in empty space with supplies and air for a year.