And the minds that planned the Tower of Babel cared nothing for the workers who built it. The hymns of praise of the few became the curses of the many - BABEL! BABEL! BABEL!
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | Metropolis
As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children’s voices.
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | Children of Men
A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | Blade Runner
Too much garbage in your face? There’s plenty of space out in space! BnL StarLiners leaving each day. We’ll clean up the mess while you’re away.
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | Wall e
Your new society sounds charming.
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | The Last Man on Earth
- How are things in town?
- Terrible. Really terrible. It’s the rationing. They’d eat their shoes.Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | Delicatessen
Earth-that-was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. We found a new solar system - dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it.
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | Firefly
Infinity’s still infinity - in your cave world as in this one. Eternity’s eternity. Those are some of the barriers, some of the unknowables.
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | Dark Universe by D.F. Galouye
The future was ash… was death… It didn’t sound great.
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | The Fades
I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like “collateral” and “rendition” became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how “different” became dangerous.
Favorite Depictions of Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia-After-Crisis | V for Vendetta
On today’s Fresh Air, Colson Whitehead talks about his zombie novel, Zone One.
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