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The setup for the story is a direct hit by a nuclear weapon, catapulting a nuclear shelter containing Farnham, his wife, son, daughter, daughter's friend, and employee into the future. While writing the story, Heinlein drew on his experience of building a fallout shelter under his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado in the 1960s.
Fallout: Todd Strasser: The Cuban Missile Crisis leads to World War III. Twelve-year-old Scott and his family must squeeze into a small fallout shelter with six uninvited neighbors and somehow survive without enough food or water for the next two weeks. 2014 Unholy Land: Lavie Tidhar
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself.
The Book of Eli [4] 2010 The Divide: 2012 Cloud Atlas: 2012 Dredd: 2012 Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl: 2014 Mad Max: Fury Road: 2015 Z for Zachariah: 2015 Friend of the World: 2020 Brian Patrick Butler (screenplay); takes place in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Based on Dr. Strangelove and La Jetée.
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Wool is the first act of the series and consists of books 1 through 5: Holston, Proper Gauge, Casting Off, The Unraveling, and The Stranded. Holston is the sheriff of the Silo. Three years ago, Holston's wife, Allison, became convinced that the outside world was livable and that the IT department, which runs the external sensors, had deceived ...
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