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If you've ever wanted to see a post-apocalyptic porn film, you're in luck. Sam Hain, creator of other fine science fictional porn flicks, has just released Horizon, a tale of sex at the end of the world. Fleshbot's Gram Ponante has the story: More »
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This apocalypse-ready house is sunk deep beneath the Earth, located in a remote area of Saskatchewan, Canada, and it comes equipped with a stove made from an old barrel and an indoor rabbit hutch. And it could be yours if you want to trade some land or a nice vehicle for it. No, this isn't Thunderdome of the Great White North. It's a home of the future. More »
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Showtime has just greenlit a post-apocalyptic series titled Last H.O.P.E. — which stands for the Last Hospital On Planet Earth. More »
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We live with the constant threat of famine. Many parts of the world, like Ethiopia, have seen their populations starve repeatedly over the past decades. What's the best way to deal with it? Now, you can decide. More »
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Marvel at the incredible images from this kiddie Mad Max photo shoot. Swapping out the main stars from Mad Max for kids was pure genius. Check out the littlest Road Warriors! More »
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Pop princess Britney Spears has combined the end times with the group sweat shake dance from her "Slave" days into one, scary post-apocalypse video for "Till The World Ends." Watch as Britney sings us into Armageddon. More »
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SXSW's "most likely to make you want to take eight showers after viewing" movie, The Divide, may be coming to a theater near you sooner than we expected. Anchor Bay paid a hefty sum for the rights to The Divide. More »
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Last night, we saw the post-apocalyptic drama The Divide. It was an epically bleak experience and we left the theater desperately in need of a good shower cry. Now you too can experience the darkness, with some new clips. More »
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Zombie apocalypse series Walking Dead is riding high on critical praise. But if history is any guide, the show is doomed to fail. Nobody has ever made a post-apocalyptic TV series work in the States. More »
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See what our new replacement Earth, the planet Carpathia, will look like, in the first trailer for the BBC's Outcasts. Could this series finally fill the void that the end of Battlestar Galactica left in our hearts? More »
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It's Dreamsnake weekend for Blogging the Hugos! Today, an interview with author Vonda McIntyre about writing 1979's Hugo-winning novel, how much things have changed for women in SF, and how she hopes you don't notice the trick she pulled. More »
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Back when it won the Hugo in 1979, Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake was one woman's radical ride through a post-apocalyptic world. Too bad it's been out of print for over a decade. More »
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The musical, measured Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm — which won the Hugo in 1977 — is an artful admixture of clones and poetry, with a message that'll never get old. More »
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Director Giuliano Carnimeo's 1983 post-apocalyptic flick Exterminators of the Year 3000 may seem like a Mad Max clone at first, but its criminally inept production values elevate it to cult nirvana. Also, it has the most brutal trailer ever made! More »
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One man takes on the ruler of post-apocalyptic New York City, in a quest for vengeance that may turn into a hope for salvation. Check out this new concept art for the post-apocalyptic pot-boiler The Last City. More »
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Tyler Jackson's BLANKS series of robotic exoskeletons come from desolate future filled with ruin and scavengers. That's an appropriate back-story given that Jackson sculpted these mecha out of found materials. Reuse, reduce, recycle, and annihilate. [Randommization] More »
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The Quiet Earth blog has been covering the post-apocalyptic genre for years, and now one of its feature writers, Agent Orange, weighs in with his list of 30 visions of a 21st Century apocalypse. More »
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Rammbock is a German zombie film that will be having its world premier at the Cannes film festival. It looks utterly incredible. German expressionism crossed with 28 Days Later. More »
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Shaun Rana, who is working on the incredible-sounding Days of Victory also has something even better. It's called Warren Lich. More »
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We often talk about fictional apocalypses here at io9, but what if the collapse of civilization actually happens in your lifetime? Here are some things you can start doing right now to make sure you're ready to ride it out. More »
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With apocalyptic explosionfest 2012 hitting theaters next month, along with fallen civilization desperation flick The Road, it's time to ask: Has the apocalypse finally nuked the fridge? Take our poll to register your discontent with pop culture armageddon glut. More »
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The world has been nuked. Under Paris, a woman waits months alone in a bunker with only canned food for company. She's about to commit suicide when a voice comes over the radio. Find out what happens next in Bunker. More »
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Just when you were craving more mega-bot destruction of vast urban wastelands, MechWarrior comes to save you. And it's not your grandmother's game - this is a brand-new reboot, with slicker graphics and more multiplayer strategy. More »
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Some of the machines that wiped out the human race in the post-apocalyptic rag-doll movie 9 look very familiar... in an awesome way. Check out our exclusive tripod art from 9, then click through to see the metal beasts sleeping. More »
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Why must vampires always appear someplace in Louisiana, Northern California, or London whining about their gothic pasts? If you're sick of the same old vamps, we've got a batch of newfangled ones for you - some from outer space. More »
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What will the planet look like when robots scorch it into sulfurous dirt? Or when machines convert the human world into a pile of iron and sludge? Check out our gallery of art that shows the world after the techno-apocalypse. More »
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These images of San Francisco and the Grand Canyon show possible futures emerging out of an apocalyptic moment when traditional power relationships changed forever. And they're not the only places that have been transformed. More »
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Here are some of the latest monster concepts to come out of the fevered minds busily creating the post-apocalyptic Australian adventure Wynter Dark. These are the nuked-out mutants known as Nomen. More »
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I'll tell you what is best in life: Watching dozens of amazing artists vie to create the best images of post-apocalyptic siamese twins. More »
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Click to viewSome of the most gorgeous, evocative, and strange science fiction art you've ever seen comes from the covers of novels written between 1904-33, in SF's "pre-Golden Age." More »
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With Wall-E director Andrew Stanton working on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1917 novel A Princess of Mars, you need a crash course in books from this seminal era in science fiction. More »
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It's nearly dusk as you approach the abandoned supermarket, crouching behind a burned out hover-bus. You nearly make a mad dash to the entrance, dreaming of the food and medical supplies you might find inside. Then you notice the mutilated corpse chained up above the door. Raiders! Cautiously, you watch the parking lot...there they are. Heavily armed, too. You'll be able to loot the store if you want to, but there will be blood. In the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout 3, nothing comes easy. More »
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What will be left of humanity in 100 million years? Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester suggests that hyper-evolved rats or aliens (his picks for future scientists) will find scant clues. There will be faint fossils and chemical traces, all packed into thin layers of rock easily disrupted by water, weather and geologic processes. So exactly what evidence of our existence would these future archaeologists find? More »
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A pretty recent version of the script for post-apocalyptic drama The Road found its way into the hands of the folks at Quiet Earth, and they've posted a review of it. Apparently this version of the script, which is dated late 2007, is true to the original Cormac McCarthy novel except for a few minor changes. Quiet Earth's Agentorange says his only worry is that this script is so dark that it's actually hard to imagine it getting made into a Hollywood flick. Spoilers ahead. More »
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My prayers have been answered: a new dystopian movie that takes place in the-not-so-distant future, without any people-eating. Deadland takes place during World War III. A nuclear strike takes out a large percent of the world's population, and Florida has dropped into the ocean. But more importantly, main charcater Sean Kalos is separated from his wife, and will move Heaven and Hell to find her. With his rag-tag group of friends, he sets out across the martial-law world, fighting his way across hostile territories in search of his lady (oh and there's mention of a radiation plague, and hopefully his wife has it). More »
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This concept art for Fallout 3, which we mentioned once before, shows Washington D.C. reduced to ashen rubble. The highly-anticipated sequel to the classic "wander the wasteland and have sex with mutant hookers" RPG is slated for a Fall 2008 multi-platform release. The story is not directly related to the one from Fallout 2, but it takes place in the same world. In 2077, nuclear war destroys most of America, forcing the survivors to hide out in underground vaults that protect them from radiation, mutants and other bad stuff. More art below. More »
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Tonight is the fifth episode of the kickass postapocalyptic Web TV show Lady Wasteland, which will pick up right after our heroine (the titular Lady Wasteland) gun-fu'd her way out of a robbery, rescued a guy and his kid, got shot by a mysterious someone, had her blood drunk by zombies, then narrowly escaped. Plus, civilization has collapsed and we don't know why. This cool show, co-created by Mark Roush, is a near-future version of Firefly with scrappy heroes on a brokedown frontier. It's exactly the kind of show that should get picked up by SciFi Channel now that Battlestar Galactica is heading into its final season. More »
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Combining X-Files Cold War conspiracy with old-fashioned Mad Max battles for gas and food, Jericho has become the thinking person's post-apocalyptic nightmare. CBS canceled it after one season, driving fans into a frenzy of support for the series about a small town called Jericho trying to rebuild after a devastating, mysterious nuclear attack leaves the United States without any urban centers. Over the summer, CBS was bombarded with gifts of peanuts from fans — an obscure reference to the show — and eventually the network caved, greenlighting a partial second season. Now it's official. CBS will be airing new episodes starting February 12, just in time for Sweeps. More »
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Tonight a new post-apocalyptic Web TV show launches with a bang — or maybe that's a whimper. Lady Wasteland tells three interconnected stories about life after a mysterious force brings down civilization. There won't be any guys in tankers searching for spam here. Show creators Mark Rouche and Greg Demchek say they were inspired by Cormac McCarthy's book The Road and the movie Children of Men, both of which are character-driven, realistic dramas about the bleakness of life after society's death. The show, a stylish cross between Xena and Firefly, is grim and very promising. Also, seriously action-packed. More »
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Do you feel like you're falling behind when it comes to the latest developments in post-apocalyptic pop culture? Now you never have to be out of the end-of-the-world loop again, thanks to the Quiet Earth blog, a fantastic compendium of all things apocalypse devoted to "making the post-apocalyptic genre mainstream." Hold the right-wing nut jokes, please. The team of 7 smart weirdos who run this site cover everything from books to video games, and they find some of the most obscure freaky shit I've ever seen. More »
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