SHTF movies and books. you know you love 'em!

[speelyei]

You know we all love that post-apocalypse stuff. Review/suggest books and movies on the subject, please. I have a bunch, but i'm interested to hear from other folks first.

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[swing2hard]

Loved reading "Lights Out" by Halffast

 

[tonyspdx]

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

 

[speelyei]

I've read
Alas Babylon: life in a post-nuclear Florida town, good easy read, dated.

The Earth Abides: life in the Western US post-pandemic, interesting, very dated.

The Last Ship: life aboard a Nuclear Destroyer post-nuclear apocalypse, long, sometimes difficult, like three different books stuck together.

The Stand: realistically scary depiction of an outbreak of a pandemic, good vs evil horror.

WarDay: Two reporters set off coss country after minimal nuclear attack.

The Hot Zone: not really post-apocalypse, but definitely an interesting and easy to read look at disease an it's vectors. The movie sucked unimagineably, as if there is no connection to the very well written book.

I'll think of more... some of those I read a long time ago, wouldn't mind reading again.

Movies:
Omega Man, Charlton Heston, post-pandemic
Planet of the Apes, Heston, all time classic
The Quiet Earth, kinda cool, dated 80's movie from New Zealand
On The Beach, impending fallout guarantees disaster for Australia
Mad Max. **** yeah!!
Road Warrior
Beyond Thunderdome
28 Days Later
Night of the Living Dead, black and white, top of my list!
Andromeda Strain, 1970's satellite brings virus to earth
Six String Samurai, after the collapse, Las vegas needs a new rock & roll king...
A boy and his dog, classic
Logans Run
The Postman... ahh, it wasn't that bad!
Waterworld.... ditto
12 monkeys

 

[MossyOak]

Nice list.

What no "Red Dawn"?

 

[Monkeyman]

But definitely TSHTF:

-Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Yes, it's 1168 pages. Read it. Written in 1957, describes in eerie detail what's going on in Washington, and all over, today. Rand escaped from Russia to New York, and knows totalitarianism in and out.

-Red Dawn!!!!!!

 

[ZeroRing]

WOLVERINES!!!!!

Ditto on the Lucifer's Hammer book. I still remember parts of that book even though I haven't read it in over 20 years. Same thing with Atlas Shrugged.

 

[Randini]

The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern The books in this series are heavy with descriptions of the weapons the protagonists use to survive and prosecute a seemingly never-ending war amongst the remnants of the superpowers from pre-apocalypse times.

Ashes Series by William W. Johnstone this series had a lot of shooting, sex, and just general mayhem.

+1 Lucifer's Hammer

 

[RockKrawler]

Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse
Out of the Ashes series, by William W. Johnstone
Earth Abides by George Stewart
Unintended Consequences by John Ross
Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour
The Freeman by Jerry Ahern
Farnham's Freehold, Robert Heinlein

I have many more,but these are well worth the read.
RK

 

[Scrammer]

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[wayoutwest]

Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse
Out of the Ashes series, by William W. Johnstone
Earth Abides by George Stewart
Unintended Consequences by John Ross
Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken
Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour
The Freeman by Jerry Ahern
Farnham's Freehold, Robert Heinlein

I have many more,but these are well worth the read.
RK

Good read....will have to check out some of the other

 

[coctailer]

Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse

This book is impossible to put down.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781569755990-0

 

[Kennedy]

World War Z...

 

[RockKrawler]

Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse

This book is impossible to put down.

http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781569755990-0

I have every variation of the novel Rawles wrote,it eventually ended up being called Patriots.
Each time it was rewrote,updated,renamed,etc
It was free on the net until it was published.
RK