postapocalyptic
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It’s the last query that re-emerges in “The Dog Stars,” although Scott says the postapocalyptic setting initially discouraged him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
In “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy depicts a postapocalyptic world with the savagery and tangled lyricism he earlier brought to blood-dimmed novels about the Western borderlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
People unnecessarily sold low to preserve wealth that would have been useless in a postapocalyptic hellscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
This year’s event will start off with a screening and conversation with the stars of Apple TV’s postapocalyptic sci-fi series “Pluribus.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Their environments ran the gamut, from sword-and-sorcery settings to cyberpunk-themed planetwide cities to irradiated postapocalyptic zombie-infested wastelands.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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