Golan's Dead Cities is cool. 8)
kristof65 said:
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the movie Mad Max. The original movie, not the sequels.
Also, for pictures and inspiration, do searches for images from the Chernobyl region.
Well the OP was mainly looking for reading material at first, but yeah big whoops! It's all about resource scarcity.
There's a lot of other Soviet abandoned places too, trains, depots, cities, half-constructed areas and so on. Don't have a link handy tho. There are groups of people that go around and explore such places around the world, kinda dangerous, like the guys that went in a half flooded missile silo out West (America) and illegal.
Some of the following is likely already known / common, but it fits the theme IMO.
More Books nods
A Boy and his Dog (
also a film with Don Johnson)
Battle Angel Alita (
also some video)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Day of the Triffads (also several
film & radio versions)
even though it's a Zombie one,
The Walking Dead comic focuses more on the humans, great stuff!
More Movie nods
28 Days Later & its spinoffs
Enemy at the Gates (granted it's WW2 but it fits IMO)
Robotech: The New Generation (it's all about living between the next pack of Protoculture on a devastated Earth)
More Game nods
Atomic Highway (hey it's by an Radioactive Ape, gotta love that!)
Hot War(the Cold War went hot, in 1962 London, lots of detail on what might have happened)
Incidentally, looking into Hot War and what inspired it dug up a lot of UK information on Nuclear War and its impact and several films and documentaries on it. Two in particular come to mind, one B&W (by the Culloden guy) that showed how authority and nicities could quickly devolve and was greylisted by the BBC for showing police shooting civilians. A later one in color is very grim, showing how few would survive a few years out due to lack of proper food and facilities and how planning would be just that, plans.
