post-apocalypse adj.
SF Criticism
Apocalyptic
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1968 Daily Mirror 1 Aug. 11/5
The film also features a character known as The Whole Post Office. That is the fellow on the right, prepared for any emergency with cheese grater, C D badge and other aids to post-,apocalypse [sic] living, disguised as Spike Milligan.
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1970
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Barry N. Malzberg
Richard Wilson’s ‘Mother to the World’ is another post-apocalypse Adam-and-Eve story in which Adam is a gifted and intelligent man and Eve and attractive, wistful, devoted moron with an IQ of 60 or so.
Books in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 29/2 -
1970
The time is post-apocalypse; the setting, the flats west of the city, a kind of terminal chessboard where every space must be staked out.
Novels in Washington Post Book World Oct. 18 2/3
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1976
Grimly visionary story on the usual post-apocalypse theme, with magic having superseded science as the basis of the last remaining State, and a lone stranger battling it out with malign forces.
Science Fiction in Times 5 Feb. 11/4
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1979
‘The Prince in Waiting’ series concerns a post-apocalypse future where the culture has returned to the medieval, but in a Heinleinesque touch, the religion of the state masks a new return to technology in a society where machines are officially taboo.
Reader's Guide to Science Fiction 40
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2011 Interzone (#234) May–June 58/1
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The programme makers are much less interested in genre content and more concerned, overall, with soap opera narrative in a post-apocalypse scenario.
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2016 SFX (#273) June 46/1
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One of my favourite books of recent years, Birdbox, about a post-apocalypse world terrorised by monsters so frightening you die if you look at them.
Research requirements
antedating 1968
Research History
Patrick Broadhurst submitted a 1978 cite from Alan Frank's "Sci-Fi Now".Jeff Prucher submitted a 1981 cite from Barry Malzberg in SF Review.
Irene Grumman submitted a 1979 cite from "A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction" by Baird Searles (et al).
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1976 cite from a review by Tom Hutchinson in The (London) Times.
Bill Mullins submitted a 1970 cite from a review by James R. Frakes in the Washington Post Book World.
Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1970 cite from Barry Malzberg, in F&SF.
Simon Koppel submitted a 1968 cite from the Daily Mirror.
We would like cites of any date from other authors.
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