I’ve been enjoying io9, the relatively new science fiction blog from the Gawker blog empire. They have a nice mix of current science fiction news and SF nostalgia, and they have a particular eye for apocalyptic articles.

They recently wrote about “Dark America”, an unfinished novel by Junot Diaz, whose well-reviwed current book "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" is out in hardcover. While I’m unclear on what “Dark America” is actually about, the excerpt that io9 uses seems to have characters traveling in a robotic vehicle through post-apocalyptic America, always a plus in my opinion.
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Jericho, rescued from oblivion by a fan-driven campaign that shipped 40,445 pounds of peanuts to CBS in protest of the show’s cancellation, is finally returning to the air in less than a day to begin its abbreviated seven episode second season.

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When the world ends, what skills will you have that will make other people want to keep you around?

Can you build things? Weld? Heal people? Cook? Grow food? Are you a sharp-shooter? Will you merely be the pregnant one, who people will keep around because you’ll be the mother to the new race of surviving humans, assuming that you don’t give birth to some kind of zombie monster baby?

Or are you destined for the soup pot?

The Post-Apocalyptic Workout is one unemployed (presumably striking) TV writer’s attempt to get herself into survivability shape.
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There’s no shortage of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic media - comics, movies, TV, books… though post-apocalyptic music or plays are fairly rare. One such play - “Canned Peaches in Syrup” - ran in Los Angeles a few weekends ago.

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Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” has won many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, and was boosted by being a selection for Oprah’s book club. McCarthy is notoriously publicity-shy, but Oprah was able to lure him out to do an interview as well.

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Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel “The Road” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was also chosen for Oprah Winfrey’s book club.

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Not much on this yet; “The Book of Eli” is a film about a road trip across post-apocalyptic America (you mean, different from the way it is now? Oh - it’s a wasteland, you say?) by a hero protecting a sacred book. The film will be directed by the Hughes Brothers, whose other credits include producing and directing “From Hell”, “Dead Presidents” and “American Pimp”, as well as producing the US version of “Touching Evil”.

I’m always a sucka for a good post-apocalyptic road-trip.

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John Cusack, Hilary Duff and Lance Henriksen will all b in a new film called “Talking to Dog” that starts shooting in a few months. The movie is described as a post-apocalyptic cross between “Mad Max” and “Blue Velvet” and takes place in a world of global warming and no fertility.

I can’t find anything on it in IMDB yet… we’ll see if it gets made and is more than a B-film direct-to-DVD.

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Here we have a series of post-apocalyptic looking photos from an abandoned city on Japan’s Gukanjima island. The city housed coal miners until it was closed and abandoned in 1974.

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