What happens when the world ends and only a handful of survivors remain? Post-apocalyptic books attempt to answer that question, examining how life can go on under the most extreme conditions and ...

Turns out there can be art in post-apocalyptic anarchy and mayhem. As an emergency room doctor in Sydney, Australia, George Miller saw a lot of death and gore — car-crash victims, gunshot wounds. If ...

While real-world catastrophes have arrived with distressing regularity this century, fictional stories set after the seemingly inevitable apocalypse have grown more popular than ever. There’s surely ...