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Five Post-Apocalyptic Novels Set on a Nearly Empty Earth

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Five Post-Apocalyptic Novels Set on a Nearly Empty Earth

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Five SF Stories About Rebuilding After a Cataclysmic Event

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Have You Eaten? (The Full Series)

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A World Worth A Second Chance: Benjamin Liar’s The Failures

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A scene from The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last": Harold Bemis (Burgess Meredith) reads a book with a smile on his face.
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One Is the Loneliest Number: Five Stories About Being Left All Alone

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Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) stands on a road in the middle of the Wasteland in a scene from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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You Fabulous Thing: Furiosa and the Struggle for Personhood

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Five Exciting Careers for the End of the World

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Five Works That Imagine Nuclear War and Its Aftermath

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A Second Chance to Save a Dying World: Revealing The Failures by Benjamin Liar

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A Girl and Her Bird: Emergence by David R. Palmer

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The River and the World Remade

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11 Very Good Dogs Who Make Everything Better (Even the End of the World)

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye Of The World

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