Post-Apocalyptia

This week on Post-Apocalyptia: We go way back to a cautionary tale from more than a century ago, in E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"! We talk about AI, conformity, and a world that wasn't ready for social media--and whether ours is. And we ask the question: Where do we draw our lines? Because when the Machine stops, it may well take us with it! All this and more, in "The Machine Stops". Join us there, at the end of the world!
"The Machine Stops" is in the public domain, and can be read for free at the Project Gutenberg website, here. Or, listen to our audiobook version here, or in your favorite podcast app!
Post-Apocalyptia can be found on most podcast apps, and on our website at https://www.postapocalyptia.com. We can also be found on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit. Have a story you'd like to see us feature? Or, want to join us as a guest? Leave us a comment on any of our social media, or email us at postapocalyptiapodcast@gmail.com.
Intro/Outro Music: "Achilles" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Interstitial music is taken from "The Hum", by Jordan Winslow, available at https://www.jordanwinslow.me, and is free for commercial use with attribution. 

Today on a special bonus episode of Post-Apocalyptia: Enjoy this audiobook of the story we'll be covering this weekend, E.M. Forster's 1909 short story, "The Machine Stops"! And join us on Sunday for our discussion of this disturbingly prophetic story, on our regular weekly episode. Join us there, at the end of the world!
Post-Apocalyptia can be found on most podcast apps, and on our website at https://www.postapocalyptia.com. We can also be found on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit. Have a story you'd like to see us feature? Or, want to join us as a guest? Leave us a comment on any of our social media, or email us at postapocalyptiapodcast@gmail.com.
Intro/Outro Music: "Achilles" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 

This week on Post-Apocalyptia: The zombies have evolved! In Danny Boyle's 2002 film, 28 Days Later, we'll check out a new breed of zombies. They don't want to eat you, they just want to kill you--and they're fast enough and angry enough to do it. The Rage virus takes over England, and we're here to see just how badly that works out (spoiler: it's VERY bad!). All this and more, in 28 Days Later! Join us there, at the end of the world!
28 Days Later is available for rent and purchase on various streaming services, and available for purchase on VHS, DVD, and BluRay.
Post-Apocalyptia can be found on most podcast apps, and on our website at https://www.postapocalyptia.com. We can also be found on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit. Have a story you'd like to see us feature? Or, want to join us as a guest? Leave us a comment on any of our social media, or email us at postapocalyptiapodcast@gmail.com.
Intro/Outro Music: "Achilles" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Interstitial music is taken from "The Hum", by Jordan Winslow, available at https://www.jordanwinslow.me, and is free for commercial use with attribution. 

What does it take to ruin a life? We'll find out today on Post-Apocalyptia, as we look at the most famous episode of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, "Time Enough At Last"! We'll talk about relationships, duty, and the love of reading; and we'll ask ourselves, what good is survival if everything you love is gone? All this and more, as we accompany nearsighted bank teller Henry Bemis (played by the fantastic Burgess Meredith) into the Twilight Zone. Join us there, at the end of the world!
The Twilight Zone is available for for paid subscription streaming on Paramount+, and for free with ads on Tubi; and also available on DVD. 
"Time Enough At Last" short story by Lynn Venable can be read courtesy of Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32633/32633-h/32633-h.htm. 
The Monsters Are Due podcast can be found on most podcast apps, and on the show's website at https://www.themonstersareduepodcast.com/.
Post-Apocalyptia can be found on most podcast apps, and on our website at https://www.postapocalyptia.com. We can also be found on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit. Have a story you'd like to see us feature? Or, want to join us as a guest? Leave us a comment on any of our social media, or email us at postapocalyptiapodcast@gmail.com.
Intro/Outro Music: "Achilles" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Interstitial music is taken from "The Hum", by Jordan Winslow, available at https://www.jordanwinslow.me, and is free for commercial use with attribution; and from "The Twilight Zone" season 1 closing theme, by Bernard Herrmann, used under fair use and not for profit as per applicable US law. 
"We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer, public domain by permission of the author. https://tomlehrersongs.com/ 

This week on Post-Apocalyptia: Sony and Guerrilla Games' 2017 video game, Horizon Zero Dawn! We'll look at two firsts: Our first environmental collapse, and our first total extinction. We'll talk about artificial intelligence, the evils of corporations, and destruction of our own making. Then we'll counter that with the challenge of rebuilding, and the power of hope! And we'll wrap it up with a close call on a second apocalypse. All this and more, in Horizon Zero Dawn! Join us there, at the end of the world.
Horizon Zero Dawn is developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, and is available on Playstation 4 and Playstation 5, and PC via Steam, Epic Games, and GOG.
Post-Apocalyptia can be found on most podcast apps, and on our website at https://www.postapocalyptia.com. We can also be found on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit. Have a story you'd like to see us feature? Or, want to join us as a guest? Leave us a comment on any of our social media, or email us at postapocalyptiapodcast@gmail.com.
Intro/Outro Music: "Achilles" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Interstitial Music taken from "Aloy's Theme", composed by Joris de Man for Horizon Zero Dawn.

We're back, with Part 2 of Pat Frank's 1959 classic novel, Alas, Babylon! In Part 2, Professor David Perlmutter and I talk about the makings of a truly good leader; the value of dying skills; and the power of community. We'll see our characters navigate racial issues, enforce order, and bury one of their own. And in the end, they'll ask themselves: Will they stay, or will they go? (With apologies to The Clash, of course.) This and more, in Part 2 of Alas, Babylon! Join us there, at the end of the world. 
Alas, Babylon has remained in print since its publication, and is available from most booksellers, in print, ebook, and audiobook form. 
Post-Apocalyptia can be found on most podcast apps, and on our website at https://www.postapocalyptia.com. We can also be found on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit. Have a story you'd like to see us feature? Or, want to join us as a guest? Leave us a comment on any of our social media, or email us at postapocalyptiapodcast@gmail.com.
Intro/Outro Music: "Achilles" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Interstitial music is taken from "The Hum", by Jordan Winslow, available at https://www.jordanwinslow.me, and is free for commercial use with attribution.

We're back, and asking ourselves: How does a small town survive the apocalypse on its own? Professor David Perlmutter returns today to talk about Pat Frank's classic 1959 novel of the nuclear apocalypse, Alas, Babylon! In Part 1, we'll talk about the necessities for survival; the Cold War and the nuclear threat; and the risk of being a forward thinker in a backward time. We'll meet our characters, and see how they manage to escape not just death in the apocalypse, but the degradation of the aftermath. And we'll ask the question on everyone's mind on "The Day": What's all this money really worth, anyway? This and more, in Part 1 of Alas, Babylon! Join us there, at the end of the world!
Alas, Babylon has remained in print since its publication, and is available from most booksellers, in print, ebook, and audiobook formats. 
Post-Apocalyptia can be found on most podcast apps, and on our website at https://www.postapocalyptia.com. We can also be found on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit. Have a story you'd like to see us feature? Or, want to join us as a guest? Leave us a comment on any of our social media, or email us at postapocalyptiapodcast@gmail.com.
Intro/Outro Music: "Achilles" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Interstitial music is taken from "The Hum", by Jordan Winslow, available at https://www.jordanwinslow.me, and is free for commercial use with attribution.

Welcome to Post-Apocalyptia! This week, we take a break from our normal schedule for the holiday weekend, and bring you this special bonus episode instead. We'll look at something brand new, and I mean REALLY new: Jim Swiss's audio drama, The Carrington Doctrine! We'll join Colin as he leaves audio logs at the end of the world, or something like it--but he can't be sure, because he's joined a sun-worshipping cult in the forest. And that's the normal part! Things only get weirder from there. Season 1 of The Carrington Doctrine is out now--join us there, at the end of the world!
The Carrington Doctrine can be found on Spotify, Podbean, or your favorite podcast app. You can also visit the show's website here. Series creator Jim Swiss can be found on Reddit, here. The /r/postapocalyptic subreddit can be found here. The /r/audiodrama subreddit can be found here.
Post-Apocalyptia can be found on most podcast apps, and on our website at https://www.postapocalyptia.com. We can also be found on social media on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky, and Reddit. Have a story you'd like to see us feature? Or, want to join us as a guest? Leave us a comment on any of our social media, or email us at postapocalyptiapodcast@gmail.com.
Intro/Outro Music: "Achilles" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Interstitial music is taken from "The Hum", by Jordan Winslow, available at https://www.jordanwinslow.me, and is free for commercial use with attribution.