Dystopian states of America : apocalyptic visions and warnings in literature and film
(Book)

Overview essays. The world's smallest monsters : the threat and reality of pandemic outbreak in dystopian and apocalyptic fiction / Mark DiMauro ; The dystopian arc of progress in Black mirror / Stacy Esch ; Dystopian totalitarianism / David Pierson ; Proxies of apocalypse in th age of Inhofe's Snowball and AHBIA S27 : a shallow core sample of recent cli-fi novels / Seth J. Forrest ; "War... war never changes" : war as a defining aspect of dystopian and apocalyptic narrative / Matthew B. Hill

Reference entries. Aeon flux ; A.I. Artificial intelligence ; Akira ; Alas, Babylon ; Alien series ; All the birds in the sky ; All these things I've done ; Altered carbon ; American war ; Amerika ; Animal farm ; Armageddon ; Atlas shrugged ; Avatar : the last airbender ; Batman ; Battlefield Earth ; Battlestar Galactica ; Belles, The ; Black mirror ; Blade runner ; Blade runner 2049 ; Book of Eli, The ; Boy and his dog, A ; Brave new world ; Brazil ; Broken Earth trilogy, The ; Canticle for Leibowitz, A ; Children of men, The ; Circle, The ; City of ember series ; Clockwork orange, A ; Cloverfield series ; Colony ; Contagion ; Crazies, The ; C.S.A. : the Confederate States of America ; Cyborg ; Dawn of the dead ; Day after tomorrow, The ; Day of the triffids, The ; Day the Earth caught fire, The ; Daybreakers ; Days of future past ; Death race 2000 and Death race ; Deep impact ; Delicatessen ; Dhalgren ; "Disappointments of the apocalypse" ; District 9 ; Divergent series ; DMZ ; Do androids dream of electric sheep? ; Dog stars, The ; Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb ; Dune ; Elysium ; Ember in the ashes, An ; Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. ; eXistenZ ; Fahrenheit 451 ; Falling skies ; Fallout ; Firefly and Serenity ; Futureland ; Gattaca ; Giver, The ; Half-life series ; Handmaids' tale, The ; Happening, The ; Hunger games series, The ; I am legend ; I, robot ; Idiocracy ; In time ; Independence day ; Infinite jest ; Interstellar ; Invasion, U.S.A. ; Invasion of the body snatchers ; Iron heel, The ; Island, The ; It can't happen here ; Jeremiah ; Jericho ; Judge Dredd ; Last man, The ; Last man on Earth, The ; Last of us, The ; Last policeman, The ; Lathe of heaven, The ; Left behind series ; Leftovers, The ; Lobster, The ; Logan's run ; Long walk, The ; Looper ; Machine stops, The ; Mad Max series ; Make room! Make room! and Soylent green ; Man in the high castle, The ; Matrix series, The ; Maze runner series, The ; Metro series ; Metropolis ; Minority report ; Mist, The ; Mumbo jumbo ; Neuromancer ; Never let me go ; Night of the living dead ; 1984 (nineteen eighty-four) ; On the beach ; Oryx and crake ; Outbreak ; Overwatch ; Parable of the sower ; Passage trilogy, The ; Planet of the apes series ; Player piano ; Pleasantville ; Postman, The ; Purge series, The ; Quiet place, A ; Ready player one ; Red dawn ; Red rising series ; Resident evil series ; Revelation, The book of ; Road, The ; Robocop ; Rollerball ; Ruins ; Running man, The ; Scanner darkly, A ; Seeking a friend for the end of the world ; Shaun of the dead ; Skin folk ; Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade ; Snow crash ; Snowpiercer ; Sorry to bother you ; Stand, The ; Starship troopers ; Station eleven ; Super sad true love story ; Surrogates ; Terminator series, The ; They live ; This is the end ; 3% ; THX-1138 ; Total recall ; Transcendence ; Transmetropolitan ; Trial, The ; Turner diaries, The ; 12 monkeys ; 28 days later and 28 weeks later ; 2001 : a space odyssey ; 2012 ; V ; V for Vendetta ; Walking dead, The ; WALL-E ; War of the worlds, The ; Wasteland ; Watchmen ; Watership Down ; Waterworld ; We ; Westworld ; What happened to Monday ; Windup girl, The ; Wool (the Silo series) ; World war Z ; World's end, The ; Y : the last man ; Z for Zachariah ; Zombieland.