Post-Apocalyptic Recovery

Description

After civilizational collapse, survivors must rebuild institutions, supply chains, and social trust from scratch, testing which structures prove resilient.

Real-World Relevance

Relevant to disaster recovery planning, civilizational resilience, and debates about which institutions and technologies are most critical to preserve.

Classification

Domains: Existential Risk and Civilizational CollapseGovernance and Political SystemsEconomics and Resource AllocationMedicine and Human EnhancementSocial Engineering and Psychology

Scenario Types: Cautionary taleThought experiment / What-if

Outcomes: CautionaryAmbiguous / MixedAspirational

Tags: post-apocalypsecivilizational-recoveryresilienceurban-collapse-folk-resilienceurban-collapsefolk-knowledgecommunity-resiliencemarginalized-survival

Stories (62)

• A Canticle for Leibowitz — Walter M. Miller Jr., Волтер Майкл Міллер-молодший (1959)
• After Worlds Collide — Philip Wylie (1934)
• Beyond the burning lands — Sam Youd (1971)
• Black August — Dennis Wheatley (1934)
• Borne — Jeff VanderMeer (2017)
• Breed to Come — Andre Norton (1972)
• Brown Girl in the Ring — Nalo Hopkinson (1998)
• Cemetary World — Clifford D. Simak (1973)
• City — Clifford D. Simak (1952)
• Damnation Alley — Roger Zelazny (1969)
• Destination Unknown — Katherine Applegate (2001)
• Dreamsnake — Vonda N. McIntyre (1978)
• Empire of the Atom — A. E. van Vogt (1957)
• Fellowship of Talisman — Clifford D. Simak (1978)
• Gather, darkness! — Fritz Leiber, Jonathan Davis (1950)
• Great sky river — Gregory Benford (1984)
• Into the Still Blue — Veronica Rossi (2014)
• Junkyard Planet — H. Beam Piper, H. Bean Piper (1963)
• Lucifer's Hammer — Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle (1977)
• MaddAdam — Margaret Atwood (2013)
• MaddAddam — Margaret Atwood (2013)
• Mara and Dann — Doris Lessing (1999)
• Monsters — Ilsa J. Bick (2013)
• Pandora's Genes — Kathryn Lance (2001)
• Space Viking — H. Beam Piper (1963)
• Star Man's Son 2250 A.D. — Andre Norton (1951)
• Star Rangers — Andre Norton (1953)
• Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
• Swan Song — Robert R. McCammon (1978)
• The boy on the bridge — M. R. Carey (2017)
• The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember) — Jeanne DuPrau (1998)
• The City of Mirrors — Justin Cronin (2016)
• The Day of the Triffids — John Wyndham, Marcel Battin, Cover by Andy Bridge (1951)
• The Dream Compass — Jeff Bredenberg (1991)
• The Foundation Trilogy — Isaac Asimov (1950)
• The girl who owned a city — O. T. Nelson (1975)
• The Kill Order — James Dashner (2012)
• The Kiln (Fire-Us, #03) — Jennifer L. Armstrong, Nancy Butcher (2003)
• The Last American — John Ames Mitchell (1889)
• The Long Mars — Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (2014)
• The Long Tomorrow — Leigh Brackett (1955)
• The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury (1950)
• The Memoirs of a Survivor — Doris Lessing (1974)
• The Passage — Justin Cronin (2010)
• The People of Sparks (Book of Ember #2) — Jeanne DuPrau (2004)
• The Postman — David Brin (1985)
• The Scarlet Plague — Jack London (1910)
• The Shadow Trap — Jude Watson (2003)
• The Sky Road — Ken MacLeod (1997)
• The Stand — Stephen King (1978)
• The Story of General Dann and Mara's daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog — Doris Lessing (2005)
• The Twelve — Justin Cronin (2012)
• The Wild Shore — Kim Stanley Robinson (1984)
• The Year of the Flood — Margaret Atwood (2009)
• This Immortal — Roger Zelazny (1966)
• Under the Never Sky — Veronica Rossi (2012)
• Vault of the ages — Poul Anderson (1952)
• Waterworld (Movie-Tie-in) — Max Allan Collins (1995)
• When Worlds Collide — Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (1932)
• Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang — Kate Wilhelm (1976)
• World War Z — Max Brooks (2006)
• Z for Zachariah — Robert C. O'Brien (1975)

Related Ideas

• Nuclear Wasteland Survival Dynamics
• Sudden Technology Collapse
• Uncontrollable Psychic Weapon
• Body Rental Economy

SF Dictionary

post-apocalyptic · post-apocalypse