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Post-apocalyptic fiction explores life after a catastrophe has transformed or devastated civilisation. Its stories consider survival and what communities might build from what remains.

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October 2026

29Oct 2026

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Fool Night: in Netflix’s new anime, the sun has gone out and the poor can sell themselves as houseplants (anime news).

Fool Night, the first collaboration between Sunrise and SHAFT, adapts Kasumi Yasuda's manga about a sunless world where people become oxygen-making plants. All…

ColonelFrog29 Oct 2026

Pokémon TCG Aura Seeker: Mega Lucario Z leads, Persian wants your pocket money, and the Fist of the North Star artist draws a wrestler (games news).

ZX Spectrum history book loads in 98 minutes, no tape errors reported.

Criminal teaser: Prime Video raids the Brubaker and Phillips back catalogue, and sensibly leaves the guns at home.

Set Phasers to Litigate: When Genre Franchises Savage Their Own Fans.

D.J. Taylor goes in search of Tolkien in The King Under the Mountain, and the Professor would have hated every minute of it (book news).

Spooktacular! – Illustrators Special Edition #20 (book review).

Slopcore: the robots have formed a band, and they’d like a word about your P(doom).

Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news).

“It’s effectively gone”: Catherynne M. Valente on the Mass Effect story that went down with BioWare (games news).

Physint at Beyond the Strand: Kojima shows his homework, and it looks suspiciously like Metal Gear (games).

Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news).

John Leeson (1943–2026): the voice of K9, Rainbow’s first Bungle, and the Doctor’s most loyal companion (obituary).

Godzilla Minus Zero: the big lad turns 72 by stomping into Japanese cinemas, with America next on Friday (monster movie news).

Dragon Ball Z Goes To Court, Gorilla Grodd Stands Trial And Arkane Gets Suitors (Offworld Report, 1–5 November 2026).

Set Phasers to Litigate: When Genre Franchises Savage Their Own Fans.

Darth Vader meets Doctor Doom, and the cape budget doubles: Hope Assembles unveils new variant covers (comics news).

Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news).

Welcome to Doomton: Marvel’s new map of Latveria shows a country where everything is named after the landlord (film news).

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Post-apocalyptic fiction

October 2026

Fool Night: in Netflix’s new anime, the sun has gone out and the poor can sell themselves as houseplants (anime news).