- Which novel by Max Brooks gives eyewitness accounts of a zombie apocalypse?
- Which planet do the alien attackers come from in H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds?
- Which 19th century author, more famous for a horror novel, wrote the 1826 novel The Last Man, about the last survivors of a plague which has destroyed mankind?
- Which novel by H.G. Wells portrays the future earth as being divided between the weak Eloi and the brutal Morlock races?
- Botanist Bill Masen is the protagonist of which classic novel of 1951?
- What is the name of the eponymous pastor in Walter M. Miller’s 1959 novel about a resurgent Catholic church in the aftermath of a nuclear war in the United States?
- Which country is the setting for Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach, the last part of earth not yet made uninhabitable by nuclear fallout?
- Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban, is set in which county of England two thousand years after a nuclear holocaust? It also uses the dialect of the area throughout.
- Which Canadian novelist wrote Oryx and Crake, a Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a small group of survivors of genetic modifications which wipe out the rest of humanity?
- Who wrote The Second Sleep, a 2019 novel set in England 800 years after a technological collapse in which artefacts from the past are considered heretical by the Church?
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- Which novel by Max Brooks gives eyewitness accounts of a zombie apocalypse?
A: World War Z - Which planet do the alien attackers come from in H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds?
A: Mars - Which 19th century author, more famous for a horror novel, wrote the 1826 novel The Last Man, about the last survivors of a plague which has destroyed mankind?
A: Mary Shelley - Which novel by H.G. Wells portrays the future earth as being divided between the weak Eloi and the brutal Morlock races?
A: The Time Machine - Botanist Bill Masen is the protagonist of which classic post-apocalyptic novel of 1951?
A: The Day of the Triffids - What is the name of the eponymous pastor in Walter M. Miller’s 1959 novel about a resurgent Catholic church in the aftermath of a nuclear war in the United States?
A: Leibowitz (in A Canticle for Pastor Leibowitz) - Which country is the setting for Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach, the last part of earth not yet made uninhabitable by nuclear fallout?
A: Australia - Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban, is set in which county of England two thousand years after a nuclear holocaust? It also uses the dialect of the area throughout.
A: Kent - Which Canadian novelist wrote Oryx and Crake, a Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a small group of survivors of genetic modifications which wipe out the rest of humanity?
A: Margaret Atwood - Who wrote The Second Sleep, a 2019 novel set in England 800 years after a technological collapse in which artefacts from the past are considered heretical by the Church?
A: Robert Harris