TOP 10 COZY CATASTROPHES

	5. Mad Max Trilogy: Mad Max tries to defend his family in a post-nuclear waste-land. The Australian cult classic spawned two sequels.
	4. The Road: Cormac McCarthy’s follow up to “No Country for Old Men”, The Road follows a father and son as they cross a scorched America. The Village Voice writes, “McCarthy lets down his cynical guard enough to suggest that the future—to say nothing of the present—invariably resembles a wasteland when viewed from the vantage point of someone with an abundance of past.”
	3. The War of the Worlds: The iconic work by H.G. Welles which has inspired a multitude of movies, an infamous radio broadcast, a disco symphony, a television series and I’m sure too many other products to list. The story takes place in Victorian England and follows a band of survivors as they try to avoid Martian Tripod machines which are devastating England and presumably the world.
	2. I am Legend: Matheson’s novel about the last human survivor of a devastating plague which turns most of the world’s population in to vampiric creatures. Adapted in to three motion pictures,The Last Man on Earth, Omega Man, and the upcoming I am Legend starring Will Smith.
	1. Day of the Triffids: John Wyndham’s tale of life after a global “blinding” leaves the human race helpless against genetically engineered carnivorous plants. The story has been adapted in to a movie, a television series and spawned a sequel novel “Night of the Triffids”.

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