In the spirit of Gary Gygax's Appendix N, list of inspiration, here's a few sources for inspiration in the Gamma strain. This list is a work in progress, and by no means exhaustive. I can't say I've read/seen all of those listed, but it's at least a good place to start with the genre overall. I tried to choose the source that had the most, best, or central jump-point for finding more info. Here's some additional thoughts on what gets included in Appendix G.
BOOKS (Fiction)
Ariel
Daybreak 2250 A.D.
Dark Tower (series)
Day by Day Armageddon (series)
Deathlands (series)
Dying Earth, The
Hiero's Journey / Unforsaken Hiero
Hothouse
Man Who Japed, The
Mind Storm: A Strykers Syndicate Novel
Mutant
Neanderthal Planet
Road, The
Robopocalypse
Search for WondLa, The
Twilight World
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies
World War Z (link goes to book, but page includes movie link)
More
BOOKS (Nonfiction)
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
The Earth After Us
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
COMICS
Akira
American Barbarian (web comic)
Atomic War!
Camelot 3000
Deathlok
Dollhouse
Doomsday
Hulk
Joe the Barbarian
Judge Dredd
Kamandi
Kill All Monsters! (web comic)
Killraven
Mighty Samson
RAGE
Xenozoic Tales
Y the Last Man
MOVIES
1990: The Bronx Warriors
28 Days/Weeks Later
2019: After The Fall of New York
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The
America 3000
Beastmaster, The
Bit Trouble in Little China
Boy and His Dog, A
Children of Men, The
Damnation Alley
Day the World Ended
Death Race 2000
Escape From New York / LA
Fantastic Planet
Flash Gordon
Gattaca
Gor
In the Year 2889
Heavy Metal
Independence Day
Krull
Lightyears (Gandahar)
Logan's Run
Mars Attacks!
New Barbarians, The
Oblivion
Pacific Rim
Planet of the Dinosaurs
Priest
Running Man, The
Swamp Thing
Time Bandits
Time Machine, The (1960)
Time Machine, The (2002)
Time Masters
THX 1138
Total Recall
Toxic Avenger, The
Wizards
Zardoz
Zombieland
TV (Fiction)
Ark II
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
Cleopatra 2525
Dark Angel
Dino-Riders
Falling Skies
Futurama
Galtar and the Golden Lance
Herculoids
Land of the Lost
Otherworld
Terra Nova
Thundarr the Barbarian (links to a GWW post with several links)
V (1980s miniseries and 2000s remake)
Walking Dead
TV (Documentary)
Aftermath
Colony, The
Life After People
The Future is Wild
FRANCHISES (Three or more categories, most with multiple movies)
Godzilla
I Am Legend (Omega Man)
Masters of the Universe
Night of the Living Dead
Planet of the Apes
Road Warrior, The
Terminator, The
War of the Worlds
YOUTUBE / VIMEO
Multinauts
Shadowrun (GenCon promo video)*
Wildspace (abandoned TSR Spelljammer VHS game)*
*No formal product release, now relegated to the interwebs
VIDEO GAMES
Bioshock
Borderlands
Dino D-Day (Dinosaurs & Nazi mod for Half-Life)
Doom (series)
Fallout (series)
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (mod for FC3)
Homefront
Last of Us, The
Left 4 Dead (series)
RAGE
Wasteland (series)
More
PEN & PAPER RPGs
Aftermath
Apocalypse World
Crawling Under a Broken Moon
Cyborg Commando
Deadlands
Gamma World
Metamorphosis Alpha
Morrow Project, The
Mutant Crawl Classics
Mutant Epoch
Mutant Future
Polaris
Rifts for Savage Worlds
Super Science & Sorcery
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: After the Bomb
Twilight 2000
More
BOARD GAMES
Attack of the Mutants
Dark Future
Car Wars
Conquest of Planet Earth
Gammarauders
King of Tokyo / King of New York
Mars Attacks
Moongha Invaders: Mad Scientists and Atomic Monsters Attack the Earth!
Mutants and Death Ray Guns
Neuroshima Hex
Thunder Road: The Ram and Wreck Survival Game
Waste Knights
Zombicide
More inspiration from other sources (sites, bloggers, etc.)
The Dwarf and the Basilisk blog's GW inspirations
Wikipedia's list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Last updated October 4, 2016
