Second Variety

Sixty years after a pandemic wiped out nearly everyone, an old survivor tries to explain the vanished world to grandchildren who barely believe him. A short, bleak study of how fast knowledge disappears.

Jack London

Humanity has hidden underground for eight years while robots fight the nuclear war on the surface. Then a team goes up to see the damage for themselves. A 1953 Philip K. Dick story with a clever twist.

Philip K. Dick

Explorers reach a planet destroyed by nuclear war, and an automatic gun still standing guard shoots them down. A 1952 Philip K. Dick story about a weapon that keeps fighting long after its makers are gone.

Philip K. Dick

On a train, a stranger describes a life he dreamed in the future, where he chose love over power and watched a world war in the air destroy everything. H. G. Wells's 1901 vision of the end of a civilization.

H. G. Wells