Another Day Breaks Trivia Quiz

Answer: Children of the Dust

Written by Louise Lawrence and published in 1985, the book opens with a nuclear strike on an English town. It then follows three generations of the survivors as they cope with radiation, a nuclear winter, mutation and all the other horrors of nuclear war.

Answer: S.M. Stirling

What would happen if something caused all the technology in the world to fail - no electricity, no computers, no machines of any sort? Could mankind cope with this? This 2004 book looks at a world that suddenly has technology on par with the bronze age.

Answer: Oil

If someone or something cut the world's oil supplies how quickly would civilisation descend into anarchy and chaos, and what would be the purpose behind such an action? Science fiction meets conspiracy theory in these two books.

Answer: Jack London

The story is set 60 years after an epidemic has decimated the population of the planet. One of the few survivors of the pre-plague era realises that he is dying, and tries to impart to his grandson the value of knowledge and learning.

The book was originally published in 1912. Jack London is better known for novels such as "White Fang" and "Call Of The Wild".

Answer: Canticle for Leibowitz

Written by Walter Miller Jr. and published in 1960, this book covers thousands of years as civilisation is rebuilt after a nuclear war. A group of monks have preserved the remnants of the pre-war scientific knowledge, and keep it safe until the world is ready for it again.

Answer: Pierre Boulle

Made into films, TV series, animated series, and a comic book, this book is about a space mission landing on a planet ruled by intelligent apes with humans being the animal species. Published in 1963 as "Monkey Planet" it was reissued under the title "Planet of The Apes" to tie into the film it inspired.

Answer: Red Alert

Written in 1958 by Peter George, "Red Alert" was originally published under the title "Two Hours to Doom". Whilst the Peter Sellers film was a comedy, the book was a serious tale of how close we are to nuclear war, and how easy it would be for that war to start.

Answer: Time of the Great Freeze

The remnants of humanity are living in underground cities after an environmental disaster triggers a new Ice Age. One group of explorers leaves the safety of their city to travel to another one that they have contacted by radio. In the course of their journey they find groups of people who have survived the 300 years since the disaster, and who have adapted to living outside rather than underground.

Answer: J. G. Ballard

The novels in question are "The Wind From Nowhere" published in 1961, "The Drowned World" published in 1962 and "The Drought" published in 1964. J.G. Ballard's best known work is probably "Empire of the Sun", which was made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg.

Answer: Make Room! Make Room!

Unchecked overpopulation has led to resources of all types being in short supply. Water is rationed, food is manufactured protein, jobs have to be purchased and the elderly are encouraged to commit state assisted suicide.
The film "Soylent Green" introduced the scenario of dead bodies being processed into food. This differs from the book which did not contain this.