Thinking along the lines of Gamma World as opposed to Twilight:2000, what works define the genre for you?

This is very off the cuff but I will list a few things I thought of to get the ball rolling:

Books
Hiero's Journey, Sterling Lanier
The Pastel City, M. John Harrison
Witherwing, David Jarrett

Visual Media
Wizards, Ralph Bakshi
Thundarr the Barbarian, Steve Gerber, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, etc.

Games
Gamma World, James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet
Encounter Critical, Hank Riley and Jim Ireland
Mutant Future, Ryan Denison and Daniel Proctor


Like I said, super-quick. What works define the genre for you?

I... Love... Wizards.

Books
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr
Orphans of the Sky, Farnham's Freehold by Robert A, Heinlein

Comics/Graphic Novels
Heavy Metal
Epic Illustrated
-Generation Zero (story)
Doomsday +1 (Wow, I haven't thought of that one in a long time...)

Movies/Television
A Boy and His Dog
Mad Max
The Road Warrior
Ark 2
Thundarr the Barbarian

RPG Modules
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

RPGs
Gamma World
Mutant Future

Other Games
Car Wars

Books:

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
All the various post-apocalyptic novels and short stories by PKD (too many to list individually)
Feersum Endjinn by Ian M. Banks
The Open: Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben
Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

I recently picked up a copy of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and it may go on list.

Visual:

Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini
Moebius
Brom
H.R. Giger
Heavy Metal

Movies:

The Road Warrior, Mad Max, Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome
Zardoz
12 Monkeys
Damnation Alley
Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead
Children of Men
All Quiet on the Western Front

Games:

Fallout 1-4
Warhammer 40K
Stars Without Number (the most recent addition to this list)
After the Bomb
Killzone 1-3
Alternity

These are all influences in one way or another. I'm thinking of picking up The Company when it comes out and seeing if it's any good for post-apocalyptic stuff.

Quote from: jeff37923;502073Movies/Television
A Boy and His Dog

This is actually based on a better short story. I can't recall who by at the moment however.

Isn't it Harlan Ellison? Yes, it is.

Movies:
Hell comes to Frogtown
Planet of the Apes

Books:
Tomorrow's Children (Poul Anderson)
Worlds Apart
Dinner at Deviant's Palace

(Mad Max, Damnation Alley came to me as well, but scooped)

Logan's Run

Chrysalids, The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

The Tripods Trilogy - John Christopher

Dark Tower - Stephen King

The Jon Shannow books by David Gemmell

Quote from: Silverlion;502096This is actually based on a better short story. I can't recall who by at the moment however.

Quote from: Elliot Wilen;502097Isn't it Harlan Ellison? Yes, it is.

Yup, Harlan Ellison.

The best rendition of this story I've seen is a graphic novel that came out about a decade ago IIRC.

It's just that the movie has that funny-as-Hell scene with a young  pre-Miami Vice Don Johnson with his pecker plugged into a milking machine. That always makes me laugh.

A few I would add to the list here...

2142, Andre Norton
Witch World, Andre Norton
Aftermath, Levar Burton
Cemetary World, Clifford D. Simak, originally published in analog magazine in 1972.
Neuromancer, William Gibson

I don't have much, books and films I remember....

Books of the New Earth by Gene Wolfe

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
La jetee
Omega Man
No Blade of Grass
Escape From New York
Death Race 2000
Reign of Fire

Regards,
David R

RIFTS.

RPGPundit

Most of what I use as inspiration was already said, but I can't believe nobody mentioned The Postman.

I know the movie is mediocre at best, but the book. Is. Awesome. Seriously, go and read it if you did not.

So far, I'm struggling to read through Wasteland as I heard it is quite good Post Apocalyptic, if ancient, system. Other then that, I use the free Fallout rpg released.

I am generally a fan of "serious" post - apocalyptic setting. Mutants are usually outcasts, and mutations aren't that common as you are more likely to die from radiation then grow additional arm. What I like to do is to imagine that since travel is now very hard, each village/town is basically it's own culture. Allows fun, freeform world creation.

Quote from: Rincewind1;502349Most of what I use as inspiration was already said, but I can't believe nobody mentioned The Postman.

I can. The OP specifically asked for 'science fantasy' in the vein of Gamma World, and The Postman ain't that. Neither are many of the other things mentioned upthread. Of course, the OP did also ask for 'inspiration', so in that sense almost anything could apply, I guess.