The Dead Lands (2015) novel

The Dead Lands (2015) novel by Benjamin Percy is an imaginative retelling of Lewis and Clark's journey across the west, except this time the setting is a post-apocalyptic North America where people have been killed off by a superflu and nuclear warfare. The intrepid future explorers, Lewis Meriwether and Mina Clark, set out from a walled version of St. Louis, Missouri, known as The Sanctuary.

Will the world end on October 7, 2015?

Yet another (to be) mistaken Biblical prophecy has popped up with a specific date as to when the world will end: October 7, 2015.

The Future and Why We Should Avoid It (2014) non-fiction book

The Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, The Apocalypse and Other Topics of Mild Concern (2014) by Scott Feschuk consists of his witty columns from Maclean's magazine. You may or may not want to take this seriously, with cheek in hand.

Station Eleven (2014) novel

Emily St. John Mandel's novel Station Eleven sees the world depopulated by a plague. The work is set in two timelines, the period before the plague and twenty years after. The novel has been reviewed as part thriller, part dystopian future commentary.

The Last Man on Earth (2015-) TV series

Given time, all things are possibly in TV-land, including a romantic comedy of post-apocalyptic proportions. Starring Will Forte as Phil Miller, who believes himself to be the last human on the planet after a virus epidemic, The Last Man on Earth is a promising and fresh comedy that debuted on the Fox Network on March 1, 2015.

Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? (2014) non-fiction book

Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain by Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek was published in 2014 by Princeton University Press. The title is a play on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which formed the basis for Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner (1982). The authors are neuroscientists and members of the Zombie Research Society. The book is intended to be taken seriously and as satire. The last chapter includes several survival tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse.