There’s a highly-readable article on the BBC News site about movie-makers’ fascination with worlds doomed by science run amok:
A new BBC adaptation is being made of The Day of the Triffids, but why are we still prepared to believe in a post-apocalyptic world roamed by flesh-eating semi-sentient plants? And do we have a love affair with fictionalised destruction?
Andy Sawyer, librarian at the Science Fiction Foundation Collection at the