After Man

There's been discussion lately that we live in the Anthropocene, occasionally subtitled The Age of Man, the period of geologic time defined by human's shaping of the planet. It is said that our fingerprint will be discernable in the sedimentary layers 10 million years from now. The TV shows like Aftermath: Population Zero and Life After People illustrated how quickly the world changes once humans are gone. Dougal Dixon imagined post-human evolution in his books After Man (loosely adapted as the documentary The Future is Wild) and Man After Man. The relics of the human world play heavily in science fiction such as Planet of the Apes, Robert Silverberg's At Winter's End, Thundarr the Barbarian, Brian Aldiss' Hothouse, Kamandi, and Mighty Samson, which gave us some amazing covers.