In How to Survive the Apocalypse Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson examine a number of popular stories ' from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica to the purging of innocence in Game of Thrones to the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead ' and argue that such apocalyptic stories reveal a lot about us here and now, about how we conceive of our life together, including some of our deepest tensions and anxieties.