In 1969, he wrote a short story titled “A Boy and His Dog,” which tells the tale of a 15-year-old wasteland scavenger named Vic and his telepathic dog Blood. The story was also adapted into a 1975 film, which Fallout designer Jesse Heinig told The Escapist in 2009 “inspired Fallout on many levels” (including Dogmeat’s name, which was taken from a nickname Vic gives Blood in the film).
It also influenced “Love and Monsters” (2020)
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/lq-jones-on-a-boy-and-his-dog-the-rt-interview/
And Mad Max.
Oh, and the dog is the same dog that was “Tiger” on “The Brady Bunch”
My friend and I are B-movie afficionados. A Boy and His Dog is a long time favorite of ours, going back to the original Fallout days.
He recently bought and sent me this amazing knockoff poster with a bunch of weird shit that isn’t even in the movie:
https://deadly-prey-gallery.myshopify.com/products/a-boy-and-his-dog-high-quality-print-nii-bi-ashitey
(The name of the gallery, Deadly Prey, is a reference to another fine B-movie masterpiece.)
I had watched it before, and I watched it with my adult son last night.
It holds up. Good times