Wasteland may refer to: A landscape devoid of nutrients, soil and/or moisture; see also, overgrazing, slash and burn, deforestation, erosion, scorched earth Wasteland (mythology), the Celtic motif of the land of the Fisher King Wasteland Speech, a 1961 speech by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow in which he compares television to "a vast wasteland" Entertainment The Waste Land, a poem by T. S. Eliot , a novel by Stephen King Wasteland (Block novel), a novel by Francesca Lia Block Wasteland (… (More on Wasteland)