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This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works, sorted by the nature of the catastrophe portrayed.

Contents

[edit] Nuclear holocaust

Main article: List of nuclear holocaust fiction

[edit] World War III and other apocalyptic wars (between humans)

Main article: World War III in popular culture

[edit] Film

Title Year Type Author and notes
20 Years After 2008 Human wars A post apocalyptic fairy tale set 20 years after a nuclear war. Story of a young woman's journey to deliver the first child born in 15 years.[1]
2019, After the Fall of New York 1983 Human wars
2020 Texas Gladiators 1982 Human wars [2][3]
A Boy and His Dog 1975 Human wars A young man and his dog struggle for survival and encounter strife in a harsh, post-apocalyptic wasteland where food and sex are scarcities.
The Aftermath 1982 Human wars "Zombie Aftermath" in UK[4]
Akira 1988 Human wars By Katsuhiro Otomo
Appleseed 2004 Human wars
Atomic War Bride 1960 Human wars [5] [6]
Barefoot Gen 1983 Human wars Based on the actual atomic bombing of Hiroshima (not technically post-apocalypse, but rather post-disaster)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973 Human wars
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell 2007 Human wars
The Bed Sitting Room 1969 Human wars [7][8]
The Bedford Incident 1965 Human wars [9]
Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 Human wars
Black Moon 1975 Human wars
Black Rain 1989 Human wars Another film about the actual bombing of Hiroshima.
The Blood of Heroes 1989 Human wars
By Dawn's Early Light 1990 Human wars
Captive Women 1952 Human wars The first film to imagine a new primitive society emerging long after a nuclear war. Features three tribes, the "Norms", the "Upriver People", and the "Mutates", fighting in the remains of New York City.[10][11]
Casshern 2004 Human wars
Cherry 2000 1987 Human wars
City Limits 1985 Human wars
City of Ember 2008 Human wars Based on the book by Jeanne Duprau
Creepozoids 1987 Human wars
Cyborg 1989 Human wars
Cyborg 2 1993 Human wars
Damnation Alley 1977 Human wars A surviving American ICBM crew sets out across the United States in an armored vehicle in search of survivors in Albany, New York. Loosely based on the novel by Roger Zelazny.
Dark Enemy 1984 Human wars [12]
Day the World Ended 1955 Human wars [13][14]
Dead Man's Letters 1986 Human wars
Deadly Reactor 1989 Human wars [7][8]
Death Run 1987 Human wars
Deathlands: Homeward Bound 2003 Human wars Based on the book series Deathlands
Deathsport 1978 Human wars
Def-Con 4 1985 Human wars
Delicatessen 1991 Human wars By Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
Dr. Strangelove 1964 Human wars By Stanley Kubrick, adapting the novel Red Alert by Peter George.
Empire of Ash II 1989 Human wars
Empire of Ash III 1989 Human wars
Empire of Ash 1988 Human wars
The End of August at the Hotel Ozone 1967 Human wars Czech title: Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon [15][16]
Endgame 1983 Human wars [17]
Equilibrium 2002 Human wars After barely surviving yet another worldwide conflict, mankind rejects all emotion and outlaws all forms of expression which might encourage emotional response.
Escape From New York 1981 Human wars
Exterminators of the Year 3000 1983 Human wars [18][19][20]
Fail-Safe 1964 Human wars Theatrical release based on the novel of the same name. Drama in which a technical failure causes a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union by the United States. Deals with American and Soviet attempts to prevent escalation into a full-scale nuclear war.
The Final War 1960 Human wars By Shigeaki Hidaka, a Japanese film about a third world war started when the US accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Korea (Japanese title: Dai-sanji sekai taisen: Yonju-ichi jikan no kyofu).[21][22]
Fist of the North Star 1986 Human wars
Fist of the North Star 1995 Human wars
Five 1951 Human wars By Arch Oboler, the first film to show the aftermath of a nuclear war, centered on a group of five survivors.[23][24]
Genesis II 1973 Human wars By Gene Roddenberry, later remade as unsuccessful TV pilot Planet Earth
Glen and Randa 1971 Human wars [25][26]
The Handmaid's Tale 1990 Human wars
Hardware 1990 Human wars
Hell Comes to Frogtown 1987 Human wars
Human Highway 1982 Human wars
In the Year 2889 1967 Human wars A remake of the 1955 film Day the World Ended
Invasion USA 1952 Human wars
Journey to the Center of Time 1967 Human wars [27][28]
Judge Dredd 1995 Human wars
La città dell'ultima paura 1975 Human wars [29]
La Jetée 1962 Human wars By Chris Marker.
The Last Man on Earth 1964 Human wars This is the first film adaptation based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend.
The Last War 1961 Human wars By Shuei Matsubayashi, another Japanese film about World War III (Japanese title: Sekai daisenso).[30][31]
Le Dernier Combat 1983 Human wars By Luc Besson
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 1981 Human wars
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 Human wars
Malevil 1981 Human wars Film version directed by Christian de Chalonge. Starring Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Mindwarp 1990 Human wars
Miracle Mile 1988 Human wars
Mutant Chronicles 2008 Human wars Based on the Mutant Chronicles RPG
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 Human wars By Hayao Miyazaki
The Noah 1975 Human wars An American soldier who appears to be the sole survivor of a nuclear war.
The Omega Man 1971 Human wars An immune survivor of a biological/nuclear war battles plague-altered quasi-vampires bent on erasing all vestiges of science and technology. The movie is based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend.
On the Beach 1959 Human wars By Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins and Ava Gardner. The crew of an American submarine finds temporary safety from the fallout in Australia after the nuclear holocaust (from the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute).
On the Beach 2000 Human wars A remake of the 1959 film.
Panic in Year Zero! 1962 Human wars A 1962 movie about a family that escapes Los Angeles that was devastated by a nuclear attack.
The People Who Own the Dark 1976 Human wars By Amando de Ossorio (Spanish title: Último deseo) [32][33]
Planet of the Apes 1968 Human wars Adapted from the novel La planète des singes by Pierre Boulle.
The Postman 1997 Human wars Partly based on the David Brin Novel
Radio Free Steve 1984 Human wars Steve is a radio pirate in the days after WWIII bringing hope to the people after the remnants of the government re-emerged and shut down all TV and radio stations that had been broadcasting unlicensed.
Radioactive Dreams 1984 Human wars After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in a bunker, then they find the keys to the last MX missile.[34][35]
Ravagers 1979 Human wars [36]
Refuge of Fear 1973 Human wars (Spanish title: El refugio del miedo)[37]
Robot Holocaust 1986 Human Wars
Robot Jox 1990 Human wars
Robot Wars 1993 Human wars Sequel to Robot Jox
The Sacrifice 1986 Human wars
Sexmisja 1984 Human wars A Polish comedy.
She[38] 1982 Human wars A low-budget B-movie, an extremely loose adaptation of the novel She by H. Rider Haggard, starring Sandahl Bergman as a post-civilization warrior.
Six-String Samurai 1998 Human wars
Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Human wars A late-21st century Earth is devastated by nuclear conflict.
Steel Dawn 1987 Human wars [39]
Stryker 1983 Human wars [40][41]
The Survivalist 1987 Human wars The Soviet Union threatens a retaliatory nuclear attack, amid the chaos, only The Survivalist has a plan.[42]
Survivor 1987 Human wars [43]
Teenage Cave Man 1958 Human wars
Terror from the Year 5000 1958 Human wars [44][45][46]
Testament 1983 Human wars
Things to Come 1936 Human wars A future second world war leads to a breakdown of civilization in most of the world, with technology returning to medieval levels by 1970.
The Third Cry 1974 Human wars (Swiss film, French title: Le Troisième Cri) [47][48]
This Is Not a Test 1962 Human wars [5][49]
The Time Machine 1960 Human wars had an atomic war to explain the downfall of civilization.
Time of the Wolf 2003 Human wars
The Time Travelers 1964 Human wars [50][51]
Urban Warriors 1987 Human wars Three technicians working in an underground laboratory discover that a nuclear war has destroyed most of the above ground world.
Warrior of the Lost World 1983 Human wars
Warrior of the Lost World 1985 Human wars
Warriors of the Apocalypse 1985 Human wars After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life.
Warriors of the Wasteland 1982 Human wars
When the Wind Blows 1986 Human wars By Jimmy Murakami, adapting the graphic novel by Raymond Briggs
Whoops Apocalypse 1986 Human wars
Wizards 1977 Human wars By Ralph Bakshi. A good wizard and his evil brother battle some two millennia after Armageddon.
World Gone Wild 1988 Human wars [52][53]
World War III 1982 Human wars Television miniseries depicting a possible scenario in which the Cold War gets hot.
World Without End 1956 Human wars By Edward Bernd, starring Hugh Marlowe, Rod Taylor. Robust 20th Century men—narrowly escaping the ubiquitous "time warp"—kill giant spiders, help pale nerds and their beautiful women emerge from underground, and retake the post World War III surface from troglodyte mutants.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil 1959 Human wars Adapted from M.P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud.
Yor, the Hunter from the Future 1983 Human wars [54]
Zardoz 1974 Human wars

[edit] Television

Title Year Type Author and notes
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century 1979 Human wars Mostly futuristic in appearance, but outside of the gleaming Utopian city lies apocalyptic ruins swarming with mutants.
Dance Of The Dead 2005 Human wars An episode of Masters of Horror directed by Tobe Hooper. It has a triple apocalyptic theme as it features a man made virus causing a zombie outbreak after World War 3.
The Day After 1983 Human wars The effects of nuclear war on a Kansas town.
Day of the Daleks 1975 Human wars A Dr Who story that also features alien invasion. Guerrillas from the future explain that they are attempting to kill someone because he caused an explosion at the peace conference, starting a series of wars that left humanity vulnerable to Dalek conquest.[55]
Desert Punk 2004-2005 Human wars Anime series.
Fail Safe 2000 Human wars Televised play based on the novel of the same name directed by Stephen Frears and produced by George Clooney. Drama in which a technical failure causes a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union by the United States. Deals with American and Soviet attempts to prevent escalation into a full-scale nuclear war.
Fist of the North Star 1984-1987 Human wars Post-apocalyptic anime series.
Future Boy Conan 1978 Human wars An anime series by Hayao Miyazaki. Supermagnetic WMDs devastate Earth and causes virtually all land to be submerged underwater.
The Girl from Tomorrow 1990 Human wars Australian children's drama in which a girl from the 31st century (after the Northern Hemisphere has been destroyed in the Great Disaster, later revealed to be a nuclear holocaust) becomes stranded in the 20th century. In the sequel, Tomorrow's End (1993), she and her friends fight to prevent history from being changed in such a way that the Southern Hemisphere is destroyed as well.
Jeremiah 2002 Human wars A live-action television series which takes place 15 years after a worldwide pandemic wipes out every post-adolescent human on earth.
Jericho 2006 Human wars CBS, about the residents of a small Kansas town which remains isolated in the aftermath of a series of nuclear attacks on America.
Knight Rider 2010 1994 Human wars Made for TV movie that was designed to be a pilot for a post- Apocalyptic spin-off from the original Knight Rider
Knights of God 1987 Human wars
Masters of Science Fiction 2007 Human wars Episode, A Clean Escape
Now and Then, Here and There 1999 Human wars An Anime series that takes place 10 billion years into the future, where mankind lusts for power, and children are forced into military duty.
The Offshore Island 1959 Human wars A TV adaptation of a play by Marghanita Laski.[56]
The Outer Limits 1964 - 2002 Human wars "Soldier" (Cited as an influence on the movie The Terminator); "Bits of Love"; "The Human Factor"
Planet Earth 1974 Human wars Unsuccessful TV pilot remake of Genesis II
Planet Of The Apes 1974 Human wars TV series
Return to the Planet of the Apes 1975 Human wars Animated TV series
Saikano 2002 Human wars Anime series.
Strange New World 1975 Human wars Another unsuccessful TV pilot remake of Genesis II & Planet Earth
Threads 1984 Human wars BBC Television Docudrama.
The Twilight Zone, numerous episodes, and its revivals 1959-1987 Human wars "Time Enough at Last" (1959); "Two" (1961); "The Old Man in the Cave" (1963); "A Little Peace and Quiet" (1985); "Quarantine" (1986); "Shelter Skelter" (1987); and "Voices in the Earth" (1987)
The War Game 1965 Human wars By Peter Watkins.
Whoops Apocalypse 1982 Human wars
woops! 1992 Human wars Short-lived sitcom about the survivors of a nuclear war.
World War III 1982 Human wars Miniseries with Rock Hudson.
Z for Zachariah 1984 Human wars BBC adaptation of the 1975 novel of the same name.

[edit] Novels

Title Year Type Author Notes
After London[57] 1885 Human wars Jefferies, Richard
Aftermath 1997 Human wars Burton, Levar American civilization crumbles after a civil war pitting blacks against whites and a devastating earthquake.
Alas, Babylon 1959 Human wars Frank, Pat The aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community.
The Amtrak Wars 1983 Human wars Patrick Tilley Series, first book 1983, Set at the end of the 3rd millennium
Ape and Essence 1948 Human wars Huxley, Aldous Also screenplay.
The Ashes[58] 1983 Human wars William W. Johnstone Series, first book 1983, Out of the Ashes
The Book of Dave 2006 Human wars Self, Will Split between modern London and post-apocalyptic London where a new society and religion is based on the legacy of a cab driver.
Brother in the Land 1984 Human wars Swindells, Robert
By the Waters of Babylon 1937 Human wars Benet, Stephen Vincent Short story
A Canticle for Leibowitz 1960 Human wars Miller, Jr, Walter M. Sequel: Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Caravan 1975 Human wars Goldin, Stephen
Children of the Dust 1985 Human wars Lawrence, Louise
The Chrysalids 1955 Human wars Wyndham, John U.S. title: Re-Birth, the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Canadian community.
The City of Ember 2003 Human wars DuPrau, Jeanne Sequels are The People of Sparks and The Diamond of Darkhold, and prequel, The Prophet of Yonwood
Cloud Atlas 2004 Human wars David Mitchell Contains one of six novellas set in a post-apocalyptic future.
The Coming of the Horseclans 1975 Human wars Robert Adams Followed by seventeen other books in the horseclans series.
Cowl 2004 Human wars Asher, Neal
Damnation Alley 1969 Human wars Zelazny, Roger Made into a movie 1977.
Dark Universe 1961 Human wars Galouye, Daniel F.
Davy 1964 Human wars Pangborn, Edgar
Deadlands 2006 Human wars Johnson, Scott A.
Deathlands 1986 Human wars Axler, James Series, first book 1986
The Death Guard 1939 Human wars Philip George Chadwick When a near-invincible army of artificially created soldiers - the flesh guard - falls into the hands of an untrustworthy power, continental Europe forms an alliance and invades Britain. The resulting carnage, involving poisonous electric gas, "humanite" (atomic) bombs, and the unfeeling march of the Flesh Guard, reduces whole cities and towns in europe to smoking rubble.
Deus Irae 1976 Human wars Dick, Philip K. In collaboration with Roger Zelazny
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 Human wars Dick, Philip K. Filmed as Blade Runner
Doomsday Plus Twelve 1984 Human wars Forman, James D.
Down to a Sunless Sea 1979 Human wars Graham, David
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb 1965 Human wars Dick, Philip K.
Earth Abides 1949 Human wars Stewart, George R.
Emergence 1984 Human wars Palmer, David R.
Endworld 1986 Human wars Robbins, David L. Series, first book 1986
Farnham's Freehold 1964 Human wars Heinlein, Robert A.
Few Were Left[59] 1955 Human wars Rein, Harold
The Fifth Horseman 1980 Human wars Collins, Larry Coauthor Dominique Lapierre
Fire Brats 1987 Human wars Siegel, Scott Series, first book 1987, co-author Barbera Siegel, Grade 8-10
Fiskadoro 1985 Human wars Denis Johnson
Fitzpatrick's War 2004 Human wars Judson, Theodore
Flood 2008 Human wars Baxter, Stephen With two sequels projected, Huge underground oceans start leaking to the surface, lifting sea levels by thousands of metres over several decades.
Folk of the Fringe 1991? Human wars Orson Scott Card Novella "West," plus several short stories.
Freeway Fighter 1985 Human wars Livingstone, Ian Part of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook series (Like a Choose Your Own Adventure book)
Freeway Warrior 1988 Human wars Dever, Joe Series, first book 1988
Gan Moondark 1990–1994 Human wars Donald E. McQuinn Trilogy Warrior, Wanderer, & Witch, set in the Pacific Northwest, generations after World War III.
The Gate to Women's Country 1988 Human wars Tepper, Sheri S.
Gather, Darkness 1943 Human wars Leiber, Fritz[60]
The Goodness Gene 2005 Human wars Levitin, Sonia Children's book
Greatwinter Trilogy 1999 Human wars McMullen, Sean Series, trilogy, first book 1999
Heroes and Villains 1969 Human wars Carter, Angela
Hiero's Journey 1983 Human wars Lanier, Sterling E. Sequel is The Unforsaken Hiero 1985, A "metis" priest/killman quests across post-apocalyptic northeastern North America, seven thousand years in the future.
Horseclans 1975 Human wars Adams, Robert Series, first book 1975
Ice 1967 Human wars Kavan, Anna Earth threatened by Nuclear winter.
The Incredible Tide 1970 Human wars Key, Alexandar
The King Awakes[61] 1989 Human wars Elliott, Janice Also author of The Empty Throne
The Last Canadian 1974 Human wars Heine, William C.
The Last Children of Schewenborn 1983 Human wars Pausewang, Gudrun Die Letzten Kinder Von Schewenborn in German
Last Light 2007 Human wars Scarrow, Alex Sudden end of oil availability leads to worldwide social collapse.
The Last Man 1826 Human wars Shelley, Mary
The Last Ship 1988 Human wars Brinkley, William
The Last War 1970 Human wars Bulychev, Kir Russian language
Level 7 1959 Human wars Roshwald, Mordecai
The Long Mynd[62] 1985 Human wars Edward P. Hughes Also author of Masters of the Fist
The Long Tomorrow[63] 1955 Human wars Brackett, Leigh In the aftermath of a nuclear war scientific knowledge is feared and restricted.
Love in the Ruins 1971 Human wars Percy, Walker
Lucifer's Hammer 1977 Human wars Niven, Larry Coauthor Jerry Pournelle
Malevil 1972 Human wars Merle, Robert
Masters of the Fist[64] 1989 Human wars Hughes, Edward P. Coauthor The Long Mynd
Mortal Engines Quartet 2001 Human wars Reeve, Phillip Series, first book 2001, Set in the distant future
Nightfall 1990 Human wars Asimov, Isaac Robert Silverberg (extension written by Silverberg of the Asimov story of the same name)
Obernewtyn Chronicles 1987 Human wars Isobelle Carmody Series, first book 1987
The Oblivion Society 2007 Human wars Hart, Marcus Alexander
On the Beach 1957 Human wars Shute, Nevil Also the films based on the book.
The Overman Culture 1971 Human wars Cooper, Edmund
Pebble in the Sky 1950 Human wars Asimov, Isaac A later book, Robots and Empire gave a different explanation.
The Pelbar Cycle 2005 Human wars Williams, Paul O. Series, first book 2005, The Breaking of Northwall A thousand years after a series of nuclear exchanges.
The Penultimate Truth 1964 Human wars Dick, Philip K.
The Pesthouse 2007 Human wars Crace, Jim
The Postman 1985 Human wars Brin, David The 1997 movie of the same name.
Pulling Through 1983 Human wars Ing, Dean
Quinzinzinzili 1934 Human wars Messac, Régis Also predicting a great world war that ends with the vanishing of humanity. Only a group of children survives and forms a strange new mankind.
Red Alert 1958 Human wars George, Peter Filmed as Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick
Resurrection Day 1999 Human wars DuBois, Brendan Set 10 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, which escalated into nuclear war.
Revelation by Lord John 2003 Human wars Szmidt, Robert J. Polish: Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana
Riddley Walker 1980 Human wars Hoban, Russell
The Road 2005 Human wars McCarthy, Cormac A father and son's post-apocalyptic tale of survival.
Shannara Series 1977 Human wars Brooks, Terry Series, first book 1977
The Shape of Things to Come 1933 Human wars Wells, H. G. Predicting an extended world war fought with modern scientific weapons, societal upheaval, and the beginning of space travel. Filmed as Things to Come in 1936.
The Slynx 2007 Human wars Tolstaya, Tatyana 2007 is the English translation first publication date.
Star Man's Son 1952 Human wars Norton, Andre
The Steel, the Mist and the Blazing Sun 1985 Human wars Anvil, Christopher
The Survivalist 1981 Human wars Ahern, Jerry Series, first book 1981, Total War
Survivors 1982 Human wars Nahmlos, John
Swan Song 1987 Human wars McCammon, Robert R.
The Third World War 2003 Human wars Humphrey Hawksley
This is the Way the World Ends 1985 Human wars Morrow, James
Time Capsule[65] 1988 Human wars Berman, Mitch
Tomorrow! 1954 Human wars Wylie, Philip
Traveler 1984 Human wars Drumm, D. B. Series, first book, First, You Fight
Trinity's Child 1983 Human wars Prochnau, William
Triumph 1963 Human wars Wylie, Philip
The Valley-Westside War 2008 Human wars Turtledove, Harry
Vampire Hunter D 1983 Human wars Kikuchi, Hideyuki Series, first book 1983, Novels (and later anime movies), set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in 1999,
Warday 1984 Human wars Strieber, Whitley Coauthor James Kunetka
Wingman 1987 Human wars Maloney, Mack[66] Series, first book 1987, follows a former U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot trying to restore a balkanized and largely disarmed United States of America while flying the last remaining F-16 Fighting Falcon in existence.
The World Ends in Hickory Hollow 2007 Human wars Mayhar, Ardath
The World Jones Made 1956 Human wars Dick, Philip K.
The Year Of The Quiet Sun 1970 Human wars Tucker, Wilson
Yellow Peril 1991 Human wars Lixiong, Wang In the Chinese under the pseudonym Bao Mi, about a nuclear civil war in the People's Republic of China
Z for Zachariah 1975 Human wars O'Brien, Robert C.
The Zone 1980 Human wars Rouch, James Chronicling the conflict between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe.

[edit] Short stories and plays

Title Year Type Author and notes
A Boy and His Dog Human wars Short story By Harlan Ellison. Filmed in 1975.
Aspic's Mystery 1976 Human wars Short story By Arsen Darnay.
Autobahn nach Poznan Human wars Short story By Andrzej Ziemianski
By the Waters of Babylon 1937 Human wars Short story By Stephen Vincent Benét.
Dear Devil Human wars Short story By Eric Frank Russell
Enta Geweorc Human wars Short story By Nicholas Waller (Interzone 198, 2004).
Extinction is Forever Human wars Short story By Louise Lawrence. A scientist uses a time machine to travel to the future and film the results of a nuclear war in a bid to prevent it from happening. However, his actions could have serious repercussions for the mutated descendants of the human race.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Human wars Short story By Harlan Ellison
Let the Ants Try Human wars Short story By Frederik Pohl under the pseudonym James MacCreigh
Magic City Human wars Short story By Nelson S. Bond
Nightfall 1941 Human wars Short story By Isaac Asimov
Plutonium 1976 Human wars Short story By Arsen Darnay.
Second Variety Human wars Short story By Philip K. Dick
The Offshore Island 1954 Human wars Play By Marghanita Laski.
There Will Come Soft Rains 1950 Human wars Short story By Ray Bradbury in The Martian Chronicles.
Time to Rest Human wars Short story Sequel No Place Like Earth By John Wyndham

[edit] Games

Title Year Type Author and notes
Aftermath! Human wars Game from Fantasy Games Unlimited.
Armour-Geddon Human wars Game from Psygnosis
Auto Assault Human wars Game While seemingly caused by aliens, it is in fact human mistakes, breakdown and war that forges Auto Assault's apocalyptic world. Similar to the Command & Conquer series where an alien event is the catalyst needed to start decline.
Badlands Human wars Game by Atari Games
Command & Conquer series Human wars Game Features several worldwide conflicts in the Tiberian (GDI vs. Brotherhood of Nod), Red Alert (Soviets vs. Allies), and Generals (USA vs. GLA vs. China) series. The Tiberian series in particular is noted for the continuing decay of Earth by the alien "Tiberium" crystals which spread across the surface and render much of the planet uninhabitable; a setting which, thus far, has become more serious with each subsequent game of the timeline.
Crystalis 1987 Human wars Game from SNK
Darwin's World Human wars Game A role-playing game from Impressions
Earth 2150 Human wars Game Also Earth 2160 The world is destroyed in 2150 and people settle on mars in 2160.
Exodus (role-playing game) Human wars Game A post-apocalyptic role-playing game from Glutton Creeper Games set after the War on Terror destroy 99% of the world's population.
Fallout series Human wars Game
Gamma World Human wars Game from TSR, Inc., the makers of Dungeons & Dragons
Interstate '76 Human wars Game from Activision
Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death Human wars Game
KKnD series Human wars Game
Land of Devastation[citation needed] Human wars Game ABBS Door
Mad Max Human wars Game for the NES
Neuroshima Human wars Game from Portal Publishing
Operation Overkill[citation needed] Human wars Game A BBS Door
Outlander Human wars Game Mad Max inspired driving game from 1992/93 for Snes and Genesis
Rifts Human wars Game A nuclear exchange triggers the return of Ley Lines and Interdimensional Rifts or portals. These Ley Lines and Portals subsequently cause several natural and supernatural disasters.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Human wars Game
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Human wars Game
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Human wars Game A ship leaves Earth on the eve of World War III to found a new colony orbiting Alpha Centauri
The Morrow Project Human wars Game from Timeline Ltd
Twilight: 2000 Human wars Game from Game Designer's Workshop, set in a world where a Sino-Russian war degenerates into a limited nuclear conflict that eventually drags in Europe and America.
Vigilante 8 Human wars Game from Activision
Warzone 2100 Human wars Game
Wasteland Human wars Game
World in Conflict Human wars Game takes place in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union mounts an invasion of Europe and the United States.


[edit] Comics and manga

Title Year Type Author and notes
Appleseed Human wars Comic book Japanese manga (and subsequent anime adaptations) by Masamune Shirow
Battle Angel Alita Human wars Comic book Manga series contains post-apocalyptic elements, and takes place in a highly futuristic dystopian world.
Desert Punk Human wars Comic book Manga series (Later adapted into an anime)
Ex-Mutants Human wars Comic book Set in a post-nuclear world.
Fist of the North Star Human wars Comic book Manga series
Incredible Hulk: The End: The Last Titan Human wars Comic book
Judge Dredd vs. Aliens Human wars Comic book Dark Horse Comics series & Predator vs. Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd 1977 Human wars Comic book By John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra and Pat Mills.
Kamandi Human wars Comic book Featuring the last boy on earth first published in 1972.
Post-Nuke Human wars Comic book Webcomic taking place during a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter
Saikano Human wars Comic book Manga series
The Last American Human wars Comic book Series originally from Marvel in 1990/1991, re-released by Com.X
The Punisher: The End Human wars Comic book
X/1999 Human wars Comic book Manga series


[edit] Other

Title Year Type Author and notes
April 2031 Human wars Song by the band Warrant on the "Dog Eat Dog" album depicts an earth devastated by war where life lives on only by artificial means.
Ayreon Human wars Song Series of concept albums depicts the end of life on Earth in 2084 due to, among other factors, a catastrophic nuclear war.
The Horses Human wars Poem by Edwin Muir. Deals with society's regression to pre Industrial Revolution conditions in the wake of a nuclear war
Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume Human wars Visual novel
Your Attention Please Human wars Poem by Peter Porter, written in the style of a radio broadcast warning of an impending nuclear attack
Your Attention Please Human wars Song adaptation of the above Porter poem written and recorded by the Scottish post-punk group the Scars

[edit] Pandemic (plague)

[edit] Films

Title Year Type Author and notes
28 Days Later 2002 Plague 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later
Æon Flux 2005 Plague Based on MTV's animated series Æon Flux
Children of Men 2006 Plague
City Limits 1985 Plague [67]
Cyborg 1989 Plague
Dead Man Walking 1988 Plague [68]
Dead Man's Letters 1986 Plague By Konstantin Lopushanskij
Doomsday 2008 Plague
Ever Since the World Ended[69][70] 2001 Plague
Fukkatsu no hi 1980 Plague Japanese film also known as Virus, directed by Kinji Fukasaku
I Am Legend 2007 Plague
I Am Omega 2007 Plague A cheap cash in remake of I Am Legend made by The Asylum
La jetée 1962 Plague Short film, later remade as Twelve Monkeys
Plague 1978 Plague Also known as Induced Syndrome (UK), M-3: The Gemini Strain (USA), or Mutation.
Repo! The Genetic Opera 2008 Plague
Resident Evil: Extinction 2007 Plague
The Happening 2008 Plague An unknown plague or toxin sweeps through the United States, causing anyone exposed to commit suicide. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
The Last Man 2008 Plague Based upon Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man
The Last Man on Earth 1964 Plague
The Omega Man 1971 Plague
The Seed of Man 1969 Plague By Marco Ferreri (Italian title: Il Seme dell'uomo) [71]
The Ultimate Warrior 1975 Plague [72]
The Zombie Diaries 2006 Plague British made movie in which a virus creates a plague of zombies, viewed entirely from the POV of a character's video camera. This film was made and completed before George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead which was shot in a similar POV perspective.
Twelve Monkeys 1995 Plague Directed by Terry Gilliam. Based on La jetée (see above).
A Wind Named Amnesia 1990 Plague A mysterious plague has swept over the entire world, causing everyone to suffer from amnesia, leading to the collapse of civilization. Based on a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

[edit] Television

Title Year Type Author and notes
Crusade 1999 Plague A spin-off from the TV show Babylon 5
Dance Of The Dead 2005 Plague Masters of Horror episode directed by Tobe Hooper. It has a triple apocalyptic theme as it features a man made virus causing a zombie outbreak after World War 3.
Jeremiah 2002-2004 Plague Showtime cable television series, based on the comic of the same name. In the year 2021, 15 years after a virus kills everyone over the age of puberty, the child survivors have grown up, living on the scraps of the old world.
Not with a Bang 1990 Plague ITV show, about 3 people who lived after everyone else in England was turned to dust by a chemical that was accidentally released by a television presenter.
Smallpox 2002 Plague TV movie
The Stand 1994 Plague miniseries
Survivors 1975-1977 Plague BBC television series, by Terry Nation
Survivors 2008 Plague BBC television series a remake of the 70's series of the same name
The Tribe 1999-2003 Plague The New-Zealand TV series, that takes place in a near-future in which all the adults have been killed by a man-made Virus and the children have to survive on their own.
Where Have All The People Gone? 1974 Plague Made for TV movie. A mutated virus created by a solar flare destroys virtually all of the human population. One family has survived, and endeavors to travel across America to their family home.

[edit] Novels

Title Year Type Author Notes
Blood Music 1985 Plague Bear, Greg
Burning Stones 2005 Plague Mills, Steven
The Children of Men 1992 Plague James, P. D.
The City, Not Long After 1990 Plague Murphy, Pat In the wake of a devastating worldwide plague, a handful of artists transform the City of San Francisco, and fend off marauders with a touch of magic.
Clay's Ark 1984 Plague Butler, Octavia
The Day of the Triffids 1951 Plague Wyndham, John
Doomsday Book 1993 Plague Willis, Connie
Earth Abides 1949 Plague Stewart, George R.
Empty World 1977 Plague Christopher, John A virus wipes out the weak and the old, until the planet is populated by young teenagers only.
Full Circle 2003 Plague Mitchell, David
The Fourth Horseman 1985 Plague Nourse, Alan E. Follows the progression of a new outbreak of Black Plague and the struggle to survive as society collapses.
A Gift Upon the Shore 1990 Plague Wren, M. K.
The Girl Who Owned a City 1975 Plague Nelson, O. T.
I Am Legend 1954 Plague Matheson, Richard Filmed as The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007)
Idlewild 2001 Plague Sagan, Nick
The Last Canadian 1977 Plague Heine, William C. The planet is decimated by a virus, as told through the eyes of one survivor.
The Last Man 1826 Plague Shelley, Mary
The Night of the Triffids 2001 Plague Clark, Simon Sequel to The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Oryx and Crake 2003 Plague Atwood, Margaret
Plague 99 1989 Plague Ure, Jean Sequels Come Lucky Apriland Watchers at the Shrine
Plague Year 2007 Plague Carlson, Jeff Slated to be a trilogy
A Planet for the President 2004 Plague Beaton, Alistair
Quentel 2007 Plague Budendorf, Deric R.
The Scarlet Plague 1912 Plague London, Jack
Some Will Not Die 1954 Plague Budrys, Algis
The Stand 1978 Plague King, Stephen
The Transall Saga 1998 Plague Paulsen, Gary
White Devils 2004 Plague McAuley, Paul
The Empire of Texas 2005 Plague Olsen, Rodger
The Uglies Trilogy 2004-2007 Plague Westerfeld, Scott Uglies, Pretties, Specials and the companion novel, Extras, take place in a future civilization that arose after our current civilization collapsed because of an engineered bacterium that attacked not people, but oil, changing its chemical composition so that it exploded on contact with oxygen (first explained on p. 345 of Uglies).
The White Plague 1982 Plague Herbert, Frank

[edit] Other

Title Year Type Author and notes
Abomination: The Nemesis Project 1999 Plague Video game
After The Bomb 2001 Plague Role-play game
The City 1950 Plague Short Story by Ray Bradbury
Deus Ex 2000 Plague Game in relation to the Gray Death
Eden: It's an Endless World 1998 to present Plague Manga by Hiroki Endo
Night Surf 1977 Plague Short Story by Stephen King. Collected in the book Night Shift.
Resident Evil 1996 to present Plague Video game series
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2004 Plague Game An organization called Delphi uses man-made viruses to destroy the human race and especially doctors.
The Visitor 1951 Plague Short Story (The Illustrated Man) by Ray Bradbury
Wandering Ones 2001 to present Plague Webcomic by Clint Hollingsworth
Y: The Last Man 2002 to 2008 Plague Comic series features a lone man & his monkey in a world populated only by women, series written by Brian K. Vaughan and published by Vertigo Comics
Soldiers of Anarchy 2002 Plague Video game featuring a group of ex-soldiers who spent ten years underground after the Spontaneous Genome Degeneration Syndrome (SGDS), an artificially created virus raged across the globe in 2004, nearly wiping off humanity. Although the virus was released to make money with the antidote, it wasn't distributed for some reason.

[edit] Astronomic impact (meteorites)

[edit] Films

Title Year Type Author and notes
Meteor 1979 Meteor
Night of the Comet 1984 Meteor When a comet passes too close to earth, two girls are left amid mutants.
Super Comet: After The Impact 2007 Meteor A speculative documentary produced by the Discovery Channel which hypothesizes the effects on modern-day earth of a large comet impact.
Tank Girl 1995 Meteor Loosely based on the comic by Jamie Hewlett
The Time Machine 2002 Meteor Downfall of man caused by the Moon breaking apart and bombarding Earth with rocks after extensive lunar mining.
Post Impact 2004 Nuclear winter caused by meteor impact The asteroid Bay-Leder 7 was found to be powerful enough to wipe out the whole civilization. Although a top-secret experimental satellite weapon was able to cut it in two, the smaller piece impacted in West Russia, turning Europe into an ice-covered "death zone".

[edit] Television

Title Year Type Notes
Asteroid 1997 Meteor
Highlander: The Animated Series 1994 Meteor
The Last Train 1999 Meteor Cruel Earth in Canada. British TV six part drama.
Three Moons Over Milford 2006 Meteor
Thundarr the Barbarian 1980 to 1982 Meteor
Thunderstone 1999 Meteor

[edit] Novels

Title Year Type Author Notes
Dead and the Gone 2008 Meteor Susan Beth Pfeffer How the same event as in Life As We Knew It effects a family in New York City.
Earth, the New Frontier 2004 Meteor Bill DeSmedt Presumed meteor that struck the earth is in fact a microscopic black hole that entered the Earth's crust, and never exited.
Theologus Autodidactus 13th Century Meteor Ibn al-Nafis
It's Only Temporary 2005 Meteor Eric Shapiro
Life As We Knew It 2006 Meteor Susan Beth Pfeffer Asteroid striking the Moon and knocking it into an orbit closer to Earth, concentrating on how a family in Western Pennsylvania is affected.
Lucifer's Hammer 1977 Meteor Larry Niven Coauthor: Jerry Pournelle
Moonfall 1998 Meteor Jack McDevitt
The Peshawar Lancers 2001 Meteor S.M. Stirling
Survival 2000 1991 Meteor James McPhee
Titan 1997 Meteor Stephen Baxter
The Day of the Triffids 1951 Meteor John Wyndham Initially thought to be a blinding meteor strike, but later suggested to be a manmade satellite based weapon accidentally discharged and the (bioengineered?) Triffid plants.

[edit] Other

Title Year Type Notes
A Pail of Air 1956 Meteor Short story by Fritz Leiber. A small family struggles to survive at near-zero temperatures after Earth is ripped from its solar orbit.
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies 2001 Meteor Video Game, for PlayStation 2
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin Meteor Video Game, With virtually all of humanity wiped out by a meteor strike, the game follows the exploits of an army of survivors, fighting bandit raiders and hostile armies across the planet's desolate remains.
After War Gundam X 1996 to 1997 Meteor Anime series
Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Meteor Includes video games, short stories, and animated features, revolves largely around the fate of a planet which is ravaged by the impact a giant meteor/asteroid, summoned by magic.
Godzilla: Unleashed Meteor Video Game, From Pipeworks, set in the post-apocalyptic earth in which earth has been destroyed by crystals.
Guild Wars 2005 Meteorites Video Game, a PC game in which, after a tutorial area set in a "pre-Searing" time, a race of beasts called the Charr summon meteors down upon the humans, destroying nearly all of the cities and all of the life (trees, animals, etc.)
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 2000 Meteor Video Game, a Nintendo 64 game where the main character, Link, has three days to save the world of Termina from its moon that has broken from orbit.
Mobile Suit Gundam 1979 to 1980 Meteor Anime series, talks of the impact of a massive space colony on Earth.
Rage Meteor Video Game, iD Software's new project, set after a meteor collision with the Earth.
Shikari in Galveston 2003 Meteor Short story

[edit] Alien invasion

[edit] Films

[edit] Novels

[edit] Television

[edit] Other

[edit] Ecological catastrophe

[edit] Films

[edit] Novels

[edit] Television

  • The 1970 Dr Who serial Inferno in which attempts to tap the Earths core for power leads to a volcanic apocalypse.
  • The 1971 TV series Timeslip The Year of the Burn Up - Terraforming casues global warming
  • The 1976-1979 TV series Ark II - pollution devastates humanity
  • The 1993 animated series Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
  • The 1998-1999 anime series Cowboy Bebop in which a man made disaster has caused earth's moon to fragment, resulting in a constant rain of meteor strikes on the planet and forcing humanity to move out into the solar system.
  • The 2003 television movie Encrypt
  • The 2004 television movie Category 6: Day of Destruction where Chicago is suffering from a series of tornadoes from numerous changes occurring in the climate. This series was followed in 2005 by Category 7: The End of the World
  • The 2004 mini series 10.5 and its 2006 follow up 10.5: Apocalypse In which a series of Earthquakes tears America apart, separating the West Coast from the rest of the USA.
  • The 2006 Anime series Innocent Venus Set after the world population and economy is devastated by simultaneous hyper-hurricanes.
  • The Captain Planet two-parter Two Futures, in which the character Wheeler gets a glimpse of what could happen if damage to the environment was allowed to continue unchecked
  • The 2008 Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky"

[edit] Other

  • The 1952 short story The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, made into the 1963 film The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock - in which birds begin launching spontaneous mass attacks against mankind
  • The 1973 collection of short stories Flight of the Horse by Larry Niven
  • The 1977 short story The Screwfly Solution tells the tale of a virus which turns males into female-hating psychopaths when sexually aroused.
  • The 1986 short story The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King in which a distillate of a Texas aquifer, originally harvested and distributed worldwide to reduce human propensity for violence--curses humanity with premature Alzheimer's disease and senility.
  • The 1993 console game Secret of Mana takes place long after a time of environmental collapse that destroyed the world's older advanced civilizations.
  • The 1994 console game Final Fantasy VI (named Final Fantasy III during initial American launch of the game) features a plot twist in where villain Kefka moves magical statues out of their intended alignment, which in turn causes the balanced fictional world to fall into ruin (and for Kefka to become its new god while protected by the powers of the same statues).
  • The 1994-2006 Japanese manga series Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, set in a peaceful post-cataclysmic Japan, after an untold environmental disaster.
  • The 2002 video game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, in which a flood has decimated the fictional world of Hyrule.
  • The 2002-2003 anime series Overman King Gainer, which depicts humanity living in domes after an ecological disaster.
  • The 2005 short story The Garden Where My Rains Grows by Brian Keene, set in a post-apocalyptic world where it started raining one day and never stopped.
  • The 2005-2006 anime series Zoids: Genesis where an earthquake triggers a series of worldwide natural disasters that devastate Planet Zi.
  • The 2005-present radio sitcom Nebulous by Graham Duff, in which much of the world was destroyed by an event known as "the Withering".
  • The 2006 anime series Ergo Proxy by the Japanese production company Manglobe, in which an undefined global ecological disaster has decimated the surface of the Earth, and the small remaining human population lives in isolated, city-state dome complexes.
  • The 2006 PC game, Battlefield 2142, in which a new ice age renders most of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable. Wars are fought over the remaining habitable land.
  • The Command & Conquer: Tiberian series of games in which a radioactive, self-replicating alien crystal known as Tiberium has rendered most of the Earth's surface uninhabitable.
  • The game Dark Sun from TSR, Inc.
  • The Game Darkwind: War on Wheels
  • The 2001 console game "Final Fantasy X", where an advanced civilization is destroyed by a supernatural being, causing a perpetuating cycle of destruction and temporary peace through a millennium, and causing the rest of the game's world to live a technologically backwards life.

[edit] Cybernetic revolt (apocalyptic wars between humans and technology)

See also: Cybernetic revolt

[edit] Literature

[edit] Cinema & TV

[edit] Gaming

[edit] Music

Resident Anti-Hero album The Age of Dissent

[edit] The decline and fall of the human race

  • The 1939 cartoon short Peace on Earth by Hugh Harman, in which animals rebuild a post-apocalyptic world after humanity has fought wars to the point of extinction.
  • The novel At Winter's End (1988) by Robert Silverberg
  • The poem Bedtime Story from Collected Poems 1958 – 1970 by George Macbeth
  • Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun series
  • The novel The Camp of the Saints (1973) by Jean Raspail.
  • The novel The Bridge (1973) by D. Keith Mano presents a world dominated by a global environmental fascism, where the government ultimately promotes the extinction of the human race by enforced mass suicide, so as to ‘save’ the environment.
  • Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
  • The novel City (1952) by Clifford D. Simak
  • Friday (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein, which portrays human society on a future Earth as slipping into a gradual, but inevitable, collapse.
  • Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut. After an ambiguous eradication of the human species, several people on a cruise to the Galápagos Islands get stranded there. Much to the dismay of the only male left, the women of the island continue the human species for thousands of years where they evolve into seal-like creatures.
  • Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
  • The latter part of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
  • The 1974 John Boorman film Zardoz
  • The Japanese manga Biomega, NOiSE, Blame! and Net Sphere Engineer by Tsutomu Nihei
  • The Japanese manga and anime The Big O, where humans apparently suffered mass amnesia 40 years prior and are afraid to leave their city, Paradigm. It is a sort of mecha/apocalypse subclass of its own; the protagonist has to battle mechanical beings and other robots who are trying to destroy the remnants of the human race.
  • The Cartoon Network/Adult Swim animated parody of the barbarian/post-apocalyptic genres, Korgoth of Barbaria
  • The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
  • The 1979 Australian movie Mad Max depicts a declining civilization. The sequel suggests that peak oil is the cause.
  • Michael Haneke's film Le Temps du Loup (The Time of the Wolf), following a family through the (French?) country side after an undefined catastrophic collapse of civilization.
  • The movie A.I. depicts human extinction after 2000 years.
  • The manga/anime series Wolf's Rain takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where constant conflicts between nobles leaves whole parts of the earth uninhabited, cities in ruins, and technology rare. Only the nobles possess futuristic ships, and the richest have domed cities where the debilitated earth can still support life. A second apocalypse ends the series, with a presumable renewing of the planet.
  • The song In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans, which describes, stage by stage, the decline of the human race. Covers the 26th, 36th, 46th, 56th, 66th, 76th, 86th and 96th centuries.
  • The television series The Future Is Wild, which uses computer animation to simulate the sort of creatures that may evolve from present-day animals. In the world depicted in the series, the human race either has become extinct or has left Earth. The reason is not given.
  • The short story "To Serve The Master" By Philip K. Dick
  • The 2006 film Children of Men, where the human race has become infertile.
  • The 1984 film 1990:The Bronx Warriors In 1990 the Bronx is declared a No Mans Land after a catastrophic uprising.
  • The 1997 film The End of Evangelion, in which all humankind are reverted to a "primordial soup" and merged into a single consummate being.
  • The The House of the Dead series of video games. Scientist Dr. Curien finds a way to reanimate the dead, though not without disastrous results. Later in the series' timeline, Caleb Goldman uses the undead in his mission to destroy the human race and protect the Earth from further destruction by humans.
  • The 2006 novel Return by Clayton J Elliott - in which ecological and social unrest leave a world fighting to find a new relationship to the earth. An anti-technology novel.
  • The 2007 film Tooth and Nail Post-apocalyptic movie where a group of survivors, called Foragers, take cover in an old abandoned hospital where the group attempt to re build society. All we know of the apocalypse is that man "Ran out of gas", but not in the sense of oil, just that our time was up.
  • The 2001 video game Pikmin and its sequel, the 2004 video game Pikmin 2, is set on a unnamed planet simply called as the planet of the Pikmins, habited by animals and plants. Although it is unnamed in-game, several cutscenes shows it as Earth, or at least a very Earth-like planet. Further hints is man-made objects in both games like the Abstract Masterpiece, a bottle cap, and the Remembered Old Buddy, a R.O.B., as well as the stage based on the Pikmin planet in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Distant Planet, which its data refers to as Earth.

[edit] Monsters and biologically altered humans

See also Zombie apocalypse

[edit] After the fall of space-based civilization

[edit] Expanding or Dying Sun

[edit] Religious and supernatural apocalypse (Eschatological fiction)

[edit] Social or economic collapse

Title Year Medium Author Notes
Foundation 1951 Novel Asimov, Isaac. Mathematician Hari Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way.
"Last of the Masters, The" 1954 Short story (novelette) Dick, Philip K. 200 years after a global anarchist revolution, society has stagnated due to the loss of scientific knowledge during the revolt. Elsewhere, the last government, a highly centralized and efficient society, is in hiding from the Anarchist League, a global militia preventing the recreation of any government.
Atlas Shrugged 1957 Novel Rand, Ayn American society slowly collapses after the country's leading industrialists mysteriously disappear.
Dark Future 1988 Miniature wargame Games Workshop A role-playing game franchise composed of the game and associated novels and short-story anthologies set within the Dark Future universe.
Wolf and Iron 1990 Novel Dickson, Gordon R. A man and a wolf band together to survive in an America devastated by financial collapse.
Deus Ex: Invisible War 1990 Video game Ion Storm Inc. (developer)
Eidos Interactive
(publisher)		 After total global economic collapse (an event known simply as 'The Collapse'), all religion is collected into one, which is in conflict with the new world order. Throughout the game, the player can choose to be on either side, affecting the game's outcome.
Apocalypse and the Beauty Queen 2005 Film The world crashed, not with a scream, but just a whimper. The failure of the national power grid caused the government to crumble.
Puzzlehead 2006 Film Bai, James
(writer/director)		 Set in what looks like Brooklyn, "after the decline", the streets are empty and there seems to be constant random killings.
Return 2006 Novel Elliott, Clayton J. Ecological and social unrest leave a world fighting to find a new relationship to the earth. An anti-technology novel
World Made By Hand 2008 Novel Kunstler, James Explores life in an agrarian village in upstate New York after America collapses under the combined trauma of plague, peak oil, global warming, and nuclear terrorism.
"Turn Left"
(Doctor Who episode #197)		 2008 Television series Davies, Russell T.(writer) Explores an apocalyptic alternative future in which British society has collapsed due to the death of Doctor.
"Resurrection Insurrection" 2008 Short story Bachard, Kurt A socio-political story using the theme of a Zombie apocalypse as a framework.
Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse 2009 Novel Rawles, James W. An apocalyptic survivalist novel about a total socio-economic collapse.

[edit] Unspecified phenomena

  • The 1885 novel After London by Richard Jefferies; the nature of the catastrophe is never stated, except that apparently most of the human race quickly dies out, leaving England to revert to nature.
  • The 1914 novel Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England, in which two characters wake from suspended animation and find that some great disaster has torn an enormous chasm in the Earth and created a second moon.
  • The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and on NBC in the United States.
  • The 1975 novel Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.
  • The 1978 short story "Trucks" by Stephen King. An unknown phenomenon makes Earth's machines turn against mankind. It was later made into the movie Maximum Overdrive which added an alien invasion subplot.
  • The 1978 novel "False Dawn" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Two humans searching for a way to survive in toxic wasteland. Republished in 2001.
  • The 1985 picture book Baaa by David Macaulay, in which the human race has somehow gone extinct, leaving sheep to take over the world. The sheep's civilization winds up displaying the same array of economic troubles, overpopulation, and crime, and after a while they too become extinct.
  • The 1987 novel In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster.
  • The BBC sitcom Red Dwarf (1988-1999), in which the protagonist is assumed to be the last Homo sapiens alive after emerging from three million years of suspended animation in deep space.
  • The 1994 novel Vanishing Point by Michaela Roessner. Life in Silicon Valley 30 years after the mysterious and spontaneous disappearance of 90% of the world's population. The Winchester Mystery House ("The House") serves as a focal point for parallel universes and inexplicable energies that are changing the world and its post-Vanishing children.
  • The Emberverse series novels by S. M. Stirling, in which a disaster of indeterminate cause (most speculation within the novels concerns an all-powerful outside force, often facetiously referred to as "Alien space bats") causes electricity, combustion engines, and modern explosives to cease functioning.
  • The series of novels set in the world of Wraeththu by Storm Constantine, in which humanity is replaced as the planet's dominant species by a race of mystic hermaphrodites. War and plague ravage the human population, but no single cause is specified.
  • The 1988 novel Tea from an Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan, set in a cyberpunk world following a vaguely described natural cataclysm.
  • Ongoing comic series Wasteland takes place roughly 100 years in the future, where North America is a dustbowl and lacking modern technology.
  • The 1997 movie Alien Resurrection features a deleted scene (restored to the film in the Alien Quadrilogy box set) in which Ripley and the other survivors land the Auriga in a devastated Paris. The cause of the destruction is never made clear, but presumably there was a war.
  • The 2006 film Android Apocalypse, cause of apocalypse unknown
  • The 2006 video game Mother 3, in which a small group of humans escape to a post-apocalyptic utopia after the "old world" is destroyed. While the game never explains what happened to the "old world", they say that the humans were the ones that caused its destruction.
  • The 2006 novel Guardando la fine del mondo by Riccardo Deias, set in alternative world and time... link to year 2012.
  • The 2008 documentary Life After People, produced by the History Channel, chronicles the effect on Earth after the human race inexplicably vanishes.
  • The 2008 film The Road, based on the 2006 novel of the same name.
  • Desolation: Post Apocalyptic Fantasy Roleplaying, a 2008 RPG from Greymalkin Designs.
  • The 2004 Flash movie "Salad Fingers" (although a 'great war' is mentioned, it may not be the cause of Salad Fingers' dwelling being in a dilapidated, post-apocalyptic state)

[edit] See also

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