List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works as portrayed in literature, film, television, and, comics.^[1][2]

Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized).

Apocalypse is a Greek word referring to the end of the world. Apocalypticism is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end very soon, even within one's own lifetime.^[3]

Apocalyptic fiction does not portray catastrophes, or disasters, or near-disasters that do not result in apocalypse. A threat of an apocalypse does not make a piece of fiction apocalyptic. The films Armageddon and Deep Impact, for example, are not considered apocalyptic fiction because, although earth and/or human-kind are terribly threatened, in the end they manage to avoid destruction. Apocalyptic fiction is not the same as fiction that provides visions of a dystopian future. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four for example, is dystopian fiction, not apocalyptic fiction.

Works of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

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Format	Year	Cause	Title	Author & Notes
Game	1980	War	Missile Command	Arcade video game designed by Dave Theurer, and developed by Atari, Inc. Later ported to many different home computing and gaming platforms, for many years afterward. Considered one of the most notable classic video games of all time.
Film	1959	Eco, Monsters	The Giant Behemoth	[4]
Film	2014	Disease	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Directed by Matt Reeves, and based upon characters created by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (premise suggested by Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle). A growing nation of genetically evolved apes is threatened by a band of human survivors of a devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.[5]
Game	2012	Disease	Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward	Visual novel adventure game released for Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. The game takes place 45 years in the future, after a calamitous virus outbreak, known as Radical-6, exterminated almost the entire human civilization.
Radio	1951	War	The Last Objective	Written by Paul Carter, and adapted by Ernest Kinoy, for NBC Radio's 1950-51 sci-fi anthology series, Dimension X. A military android questions its continued existence, after the last of its human comrade-counterparts dies out from the effects of a mysterious doomsday super-weapon that was unleashed at the end of a generations-long global atomic war.
Novel	1970	Supernatural, War, Eco, Human Decline	The Late, Great Planet Earth	Bestselling blockbuster Bible prophecy-based "mockumentary" novel, co-written by Hal Lindsey and Carole Carlson, and later adapted into a 1979 feature-length theatrical motion picture narrated by Orson Welles.
Game	1992	Sun, Aliens	Epic, and its 1994 follow-up sequel	Published by Ocean Software (now Atari). A Battlestar Galactica-esque 3-D space shooter video game for MS-DOS and other contemporary (at that time) personal computing platforms.
Game	1980	War	NukeWar	Published by gaming company Avalon Hill. A turn-based strategy game for many early home computing platforms, such as the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and the Atari 400/800 model home computers.
Television	1975-1977	Eco (nuclear waste explosion on the moon, followed by earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc. on Earth, caused by loss of the moon)	Space: 1999	Created by Gerry Anderson, and wife Sylvia Anderson.
Radio	1946	War	The Fifth Horseman	Early (post-World War II) radio docudrama series originally aired over the now-defunct NBC Radio network. This "rare and unusual" series of shows (featuring many top Hollywood film performers of that era) was written, produced, and directed by Arnold Marquis, as part of a special postwar campaign aimed at convincing the public to place the then-newly developed technologies of nuclear energy and weaponry under United Nations control. The focal (or, "selling") point of this short-run Summer radio serial, was a four-episode "story arc" (of sorts), spanning a 20-year period (1946-1966), and regarding a fictional, hypothetical timeline involving a prelude and build up to nuclear war, the war itself, and then, the aftermath of that war.[6]
Game	2006	War	DEFCON	Created by independent British game developer Introversion Software, and inspired (in part) by the 1983 film WarGames.
Television	1984	War	Countdown to Looking Glass	Canadian-produced TV movie, directed by producer Fred Barzyk, and originally premiering in the United States, on the HBO pay-cable TV network. A domestic banking crisis (the result of defaulted debts in South America) triggers a chain of events in the Persian Gulf that eventually would lead up to the outbreak of nuclear World War III between the Western and Eastern Bloc Cold War superpowers.
Television	1994	Aliens, Impact Event	Without Warning	Directed by Robert Iscove, and originally broadcast over the CBS television network.
Game	1998	Aliens, Technology (Cyberwarfare)	Red Baron 2573	Written in QuickBASIC by amateur video game developer Adam Stanchos, for MS-DOS. In the 26th century, a maurauding, genocidally xenophobic alien race uses a computer virus to destroy Earth's entire technological infrastructure, in a war-like effort to exterminate humanity.[7]
Novel	1950	War	Shadow on the Hearth	Judith Merril - Later adapted for television in 1954.
Game	1992	Aliens, Eco	Galactix	Backstory (featuring a satirical "fake TV news story" regarding the final depletion of the Amazon rain forest) and game play take place in the year 2019, in which a powerful alien attack force threatens to obliterate the Earth. Developed by Scott Host, for Cygnus Games (now Mountain King Studios).
Game	2014	Impact Event	Ace Combat Infinity	PlayStation 3 online game depicting a new world war 20 years after a meteor strike hits much of the Earth's surface.
Game	2013	Disease, Monsters	The Last of Us	A fungal spore infection turns most of humanity into monsters and a small band of survivors try to live on.
Film	2013	Eco	The Colony	Another ice age causes survivors to move underground.
Television	2012–2014	Technology Collapse	Revolution	All technology ceases after a global blackout.
Novel	1964	Disease	Virus	Novel by Sakyo Komatsu about a lethal supergerm that kills humanity in months. Later adapted into a 1980 movie.
Novel	2008	Eco	Flood	The Earth is gradually submerged due to seismic activity that brings more water to the surface.
Novel	2011	Technology	Wool	A multi part series by author Hugh Howey
Novel	2008	War	The Diamond of Darkhold	The fourth book in Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember series.
Novel	2006	War	The Prophet of Yonwood	The third book in Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember series.
Play	2005	War and gang violence	Mercury Fur	Philip Ridley
Novel	2004	War	The People of Sparks	The second book in Jeanne DuPrau's City of Ember series.
Novel	2000	Eco	The Last Book in the Universe	Rodman Philbrick
Story	2001	War	Autobahn nach Poznan	Andrzej Ziemianski
Story	1950	War	Dear Devil	Eric Frank Russell
Story	1969	War	A Boy and His Dog	Harlan Ellison - Filmed in 1975.
Story	1984	War	Extinction is Forever	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.
Novel	1990	Divine prophecy	Good Omens	Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Story	1949	War	Let the Ants Try	Frederik Pohl under the pseudonym James MacCreigh
Play	1942	War (also ice age and flood)	The Skin of Our Teeth	Thornton Wilder
Novel	1922	War	Theodore Savage (vt. Lest Ye Die)	Cicely Hamilton [8]
Story	1941	War	Magic City	Nelson S. Bond
Story	1953	War	Second Variety	Philip K. Dick
Story	1949	War	Time to Rest	John Wyndham - short story sequel No Place Like Earth
Comic	1985-1989	War	Appleseed	Masamune Shirow - Japanese manga (and subsequent anime adaptations)
Novella	1989	Zombies	On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks	Joe R. Lansdale
Comic	1990-1995	War	Battle Angel Alita	Yukito Kishiro - manga series containing post-apocalyptic elements and taking place in a highly futuristic dystopian world
Comic	2000-2014	Impact Event, War	Battle Angel Alita: Last Order	Yukito Kishiro - a continuation of the former manga series containing the same elements as previous but goes into greater detail as to how the dystopia came about
Novel	1913	Disease	Goslings: A World of Women[9]	J.D. Beresford - A global plague has decimated England's male population and the once-predictable Gosling family is now free to fulfill its long-frustrated desires.
Novel	1805	Human Decline	Le Dernier Homme	Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville - Regarded as the first story of modern speculative fiction to depict the end of the world.[10]
Comic	1997-	War	Desert Punk	Usune Masatoshi - Ongoing manga series (Later adapted into an anime)
Comic	1986-1993	War	Ex-Mutants	Set in a post-nuclear world.
Comic	1968-	War	Cobalt 60 (comics)	Created by Vaughn Bodé, first published in 1968
Comic	2002	War	Incredible Hulk: The End: The Last Titan
Comic	2003	War	Judge Dredd vs. Aliens
Comic	1972-	War	Kamandi	Featuring the last boy on earth first published in 1972.
Comic	2000-2001	War	Saikano	Shin Takahashi - manga series
Comic	1990-1991	War	The Last American	Series originally from Marvel in 1990/1991, re-released by Com.X
Comic	2004	War	The Punisher: The End
Comic	1992-	War	X/1999	Clamp—ongoing manga series
Song	1992	War	April 2031	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.
Other	1995-	War	Ayreon	Arjen Anthony Lucassen - series of concept albums depicts the end of life on Earth in 2084 due to, among other factors, a catastrophic nuclear war
Poem	1956	War	The Horses	Edwin Muir - Deals with society's regression to pre Industrial Revolution conditions in the wake of a nuclear war
Poem	1961	War	Your Attention Please	Peter Porter -written in the style of a radio broadcast warning of an impending nuclear attack
Song	1979	War	Your Attention Please	Song adaptation of the above Porter poem written and recorded by the Scottish post-punk group the Scars
Game	2008	Impact Event	Advance Wars: Days of Ruin	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.
Other	2004-	Impact Event	Compilation of Final Fantasy VII	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; published between 2004 and 2009
Game	2007	Impact Event	Godzilla: Unleashed	PC Video Game, From Pipeworks, set in the post-apocalyptic earth in which earth has been destroyed by crystals.
Game	2011	Impact Event	Rage	Video Game, iD Software's new project, set after a meteor collision with the Earth.
Novel	1997-	Aliens	Outlanders	Novel series created by Mark Ellis aka James Axler
Novel	1967-1988	Aliens	The Tripods	John Christopher - novel series, made into a TV series in the '80s
Game	2001-	Aliens	Halo (video game series)	An alien alliance called the Covenant begin attacking human colonies in 2525. By 2552, almost all of the human colonies are destroyed and the Covenant are attacking Earth.
Game	2007-	Aliens	Crysis	Crytek - A near future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the ground on an island in the East Philippines sea.
Novel	1928, 1929	Eco	Deluge and Dawn	S. Fowler Wright- A huge flood devastates the world; only the English Midlands survive.
Novel	1973, 1976	Eco	Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow	H. M. Hoover - Set in California several centuries after pollution all but wiped out the human race. Published in 1973 and 1976 respectively
Novel	2002-2004	Eco	The Snowfall Trilogy	Mitchell Smith - Novel trilogy comprising Snowfall, Kingdom River, and Moonrise. North America has retreated into hunter-gatherer societies and military kingdoms some 500 years after an apocalyptic ice age
Novel	1995/2005	Eco	The Mara and Dann novels	Doris Lessing - Mara and Dann, and sequel: Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog. Set in a future ice age. Other Lessing novels like Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta deal with apocalyptic themes.
Novel	1994-2001	Eco	Greatwinter trilogy	Sean McMullen - Trilogy comprising Souls in the Great Machine, The Miocene Arrow, and Eyes of the Calculator. The first book was originally published as two books, starting in 1994. An ancient whale species recreated through a genetic experiment turns out to have been telepathic, and the whales issue a telepathic call which cause most of humanity and other large land mammals to walk into the oceans and drown.
Game	2007	Technology	Toxic	Nitrome Limited - flash game by about a character in a yellow hazmat suit attempting to free the world from a race of robots with a variety of bombs. A sequel, Toxic 2, was released in 2008.
Radio	2005	Technology	Humans Are Dead	Flight of the Conchords
Song	1980	Technology	The Eighth Day	Hazel O'Connor - hit single
Song	2007	Technology	Citizens of Tomorrow	Tokyo Police Club - single
Other	2003	Technology	The Protomen	The Protomen - The self-titled album
Film	2003	Human Decline	Le Temps du Loup	Michael Haneke's film (The Time of the Wolf), following a family through the (French?) country side after an undefined catastrophic collapse of civilization.
Film	2001	Human Decline	A.I.	Depicts human extinction after 2000 years.
Television	2006	Human Decline	Korgoth of Barbaria	The Cartoon Network/Adult Swim animated parody.
Television	2003	Human Decline	Wolf's Rain	The manga/anime series, 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. Wolves are proclaimed extinct, but found a way to enchant humans. Five wolves are on a quest to find 'Paradise', along with a Flower-Maiden, who was created from a Lunar Flower by a Noble. A second apocalypse ends the series, with a presumable renewing of the planet. Four of the five characters are seen in the renewed world.
Television	2002	Human Decline	The Future Is Wild	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 has left Earth to colonize the stars. The future descendants of humanity have sent probes back to Earth to record what has become of it.
Novel	1980-1983	Human Decline	The Book of the New Sun	Gene Wolfe - novel series
Novel	1953	Human Decline	Childhood's End	Arthur C. Clarke
Novel	1982	Human Decline	Friday	Robert A. Heinlein -human society on a future Earth is slipping into a gradual, but inevitable, collapse.
Novel	1985	Human Decline	Galápagos	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.
Novel	1963	Human Decline	Planet of the Apes	Pierre Boulle
Novel	2004-2009	Human Decline	Biomega	And followed manga NOiSE, Blame! and Net Sphere Engineer by Tsutomu Nihei. Published between 2004 and 2009
Novel	1982-	Human Decline	The Dark Tower Series	Stephen King. First book published in 1982
Story	1956	Human Decline	To Serve The Master	Philip K. Dick
Television	2000-2005	Future Collapse	Andromeda	Created by Gene Roddenberry; ran between 2000 and 2005
Television	1988-1999; 2009-	Future Collapse	Red Dwarf	The British Science-Fiction Sitcom. First ran between 1988 and 1999, restarted in 2009
Novel	1953	Future Collapse	Against the Fall of Night	Arthur C. Clarke
Novel	1956	Future Collapse	The City and the Stars	Arthur C. Clarke
Novel	1963	Future Collapse	The Dragon Masters	Jack Vance
Novel	1996	Future Collapse	Endymion	Dan Simmons - a sequel The Rise of Endymion
Novel	1974	Future Collapse	The Mote in God's Eye	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Novel	1996-2008	Future Collapse	Trigun	Manga by Yasuhiro Nightow, published between 1996 and 2008
Novel	1994-1996	Future Collapse	Reaches	David Drake, published between 1994 and 1996
Novel	1959	Future Collapse	Transfusion	Chad Oliver
Novel	1970	Future Collapse	Ringworld	Larry Niven - An expedition from earth to find a futuristic planet, a ring surrounding a star, results in the members finding that a meteor puncture in the ring's floor and power failure caused the cities to break apart and civilization to collapse.
Novel	1979-1982	Future Collapse	Last Legionary	Series by Douglas Hill - a lone soldier fights to bring down the organisation which unleashed a deadly radiation against his planet, killing all his people and rendering the planet uninhabitable.
Novel	1963	Future Collapse	Space Viking	H. Beam Piper
Novel	1991-1995	Future Collapse	The General series	S. M. Stirling and David Drake, published between 1991 and 1995
Film	1998	Sun	Last Night	Don McKellar - follows the lives of several individuals as they cope with their final six hours on Earth before the apparent incineration of the Earth by the sun (the cause of the apocalypse is never directly stated).
Television	1997	Sun	The Deconstruction of Falling Stars	The episode of Babylon 5 - written by J. Michael Straczynski
Television	2005	Sun	The End of the World	The episode of the television series Doctor Who
Novel	1986	Sun	Songs of Distant Earth	Arthur C. Clarke - in which the last survivors of Earth arrive at a distant colony unexpectedly.
Poem	1816	Sun	Darkness	by Lord Byron describes the end of life on earth after the sun's extinction.
Story	1906	Sun	Finis	Frank Lillie Pollock where a second sun's light incinerates the Earth.
Comic	2001-2002	Sun	Just a Pilgrim	Limited series by Garth Ennis depicting the adventures of a man traveling on Earth's surface a few years after a solar event called The Burn. Followed by a sequel, Just a Pilgrim: Garden of Eden.
Film	2000-	Supernatural	Left Behind	Film series based on the book series, concerning the Rapture
Television	1998	Supernatural	Silent Mobius	The manga and subsequent anime movies and TV series by Kia Asamiya - The story is set in a Blade Runner-style world which has been invaded by demonic beings.
Television	2001-2002	Supernatural	X/1999	The Clamp anime in which the seven Dragons of Heaven battle the Dragons of Earth to save the world
Television	2009-2010	Supernatural	Supernatural	Season 4 and 5 are based around the pre-apocalyptic world in which the angels are gearing up for a battle between heaven and hell.
Novel	1995	Supernatural	The End of the Age	Pat Robertson
Novel	1995-2007	Supernatural	Left Behind	novel series concerning the Rapture
Novel	1968, 1971	Supernatural	Black Easter	James Blish - a black magician brings about the end of the world by releasing all the demons from Hell.
Novel	2005-2012	Supernatural	Power of Five	A series of fantasy and suspense novels, published between 2005 and 2012
Novel	2003	Supernatural	The Rising	Brian Keene - And its sequel City of the Dead. Rather than the zombies being an infection, as in most zombie fiction; these zombies are reanimated by demonic entities, the sisquisim, from the Old Testament.
Novel	2006	Supernatural	The Conqueror Worms	Brian Keene - a Lovecraftian tale of one of the last survivors on earth. In the novel, the world floods causing several monsters appear, mainly gigantic, maneating earthworms.
Novel	1997	Supernatural	Shade's Children	Garth Nix - A novel in which a group of extradimensional beings invade earth and cause all human adults over the age of 14 to vanish.
Novel	2004	Supernatural	The Taking	Dean Koontz - A novel in which a malevolent demonic force kills off the majority of the human race.
Game	1998	Supernatural	Tribe 8	The role-playing game, in which sadistic demons invade (and conquer) the Earth.
Game	2004	Supernatural	The Shadow of Yesterday	The role-playing game, in which the unification of all people in a fantasy world under a single, supernatural language results in the destruction of a world by what is presumed to be an asteroid that becomes that world's new moon, one that eclipses the sun for a week out of each month.
Game	2001	Supernatural	Final Fantasy X	A role-playing game, in which an advanced civilization is threatened and destroyed by supernatural forces that religion is knowingly, and in some ways unknowingly, centered on.
Novel	1985/1987/1990	Unspecified	Dayworld	Philip Jose Farmer - Trilogy comprising Dayworld, Dayworld Rebel, and Dayworld Breakup. The reasons for the Dayworld dystopia seems to be a combination involving overpopulation, ecological catastrophe, some sort of disaster that rendered petroleum unusable, and World War III. This is hinted at in the second book.
Novel	2004-	Unspecified	The Emberverse series	S. M. Stirling - Ongoing series of novels and short stories. 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.
Novel	1987-	Unspecified	Wraeththu	A series of novels set in a world created by Storm Constantine - 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.
Comic	2006-	Unspecified	Wasteland	Ongoing comic series, which takes place roughly 100 years in the future, where North America is a dustbowl and lacking modern technology
Novel	13th century	Impact Event	Theologus Autodidactus	Ibn al-Nafis
Novel	1826	Disease	The Last Man[11]	Shelley, Mary
Novel	1872	Technology	The Book of Machines	The novel Erewhon's section The Book of Machines
Novel	1885	War	After London[12]	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.
Novel	1895	Sun	The Time Machine	H. G. Wells - Towards the end of the book The Time Traveler witnesses the Suns expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth.
Novel	1898	Aliens	The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells
Novel	1901	Eco	The Purple Cloud	M.P. Shiel - A volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas.
Novel	1908	Supernatural	Lord of the World	Robert Hugh Benson
Story	1909	Technology	The Machine Stops	E. M. Forster - A short story emphasizing machinery instead of computers
Novel	1912	Disease	The Scarlet Plague	Jack London - Sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet, James Howard Smith tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.
Novel	1912	Sun	The Night Land	William Hope Hodgson - the Sun burns out and the last of humanity is sheltered in an arcology from the hostile environment and the creatures adapted for it.
Novel	1914	Unspecified	Darkness and Dawn	George Allan England - 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.
Novel	1916	War	The Lost Continent	Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Play	1921	Technology	R.U.R.	Play by Karel Capek - notable for coining the term 'robot'.
Novel	1926	Aliens	The Moon Men	Edgar Rice Burroughs - The series comprising The Moon Maid with the action set on the moon; The Moon Men set in 2120 after the Kalkars have invaded the earth; and The Red Hawk which jumps to 2430 and in which the Great Feud reaches its climax.
Novel	1926	Technology	The Metal Giants	Edmond Hamilton
Novel	1929	Technology	Automata	S. Fowler Wright
Novel	1931	Technology	The War of the Giants	Fletcher Pratt
Novel	1932	War	Tomorrow's Yesterday	John Gloag [13]
Novel	1933	War	The Shape of Things to Come	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.
Novel	1934	War	Quinzinzinzili	Messac, Régis - predicting a great world war that ends with the vanishing of humanity. Only a group of children survives and forms a strange new humanity.
Novel	1934	War	The Black Flame	Stanley G. Weinbaum - Comprises two novellas, Dawn of Flame and The Black Flame, with a common character, Black Margot, aka Margaret of Urbs, aka The Black Flame.
Story	1934	Technology	Rex	Harl Vincent
Novel	1935	Technology	Nightmare Number Three	Stephen Vincent Benet
Film	1936	War	Things to Come[14]	A future second world war leads to a breakdown of civilization in most of the world, with technology returning to medieval levels by 1970.
Novel	1936	War	Wild Harbour	Ian MacPherson - a war much worse than World War I leads to complete social collapse in Britain.
Story	1937	War	By the Waters of Babylon	Stephen Vincent Benét
Radio	1938-1975	Aliens	The War of the Worlds	The radio play, originally directed and narrated by Orson Welles, and later re-made for local broadcast by, and over station WKBW (now WWKB)-AM, in Buffalo, NY.
Novel	1939	War	The Death Guard	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.
Film	1939	Human Decline	Peace on Earth	A cartoon short by Hugh Harman - animals rebuild a post-apocalyptic world after humanity has fought wars to the point of extinction.
Story	1941	War	Nightfall	Isaac Asimov
Novel	1943	War	Gather, Darkness	Fritz Leiber[15]
Novel	1945	Sun	Rescue Party	Arthur C. Clarke
Novel	1946	Eco	Mr. Adam	Pat Frank - Depicts a world in which a nuclear power plant explosion renders the entire male population infertile.
Novel	1947	Technology	With Folded Hands	Jack Williamson
Novel	1948	War	Ape and Essence	Huxley, Aldous - also screenplay.
Novel	1949	Disease	Earth Abides[11]	Stewart, George R. - plague
Story	1949	War	Not with a Bang	Damon Knight
Story	1949	Impact Event	The Big Eye	Max Simon Ehrlich
Novel	1950	War	Pebble in the Sky	Asimov, Isaac - a later book, Robots and Empire gave a different explanation.
Story	1950	War	There Will Come Soft Rains	Ray Bradbury in The Martian Chronicles.
Story	1950	Disease	The City	Ray Bradbury
Film	1951	War	Five[16]	Arch Oboler - the film shows the aftermath of a nuclear war, centered on a group of five survivors.[17][18]
Story	1951	Disease	The Visitor	Ray Bradbury - short story in The Illustrated Man
Film	1951	Impact Event	When Worlds Collide (1951 film)	Scientists discover a star named Bellus is on a collision course with Earth.
Novel	1951	Social Collapse	The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham - Initially thought to be a blinding meteor shower, but later suggested to be a manmade satellite based weapon accidentally discharged, allowing the bioengineered Triffid plants to dominate.
Novel	1951	Aliens	The Puppet Masters	Robert A. Heinlein
Story	1951	Technology	The Last Revolution	Lord Dunsany
Novel	1951	Social Collapse	Foundation	Asimov, Isaac - Mathematician Hari Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way.
Film	1952	War	Captive Women[19]	A new primitive society emerges long after a nuclear war. The film portrays tribes called the "Norms", the "Upriver People", and the "Mutates" fighting in the remains of New York City.[20][21]
Film	1952	War	Invasion USA
Novel	1952	War	Star Man's Son[11]	Norton, Andre Also published as Daybreak: 2250 A.D. and Star Man's Son 2250 A.D.
Story	1952	Eco	The Birds	Daphne du Maurier - survival horror. 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 humanity
Story	1944	Eco	The Great Fog	Gerald Heard; a mildrew-generated fog appears to undermine civilization.[22]
Novel	1952	Human Decline	City	Clifford D. Simak
Film	1953	Aliens	The War of the Worlds	Based on the novel of the same name.
Novel	1953	Aliens	The Kraken Wakes	John Wyndham
Story	1953	Supernatural	The Nine Billion Names of God	Arthur C. Clarke - A short story taken from the short story collection of the same name
Novel	1954	War	Tomorrow!	Wylie, Philip - Cautionary (for its time), civil defense-themed "tale of two cities": One (fictional) American city is ready for nuclear World War III, while the other isn't.
Play	1954	War	The Offshore Island	Play by Marghanita Laski
Novel	1954	Disease	I Am Legend	Richard Matheson - A vampire apocalypse novel, adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007)
Novel	1954	Disease	Some Will Not Die	Budrys, Algis
Story	1954	Technology	Slaves To The Metal Horde	Milton Lesser
Story	1954	Technology	Answer	Fredric Brown
Story	1954	Social Collapse	The Last of the Masters	Philip K. Dick - short story (novelette) by 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.
Film	1955	War	Day the World Ended[16]	[23][24]
Novel	1955	War	The Chrysalids	John Wyndham - U.S. title: Re-Birth. The aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Canadian community.
Novel	1955	War	The Long Tomorrow[25]	Brackett, Leigh - in the aftermath of a nuclear war scientific knowledge is feared and restricted.
Film	1956	War	World Without End[19]	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.
Novel	1956	War	The World Jones Made	Dick, Philip K.
Story	1956	War	The Last Word	Damon Knight
Story	1956	Impact Event	A Pail of Air	Fritz Leiber - A small family struggles to survive at near-zero temperatures after Earth is ripped from its solar orbit.
Film	1956	Aliens	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Novel	1956	Eco	The Death of Grass	John Christopher - A virus that destroys plants causes massive famine and the breakdown of society. Made into the film No Blade of Grass
Novel	1957	War	On the Beach	Nevil Shute - also the films based on the book.
Novel	1957	Social Collapse	Atlas Shrugged	Rand, Ayn - American society slowly collapses after the country's leading industrialists mysteriously disappear.
Film	1958	War	Teenage Cave Man[16]
Novel	1958	Eco	The Year When Stardust Fell	Raymond F. Jones, The world's machinery grinds to a halt after comet dust arrives.
Film	1958	War	Terror from the Year 5000	[26][27][28]
Television	1958	War	Doomsday For Dyson	A made-for-television play by J. B. Priestley.[29] Tom Dyson is suddenly caught up in the chaos of a nuclear war. Several of the issues brought up in the programme were discussed in an hour-long debate following its conclusion.
Television	1958	War	Underground	A group of survivors from an atomic war become trapped in an underground station - During the play, broadcast live on Armchair Theatre, one of the actors (Gareth Jones) actually died whilst the show was on the air.
Novel	1958	War	Red Alert	George, Peter - filmed as Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick
Poem	1958–1970	Human Decline	Bedtime Story	The poem from Collected Poems 1958–1970 by George Macbeth
Film	1959	War	On the Beach[30]	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).
Film	1959	War	The World, the Flesh and the Devil[16]	Adapted from M.P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud.
Television	1959	War	The Offshore Island	A TV adaptation of a play by Marghanita Laski.[31]
Novel	1959	War	Alas, Babylon	Pat Frank - the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community.
Novel	1959	War	Level 7	Roshwald, Mordecai
Television	1959–1987	War	The Twilight Zone - numerous episodes, and its revivals	"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)
Film	1960	War	Atomic War Bride	A Yugoslav science fiction drama film directed by Veljko Bulajic.[32][33]
Film	1960	War	The Final War	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).[34][35]
Film	1960	War	The Time Machine[19]	had an atomic war to explain the downfall of civilization.
Novel	1960	War	A Canticle for Leibowitz	Miller, Jr, Walter M. - sequel: Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Film	1960	Eco	The Last Woman on Earth	The Earth's oxygen levels drop suddenly, suffocating most life–survivors in an oxygen-producing jungle speculate that this happened because of "a bigger and better bomb" but the reasons are not made clear.
Film	1960	Eco	Beyond the Time Barrier	X-plane arrives in future after solar radiation catastrophe
Film	1961	War	The Last War	Shūe Matsubayashi - another Japanese film about World War III (Japanese title: Sekai daisenso).[36][37]
Novel	1961	War	Dark Universe	Galouye, Daniel F.
Film	1961	Eco	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	The Van Allen belt catches on fire.
Novel	1961	Eco	The Wind from Nowhere	J.G. Ballard - First published novel. World destroyed by increasingly powerful winds
Film	1962	War	La jetée[38]	Chris Marker
Film	1962	War	Panic in Year Zero![39]	A 1962 movie about a family that escapes Los Angeles after the city is devastated by a nuclear attack.
Film	1962	War	This Is Not a Test	[32][40]
Film	1962	Social Collapse/Impact event	The Day of the Triffids	Loosely based on the John Wyndham novel of the same name. The film Triffids are a venomous space-borne plant, and arrive on Earth via meteorites.
Novel	1962	Eco	Hothouse	Brian Aldiss - Presents a dying Earth where vegetation dominates and animal life is all but extinct. Originally published in the United States in abridged form as "The Long, Hot Afternoon of Earth."
Novel	1962	Eco	The Drowned World	J.G. Ballard - Climate change causes flooding.
Novel	1962	Eco	The Wanting Seed	Anthony Burgess - Global over-population and famine leads to mass chaos
Novel	1962	Eco	The World in Winter (UK)/The Long Winter (US)	John Christopher - A decrease in radiation from the sun causes a new ice age.
Novel	1963	War	Triumph	Wylie, Philip
Novel	1963	Eco	Cat's Cradle[41]	Kurt Vonnegut - All the water on Earth becomes Ice-Nine
Novel	1963	Technology	Magnus, Robot Fighter	Comic books series by Gold Key Comics
Novel	1963	Unspecified	The Wall	Novel by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer. Adapted to film in 2012 by the same name. A forty-something woman while vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains discovers that a transparent wall has been placed that closes her off from the outside world; all life outside the wall appears to have died, possibly in a nuclear event.
Novel	2009	War, Terrorism	The War After Armageddon	War novel by Ralph Peters. Islamic extremists launch a series of dirty bomb attacks against the West, which results in a backlash against Muslims. A radical Christian government takes over the US and sends the Army, Marines, and a National Guard full of evangelicals to invade and retake a long-nuked Israel.
Film	1964	War	Dr. Strangelove[41]	Stanley Kubrick - adapting the novel Red Alert by Peter George
Film	1964	Disease	The Last Man on Earth	This is the first film adaptation based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend
Film	1964	War	The Time Travelers	[42][43]
Film	1964	Eco	Crack in the World	Deep drilling project goes wrong.
Novel	1964	War	Davy	Pangborn, Edgar
Novel	1964	War	Farnham's Freehold	Heinlein, Robert A.
Novel	1964	War	The Penultimate Truth	Dick, Philip K.
Television	1964	Aliens	The Dalek Invasion of Earth	The Doctor Who serial. As well as other Alien invasions in the 1963–1989 run including in 1966 The Tenth Planet' 1968 The Web of Fear & in the same year The Invasion, in 1970 Spearhead from Space, 1971 Terror of the Autons this list is not complete but can be said to represent milestone episodes. Some examples from the relaunch are in 2006 Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, and in 2007 The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords (though it could be argued that only the Master is alien).
Film	1964	Eco	The Day the Earth Caught Fire	Earth starts hurtling toward sun as a result of man's nuclear testing
Novel	1964	Eco	The Drought	J.G. Ballard - A super drought evaporates all water on earth.
Novel	1964	Eco	Greybeard	Brian Aldiss - The human race becomes sterile
Novel	1964	Eco	Time of the Great Freeze	Robert Silverberg - Another ice-age has engulfed the earth. A group from New York travels over the ice to London in the year 2650.
Television	1964–2002	War	The Outer Limits	"Soldier" (Cited as an influence on the movie The Terminator); "Bits of Love"; "The Human Factor"
Television	1965	War	The War Game	Peter Watkins
Novel	1965	War	Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb	Dick, Philip K.
Game	1965	War	Nuclear War Card Game	Game by Flying Buffalo. A comical cataclysmic card game for 2-6 players of all ages.
Novel	1965	Aliens	The Genocides	Thomas Disch - Alien flora is seeded on Earth, and quickly comes to dominate all landmasses, threatening Human extinction.
Novel	1965	Eco	A Wrinkle in the Skin (The Ragged Edge(US))	John Christopher - Civilization destroyed by massive worldwide earthquakes
Film	1965	Technology	Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
Television	1966	War	Ape and Essence	Television adaptation of the Novel of the same name
Story	1966	War	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison
Film	1966	Aliens	Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD	Based loosely on BBC Television series, but not part of the official canon.
Novel	1966	Eco	The Crystal World	J.G. Ballard . The jungle in Africa starts to crystallize all life and expands outward
Novel	1966	Eco	Make Room! Make Room!	Harry Harrison - Made into the 1973 film Soylent Green directed by Richard Fleischer - showing a world where humanity had become massively overpopulated, and a vague ecological disaster is creating a growing dust bowl, and the entire economy is collapsing.
Novel	1966	Technology	Colossus	Dennis Feltham Jones
Film	1967	War	Late August at the Hotel Ozone	Czech title: Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon [44][45]
Film	1967	War	In the Year 2889	A remake of the 1955 Roger Corman film Day the World Ended set in the year 1977, despite the title.
Film	1967	War	Journey to the Center of Time	[46][47]
Novel	1967	War	Ice	Kavan, Anna - earth threatened by Nuclear winter
Story	1967	Technology	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison
Story	1965	Technology	The Cyberiad	Stanisław Lem - A collection of humorous short stories
Novel	1967–2005	Technology	Berserker	Series by Fred Saberhagen
Film	1968	War	Planet of the Apes[19]	Adapted from the novel La planète des singes by Pierre Boulle
Novel	1968	War	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick - basis for the film Blade Runner
Novel	1968	Technology	The God Machine	Martin Caidin
Novel	1968	Social Collapse	Stand on Zanzibar	John Brunner - Set in a future of extreme over-population. Winner of Hugo Award, British Science Fiction award, and the French Prix Apollo.
Film	1969	War	The Bed Sitting Room[48]	Absurdist comedy film set in a post-war London destroyed by a nuclear bomb in World War III. Originally based on a play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus.[49][50]
Television	1969	War	Salve Regina	Four people seek refuge in the basement of a department store following a nuclear explosion.
Novel	1969	War	Damnation Alley	Roger Zelazny - made into a movie and a Hawkwind song 1977.
Novel	1969	War	Heroes and Villains	Angela Carter
Film	1969	Disease	The Seed of Man	Marco Ferreri (Italian title: Il Seme dell'uomo) [51]
Novel	1969	Eco	The Ice Schooner	Michael Moorcock - Set in a new ice age on earth
Film	1970	War	Beneath the Planet of the Apes[52]	The second film in the Planet of the Apes feature film series.
Novel	1970	War	The Incredible Tide	Alexander Key
Novel	1970	War	The Last War	Kir Bulychev - in Russian language
Novel	1970	War	The Year Of The Quiet Sun	Wilson Tucker
Film	1970	Eco	No Blade of Grass[53]	Based on the novel The Death of Grass
Television	1970	Eco	Inferno	Volcanic apocalypse. Doctor Who serial Inferno in which attempts to tap the Earths core for power leads to a volcanic apocalypse.
Film	1971	War	Glen and Randa[19]	[54][55]
Film	1971	War	The Omega Man[56]	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
Novel	1971	War	Love in the Ruins	Walker Percy
Novel	1971	War	The Overman Culture	Edmund Cooper
Television	1971	Eco	Timeslip	Global warming. The 1971 TV series Timeslip The Year of the Burn Up - Terraforming causes global warming.
Novel	1971	Eco	Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater	Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis. A microbe designed to eat waste plastic gets loose.
Novel	1971	Technology	Moderan	Series by David R. Bunch
Novel	1971	Sun	Inconstant Moon	Larry Niven
Novel	1972	War	Malevil	Robert Merle
Novel	1972	War	There Will Be Time	Poul Anderson
Film	1972	Eco	Silent Running
Novel	1972	Eco	The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner - The United States is overwhelmed by environmental irresponsibility and authoritarianism
Novel	1972	Eco	The End Of The Dream	Philip Wylie
Film	1972	Supernatural	A Thief in the Night	The evangelical Christian film series, sometimes referred to as the Mark IV films.
Film	1972	War	Doomsday Machine	In 1975, a crew of space travelers tries to colonize Venus after Earth is destroyed by a "doomsday device". Originally filmed in 1967, but (due to money problems) not finished and/or released until five years later. Directed by Herbert J. Leder, Lee Sholem, and producer Harry Hope.
Film	1973	War	Battle for the Planet of the Apes	The fifth movie in the Planet of the Apes feature film series.
Film	1973	War	Genesis II[57]	Gene Roddenberry - later remade as unsuccessful TV pilot Planet Earth
Film	1973	War	Refuge of Fear	(Spanish title: El refugio del miedo)[58]
Film	1973	Eco	Idaho Transfer
Story	1973	Eco	Flight of the Horse	Larry Niven - Collection of short stories
Comic	1973	Eco	Violence Jack	A manga series by Go Nagai that tells the tale of a Japan devastated by a massive earthquake and mass volcanic eruption and isolated from the rest of the world, with the remnants of humanity divided between the strong and the weak. A sequel to Nagai's Devilman series.
Story	1973	Technology	Trucks	Stephen King - An unknown phenomenon makes Earth's machines turn against humanity. It was later made into the movie Maximum Overdrive, which added an alien invasion subplot.
Novel	1973	Human Decline	The Camp of the Saints	Jean Raspail
Television	1973	Unspecified	The Starlost	A Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast on CTV in Canada and on NBC in the United States.
Television	1973–1974	Technology	Casshan
Film	1974	War	The Third Cry	(Swiss film, French title: Le Troisième Cri) [59][60]
Television	1974	War	Planet Earth	Unsuccessful TV pilot remake of Genesis II
Television	1974	War	Planet of the Apes	TV series
Film	1974	Disease	Where Have All The People Gone?	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.
Film	1974	Eco	Prophecies of Nostradamus
Film	1974	Human Decline	Zardoz	John Boorman
Novel	1974	Monsters	The Rats trilogy	James Herbert - The last two novels of The Rats trilogy show how after a nuclear war, humanity is overthrown by mutated Giant Black Rats.
Film	1975	War	A Boy and His Dog[19]	A young man (Don Johnson) and his dog (Tiger, the dog actor) struggle for survival and encounter strife in a harsh, post-apocalyptic wasteland where food, water, and women are scarce. Based on the writings of Harlan Ellison.[61][62]
Film	1975	War	Black Moon	Surreal French production.
Film	1975	War	La città dell'ultima paura	[63]
Film	1975	War	The Noah	Daniel Bourla - An American soldier becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear war.
Television	1975	War	Day of the Daleks	A Doctor 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.[64]
Television	1975	War	Return to the Planet of the Apes	Animated TV series
Television	1975	War	Strange New World	Another unsuccessful TV pilot remake of Genesis II & Planet Earth
Novel	1975	War	Caravan	Stephen Goldin
Novel	1975	War	The Coming of the Horseclans	Robert Adams - followed by seventeen other books in the horseclans series.
Novel	1975	War	Horseclans	Series by Robert Adams - first book 1975
Novel	1975	War	Z for Zachariah	Robert C. O'Brien
Film	1975	Disease	The Ultimate Warrior	[65]
Novel	1975	Disease	The Girl Who Owned a City	O. T. Nelson
Film	1975	Eco	Logan's Run	Society is chased into domes by an ecological disaster, and holds a ceremonial death ritual for all citizens who reach the age of 30 to control the population. A man who formerly helped control the population flees the domed city to avoid his own ceremony.
Novel	1975	Unspecified	Dhalgren	Samuel R. Delany
Television	1975–1977	Disease	Survivors	BBC series about the daily struggles of British survivors of a plague which kills most of the world population.
Film	1976	War	The People Who Own the Dark	Amando de Ossorio (Spanish title: Último deseo) [66][67]
Novel	1976	War	Deus Irae	Philip K. Dick - in collaboration with Roger Zelazny
Novel	1976	Eco	The HAB Theory	Allan W. Eckert - The stability of the Earth comes into question.
Novel	1976	Eco	The Winter of the World	Poul Anderson - Civilization and a new species has emerged from a deadly Ice Age that has destroyed all previous life.
Novel	1976	Sun	A World Out of Time	Larry Niven
Television	1976–1979	Eco	Ark II	Pollution. The 1976–1979 TV series Ark II - pollution devastates humanity.
Film	1977	War	Damnation Alley[68]	A surviving American ICBM crew sets out across the U.S. in an armored vehicle in search of survivors in Albany, New York - Based on the novel by Roger Zelazny
Film	1977	War	Wizards	Ralph Bakshi - A good wizard and his evil brother battle some two millennia after Armageddon
Novel	1977	Impact Event	Lucifer's Hammer	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle - A comet impact
Novel	1977-	War	Shannara Series	Terry Brooks - novel series
Comic	1977	War	Judge Dredd	John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra and Pat Mills
Novel	1977	Disease	Empty World	John Christopher - A virus wipes out the weak and the old, until the planet is populated by young teenagers only.
Novel	1974	Disease	The Last Canadian	William C. Heine - The planet is decimated by a virus, as told through the eyes of one survivor.
Story	1977	Disease	Night Surf	Stephen King - Collected in the book Night Shift.
Story	1977	Eco	The Screwfly Solution	Short story, tells the tale of a virus which turns males into female-hating psychopaths when sexually aroused
Comic	1977–1996	Technology	Galaxy Express 999
Film	1978	War	Deathsport
Television	1978	War	Future Boy Conan	An anime series by Hayao Miyazaki. Supermagnetic WMDs devastate Earth and causes virtually all land to be submerged underwater.
Film	1978	Disease	Plague	Also known as Induced Syndrome (UK), M-3: The Gemini Strain (USA), or Mutation.
Novel	1978	Disease	The Stand	Stephen King
Film	1978	Aliens	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Another film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Novel	1978	Unspecified	False Dawn	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Two humans search for a way to survive in toxic wasteland. Republished in 2001
Game	1978–2010	War	Gamma World	Game from TSR, Inc., the makers of Dungeons & Dragons
Film	1979	War	Ravagers[69]	[70]
Television	1979	War	Buck Rogers In The 25th Century	Mostly futuristic in appearance, but outside of the gleaming Utopian city lies apocalyptic ruins swarming with mutants.
Novel	1979	War	Down to a Sunless Sea	David Graham
Film	1979	Impact Event	Meteor
Film	1979	Eco	Quintet
Film	1979	Human Decline	Mad Max	an Australian movie, depicts a declining civilization.
Novel	1979	Unspecified	Engine Summer	John Crowley - Civilization transformed several millennia past an unspecified collapse of civilization.
Novel	1979–1992	Aliens	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
Game	1979–1998	Technology	Choose Your Own Adventure	GamebookBy Edward Packard
Novel	1980	War	The Fifth Horseman	Larry Collins, coauthor Dominique Lapierre
Novel	1980	War	Riddley Walker	Russell Hoban
Novel	1980	War	This Time of Darkness[71]	H.M. Hoover
Novel	1980	War	The Zone	James Rouch - chronicling the conflict between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe.
Film	1980	Disease	Fukkatsu no hi	Japanese film also known as Virus, directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Novel	1980	Aliens	Battlefield Earth	L. Ron Hubbard
Novel	1980	Aliens	The Mist	Stephen King
Novel	1980	Aliens	The Visitors	Clifford D. Simak
Novel	1980	Sun	The Shadow of the Torturer	Gene Wolfe - Followed by The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1981), The Citadel of the Autarch (1982), and The Urth of the New Sun (1987).
Television	1980–1982	Impact Event	Thundarr the Barbarian	Events 2000 years after the disaster of 1994
Game	1980–1983	War	The Morrow Project	Game from Timeline Ltd
Film	1981	War	Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior[16]
Film	1981	War	Malevil	Film version directed by Christian de Chalonge. Starring Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc and Jean-Louis Trintignant
Novel	1981	War	The Survivalist	Jerry Ahern - Series. First book 1981, Total War
Game	1981	War	Aftermath!	Game from Fantasy Games Unlimited
Novel	1981	War	The Pelbar Cycle	Series of seven books by Paul O. Williams - first book 1981, The Breaking of Northwall A thousand years after a series of nuclear exchanges. Republished in 2005.
Novel	1981	Eco	The Quiet Earth	Craig Harrison - Adapted into the 1985 movie of the same name.
Television	1981	Social collapse	The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series)	1981 adaptation of The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Novel	1981	Technology	Robot Revolt	Nicholas Fisk
Novel	1981	Technology	Uncanny X-Men	Story arc, "Days of Future Past" by Chris Claremont & John Byrne
Film	1982	War	2020 Texas Gladiators[19]	Post-apocalyptic Italian film[72][73]
Film	1982	War	The Aftermath[19]	Returning astronauts encounter bikers and mutants in a post-nuclear setting. Released as "Zombie Aftermath" in the UK.[74]
Comic	1982–1990	War	Akira	Cyberpunk manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo published by Dark Horse Comics - about a group of young bikers in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo who clash with the government and psychics with incredible power. Adapted into a 1988 animated movie
Film	1982	War	Human Highway
Film	1982	War	She[75]	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.
Film	1982	War	Warriors of the Wasteland[19]
Television	1982	War	Whoops Apocalypse
Novel	1982	Disease	The White Plague	Frank Herbert
Game	1982	Technology	Robotron: 2084	Created by Williams
Television	1982–1983	Aliens	The Super Dimension Fortress Macross	The anime series and its sequels (rewritten and combined with The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada to create Robotech', which dealt similarly with post-apocalyptic themes).
Film	1983	War	2019, After the Fall of New York[19]	An Italian film set in 2019 featuring a mercenary out to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth.
Film	1983	War	Endgame[19]	[76]
Film	1983	War	Exterminators of the Year 3000	[77][78][79]
Film	1983	War	Le Dernier Combat[80]	Luc Besson
Film	1983	War	Stryker[19]	[81][82]
Film	1983	War	Testament[30]
Film	1983	War	Warrior of the Lost World[19]	Wanderer on a super-sonic motorcycle becomes the saviour of a society of misfits.
Film	1983	War	Yor, the Hunter from the Future	[83]
Television	1983	War	The Day After	The effects of nuclear war on a Kansas town.
Novel	1983	War	The Amtrak Wars	Patrick Tilley - series, set at the end of the 3rd millennium
Novel	1983	War	The Ashes[84]	Series by William W. Johnstone - first book 1983, Out of the Ashes
Comic	1983–1988	War	Fist of the North Star	Influential shonen manga series by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara - A warrior trained in a powerful martial arts style rights wrongs and battles evil warlords in a post-apocalyptic world. Inspired the landmark anime series, a live-action film, and many games.
Novel	1983	War	Hiero's Journey	Sterling E. Lanier - sequel is The Unforsaken Hiero 1985, A "metis" priest/killman quests across post-apocalyptic northeastern North America, seven thousand years in the future.
Novel	1983	War	The Last Children of Schewenborn	Gudrun Pausewang - Die Letzten Kinder Von Schewenborn in German
Novel	1983	War	Pulling Through	Dean Ing
Novel	1983	War	Trinity's Child	William Prochnau
Novel	1983	War	Vampire Hunter D	Series by Hideyuki Kikuchi - first book 1983, Novels (and later anime movies), set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in 1999,
Television	1983–1984	Aliens	Genesis Climber Mospeada	The anime series (see also Robotech).
Television	1983–1985	Aliens	V	The television series.
Film	1984	War	Dark Enemy	[85]
Comic	1984–1995	Technology	Dragon Ball	In the Cell saga of Dragon Ball Z, a time traveler arrives from a post-apocalyptic future where two powerful killer androids have destroyed much of the world, and attempts to stop the same thing from happening in the main timeline.
Film	1984	War	Radioactive Dreams[86]	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.[87][88]
Film	1984	War	Sexmission	A Polish comedy. All men, except two who were hibernating, die after a war with the use of an M-bomb that kills only males.
Television	1984	War	Threads	BBC Television Docudrama.
Television	1984	War	Z for Zachariah	BBC adaptation of the 1975 novel of the same name.
Novel	1984	War	Brother in the Land	Robert Swindells
Novel	1984	War	Doomsday Plus Twelve	James D. Forman
Novel	1984	War	Emergence	David R Palmer
Novel	1984	War	Traveler	D. B. Drumm - series. First book: First, You Fight
Novel	1984	War	Warday	Whitley Strieber, coauthor James Kunetka
Novel	1984	Disease	Clay's Ark	Octavia Butler
Film	1984	Impact Event	Night of the Comet	When a comet passes too close to earth, two girls are left amid mutants.
Film	1984	Eco	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind[89]	Hayao Miyazaki - Based on the manga of the same name
Novel	1984	Eco	In the Drift	Michael Swanwick - Also an alternate history Story - the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor incident resulted in a very large release of radioactivity, devastating the Northeastern U.S.
Television	1984–1985	Aliens	The Tripods	An adaptation of the first two books in the trilogy by John Christopher
Television	1984–1987	War	Fist of the North Star	Landmark post-apocalyptic anime series based on the manga.
Game	1984–1993	War	Twilight: 2000	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.
Film	1984–2009	Technology	Terminator	Series of films dealing with a future devastated by a war between humans and machines, the attempt of the machines to kill the hero of the human resistance in the past, and the attempt of the hero and others to prevent this future from ever coming to pass.
Film	1985	War	Def-Con 4[19]
Film	1985	War	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome[19]
Film	1985	War	Warriors of the Apocalypse[19]	After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life.
Novel	1985	War	Children of the Dust	Louise Lawrence
Novel	1985	War	Fiskadoro	Denis Johnson
Novel	1985	War	Freeway Fighter	Ian Livingstone - part of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook series (Like a Choose Your Own Adventure book)
Novel	1985	War	The Postman	David Brin - the 1997 movie of the same name.
Novel	1985	War	The Steel, the Mist and the Blazing Sun	Christopher Anvil
Novel	1985	War	This is the Way the World Ends	James Morrow
Film	1985	Disease	City Limits	[90]
Novel	1985	Disease	Blood Music	Greg Bear
Novel	1985	Disease	The Fourth Horseman	Alan E. Nourse - Follows the progression of a new outbreak of Black Plague and the struggle to survive as society collapses.
Novel	1985	Aliens	Footfall	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle - Baby elephant-like invaders hurl asteroids at earth, humans revolt.
Novel	1985	Eco	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood - Dystopia is fueled by rampant infertility caused by pollution.
Film	1985	Technology	Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
Novel	1985	Technology	The Adolescence of P-1	Thomas J. Ryan.
Game	1985	Technology	The Mechanoid Invasion	GamebookAnd its source books, supplements and sequels was the first role-playing game from Palladium Books, conceived and written by Kevin Siembieda.
Film	1985	Sun	The Quiet Earth	Based on the 1981 novel The Quiet Earth by Craig Harrison
Film	1986	War	America 3000[91]	In Colorado, 900 years after a nuclear war in the USA, humanity is back to the stone ages.[92]
Film	1986	War	Fist of the North Star	Animated Japanese film.
Film	1986	War	Robot Holocaust[19]
Film	1986	War	The Sacrifice[93]
Film	1986	War	When the Wind Blows	Jimmy Murakami - adapting the graphic novel by Raymond Briggs
Film	1986	War	Whoops Apocalypse
Novel	1986-	War	Deathlands	James Axler - Novel series
Novel	1986	War	Endworld	Series by David L. Robbins - first book 1986
Film	1986	Disease	Dead Man's Letters	Konstantin Lopushanskij
Story	1986	Aliens	Maximum Overdrive	Stephen King - Aliens remotely control machines (trucks, cars and even vending machines) to kill the human population before invading. Based on the Stephen King short story Trucks
Film	1986	Eco	Solarbabies	Also known as Solarwarriors
Novel	1986	Eco	Nature's End	Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka.
Story	1986	Eco	The End of the Whole Mess	Stephen King - 1986 short story The End of the Whole Mess 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.
Comic	1986–1989	Aliens	Outlanders	Johji Manabe - manga
Film	1987	War	Cherry 2000
Film	1987	War	Creepozoids[94]
Film	1987	War	Death Run
Film	1987	War	Hell Comes to Frogtown
Film	1987	War	Steel Dawn[95]	[96]
Film	1987	War	The Survivalist	The Soviet Union blames the U.S. for a nuclear explosion, and in the ensuing chaos, the protagonist must defend his family. Based on the Jerry Ahern pulp novel series.[97]
Film	1987	War	Survivor	[98]
Film	1987	War	Urban Warriors	Three technicians working in an underground laboratory discover that a nuclear war has destroyed most of the above ground world.
Television	1987	War	Knights of God
Novel	1987	War	Fire Brats	Series by Scott Siegel - first book 1987, co-author Barbera Siegel, Grade 8-10
Novel	1987	War	Obernewtyn Chronicles	Series by Isobelle Carmody - first book 1987
Novel	1987	War	Swan Song	Robert R. McCammon
Game	1987	War	Crystalis	Game from SNK
Novel	1987	Aliens	The Forge of God	Greg Bear
Novel	1987	Eco	Wolf In Shadow	David Gemmell - The world is devastated by huge tsunamis. Most of the technology left in the world is on par with the mid to late 1800s but there are some newer weapons around.
Song	1987	Technology	Twilight of The Gods	Helloween
Novel	1987	Unspecified	In the Country of Last Things	Paul Auster
Television	1987–1988	Technology	Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future	After a war against the machines in which the humans lost, a small group of resistance fighters must keep humanity alive against the evil forces of Lord Dread.
Film	1988	War	Akira	Groundbreaking anime movie based on the manga of the same name
Film	1988	War	Miracle Mile
Film	1988	War	She-Wolves of the Wasteland
Film	1988	War	World Gone Wild	[99][100]
Novel	1988	War	Freeway Warrior	Series by Joe Dever - first book 1988
Novel	1988	War	The Gate to Women's Country	Sheri S. Tepper
Novel	1988	War	The Last Ship	William Brinkley
Novel	1988	War	Time Capsule[101]	Mitch Berman
Film	1988	Aliens	They Live	Part science fiction thriller and part black comedy.
Game	1988	Aliens	Manhunter	The computer game.
Game	1988	Technology	Wasteland	PCPost-Apocalyptic RPG, main story features a rogue AI that not only caused a nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union, but also is attempting to eradicate any humans that survived.
Novel	1988	Human Decline	At Winter's End	Robert Silverberg
Game	1988	Social Collapse	Dark Future	Miniature wargamingMiniature wargame by Games Workshop - A role-playing game franchise composed of the game and associated novels and short-story anthologies set within the Dark Future universe.
Novel	1988	Unspecified	Tea from an Empty Cup	Pat Cadigan - A novel set in a cyberpunk world following a vaguely described natural cataclysm.
Television	1988–1990	Aliens	War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion	The second season of this television spin-off from the 1953 movie was set after a successful alien invasion.
Film	1989	War	The Blood of Heroes[19]	Australian film written and directed by David Webb Peoples
Film	1989	War	Cyborg[102]
Film	1989	War	Empire of Ash II
Film	1989	War	Empire of Ash III
Novel	1989	War	Folk of the Fringe	Orson Scott Card - novella "West," plus several short stories.
Game	1989	War	Badlands	Game by Atari Games
Novel	1989	Disease	Plague 99	Jean Ure - Sequels Come Lucky April and Watchers at the Shrine
Film	1989	Eco	Millennium
Film	1989	Eco	Slipstream
Novel	1989	Eco	Stark	Ben Elton
Film	1989	Technology	Gunhed
Film	1989	Technology	Moontrap
Novel	1989	Monsters	Moonbane	Al Sarrantonio - About a worldwide uprising of werewolves
Novel	1989	Supernatural	The Dead	Mark E. Rogers - Combines themes of the rapture and zombies.
Short Story	1989	Disease	On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks	Story by Joe R. Lansdale. Bacteria causes the dead to rise. Bounty Hunter chases quarry and encounters evil cult.
Film	1990	War	The Handmaid's Tale[103]
Film	1990	War	Hardware[19]
Film	1990	War	Robot Jox
Television	1990	War	The Girl from Tomorrow	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.
Novel	1990	War	Nightfall	Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg (extension written by Silverberg of the Asimov story of the same name)
Game	1990	War	Mad Max	Game
Game	1990	War	Rifts	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.
Film	1990	Disease	A Wind Named Amnesia	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
Television	1990	Disease	Not with a Bang	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.
Novel	1990	Disease	The City, Not Long After	Pat Murphy - 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.
Novel	1990	Disease	A Gift Upon the Shore	M. K. Wren
Film	1990	Aliens	I Come in Peace	Also known as Dark Angel, directed by Craig R. Baxley
Novel	1990	Aliens	The Madness Season	Celia S. Friedman
Film	1990	Eco	Mindwarp	Taking place in the year 2037, the loss of the ozone layer has left most of the planet a desolate wasteland scattered with highly radioactive Death Zones.
Film	1990	Eco	Omega Cop	After an environmental holocaust, a lone cop battles a gang of rampaging marauders.
Novel	1990	Social Collapse	Wolf and Iron	Gordon R. Dickson - A man and a wolf band together to survive in an America devastated by financial collapse.
Television	1990–1991	Technology	Bucky O'Hare
Television	1990–1992	Eco	Captain Planet	Environment disaster. 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
Novel	1990–1994	War	Gan Moondark	Donald E. McQuinn - trilogy Warrior, Wanderer, & Witch, set in the Pacific Northwest, generations after World War III.
Film	1991	War	Delicatessen[104]	Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
Novel	1991	War	Yellow Peril	Wang Lixiong - in the Chinese under the pseudonym Bao Mi, about a nuclear civil war in the People's Republic of China
Game	1991	War	Armour-Geddon	Game from Psygnosis
Novel	1991	Eco	Fallen Angels	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn - Space-based civilization exists despite the government's wishes during an ice age.
Game	1991	Eco	Dark Sun	A Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting by TSR, Inc. - focusing on a world that has been turned into an inhospitable desert by overuse of magic that destroyed the surrounding vegetation.
Film	1991	Supernatural	The Rapture
Television	1992	War	woops!	Short-lived sitcom about the survivors of a nuclear war.
Game	1992	War	Outlander	Game Mad Max inspired driving game from 1992/93 for Snes and Genesis
Novel	1992	Disease	The Children of Men	P. D. James
Film	1992	Technology	American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
Novel	1992	Monsters	Skeletons	Al Sarrantonio - The galaxy passes through a 'cloud' in space, which causes all previously expired creatures on Earth to return to life as bloodthirsty skeletons shrouded in ghostly mirages of their former selves
Film	1993	War	Cyborg 2
Film	1993	War	Robot Wars	Sequel to Robot Jox
Novel	1993	Disease	Doomsday Book	Connie Willis
Film	1993	Aliens	Body Snatchers	Another film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Game	1993	Aliens	X-COM: UFO Defense and subsequent follow-ups	The computer game.
Novel	1993		Parable of the Sower	Octavia E. Butler
Film	1993	Eco	The Last Border - Viimeisellä Rajalla	One man's quest for revenge in a world where toxic waste has driven the remains of civilization into the Arctic Circle.
Novel	1993	Eco	The Fifth Sacred Thing	Starhawk
Novel	1993	Eco	Deus X	Norman Spinrad - The results of global warming
Novel	1993	Eco	This Other Eden	Ben Elton - The Earth's population is forced to live in Biodomes for 50 years while the environment recovers from humanity's actions.
Game	1993	Eco	Secret of Mana	Takes place long after a time of environmental collapse that destroyed the world's older advanced civilizations.
Novel	1993	Technology	Computer One	Warwick Collins
Novel	1993	Technology	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect	Roger Williams
Game	1993	Technology	RayForce	Multia Japanese scrolling shooter arcade game.
Television	1993	Monsters	Cadillacs and Dinosaurs	Animated TV series. In which dinosaurs reclaim the earth. Based upon the comic series "Xenozoic Tales"
Game	1993–present	Technology	Mega Man X series	A video game series created by Capcom
Game	1993–present	Supernatural	Doom series	A computer game series created by id Software - about a demonic invasion of human colonies on the moons of Mars. The sequel to the original game, Doom II: Hell on Earth, sees the demons invading Earth itself.
Television	1994	War	Knight Rider 2010	Made for TV movie that was designed to be a pilot for a post- Apocalyptic spin-off from the original Knight Rider
Television	1994	Disease	The Stand	miniseries
Television	1994	Impact Event	Highlander: The Animated Series
Game	1994	Impact Event	Illusion of Gaia	A Super NES game were a comet passes next to Earth, which is a malicious being whose light turns humans into monsters. The story takes place in an altered reality, where to approaching comet already changed timeline and reality.
Game	1994	Supernatural	Final Fantasy VI	Titled Final Fantasy III in its initial American launch, this RPG 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.
Game	1994	Technology	Earthsiege	And sequels, from Sierra Entertainment
Game	1994	Technology	Rise of the Robots	MultiDeveloped by Mirage Studios. A fighting game.
Game	1994	Technology	System Shock	Looking Glass Technologies - incorporates elements from Alien invasion theory.
Novel	1994	Unspecified	Vanishing Point	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.
Comic	1994–2006	Eco	Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko	The Japanese manga series, set in a peaceful post-cataclysmic Japan, after an untold environmental disaster.
Film	1995	War	Fist of the North Star	Live-action martial arts film.
Film	1995	War	Judge Dredd[16]
Film	1995	Disease	Twelve Monkeys[105]	Directed by Terry Gilliam - Based on La jetée (see above).
Film	1995	Impact Event	Tank Girl	Loosely based on the comic by Jamie Hewlett
Game	1995	Aliens	Chrono Trigger	The console game, where modern civilization is at risk of being destroyed by an alien parasite in 1999 AD
Film	1995	Eco	Waterworld[105]	Global Warming has caused all landmasses on Earth to be covered by the sea. The remnants of humanity survive on "atolls," mechanical floating cities that are constantly attacked by pirates with steam-driven ships. Some humans have evolved to become amphibious to live among the old wreckage beneath the waves. Many people live in hope of finding the mythical "Dryland," the place safe from the seas (which turns out to be the Himalayan Mountains).
Novel	1995	Eco	Mother of Storms	John Barnes - A tactical nuclear strike in the North Pacific releases massive amounts of methane, spawning worldwide super hurricanes.
Novel	1995	Eco	Ill Wind	Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason - A microbe consumes all materials based on petroleum.
Film	1995	Technology	Screamers
Comic	1995	Technology	Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith	Comics, great Droid Revolution
Television	1995	Technology	Space: Above and Beyond	A subplot involves humanity fighting a race of cyborgs called Silicates.
Game	1995	Technology	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	From Cyberdreams
Game	1995	Technology	Vertical Force	A vertical shoot-em-up scroller game, with two layers for Nintendo's Virtual Boy video game system.
Game	1995	Technology	Red Alarm	Nintendo
Television	1995	Supernatural	Neon Genesis Evangelion	Humanity's unearthing of a being known as Adam brings about Second Impact, a catastrophic shockwave which destroys Antarctica and subsequently leads to the extinction of thousands of organisms, the destruction of much of the civilized world, and the deaths of billions. Millions more die from the social and economic troubles which follow this impact and the ensuing wars.
Novel	1995	Supernatural	The Third Millennium	Paul Meier - Also 1996's The Fourth Millennium.
Game	1995	Supernatural	Mortal Kombat 3	The third installment of the Mortal Kombat series. Supernatural warlord Shao Kahn has taken over the realm of Earth, taking the souls of much of the populace. Extermination squads roam the land in search of the few surviving Kombatants that oppose him.
Game	1995–present	Eco	Command & Conquer: Tiberian series	A radioactive, self-replicating alien crystal known as Tiberium crashes on Earth in 1995 and gradually renders most of the Earth's surface uninhabitable over the next several decades.
Film	1996	Eco	Escape from L.A.[19]	The sequel to Escape From New York, the film is set in an America that has become a theocratic dictatorship. Central to the plot is Los Angeles Island, the remains of what was once the city of Los Angeles after "The Big One," where those who break the government's new laws are deported to.
Film	1996	War	Star Trek: First Contact	A late-21st century Earth is devastated by nuclear conflict.
Novel	1996	War	Arc Light	Eric L. Harry - limited nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
Film	1996	Aliens	Independence Day	A fleet of alien warships appear over several Earth cities and lay waste to them.
Film	1996	Aliens	Mars Attacks!	Based on the trading card series Mars Attacks (1962).
Novel	1996	Aliens	The Killing Star	Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski - Aliens conduct a preemptive strike against humanity with relativistic missiles.
Story	1996	Aliens	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches	Kevin J. Anderson - Edited by Kevin J. Anderson is an anthology of short stories set during the events of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Film	1996	Technology	Omega Doom
Novel	1996	Technology	Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88	Kevin J. Anderson
Game	1996	Human Decline	The House of the Dead	The The House of the Dead series of Sega 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.
Television	1996, 1999	Technology	The Outer Limits	The 1996 episode "Resurrection" and the 1999 episode "The Human Operators"
Television	1996–1997	Impact Event	After War Gundam X	In the series' backstory, a brutal war sees multiple space colonies dropped on Earth, rendering much of the world uninhabitable.
Game	1996–present	Disease	Resident Evil	MultiVideo game series
Film	1997	War	The Postman[19]	Partly based on the David Brin Novel
Game	1997	Disease	POD: Planet of Death	A mining accident unleashes a virus from within the colonized moon Io. Races are held to determine the winner of the last seat in the last shuttle leaving.
Novel	1997	War	Aftermath	LeVar Burton - American civilization crumbles after a civil war pitting blacks against whites and a devastating earthquake.
Game	1997	Impact Event	Dark Earth	Set in an unspecified post-apocalyptic region on an Earth shrouded by an impact winter and plagued by a dangerous mutagenic substance called "Archessence" - the game centres on a technologically regressed medieval-like society.
Game	1997	War	Interstate '76	Game from Activision
Game	1997	War	KKnD series	Game
Television	1997	Impact Event	Asteroid
Novel	1997	Impact Event	Titan	Stephen Baxter about a manned mission to Titan while China directs an asteroid to hit Earth.
Novel	1997	Aliens	The Alien Years	Robert Silverberg
Game	1997	Aliens	Spellcross	Turn based strategy game on PC
Game	1997	Eco	7th Legion	PC game. The Chosen, a group consisting of a corporate- and government-determined human elect, depart a heavily polluted Earth via a fleet of starships, returning as a force to reoccupy Earth, fighting against the titular 7th Legion, a coalition of the most advanced post-apocalypse humans on Earth.
Game	1997	Technology	GURPS Reign of Steel	A setting for the GURPS role playing system, where machines have taken over the world after a war with humanity that the humans lost.
Film	1997	Human Decline	The End of Evangelion	All humankind are reverted to a "primordial soup" and merged into a single consummate being.
Film	1997	Unspecified	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.
Game	1997–present	War	Fallout series	A nuclear war in 2077 devastates much of the US. Players start out in underground shelters called Vaults.
Film	1998	War	Six-String Samurai[106]
Game	1998	War	BattleTanx	Vehicular combat game from The 3DO Company. Nearly all women around the world are killed in a nuclear war and few female survivors are prized by men.
Game	1998	War	Vigilante 8	Activision
Novel	1998	Disease	The Transall Saga	Gary Paulsen
Novel	1998	Impact Event	Moonfall	Jack McDevitt
Film	1998	Aliens	The Faculty	Directed by Robert Rodriguez - Six students are about to find out their teachers really are from another planet.
Game	1998	Aliens	Half-Life	The computer game and its sequel
Other	1998	Aliens	Getter Robo Armageddon	The OVA, where a combination of a nuclear missile and amorphous alien Invaders results in a war with the fate of humanity at stake.
Novel	1998	Eco	Aftermath	Charles Sheffield - Alpha Centauri goes supernova and causes cataclysmic climate change
Novel	1998	Eco	Dust	Charles Pellegrino - All the insect species on Earth die out, and the ecology crashes as a result
Game	1998	Technology	RayCrisis	MultiA prequel to RayForce
Game	1998	Technology	KKND2: Krossfire	Is the sequel to KKnD, as part of its plot, Series 9 are advanced farming robots that have taken it unto themselves to destroy all life.
Other	1998	Technology	Obsolete (album)	Fear Factory
Game	1998	Future Collapse	Xenogears	PlayStation game set in a world with two nations fight with weapons found in ancient ruins. Also human fossils are all recent in the planet.
Film	1998	Supernatural	Apocalypse	Also, the series of films made in the 1990s and 2000s by Cloud Ten Pictures
Comic	1998 to present	Disease	Eden: It's an Endless World	Manga by Hiroki Endo
Television	1998–1999	Eco	Cowboy Bebop	Disaster. The 1998–1999 anime series 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.
Television	1999	War	Now and Then, Here and There	An Anime series that takes place 10 billion years into the future, where humanity lusts for power, and children are forced into military duty.
Novel	1999	War	Resurrection Day	Brendan DuBois - set ten years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, which escalated into nuclear war.
Game	1999	War	BattleTanx: Global Assault	Game from The 3DO Company - sequel to BattleTanx
Game	1999	War	Warzone 2100
Television	1999	Disease	Crusade	A spin-off from the TV show Babylon 5
Game	1999	Disease	Abomination: The Nemesis Project	Video game
Television	1999	Impact Event	The Last Train[107]	Cruel Earth in Canada. British TV six part drama.
Television	1999	Impact Event	Thunderstone
Game	1999	Aliens	Chrono Cross	The 1999 console game, where in alternate time lines modern civilization was destroyed by an alien parasite in 1999 AD
Novel	1999	Eco	The Rift	Walter Jon Williams
Game	1999	Technology	System Shock 2	Sequel to System Shock
Game	1999	Technology	Galerians	PlayStationDeveloped by Polygon Magic.
Game	1999	Technology	Descent 3	PCDeveloped by Outrage Entertainment, which explains that mostly mining robots attacked by an unknown virus and now attacking people.
Television	1999	Human Decline	The Big O	The Japanese manga and anime, 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.
Game	1999	Future Collapse	Homeworld	PCDeveloper Relic Entertainment - A small human civilization on the desert planet of Kharak on the edge of the galaxy is brought to the brink of extinction for violating a forgotten 5000-year-old treaty forbidding them from developing hyperspace technology. The survivors, however, are fortunate to have the use of the recently completed Mothership - a large colony vessel meant to take them back to their ancient and forgotten homeworld near the center of the galaxy, Hiigara - The game was succeeded by sequels Homeworld: Cataclysm and Homeworld 2.
Game	1999–2000	War	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri	Game A ship leaves Earth on the eve of World War III to found a new colony orbiting Alpha Centauri
Television	1999–2003	Disease	The Tribe	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.
Film	1999–2003	Technology	The Matrix	Series of films dealing with a future where machines have trapped humanity in an illusory world, and the struggle of the surviving humans of the post-apocalyptic real world to free the rest of humanity from the illusion.
Film	2000	War	On the Beach	A remake of the 1959 film.
Game	2000	War	Earth 2150	Game Also Earth 2160 The world is destroyed in 2150 and people settle on mars in 2160.
Game	2000	Disease	Deus Ex	PCGame in relation to the Gray Death
Game	2000	Impact Event	Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask	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.
Film	2000	Aliens	Battlefield Earth	Based on the novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard
Film	2000	Aliens	Titan A.E.	2000 animated post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction
Game	2000	Technology	Gunlok	Is a squad based action adventure computer game developed by Rebellion
Novel	2000	Supernatural	Demons	John Shirley - revolves around a demonic invasion of Earth.
Television	2000–2002	Social Collapse	Dark Angel	After terrorists detonate a nuclear weapon in the Earth's orbit, all computer data is destroyed, bringing about an economic collapse, but with minimal loss of life. Created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee
Novel	2001	War	Mortal Engines Quartet	Series by Phillip Reeve - first book 2001, Set in the distant future after a nuclear war. Cities are turned into machines on wheels which hunt other cities and 'eat' them. The first book follows the story of two children who have fallen off a city, and are trying to find it again so they can get back on, while the dictator of their city plans on using a weapon to destroy all of the land dwellers - people who haven't upgraded their cities to be on wheels.
Game	2001	War	Darwin's World	Game A role-playing game from Impressions
Film	2001	Disease	Ever Since the World Ended[108][109]
Novel	2001	Disease	Idlewild	Nick Sagan
Novel	2001	Disease	The Night of the Triffids	Simon Clark - Sequel to The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Game	2001	Disease	After The Bomb	Role-play game
Novel	2001	Impact Event	The Peshawar Lancers	S.M. Stirling
Game	2001	Impact Event	Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies	PlayStation 2 game centered in a fictional continent years after an asteroid crashes at several locations.
Film	2001	Aliens	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	CGI animated film about spirit-based aliens roaming Earth after an asteroid crash over 30 years before.
Game	2001	Technology	Outlive	A real-time strategy. Earth created robotic lifeforms allegedly to mine Titan's resources, though in reality they were to be used as a secret army. When the plan surfaced, the World Council lost power but the robots returned and occupied the planet in the name of their creators.
Game	2001	Human Decline	Pikmin	And its sequel, the 2004 video game Pikmin 2, is set on an unnamed planet simply called as the planet of the Pikmin, inhabited 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.
Film	2001	Monsters	Kairo	Kiyoshi Kurosawa - In which the world is overrun by Humanoid Ghosts, and everything is destroyed by them. Based on a novel of the same name.
Game	2001	Sun	Tetris Worlds	Cross
Television	2001–2002	Technology	Digimon Tamers
Film	2002	War	Equilibrium	After barely surviving another worldwide conflict, humanity rejects all emotion and outlaws all forms of expression which might encourage emotional response.
Television	2002	War	Saikano	Anime series.
Film	2002	Zombies	28 Days Later	Ordinary citizens are forced to fight through hordes of rabid zombies after a virus ravages Britain
Film	2002	Disease	Teenage Caveman	Set in the post-apocalyptic future where majority of humans die from a mysterious viral plague, the remaining humans have conformed to primitive tribalism. Directed by Larry Clark
Television	2002	Disease	Smallpox	TV movie
Novel	2002	Disease	The Years of Rice and Salt	Kim Stanley Robinson - Set in a world devastated by the Black Death in medieval Europe, which killed 99% of the European population before they could discover the Americas
Game	2002	Disease	Soldiers of Anarchy	PCVideo 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.
Film	2002	Impact Event	The Time Machine	Downfall of man caused by the Moon breaking apart and bombarding Earth with rocks after extensive lunar mining.
Film	2002	Aliens	Signs	Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Film	2002	Eco	Jason X	The tenth Friday the 13th film, Earth became a polluted wasteland by 2455 - Humanity left Earth and colonized a planet designated as Earth 2.
Game	2002	Eco	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	Video game in which a flood has decimated the fictional world of Hyrule
Novel	2002	Technology	The Butlerian Jihad	Kevin J. Anderson - Part of the Dune universe
Film	2002	Monsters	Reign of Fire	Dragons wreak havoc and destroy human civilization.
Television	2002–2003	War	Mobile Suit Gundam Seed	Anime Series involving a war between naturally-born humans (Naturals) and genetically enhanced humans (Coordinators).
Television	2002–2003	Eco	Overman King Gainer	Anime series, which depicts humanity living in domes after an ecological disaster.
Game	2002–2004	War	Neocron	Game for the Personal Computer by Reakktor Media
Television	2002–2004	Disease	Jeremiah	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.
Novel	2002–2004	Technology	Legends Of Dune trilogy	Part of the Dune universe
Comic	2002–2008	Disease	Y: The Last Man	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
Film	2003	War	Deathlands: Homeward Bound	Based on the book series Deathlands
Film	2003	War	Time of the Wolf
Novel	2003	War	The City of Ember	a Jeanne DuPrau novel set in an underground city 241 years after a nuclear war.
Novel	2003	War	Revelation by Lord John	Robert J. Szmidt - polish: Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana
Novel	2003	War	The Third World War	Humphrey Hawksley
Game	2003	War	Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death	Game
Novel	2003	Disease	Full Circle	David Mitchell
Story	2003	Impact Event	Shikari in Galveston
Novel	2003	Aliens	Vampire Earth	E. E. Knight - Series.
Game	2003	Aliens	UFO: Aftermath	The computer game and its sequels UFO: Aftershock & UFO: Afterlight by Altar Games
Film	2003	Eco	Dragon Head	Based on the Manga of the same name.
Film	2003	Eco	It's All About Love
Novel	2003	Eco	Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood
Novel	2003	Eco	Clade	Mark Budz
Television	2003	Eco	Encrypt	Cataclysm. Set in the year 2068, the Earth's surface is in a cataclysmic upheaval, much of it transformed into wasteland by unstoppable storms (the byproduct of the destruction of the ozone layer). It was directed by Oscar Luis Costo.
Film	2003	Technology	Galerians: Rion
Novel	2003	Technology	Robota	An illustrated book by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card
Novel	2003	Technology	The Machine Crusade	Part of the Dune universe by Kevin J. Anderson
Comic	1999-2004	Technology	The Matrix Comics	Originally released as webcomics.
Game	2003	Technology	Neuroshima	The Polish role-playing game from Portal Publishing.
Game	2003	Social Collapse	Deus Ex: Invisible War	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.
Novel	2003–2007	Aliens	Legacy Trilogy	Ian Douglas
Television	1978–2009	Aliens, Technology	Battlestar Galactica	A race of (alien-created (1978–80)/human-created (2003-09)) machine beings launch a devastating final assault upon the humans' original homeworlds, and chase a ragtag fleet of survivors in search of a mythical planet called Earth.
Film	2004	War	Appleseed[110]
Film	2004	War, Technology	Casshern	Based on two Japanese anime series. A race of super-robots led by their leader, Black King, take over the world.
Novel	2004	War	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell - one of the six novellas is set in a post-apocalyptic future.
Film	2004	Zombies	Dawn of the Dead	Individuals try and survive a zombie outbreak by securing a shopping mall. Remake of 1978 movie.
Novel	2004	War	Cowl	Neal Asher
Novel	2004	War	Fitzpatrick's War	Theodore Judson
Game	2004	Aliens	Half-Life 2	Game from Valve
Novel	2004	Disease	A Planet for the President	Alistair Beaton
Novel	2004	Disease	White Devils	Paul McAuley
Film	2004	Impact Event	Post 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".
Film	2004	Eco	The Day After Tomorrow	Based in part on the novel The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell & Whitley Strieber
Novel	2004	Eco	Crache	Mark Budz
Novel	2004	Eco	The Snow	Adam Roberts - The world is buried under kilometres of unnatural snow.
Television	2004	Eco	Category 6: Day of Destruction	Tornado disaster. 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
Television	2004	Eco	10.5	Earthquake disaster. 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.
Game	2004	Eco	The Fall: Last Days of Gaia	PC A German 3D RPG situated in a post apocalyptic future where humanity is facing its possible end.The focus of the game is the deep story and the unique characters, with living environment offering many well thought sidequests. Gameplay similar to the Fallout series, although with a more traditional RPG approach in which the player can assemble a whole party in order to improve chances in battles and include specialists with complementary skills.
Film	2004	Technology	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Novel	2004	Technology	The Battle of Corrin	Part of the Dune universe by Kevin J. Anderson
Comic	2004	Technology	Deus Vitae	A manga series created by Takuya Fujima
Television	2004	Technology	Zentrix
Game	2004	Technology	Splicers	A role-playing game set in the midst of a war between humans and a worldwide computer intelligence.
Game	2004	Technology	Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet	MultiIs a Japanese post-apocalyptic visual novel.
Film	2004	Human Decline	Idiocracy	Takes the premise that with no natural predators to thin the population of the world, evolution simply rewards whoever can pass on their genes the fastest, who are depicted as sexually promiscuous drunken brutes. The average IQ is 80 by 2100, 60 by 2200, and 40 by 2505.
Television	2004–2005	War	Desert Punk	Anime series, in future, Japan that is a wasteland. In the Great Kanto Desert, scattered humans eke out a living in the hot sand.
Novel	2004–2007	Disease	The Uglies Trilogy	Scott Westerfeld - 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).
Television	2005	War	Dance Of The Dead	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.
Novel	2005	War	The Goodness Gene	Sonia Levitin - children's book
Novel	2005	War	Metro 2033	Series by Dmitry Glukhovsky - Set in the metro tunnels of post apocalyptic Moscow. A man named Artyom journey's to the central city of the metro, Polis, to find answers about a possible threat called the Dark Ones.
Film	2005	Disease	Æon Flux	Based on MTV's animated series Æon Flux
Game	2005	Impact Event	Guild Wars	PCA 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.)
Film	2005	Aliens	Alien Apocalypse	Produced by Sci Fi Channel
Film	2005	Aliens	War of the Worlds	Directed by Steven Spielberg, along with the independent 2005 productions H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, all based on the H. G. Wells novel.
Novel	2005	Aliens	War of the Worlds: New Millennium	Douglas Niles - Is a retelling of the original The War of the Worlds story, but displaces the events to 2005. It is not a sequel, rather it is an update.
Novel	2005	Aliens	Eight Worlds	John Varley
Game	2005	Aliens	Destroy All Humans!	The 2005 console game, in which the player controls a Furon alien in an attempt to overthrow humanity.
Film	2005	Eco	Serenity	The Earth's resources and biosphere get used up prompting mass exodus for the stars.
Film	2005	Eco	A Sound of Thunder	Peter Hyams - A group of travelers returned in the time and made changes in the past which lead to colossal alterations in the future, where they came from, and less than in a week everything in the world started changing chaotically, putting in danger the life of every living thing.
Story	2005	Eco	The Garden Where My Rains Grows	Brian Keene - set in a post-apocalyptic world where it started raining one day and never stopped
Film	2005	Technology	9
Novel	2005	Technology	How to Survive a Robot Uprising	A semi-satirical book by Daniel H. Wilson
Novel	2001-2005	Monsters	Trinity Blood	Sunao Yoshida, illustrations by Thores Shibamoto - Light novel involving a war between humans and vampires.
Television	2005–2006	Future Collapse	Noein	This anime features several teens living in Hakodate, Hokkaido who come in contact with their future selves using time travel as a last resort to end the destruction of their world by abducting their dear friend Haruka Kaminogi from the past as a sacrifice to make the ultimate weapon against the destroyer known as Noein.[111]
Television	2005–2006	Aliens	Eureka Seven	Anime series and its video games are set 10,000 years after humans had to leave the earth due to a Coralian appearing in Africa. In the current timeline, the remnants of humanity are now settled on a planet they refer to as the "Promised Land".
Television	2005–2006	Eco	Zoids: Genesis	Environment disaster. Anime series where an earthquake triggers a series of worldwide natural disasters that devastate Planet Zi.
Comic	2005–2007	Technology	Lego Exo-Force	Comics and books.
Radio	2005–present	Eco	Nebulous	Radio sitcom by Graham Duff - much of the world was destroyed by an event known as "the Withering".
Film	2006	War	The Dark Hour	The eight years boy Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptic war.[112]
Television	2006	War	Jericho	CBS - the residents of a small Kansas town remain isolated in the aftermath of a series of nuclear attacks on America
Novel	2006	War	The Book of Dave	Will Self - split between modern London and post-apocalyptic London where a new society and religion is based on the legacy of a cab driver.
Novel	2006	War	Deadlands	Scott A. Johnson
Game	2006	War	Auto Assault	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.
Film	2006	Zombies	The Zombie Diaries	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.
Novel	2006	Disease	Pandemia[113]	Johnathan Rand and Christopher Knight - A mutated bird flu virus wipes out everyone except the young. Set in Michigan.
Novel	2006	Zombies	World War Z	Max Brooks novel about a global zombie outbreak and humanity's efforts to stop thems
Novel	2006	Disease	Quarantine	Poetry by Brian Henry
Television	2006	Impact Event	Three Moons Over Milford
Novel	2006	Impact Event	Life as We Knew It	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.
Game	2006	Aliens	Gears of War	The video game, which takes place on the fictional planet of Sera, humans are shown fighting a war against alien monsters that have emerged from underground.
Film	2006	Eco	The World Sinks Except Japan	A parody of Japan Sinks - All the land on earth sinks into the ocean, with Japan being the last to go.
Novel	2006	Eco	Small-Minded Giants	Oisín McGann
Television	2006	Eco	Innocent Venus	Set after the world population and economy is devastated by simultaneous hyper-hurricanes.
Game	2006	Eco	Battlefield 2142	PC first-person shooting game about a war fought over land unaffected by a new ice age that renders most of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable.
Television	2006	Eco	Ergo Proxy	Anime series by the Japanese production company Manglobe - 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.
Film	2006	Unspecified	Android Apocalypse	TV movie for Sci Fi Channel
Television	2006	Technology	Lego Exo-Force
Film	2006	Human Decline	Children of Men[93]	The human race has become infertile. Based on the book of the same name.
Novel	2006	Zombies	Cell	Stephen King - A strange cell phone signal turns ordinary humans into killer zombies.
Film	2006	Zombies	The Quick and the Undead
Film	2006	Supernatural	Pulse	And its 2009 sequel Pulse 2: Afterlife
Film	2006	Social Collapse	Puzzlehead	James Bai (writer/director) - Set in what looks like Brooklyn, "after the decline", the streets are empty and there seems to be constant random killings.
Novel	2006	Unspecified	Night Work	Thomas Glavinic - A novel in which a man wakes up to find that everyone else has disappeared.
Game	2006	Unspecified	Mother 3	Game BoyIn 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.
Novel	2006	Unspecified	The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Audio podcast	2006	War	The Last Broadcast	Audio "mocku-drama" about a Canadian radio station broadcasting "live" news bulletins regarding an acute Cold War-era military crisis in Europe, on an "alternate" world history timeline. [114][115]
Television	2007	War	Masters of Science Fiction	Episode, A Clean Escape
Novel	2007	War	Last Light	Alex Scarrow - sudden end of oil availability leads to worldwide social collapse.
Novel	2007	War	The Oblivion Society	Marcus Alexander Hart
Novel	2007	War	The Pesthouse	Jim Crace
Novel	2007	War	The Slynx	Tatyana Tolstaya novel
Novel	2007	War	The World Ends in Hickory Hollow	Ardath Mayhar
Film	2007	Zombies	28 Weeks Later	Sequel to 28 Days Later. During the efforts to repopulate Britain, the discovery of a possible cure to the "Rage" virus may also begin the apocalypse all over again.
Film	2007	Disease (zombies)	I Am Legend[93]	In an abandoned New York City set in 2012, military virologist Robert Neville tries to find a cure to a man-made virus that killed almost everyone on earth, while at the same time trying to survive against the vampiric zombies it left behind.
Film	2007	Disease	I Am Omega
Film	2010	Monsters	Monsters	Written, shot and directed by Gareth Edwards.
Film	2009	Disease	Autumn	Autumn on imdb
Film	2008	Zombies	Zombie Wars	Directed by David A. Prior
Film	2007	Unspecified	The Gene Generation	Directed by Pearry Teo
Film	2006	War	9/Tenths	About the conflict between a wealthy couple and a poor laborer after a worldwide terrorist attack isolates them in a small remote ranch.
Film	2006	War	The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell	Dark comedy directed by Jonny Gillette
Film	2003	Unspecified	Dream Warrior	Dream Warrior on imdb
Film	2007	Zombies	Resident Evil: Extinction
Novel	2007	Disease	Plague Year	Jeff Carlson - Slated to be a trilogy
Film	2007	Impact Event	Super Comet: After The Impact	A speculative documentary produced by the Discovery Channel which hypothesizes the effects on modern-day earth of a large comet impact.
Film	2007	Aliens	The Invasion	Based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. A mysterious virus brought by spaceborne microbes possesses humans and renders them devoid of emotion.
Film	2007	Aliens	Invasion of the Pod People	A low-budget remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers made by The Asylum to capitalise on the release of The Invasion.
Film	2007	Aliens	Transformers	A race of both robotic aliens battle for humanity.
Game	2007	Eco	Darkwind: War on Wheels	PC-MMOGA disastrous solar event in 2019 and 2020 leaves the world devastated, with only small pockets of human survivors scratching out a living in a bleak, irradiated world. Largely fuelled by the stockpiles of hardware left behind by a dead civilization combined with the desperation of a new world order, the gladiatorial deathsports begin, around 2035. The vast expanses of wilderness between the towns are menaced by gangs of road pirates armed with heavily armed cars and trucks, and travelled by equally well armed trade groups, making a living by carrying food, fuel, and other specialist equipment between the towns.
Film	2007	Technology	Meet the Robinsons
Film	2007	Human Decline	Tooth and Nail	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.
Television	2007	Monsters	Gurren Lagann	Animated TV series in which cloned "Beastmen" fight an apocalyptic battle with humanity.
Film	2007	Zombies	REC	Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza - Spanish horror film about altered humans by a Demon.
Game	2007	Future Collapse	Supreme Commander	PC, XboxSet at the end of a thousand-year-long war, called the infinite war, between three separate factions; the UEF (United Earth Federation), the Aeon and the Cybrans.
Film	2007	Sun	Sunshine	Directed by Danny Boyle - The film follows a spaceship crew in the year 2057 who are tasked with reigniting Earth's dying sun.
Game	2007	Supernatural	Hellgate: London	PCDemons and humans are in constant struggle on earth.
Television	2007	Unspecified	Afterworld (TV series)	American series about a man living in a post-apocalyptic United States after an unspecified cataclysm.
Game	2007–2011	Technology	Mass Effect	Adventure game. Backstory involves a race of nomadic, space traversing humanoids known as 'Quarians', who created a race (the Geth) of networked artificial intelligences. Soon, the Geth revolt against the Quarians and forced them into the vastness of space aboard a fleet of star ships without a safe refuge in the galaxy.
Film	2007–present	Supernatural	Rebuild of Evangelion	Remake of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series. The first of the four films, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, debuted in 2007; the second, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, in 2009; the third, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, in 2012. The fourth is forthcoming.
Film	2008	War	20 Years After	20 years after wars, plague, and natural disasters, a young woman follows the voice of a lone radio broadcaster and delivers the first child born in 15 years.[116]
Film	2008	War	City of Ember	Based on the book by Jeanne Duprau
Film	2008	War	Mutant Chronicles	Based on the Mutant Chronicles RPG
Novel	2008	War	Flood	Stephen Baxter book about huge underground oceans leaking to the surface, lifting sea levels by thousands of metres over several decades.
Novel	2008	War	The Hunger Games	Young adult series by Suzanne Collins about a survival tournament set in a post-apocalyptic continent.
Novel	2008	War	The Valley-Westside War	Harry Turtledove
Game	2008	War	Exodus (role-playing game)	Game A post-apocalyptic role-playing game from Glutton Creeper Games set after the War on Terror destroy 99% of the world's population.
Film	2008	Disease	Doomsday[93]
Film	2008	Disease	Repo! The Genetic Opera
Film	2008	Disease	The Last Man	Based upon Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man
Television	2008	Disease	Survivors	BBC television series a remake of the 70's series of the same name
Novel	2008	Disease	The Martian General's Daughter	Collapse of global civilization caused by virus-like nanotechnology
Game	2008	Zombies	Left 4 Dead	MultiFeaturing people transformed into crazed zombie-like mutants by an infection.
Novel	2008	Impact Event	Dead and the Gone	Susan Beth Pfeffer - How the same event as in Life as We Knew It affects a family in New York City.
Novel	2008	Aliens	The Host	Stephenie Meyer - An alien race, called Souls, take over Earth and its inhabitants. The novel follows one Soul's predicament when the mind of its human host refuses to cooperate with her takeover.
Film	2008	Eco	The Happening	The movie depicts an unknown deadly neurotoxin.
Film	2008	Eco	Lost City Raiders
Film	2008	Eco	WALL-E	Earth is abandoned after becoming too polluted to sustain life. A robot stays behind and cleans Earth.
Television	2008	Eco	The Poison Sky	Environment disaster. The Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky". The poisonous Sontaran gases (creating the titular "poison sky") above Sylvia and Wilfred's street ignite as the flames from the Doctor's atmospheric converter spread globally.
Game	2008	Technology	Too Human
Film	2008	Zombies	Quarantine	American remake of the Spanish horror film REC
Television	2008	Zombies	Dead Set	A UK television series which chronicles a zombie outbreak.
Novel	2008	Supernatural	Therefore Repent!	Jim Munroe art by Salgood Sam - a post-Rapture graphic novel.
Television	2008	Social Collapse	Turn Left (Doctor Who story #197)	Russell T Davies (writer). Explores an apocalyptic parallel universe in which British society has collapsed due to the death of the Doctor
Novel	2008	Social Collapse	World Made By Hand	James Kunstler - 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
Film	2008	Unspecified	Life After People	A TV documentary film, and the spin-off, Life After People: The Series, document life on earth after all humans have instantly disappeared. The shows does not mention a cause of their disappearance.
Television	2008–2009	Technology	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Film	2009	Eco	Astro Boy	Astro Boy, (a robotic reincarnation of his creator's lost son) lives in highly advanced metro city; last of its kind floating above the clouds in the skies of post-apocalyptic earth.[117]
Film	2009	Disease	Carriers	A group of 4 on the road trying to find a safe haven while plague rages across the USA.
Film	2009	Disease	Daybreakers	A virus changes most of the populace into vampires sometime around 2019. At the point where vampirism is considered "normal", the remaining humans attempt to escape being farmed for their blood, while also attempting to find a cure.[118]
Film	2009	Zombies	La Horde	French Zombie-Apocalypse film. Directed by Benjamin Rocher. The film is set in one of French tower blocks, wherein a small group of people trying to make their way out of it thrusting through hordes of zombies.
Novel	2009	Disease	The Killing Moon	Rod Glenn - Five friends struggle to survive 20 years after the collapse of civilisation. Set in northern England.
Game	2009	Zombies	Left 4 Dead 2	MultiFeaturing the same as Left 4 Dead but expanded.
Game	2009	Disease	Killing Floor	PCCooperative first-person shooter video game.
Film	2009	Eco	2012
Novel	2009	Eco	The Windup Girl (2009 novel)	Paolo Bacigalupi - In future Thailand, where calories are the most needed energy source, an unexpected girl struggles to live like as she wants.
Television	2009	Eco	Earth 2100	Time travel fiction. The 2009 ABC Special Earth 2100 explore the future if humans do not take actions to help the eco-system that can prove to be disastrous. Lucy, the speaker, explains about this world and wonders how she was one of the lucky humans to have survived.
Film	2009	Technology	9	Adaptation of 2005 year's film 9
Television	2009	Technology	Power Rangers: RPM	The Power Rangers protect the last remnants of humanity, who are now settled in the domed city of Corinth, after the accidental release of a government created computer virus known as "Venjix". Malicious and self-aware, it leaves most of the planet in nuclear fallout, constructs an army of attack bots and begins cybernetic experiments on human prisoners.
Novel	2009	Zombies	The Forest of Hands and Teeth	Carrie Ryan - Set generations after the zombie apocalypse, a girl struggles against the religious order in her village hoping for life beyond the fences protecting them from the Unconsecrated (zombies) in the surrounding forest.
Film	2009	Monsters	REC 2	Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza - The sequel to 2007's REC
Film	2009	Sun	Knowing	Tells of a story where the end of the world, caused by a solar flare erupting onto the solar system, is accurately predicted.
Novel	2009	Social Collapse	Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse	James Wesley Rawles - An apocalyptic survivalist novel about a total socio-economic collapse.
Film	2009	Unspecified	Les derniers jours du monde	A French film. Depicts the story of a man, Robinson, who travels across France and Spain during the end of the world.
Film	2009	Unspecified	The Road	A film based upon the novel "The Road", by Cormac McCarthy.
Other	2009	Unspecified	Songs From The Floodplain	An album by Jon Boden
Novel	2009	Technology	One Second After
Comic	2009 to present	Disease	Sweet Tooth	Series written and drawn by Jeff Lemire and published by Vertigo Comics about a young hybrid human/deer, who has survived an apocalyptic plague.
Television	2009–	Aliens	V	Remake of the 80s Television Series.
Television	2009–2010	Disease	The Colony	Reality television style drama about a group of survivors forced to live in a warehouse in the virus ravaged city of Los Angeles, California.
Game	2009–present	War	Fallen Earth	Game A post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online roleplaying game from Icarus Studios and Fallen Earth LLC set in the 22nd Century after the Shiva Virus has spread all over the world.
Television	2009	Eco	Tokyo Magnitude 8.0	After a massive earthquake in Tokyo 25 km under the sea at a magnitude of 8.0, siblings Mirai and Yūki, who were visiting a robot exhibition in Odaiba at the beginning of their summer vacation, struggle to reach their parents in their house in Setagaya, assisted by a female motorcycle courier named Mari, who is striving to reach her own daughter and mother in Sangenjaya. Together, the three brave the ruined city and try their best to make it home safely.
Television	2010	War	Adventure Time	The adventures of Jake the dog and Finn, the only known remaining human in the post-appocalyptic land of Ooo hundreds of years after the "Great Mushroom War".
Film	2010	War	The Book of Eli	Although never directly stated, enormous craters can be seen throughout the film and characters mention an event called "the Flash". The writer, Gary Whitta, stated he wanted the audience to figure out the nuclear event slowly.[119]
Game	2010	War	Metro 2033	Game by 4A Games and THQ for the PC and Xbox 360 set in post-apocalyptic Moscow 20 years after a nuclear war
Film	2010	Zombies	Resident Evil: Afterlife
Film	2010	Zombies	Survival of the Dead	Low-budget film - On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state. Directed by George A. Romero
Television	2010	Disease	After Armageddon	TV Film about a family trying to survive after a global outbreak.
Novel	2010	Disease	Dog Eat Dog	David J. Rodger Ten years after a devastating global pandemic, the lives of two survivors collide in a sequence of events that threaten both their sanity and their lives.
Novel	2010	Disease	The Passage[120]	Justin Cronin - A virus turns humanity into vampire-esque creatures, leading to the collapse of civilization, while survivors eke out a bleak existence.
Film	2010	Impact Event	Meteor Apocalypse	A gigantic meteor enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Film	2010	Impact Event	Quantum Apocalypse	A comet makes an unexpected turn towards the earth where all life may cease to exist within days if small town heroes fail to find a solution.
Television	2010–2012	Technology	Generator Rex	Rex is an evo working with the military organization Providence, to put an end to the outbreak of violent monstrous human mutations known as evos which are created when people are exposed to unsafe nanites, a nanobot technology developed to fight diseases within humans. Wars between evos and humans ensued when nanites started to get out of control.[121]
Film	2010	Aliens	Skyline	Aliens invade Earth and attempt to steal the brains of its citizens.
Film	2010	Aliens	Battle: Los Angeles	Depicts the attempts of US Marines to repel an alien invasion of Earth.
Television	2010-now	Aliens	Falling Skies	Aliens or creatures called Skitters, Mechs and Overlords attack Earth, as the series is showing the struggles six months after the initial attack on Earth.
Novel	2010	Eco	Drain	Davis Schneiderman - Lake Michigan mysteriously empties of water, and an end-of-time cult occupies the lakebed, waiting for a reflooding of the zone by the power of giant Worm.
Novel	2010	Supernatural	Sword of My Mouth	Jim Munroe, art by Shannon Gerard - a follow-up to Therefore Repent!.
Novel	2010	Social Collapse	Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America	Decline of world civilization caused by the depletion of oil reserves.
Novel	2010	Unspecified	Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down: A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse	A comedy survivalist book by Forrest Griffin
Novel	2010	Unspecified	Cygnis	Vincent Gessler - A novel in which Syn the trapper and Ack, his cybernetic wolf, survive in a world covered with forests, facing robots and humans.
Game	2010	Eco	A New Beginning	A video game by Daedalic Entertainment, in which climate change has made the Earth uninhabitable.
Television	2010-	Zombies	The Walking Dead	A US-television series featuring the world overrun by zombies. By Frank Darabont
Game	2010	War	Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage	PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game by Omega Force and Tecmo Koei based on the landmark anime and manga series.
Game	2011	Eco	Brink	MultiA floating self-sustaining city contains what may be the final remnants of humanity, after global warming causes sea levels to rise.
Novel	2011	Technology	Robopocalypse: A Novel	A apocalyptic robot/machine uprising novel by Daniel H. Wilson
Novel	2011	Social Collapse	Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse	James Wesley Rawles - An apocalyptic survivalist novel about a total socio-economic collapse.
Film	2011	Disease	Perfect Sense	A worldwide pandemic of unknown origin causes every human to begin losing their five traditional senses one at a time.
Film	2012	War	The Hunger Games	Set in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North America once existed. Based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins.
Film	2012	Impact Event	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World	An asteroid is announced to hit Earth as a man searches to find his significant other before the impact occurs.
Novel	2011	Disease	Enclave	A novel by Ann Aguirre.
Novel	2005	Supernatural	Restoration series	Terri Blackstock - novel series covering how people react and survive after a natural EMP blast from a distant star knocks out all electronics all over the world.
Film	2011	Unknown power affecting only men	Schoolgirl Apocalypse	A Japanese schoolgirl, Sakura, finds her average life in a small town turned inside out when all the males suddenly become zombies and begin to attack and kill females. With few skills and only her kyudo bow and an English textbook to accompany her she sets out on a journey through a dark world of murder and survival.
Game	2011	Disease	Hatoful Boyfriend	A particularly virulent strain of bird flu kills a large majority of humanity, leaving birds to become the dominant class of animals. The protagonist is one of the few humans naturally resistant to the flu.
Game	2011	Collapse of infrastructure, and fissures in races	MotorStorm: Apocalypse	A PlayStation 3 video game that depicts the West Coast of USA that was hit by several disasters, like tornadoes, earthquakes, rains, and thunderstorms.
Game	2011	War	Wasteland Angel	A PC game that depicts the USA after World War III.
Film	2011	War	The Divide	A film about the psychological unraveling of a group of survivors, who have holed up in the basement of their apartment building during a nuclear attack.
Game	2012	Eco	Oil Rush	A PC strategy game, where ice caps have melted to cause global flooding.
Game	2012	Unspecified	Tokyo Jungle	A PlayStation 3 video game about a futuristic Tokyo that has become deserted by humans and overrun by many types of animals.
Web series	2012	War	Electric City	Animated web series created by and starring Tom Hanks.
Comic	2009	Impact event	Homestuck	A webcomic where children play a game called Sburb which causes multiple meteors to hit Earth. They survive by abandoning Earth.
Game	1994	Impact event	Primal Rage	A fighting-style game where a meteor hits Earth and wipes out modern technology, reducing them to several Stone Age-type tribespeople. The continents are rearranged, and seven dinosaur-like deities fight for control over the new Urth.
Film	2012	Zombie Apocalypse	Christmas with the Dead	Freak lightning storm turned all who saw it into zombies.
Film	2013	Aliens	Oblivion	Earth has been ravaged from war sixty years prior with the extraterrestrial "Scavengers"
Film	2013	Aliens	The Host	Earth's population has been almost entirely taken over by alien parasites that created a perfect planet.
Film	2013	Technology	The World's End	Human civilization is replaced by synthetic replica's that never age. When the last biological humans who are drunk from drinking too much beer confront the supreme intelligence with the possibilities that humanity might not want to be "improved", this contradiction leads to a crash in the simulant network, destroying most of the world as a result and throwing the planet into a new dark age without technology.
Film	2013	Supernatural	This Is the End	The Rapture occurs during party attended by celebrities including Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson and Emma Watson.
Film	2010	War	Bunraku	In the aftermath of a global war, the surviving nations introduced a ban on all firearms in an attempt to quell man's appetite for destruction.
Television	2012	Impact Event	Evacuate Earth	Hypothetical docudrama concerning humanity's efforts to seek out a new home on a distant Earth-like planet, in the face of Earth's eventual destruction by an approaching neutron star. Produced by Atlas Media, for original broadcast on the National Geographic Channel.
Television	2014	War	Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl	Absurdist sci-fi comedy film. The growing tension between the last two remaining superpowers - China and Google - escalates in the early 21st century, and results in the global inferno of the "Google Wars".
Film	2014	War, Technology	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Machines built to identify and eliminate mutants eventually target most humans as well. With much of the world destroyed, one mutant is sent back in time to try to prevent this future from ever happening.
Television	2014	Zombies	Z Nation
Television	2014–	War	The 100
Short Story	2001	Plague	After The Plague	Short story and collection by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Television	2015–	Disease	The Last Man on Earth	Post-apocalyptic sci-fi dark comedy TV series, created by Will Forte, who also stars in this show, now currently airing over the FOX broadcast TV network.
Comic	2016-	Unspecified	Liberty: Deception	Travis Vengroff. A graphic novel and podcast series set on a failed terraforming colony. The series focuses on the daily struggle to survive on a distant planet with extreme resource scarcity.
Television	2013	War,Supernatural	From the New World/Shin Sekai Yori	A millennium from now, in Japan, exists a utopia. The protagonist, Saki Watanabe, lives in an idyllic village barred from the outside world. Her world is ruled by the people who possess the "gods' power" of psychokinesis.
Novel	2015	Eco	The Water Knife	Novel by Paolo Bacigalupi. Southwestern United States suffer social collapse because of a water shortage.

Causes of apocalypse in apocalyptic fiction

Category	Description
Aliens	Alien invasion War with alien species
Impact event	Impact with celestial bodies (meteorites, asteroids, planets, etc.) Near-impact knocks earth out of orbit
Disease	Pandemic (plague)
Zombies	Infected human beings or reanimated corpses which attack and/or consume the living.
Eco	Ecological catastrophe Global climate change (causing a new ice age) Global warming (melting of icecaps, global flooding) Global pollution
Future collapse	After the fall or collapse of some future space-based civilization
Human decline	The decline and fall of the human race
Monsters	Monsters Vampires Lovecraftian horror Biologically altered humans
Sun	Expanding or dying sun
Social collapse	Social collapse Economic collapse Over-population
Supernatural	Religious and supernatural apocalypse Demons Eschatological fiction
Technology	Apocalyptic wars between humans and technology Cybernetic revolt—war with, or revolution, by robots, computers, etc. Cyberwarfare (computer virus or malware) attacks by humans, aliens, machines, etc.
War	World War III Global nuclear holocaust Other apocalyptic wars between humans
Unspecified	After some apocalypse whose nature is not specified

Publication formats listed in this article

• Comic (comic book, manga, illustrated novel, etc.)
• Film (i.e. a movie)
• Game (card or board game, fantasy or role-playing game, PC or video game, etc.)
• Novel
• Play
• Poem
• Song
• Story (i.e. short story)
• Television (TV series or program episode)
• Other (i.e. radio dramatizations, audio pod-casts, etc.)

See also

• List of apocalyptic films
• List of nuclear holocaust fiction
• List of time travel science fiction
• Nuclear holocaust
• Nuclear weapons in popular culture
• Survivalism
• Survivalism in fiction
• World War III
• World War III in popular culture
• Zombie apocalypse

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External links

• Dodson, Eric (2003). Post-apocalyptic film and the post-modern apocalypse. State University of West Georgia.
• Quiet Earth - A website dedicated to post apocalyptic media
• Empty World: Apocalyptic and End of the World Fiction, Film and TV
• Surviving Armageddon: Beyond the Imagination of Disaster - article by Mick Broderick in Science Fiction Studies.
• List of songs related to World War III and nuclear war
• Post-Apocalyptic Audio Dramas - Archive.org compilation of post-apocalyptic radio shows and audio dramas in the public domain or released under a Creative Commons license