The novel Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter has the deliberate creation of a new vacuum state in the universe, incidentally annihilating all existing matter in the Universe - including the Earth.
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov; A rare cosmological event causes an Earth-like society inhabiting a multistar system to collapse as they experience their first nightfall.
The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel; An unknown event floods the earth with a poisonous gas, leaving only two survivors
The Revenants by Sheri S. Tepper; the nature of the catastrophe is never stated but technology has been displaced and a bizarre religion is dividing society into ever-smaller, racially-divided units.
Although not generally recognized as such, the Star Trek franchise falls into this category as it takes place in the decades and centuries following World War III on Earth, which nearly led to the collapse of human civilization. The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Encounter at Farpoint" depicts one aspect of the "post-atomic horror"; the film Star Trek: First Contact takes place about a decade after the war and depicts one pocket of civilization living in a camp in Montana, and the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Demons" and "Terra Prime" refer to the rise of military rule and an act of genocide perpetrated on radiation-scarred survivors of the war a century earlier.
The novel Taronga, by Victor Kelleher; after an unknown disaster simply described as "Last Days" a boy ventures throughout his surroundings, finding refuge in Tarronga Zoo and befriending a tiger.
The film Titan A.E., in which the Drej destroy Earth to stop the advancement of humankind.
The anime OVA series Giant Robo, in which a scientific experiment causes all power generation to stop worldwide, resulting in the death of one-third of the Earth's population in a week.
The novel Présence de la mort (1922) by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz where the Earth falls into the Sun.
The novel Wolf and Iron, by Gordon R. Dickson where after the fall of civilization from a worldwide financial collapse, a young scientist is trying to go cross country to his brother's ranch and gets help from a lone wolf.
It is widely believed that Third Earth, the setting for much of the Thundercats cartoon, is our own planet following two separate apocalypses, the exact natures of which are unknown. In addition, the series begins with the main characters fleeing the destruction of their home planet.
The role playing game Torg, in which several alternate realities invade earth simultaneously, some primitive, some technological, and some supernatural.
The film The Dark Crystal chronicles the Great Conjunction of the planet Thra's three suns. Aughra, a character in the movie, claims that the Great Conjunction will mean "the end of the world...or the beginning." The cracking of the Dark Crystal also placed the world of Thra into a semi-apocalyptic state.
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels offers many hints implying that it is set in the distant future (or past, since it depicts time as cyclical) of our own world, with the current order of life passing away in a sort of "mystical singularity".
The MMORPG EverQuest II, in which the world of Norrath has been all but destroyed by a series of cataclysms, leaving only two cities surviving from the original EverQuest game.
The predescessor of the Mars Attcks! trading card series Dinosaurs Attack!,in which time displaced(some almost kaiju-sized)dinosaurs create a post-apocalyptic world.
The animated TV show Thundarr the Barbarian takes place some 2,000 years after the end of civilization.
The novel Devil on my Back by Monica Hughes, in which civilisation has collapsed for reasons never fully explained and human knowledge is preserved in isolated "arks"
The Star Trek franchise has featured numerous stories in which apocalyptic and post apocalyptic scenarios of all kinds are explored. World War 3 and the Eugenics Wars are an issue in Earth history that is the topic of many stories in the Trek series', many stories involves planets or colonies threatened by spatial bodies such as asteroids, moons with degrading orbits, and stellar fragments. Cybernetic revolts have been seen on planets and on starships, as have pandemics, ecological catastrophes, alien invasions, economic collapses, etc. Eschatological themes are sometimes present in Deep Space Nine, due to storylines involving The Prophets and the Pah-Wraiths.
The 2002 arcade game, House of the Dead III, sets in the post-apocalyptic future where humanity is allowed to survive, but most of its civilization has since collapsed.
Space Runaway Ideon ends with the death of all sentient life, and the possible destruction of the entire universe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.224.254.134 (talk) 21:08, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The Anime/manga Stellvia about an exploding supernova and alien invasion.
