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This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war, or nuclear holocaust.
Films
- Five (1951)
- Unknown World (1951)
- Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
- Captive Women (1952)
- Day the World Ended (1955)
- On the Beach (1959)
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
- The Time Machine (1960)
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
- The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
- La Jetée (1962)
- Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
- This is Not a Test (1962)
- Fail-Safe (1964)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- In the Year 2889 (1967)
- Planet of the Apes (1968) and its four sequels
- The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
- Glen and Randa (1971)
- Zardoz (1974)
- A Boy and His Dog (1975)
- Damnation Alley (1977)
- The New Barbarians (1982)
- 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
- Testament (1983)
- The Terminator franchise, (1984, 1991, 2003, 2007, 2009)
- One Night Stand (1984 film)
- Def-Con 4 (1985)
- Radioactive Dreams (1985)
- Dead Man's Letters (1986)
- The Sacrifice, (1986)
- When the Wind Blows (1986), based on the 1982 graphic novel
- Akira (1988)
- Miracle Mile (1988)
- Dreams ("Mount Fuji in Red") (1990), although the film does not actually depict a nuclear war, but rather a nuclear reactor accident.
- By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
- Hardware (1990)
- Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
- Six-String Samurai (1998)
- Deterrence (1999)
- Equilibrium (2002)
- The Dark Hour (2007)
Television programs
- A Day Called 'X' (CBS, 1957)
- Several episodes of The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959-1964)
- The War Game (BBC, 1965)
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (NBC, 1979)
- World War III miniseries (1982)
- Whoops Apocalypse (ITV, 1982)
- A Guide to Armageddon (BBC, 1982)
- Special Bulletin (NBC, 1983)
- Testament (PBS, 1983)
- The Day After (ABC, 1983)
- Countdown to Looking Glass (HBO, 1984)
- Threads (BBC, 1984)
- Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
- By Dawn's Early Light (HBO, 1990)
- Woops! (FOX, 1992)
- Fail Safe (CBS, 2000)
- On the Beach (Showtime, 2000)
- Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi, 2003, 2004–2009)
- Jericho (CBS, 2006–2008)
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox, 2008–2009)
- Babylon 5 mentions the earth survived "World War III" and occasionally uses "World War IV" or "The Biggest Thing Since World War III" as a marketing term.
- A few episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise depict that both humans and vulcans were close to extermination caused by a nuclear war.
Novels
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)
- A Small Armageddon by Mordecai Roshwald
- Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
- Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem (regarding Hatfork)
- Arc Light by Eric Harry
- Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
- Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
- Commander-1 by Peter George
- Dark December by Alfred Coppel[1]
- Dark Mirrors by Arno Schmidt
- The Day They H-Bombed Los Angeles by Robert Moore Williams
- Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick
- Domain by James Herbert
- Doomday Wing by George H. Smith
- Doomsday Plus Twelve by James D. Forman
- Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
- Earthwreck! by Thomas N. Scortia
- Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
- Eon by Greg Bear
- End of the World by Dean Owen (novelization of the film Panic in Year Zero!)
- Endworld series by David Robbins
- The Erthing Cycle by Wayland Drew
- Fire Brats by Scott Siegel and Barbara Siegel
- Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
- Armageddon's Children By Terry Brooks (2006) (Genesis of Shannara Trilogy book 1)
- The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
- The Last Children of Schewenborn by Gudrun Pausewang
- The Last Ship by William Brinkley
- Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
- Long Voyage Back by George Cockcroft, under the pen name Luke Rhinehart, 1983
- Malevil by Robert Merle
- On the Beach by Nevil Shute
- The Outward Urge, by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes
- The Postman, a 1985 post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin
- Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno
- Red Alert, by Peter George
- Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
- Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
- Prime Directive, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (A Star Trek novel where an alien civilization is apparently destroyed by a sudden, unexpected nuclear war among its own people.)
- Pulling Through, by Dean Ing (first half of the book is a novel on a family surviving a nuclear blast, the second half was a non-fiction survival guide)
- Star Mans Son by Andre Norton (1952) a post-apocalyptic novel that takes place about two centuries after the Great-Blowup. This story is also entitled Daybreak - 2250 AD in reprint editions.
- Swan Song by Robert McCammon
- Single Combat by Dean Ing (Second in the Ted Quantril [trilogy)
- Systemic Shock by Dean Ing (First in the Ted Quantril trilogy)
- The Pelbar Cycle, Book One (Beyond Armageddon) by Paul O. Williams
- Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The School for Atheists by Arno Schmidt
- The Seventh Day by Hans Hellmut Kirst (original title Keiner Kommt Davon)
- The Survivalist by Jerry Ahern
- This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
- This Time Tomorrow by Lauran Paine
- Tomorrow! by Phillip Wylie
- Trinity's Child by William Prochnau (1983)
- Triumph by Philip Wylie
- Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
- When the Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs
- Wild Country by Dean Ing (Third in the Ted Quantril Trilogy
- The Ashes Series by William W. Johnstone
- The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
- The World Next Door by Brad Ferguson
- Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove (alternate history: World War II turns nuclear in 1943, another nuclear war in the 1960s)
- Vaneglory by George Turner
- Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
- The Zone series by James Rouch[2]
Short stories
- "The Blast" by Stuart Cloete (1947), published in 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, 1954
- "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937) by Stephen Vincent Benet (written prior to the development of nuclear weaponry, it is noted among the genre for its prescience)
- "A Clean Escape" by John Kessel (1985)
- "The Edge of the Knife" by H. Beam Piper[3]
- "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) by Ward Moore (inspiration for the film Panic in Year Zero!)
- "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1951)
- "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke a short story featuring a boy living in a colony on the moon, left isolated by the destruction of the Earth.
- "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison (1969)
Comics
- 2000AD/Judge Dredd, set in a post war Earth where the majority of the United States is called the "Cursed Earth".
- Akira features Tokyo after a nuclear conflict.
- Barefoot Gen, Japanese manga about life after the Hiroshima bombing
- Fist of the North Star, a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear Earth.
- The Punisher - The End, a one shot issue of Marvel Comic's Punisher by Garth Ennis and Richard Corben.
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd is set in an England which has survived through a nuclear war which devastated the majority of the rest of the world.
Television episodes
- Twilight Zone: "Time Enough at Last" (1959)
- Playhouse 90: "Alas, Babylon", episode 131 (S4.E14) (1960)
- Twilight Zone: "The Old Man in the Cave" (1963)
- Twilight Zone: "A Little Peace and Quiet" (1985)
- Twilight Zone: "Shelter Skelter" (1985)
Animation shorts
- The Big Snit (National Film Board of Canada, Richard Condie; 1985)
Music
- "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" by Jimi Hendrix
- "99 Luftballons" by Nena
- "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden, on the subject of the Cold War
- "As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be" by Exodus, on the album The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
- "Blackened" by Metallica, the first track off their fourth album, ...And Justice for All and "Fight Fire With Fire", the first track off their second album, Ride The Lightning.
- "Boom!" by System of a Down on the album Steal This Album!
- "Breathing" by Kate Bush, the final track off her third album, Never For Ever
- "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" by Iron Maiden, from their newest album A Matter of Life and Death
- "Christmas at Ground Zero" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
- "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" by Ultravox
- "Dead Flag Blues" by Godspeed You Black Emperor!, first track from their album F♯A♯∞
- "Distant Early Warning" by Rush
- "De Bom" by Doe Maar
- "Domino" by Genesis, from Invisible Touch, subject of the effect of dropping the bomb
- "The Earth Dies Screaming" by UB40
- "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath. 1970 from the Paranoid LP.
- "Fight Fire with Fire" by Metallica, the first song off their second album, Ride the Lightning
- "The House at Pooneil Corners" by Jefferson Airplane, from their album Crown of Creation
- "It's a Mistake" by Men at Work from the album Cargo
- "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" by Nik Kershaw
- "King of the World" by Steely Dan, from the album Countdown to Ecstasy
- "London Calling" by The Clash
- "Man at C&A" by The Specials, from the album More Specials
- "Manhattan Project" by Rush, third track from their album Power Windows
- "Nuclear Holocaust" by Holocaust 427
- "Nuclear War" by Sun Ra
- "Nuclear Winter" by Sodom
- "Or Shall We Die?" by Michael Berkeley
- "Pink World" by Planet P Project
- "Party at Ground Zero" by Fishbone
- "Reclamation" by Lamb of God
- "Rumours of War" by Billy Bragg
- "Rust in Peace...Polaris" by Megadeth, from the Rust in Peace album
- "Set the World Afire" by Megadeth, from the So Far, So Good... So What! album
- "Stop the World" by The Clash
- "The Sun Is Burning" by Ian Campbell, performed by Simon and Garfunkel and The Dubliners
- "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd from the album The Final Cut
- "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- The music video for "Untitled 1" by Sigur Ros features a world ravaged by a nuclear holocaust as its setting.
- "We're So Small" by The Epoxies
- "We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer
- "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service
- "Wooden Ships", recorded by both Crosby Stills & Nash and Jefferson Airplane
- "Your Eyes Were Open" by UB40, from the album Geffrey Morgan
- "1999" by Prince, from the album 1999
Games
- 2300 A.D.
- Aftermath!
- Balance of Power
- Blast Corps
- Burntime
- DEFCON
- Fallout series
- Gamma World
- Nuclear War
- Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, although the game does not actually depict a nuclear war.
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope
- Supremacy: The Game of the Superpowers
- Trinity
- Twilight: 2000
- WarGames
- Warzone 2100
- Wasteland
References
See also
- Nuclear holocaust
- Nuclear weapons in popular culture
- World War III in popular culture
- List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
- Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
- List of books about nuclear issues
- List of films about nuclear issues