List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

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

Nuclear holocaust

Main article: List of nuclear holocaust fiction

World War III and other apocalyptic wars (between humans)

Main article: World War III in popular culture

Film

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
20 Years After	2008	Human wars	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.
2019, After the Fall of New York	1983	Human wars	An Italian film set in 2019 featuring a mercenary out to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth.
2020 Texas Gladiators	1982	Human wars	Post-apocalyptic Italian film
A Boy and His Dog	1975	Human wars	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.
The Aftermath	1982	Human wars	Returning astronauts encounter bikers and mutants in a post-nuclear setting. Released as "Zombie Aftermath" in the UK.
Akira	1988	Human wars	Anime. By Katsuhiro Otomo
Appleseed	2004	Human wars	Anime.
Atomic War Bride	1960	Human wars	A Yugoslav science fiction drama film directed by Veljko Bulajić.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes	1973	Human wars	The fifth movie in the Planet of the Apes feature film series.
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell	2007	Human wars	Indie comedy.
The Bed Sitting Room	1969	Human wars	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.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes	1970	Human wars	The second film in the Planet of the Apes feature film series.
Black Moon	1975	Human wars	Surreal French production.
The Blood of Heroes	1989	Human wars	Australian film writted and directed by David Webb Peoples.
The Book of Eli	2010	Human wars
Captive Women	1952	Human wars	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.
Casshern	2004	Human wars
Cherry 2000	1987	Human wars
City Limits	1985	Human wars
City of Ember	2008	Human wars	Based on the book by Jeanne Duprau
Creepozoids	1987	Human wars
Cyborg	1989	Human wars
Cyborg 2	1993	Human wars
Damnation Alley	1977	Human wars	A surviving American ICBM crew sets out across the U.S. in an armored vehicle in search of survivors in Albany, New York. Based on the novel by Roger Zelazny.
Dark Enemy	1984	Human wars
Day the World Ended	1955	Human wars
Dead Man's Letters	1986	Human wars
Deadly Reactor	1989	Human wars
Death Run	1987	Human wars
Deathlands: Homeward Bound	2003	Human wars	Based on the book series Deathlands
Deathsport	1978	Human wars
Def-Con 4	1985	Human wars
Delicatessen	1991	Human wars	By Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
Dr. Strangelove	1964	Human wars	By Stanley Kubrick, adapting the novel Red Alert by Peter George.
Empire of Ash II	1989	Human wars
Empire of Ash III	1989	Human wars
Empire of Ash	1988	Human wars
The End of August at the Hotel Ozone	1967	Human wars	Czech title: Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon
Endgame	1983	Human wars
Equilibrium	2002	Human wars	After barely surviving another worldwide conflict, mankind rejects all emotion and outlaws all forms of expression which might encourage emotional response.
Escape From New York	1981	Human wars
Escape from L.A.	1996	Human wars
Exterminators of the Year 3000	1983	Human wars
The Final War	1960	Human wars	By Shigeaki Hidaka, a Japanese film about a third world war started when the US accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Korea (Japanese title: Dai-sanji sekai taisen: Yonju-ichi jikan no kyofu).
Fist of the North Star	1986	Human wars	Animated Japanese film.
Fist of the North Star	1995	Human wars	Live-action martial arts film.
Five	1951	Human wars	By Arch Oboler, the film shows the aftermath of a nuclear war, centered on a group of five survivors.
Genesis II	1973	Human wars	By Gene Roddenberry, later remade as unsuccessful TV pilot Planet Earth
Glen and Randa	1971	Human wars
The Handmaid's Tale	1990	Human wars
Hardware	1990	Human wars
Hell Comes to Frogtown	1987	Human wars
Human Highway	1982	Human wars
In the Year 2889	1967	Human wars	A remake of the 1955 Roger Corman film Day the World Ended set in the year 1977, despite the title.
Invasion USA	1952	Human wars
Journey to the Center of Time	1967	Human wars
Judge Dredd	1995	Human wars
La città dell'ultima paura	1975	Human wars
La Jetée	1962	Human wars	By Chris Marker.
The Last Man on Earth	1964	Human wars	This is the first film adaptation based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend.
The Last War	1961	Human wars	By Shuei Matsubayashi, another Japanese film about World War III (Japanese title: Sekai daisenso).
Le Dernier Combat	1983	Human wars	By Luc Besson
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior	1981	Human wars
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	1985	Human wars
Malevil	1981	Human wars	Film version directed by Christian de Chalonge. Starring Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Mindwarp	1990	Human wars
Miracle Mile	1988	Human wars
Mutant Chronicles	2008	Human wars	Based on the Mutant Chronicles RPG
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	1984	Human wars	By Hayao Miyazaki
The Noah	1975	Human wars	By Daniel Bourla. An American soldier becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear war.
The Omega Man	1971	Human wars	An immune survivor of a biological/nuclear war battles plague-altered quasi-vampires bent on erasing all vestiges of science and technology. The movie is based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend.
On the Beach	1959	Human wars	By Stanley Kramer, starring Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins and Ava Gardner. The crew of an American submarine finds temporary safety from the fallout in Australia after the nuclear holocaust (from the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute).
On the Beach	2000	Human wars	A remake of the 1959 film.
Panic in Year Zero!	1962	Human wars	A 1962 movie about a family that escapes Los Angeles after the city is devastated by a nuclear attack.
The People Who Own the Dark	1976	Human wars	By Amando de Ossorio (Spanish title: Último deseo)
Planet of the Apes	1968	Human wars	Adapted from the novel La planète des singes by Pierre Boulle.
The Postman	1997	Human wars	Partly based on the David Brin Novel
Radio Free Steve	1984	Human wars	Steve is a radio pirate in the days after World War Three, bringing hope to the people after the remnants of the government re-emerged and shut down all TV and radio stations that had been broadcasting without permission.
Radioactive Dreams	1984	Human wars	After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in a bunker, then they find the keys to the last MX missile.
Ravagers	1979	Human wars
Refuge of Fear	1973	Human wars	(Spanish title: El refugio del miedo)
Robot Holocaust	1986	Human Wars
Robot Jox	1990	Human wars
Robot Wars	1993	Human wars	Sequel to Robot Jox
The Sacrifice	1986	Human wars
Sexmisja	1984	Human wars	A Polish comedy.
She	1982	Human wars	A low-budget B-movie, an extremely loose adaptation of the novel She by H. Rider Haggard, starring Sandahl Bergman as a post-civilization warrior.
Six-String Samurai	1998	Human wars
She-Wolves of the Wasteland	1988	Human wars
Star Trek: First Contact	1996	Human wars	A late-21st century Earth is devastated by nuclear conflict.
Steel Dawn	1987	Human wars
Stryker	1983	Human wars
The Survivalist	1987	Human wars	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.
Survivor	1987	Human wars
Teenage Cave Man	1958	Human wars
Terror from the Year 5000	1958	Human wars
The Road	2009	Unknown	The journey of a father and son on a road to the sea.
Testament	1983	Human wars
Things to Come	1936	Human wars	A future second world war leads to a breakdown of civilization in most of the world, with technology returning to medieval levels by 1970.
The Third Cry	1974	Human wars	(Swiss film, French title: Le Troisième Cri)
This Is Not a Test	1962	Human wars
The Time Machine	1960	Human wars	had an atomic war to explain the downfall of civilization.
Time of the Wolf	2003	Human wars
The Time Travelers	1964	Human wars
Urban Warriors	1987	Human wars	Three technicians working in an underground laboratory discover that a nuclear war has destroyed most of the above ground world.
Warrior of the Lost World	1983	Human wars
Warriors of the Apocalypse	1985	Human wars	After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life.
Warriors of the Wasteland	1982	Human wars
When the Wind Blows	1986	Human wars	By Jimmy Murakami, adapting the graphic novel by Raymond Briggs
Whoops Apocalypse	1986	Human wars
Wizards	1977	Human wars	By Ralph Bakshi. A good wizard and his evil brother battle some two millennia after Armageddon.
World Gone Wild	1988	Human wars
World Without End	1956	Human wars	By Edward Bernd, starring Hugh Marlowe, Rod Taylor. Robust 20th Century men—narrowly escaping the ubiquitous "time warp"—kill giant spiders, help pale nerds and their beautiful women emerge from underground, and retake the post World War III surface from troglodyte mutants.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil	1959	Human wars	Adapted from M.P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud.
Yor, the Hunter from the Future	1983	Human wars
Zardoz	1974	Human wars

Television

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

Novels

Title	Year	Type	Author	Notes
After London	1885	Human wars	Jefferies, Richard
Aftermath	1997	Human wars	Burton, Levar	American civilization crumbles after a civil war pitting blacks against whites and a devastating earthquake.
Alas, Babylon	1959	Human wars	Frank, Pat	The aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community.
The Amtrak Wars	1983	Human wars	Patrick Tilley	Series, first book 1983, Set at the end of the 3rd millennium
Ape and Essence	1948	Human wars	Huxley, Aldous	Also screenplay.
Arc Light	1996	Human wars	Eric L. Harry	Limited nuclear war between the US and Soviets.
The Ashes	1983	Human wars	William W. Johnstone	Series, first book 1983, Out of the Ashes
The Book of Dave	2006	Human wars	Self, Will	Split between modern London and post-apocalyptic London where a new society and religion is based on the legacy of a cab driver.
Brother in the Land	1984	Human wars	Swindells, Robert
A Canticle for Leibowitz	1960	Human wars	Miller, Jr, Walter M.	Sequel: Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Caravan	1975	Human wars	Goldin, Stephen
Children of the Dust	1985	Human wars	Lawrence, Louise
The Chrysalids	1955	Human wars	Wyndham, John	U.S. title: Re-Birth, the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Canadian community.
The City of Ember	2003	Human wars	DuPrau, Jeanne	Sequels are The People of Sparks and The Diamond of Darkhold, and prequel, The Prophet of Yonwood
Cloud Atlas	2004	Human wars	David Mitchell	Contains one of six novellas set in a post-apocalyptic future.
The Coming of the Horseclans	1975	Human wars	Robert Adams	Followed by seventeen other books in the horseclans series.
Cowl	2004	Human wars	Asher, Neal
Damnation Alley	1969	Human wars	Zelazny, Roger	Made into a movie 1977.
Dark Universe	1961	Human wars	Galouye, Daniel F.
Davy	1964	Human wars	Pangborn, Edgar
Deadlands	2006	Human wars	Johnson, Scott A.
Deathlands	1986	Human wars	Axler, James	Series, first book 1986
The Death Guard	1939	Human wars	Philip George Chadwick	When a near-invincible army of artificially created soldiers - the flesh guard - falls into the hands of an untrustworthy power, continental Europe forms an alliance and invades Britain. The resulting carnage, involving poisonous electric gas, "humanite" (atomic) bombs, and the unfeeling march of the Flesh Guard, reduces whole cities and towns in Europe to smoking rubble.
Deus Irae	1976	Human wars	Dick, Philip K.	In collaboration with Roger Zelazny
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	1968	Human wars	Dick, Philip K.	Filmed as Blade Runner
Doomsday Plus Twelve	1984	Human wars	Forman, James D.
Down to a Sunless Sea	1979	Human wars	Graham, David
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb	1965	Human wars	Dick, Philip K.
Earth Abides	1949	Plague	Stewart, George R.
Emergence	1984	Human wars	Palmer, David R.
Endworld	1986	Human wars	Robbins, David L.	Series, first book 1986
Farnham's Freehold	1964	Human wars	Heinlein, Robert A.
Few Were Left	1955	Human wars	Rein, Harold
The Fifth Horseman	1980	Human wars	Collins, Larry	Coauthor Dominique Lapierre
Fire Brats	1987	Human wars	Siegel, Scott	Series, first book 1987, co-author Barbera Siegel, Grade 8-10
Fiskadoro	1985	Human wars	Denis Johnson
Fitzpatrick's War	2004	Human wars	Judson, Theodore
Flood	2008	Human wars	Baxter, Stephen	With two sequels projected, Huge underground oceans start leaking to the surface, lifting sea levels by thousands of metres over several decades.
Folk of the Fringe	1989	Human wars	Orson Scott Card	Novella "West," plus several short stories.
Freeway Fighter	1985	Human wars	Livingstone, Ian	Part of the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook series (Like a Choose Your Own Adventure book)
Freeway Warrior	1988	Human wars	Dever, Joe	Series, first book 1988
Gan Moondark	1990–1994	Human wars	Donald E. McQuinn	Trilogy Warrior, Wanderer, & Witch, set in the Pacific Northwest, generations after World War III.
The Gate to Women's Country	1988	Human wars	Tepper, Sheri S.
Gather, Darkness	1943	Human wars	Leiber, Fritz
The Goodness Gene	2005	Human wars	Levitin, Sonia	Children's book
Greatwinter Trilogy	1999	Human wars	McMullen, Sean	Series, trilogy, first book 1999
Heroes and Villains	1969	Human wars	Carter, Angela
Hiero's Journey	1983	Human wars	Lanier, Sterling E.	Sequel is The Unforsaken Hiero 1985, A "metis" priest/killman quests across post-apocalyptic northeastern North America, seven thousand years in the future.
Horseclans	1975	Human wars	Adams, Robert	Series, first book 1975
Ice	1967	Human wars	Kavan, Anna	Earth threatened by Nuclear winter.
The Incredible Tide	1970	Human wars	Key, Alexander
The King Awakes	1989	Human wars	Elliott, Janice	Also author of The Empty Throne
The Last Canadian	1974	Human wars	Heine, William C.
The Last Children of Schewenborn	1983	Human wars	Pausewang, Gudrun	Die Letzten Kinder Von Schewenborn in German
Last Light	2007	Human wars	Scarrow, Alex	Sudden end of oil availability leads to worldwide social collapse.
The Last Man	1826	Human wars	Shelley, Mary
The Last Ship	1988	Human wars	Brinkley, William
The Last War	1970	Human wars	Bulychev, Kir	Russian language
Level 7	1959	Human wars	Roshwald, Mordecai
The Long Mynd	1985	Human wars	Edward P. Hughes	Also author of Masters of the Fist
The Long Tomorrow	1955	Human wars	Brackett, Leigh	In the aftermath of a nuclear war scientific knowledge is feared and restricted.
Love in the Ruins	1971	Human wars	Percy, Walker
Lucifer's Hammer	1977	Asteroid Impact	Niven, Larry	Coauthor Jerry Pournelle
Malevil	1972	Human wars	Merle, Robert
Masters of the Fist	1989	Human wars	Hughes, Edward P.	Coauthor The Long Mynd
Mortal Engines Quartet	2001	Human wars	Reeve, Phillip	Series, first book 2001, Set in the distant future
Nightfall	1990	Human wars	Asimov, Isaac	Robert Silverberg (extension written by Silverberg of the Asimov story of the same name)
Obernewtyn Chronicles	1987	Human wars	Isobelle Carmody	Series, first book 1987
The Oblivion Society	2007	Human wars	Hart, Marcus Alexander
On the Beach	1957	Human wars	Shute, Nevil	Also the films based on the book.
The Overman Culture	1971	Human wars	Cooper, Edmund
Pebble in the Sky	1950	Human wars	Asimov, Isaac	A later book, Robots and Empire gave a different explanation.
The Pelbar Cycle	2005	Human wars	Williams, Paul O.	Series, first book 2005, The Breaking of Northwall A thousand years after a series of nuclear exchanges.
The Penultimate Truth	1964	Human wars	Dick, Philip K.
The Pesthouse	2007	Human wars	Crace, Jim
The Postman	1985	Human wars	Brin, David	The 1997 movie of the same name.
Pulling Through	1983	Human wars	Ing, Dean
Quinzinzinzili	1934	Human wars	Messac, Régis	Also predicting a great world war that ends with the vanishing of humanity. Only a group of children survives and forms a strange new mankind.
Red Alert	1958	Human wars	George, Peter	Filmed as Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick
Resurrection Day	1999	Human wars	DuBois, Brendan	Set 10 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, which escalated into nuclear war.
Revelation by Lord John	2003	Human wars	Szmidt, Robert J.	Polish: Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana
Riddley Walker	1980	Human wars	Hoban, Russell
Shannara Series	1977	Human wars	Brooks, Terry	Series, first book 1977
The Shape of Things to Come	1933	Human wars	Wells, H. G.	Predicting an extended world war fought with modern scientific weapons, societal upheaval, and the beginning of space travel. Filmed as Things to Come in 1936.
The Slynx	2007	Human wars	Tolstaya, Tatyana	2007 is the English translation first publication date.
Star Man's Son	1952	Human wars	Norton, Andre
The Steel, the Mist and the Blazing Sun	1985	Human wars	Anvil, Christopher
The Survivalist	1981	Human wars	Ahern, Jerry	Series, first book 1981, Total War
Survivors	1982	Human wars	Nahmlos, John
Swan Song	1987	Human wars	McCammon, Robert R.
The Lost Continent	1916	Human wars	Burroughs, Edgar Rice
The Third World War	2003	Human wars	Humphrey Hawksley
There Will Be Time	1972	Human wars	Poul Anderson
This is the Way the World Ends	1985	Human wars	Morrow, James
This Time of Darkness	1980	Human wars	Hoover, H.M.
Time Capsule	1988	Human wars	Berman, Mitch
Tomorrow!	1954	Human wars	Wylie, Philip
Traveler	1984	Human wars	Drumm, D. B.	Series, first book, First, You Fight
Trinity's Child	1983	Human wars	Prochnau, William
Triumph	1963	Human wars	Wylie, Philip
Uglies	2005	Human wars	Westerfeld, Scott	Series, first book Uglies. Sequels: Pretties, Specials, and Extras.
The Valley-Westside War	2008	Human wars	Turtledove, Harry
Vampire Hunter D	1983	Human wars	Kikuchi, Hideyuki	Series, first book 1983, Novels (and later anime movies), set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in 1999,
Warday	1984	Human wars	Strieber, Whitley	Coauthor James Kunetka
Wild Harbour	1936	Human wars	MacPherson, Ian	A war much worse than World War I leads to complete social collapse in Britain.
Wingman	1987	Human wars	Maloney, Mack	Series, first book 1987, follows a former U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot trying to restore a balkanized and largely disarmed United States of America while flying the last remaining F-16 Fighting Falcon in existence.
The World Ends in Hickory Hollow	2007	Human wars	Mayhar, Ardath
The World Jones Made	1956	Human wars	Dick, Philip K.
The Year Of The Quiet Sun	1970	Human wars	Tucker, Wilson
Yellow Peril	1991	Human wars	Wang Lixiong	In the Chinese under the pseudonym Bao Mi, about a nuclear civil war in the People's Republic of China
Z for Zachariah	1975	Human wars	O'Brien, Robert C.
The Zone	1980	Human wars	Rouch, James	Chronicling the conflict between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe.

Short stories and plays

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
A Boy and His Dog		Human wars	Short story By Harlan Ellison. Filmed in 1975.
Aspic's Mystery	1976	Human wars	Short story By Arsen Darnay.
Autobahn nach Poznan		Human wars	Short story By Andrzej Ziemianski
By the Waters of Babylon	1937	Human wars	Short story By Stephen Vincent Benét.
Dear Devil		Human wars	Short story By Eric Frank Russell
Enta Geweorc		Human wars	Short story By Nicholas Waller (Interzone 198, 2004).
Extinction is Forever		Human wars	Short story By Louise Lawrence. A scientist uses a time machine to travel to the future and film the results of a nuclear war in a bid to prevent it from happening. However, his actions could have serious repercussions for the mutated descendants of the human race.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	1966	Human wars	Short story By Harlan Ellison
The Last Word	1956	Human wars	Short story By Damon Knight.
Let the Ants Try		Human wars	Short story By Frederik Pohl under the pseudonym James MacCreigh
Magic City		Human wars	Short story By Nelson S. Bond
Nightfall	1941	Human wars	Short story By Isaac Asimov
Not with a Bang	1949	Human wars	Short story By Damon Knight.
Plutonium	1976	Human wars	Short story By Arsen Darnay.
Second Variety		Human wars	Short story By Philip K. Dick
The Offshore Island	1954	Human wars	Play By Marghanita Laski.
There Will Come Soft Rains	1950	Human wars	Short story By Ray Bradbury in The Martian Chronicles.
Time to Rest		Human wars	Short story Sequel No Place Like Earth By John Wyndham

Games

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
Aftermath!		Human wars	Game from Fantasy Games Unlimited.
Armour-Geddon		Human wars	Game from Psygnosis
Auto Assault		Human wars	Game While seemingly caused by aliens, it is in fact human mistakes, breakdown and war that forges Auto Assault's apocalyptic world. Similar to the Command & Conquer series where an alien event is the catalyst needed to start decline.
Badlands		Human wars	Game by Atari Games
Crystalis	1987	Human wars	Game from SNK
Darwin's World		Human wars	Game A role-playing game from Impressions
Earth 2150		Human wars	Game Also Earth 2160 The world is destroyed in 2150 and people settle on mars in 2160.
Exodus (role-playing game)		Human wars	Game A post-apocalyptic role-playing game from Glutton Creeper Games set after the War on Terror destroy 99% of the world's population.
Fallout series		Human wars	Game from Interplay (Fallout (game) and Fallout 2) and Bethesda Softworks (Fallout 3)
Gamma World		Human wars	Game from TSR, Inc., the makers of Dungeons & Dragons
Interstate '76		Human wars	Game from Activision
Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death		Human wars	Game
KKnD series		Human wars	Game
Land of Devastation		Unknown	Game A BBS Door
Mad Max		Human wars	Game
Metro 2033		Human wars	Game by 4A Games and THQ for the PC and Xbox 360
Nuclear War Card Game	1965	Human wars	Game by Flying Buffalo. A comical cataclysmic card game for 2-6 players of all ages.
Neocron		Human wars	Game for the Personal Computer by Reakktor Media.
Neuroshima		Human wars	Game from Portal Publishing
Operation Overkill		Human wars	Game A BBS Door
Outlander		Human wars	Game Mad Max inspired driving game from 1992/93 for Snes and Genesis
Rifts		Human wars	Game A nuclear exchange triggers the return of Ley Lines and Interdimensional Rifts or portals. These Ley Lines and Portals subsequently cause several natural and supernatural disasters.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri		Human wars	Game A ship leaves Earth on the eve of World War III to found a new colony orbiting Alpha Centauri
The Morrow Project		Human wars	Game from Timeline Ltd
Twilight: 2000		Human wars	Game from Game Designer's Workshop, set in a world where a Sino-Russian war degenerates into a limited nuclear conflict that eventually drags in Europe and America.
Vigilante 8		Human wars	Game from Activision
Warzone 2100		Human wars	Game
Wasteland		Human wars	Game

Comics and manga

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

Other

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

Pandemic (plague)

Films

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
28 Days Later	2002	Plague	Ordinary citizens are forced to fight through hordes of rabid zombies after a virus ravages Britain
28 Weeks Later	2007	Plague	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
Æon Flux	2005	Plague	Based on MTV's animated series Æon Flux
Carriers	2009	Plague	A group of 4 on the road trying to find a safe haven while plague rages across the USA.
Children of Men	2006	Plague	After all of the world's women are infertile, one refugee woman is found to be pregnant.
City Limits	1985	Plague
Cyborg	1989	Plague
Daybreakers	2010	Plague	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
Dead Man's Letters	1986	Plague	By Konstantin Lopushanskij
Doomsday	2008	Plague
Ever Since the World Ended	2001	Plague
Fukkatsu no hi	1980	Plague	Japanese film also known as Virus, directed by Kinji Fukasaku
I Am Legend	2007	Plague	In an abandoned Manhattan, scientist Robert Neville tries to find a cure to a worldwide virus that killed almost everyone on earth, while at the same time trying to survive against the vampiric zombies it left behind.
I Am Omega	2007	Plague
Plague	1978	Plague	Also known as Induced Syndrome (UK), M-3: The Gemini Strain (USA), or Mutation.
Repo! The Genetic Opera	2008	Plague
Resident Evil: Extinction	2007	Plague
The Last Man	2008	Plague	Based upon Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man
The Last Man on Earth	1964	Plague
The Omega Man	1971	Plague
The Seed of Man	1969	Plague	By Marco Ferreri (Italian title: Il Seme dell'uomo)
The Ultimate Warrior	1975	Plague
The Zombie Diaries	2006	Plague	British made movie in which a virus creates a plague of zombies, viewed entirely from the POV of a character's video camera. This film was made and completed before George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead which was shot in a similar POV perspective.
Twelve Monkeys	1995	Plague	Directed by Terry Gilliam. Based on La jetée (see above).
A Wind Named Amnesia	1990	Plague	A mysterious plague has swept over the entire world, causing everyone to suffer from amnesia, leading to the collapse of civilization. Based on a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi.
Survival of the Dead	2010	Plague	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 Romero.

Television

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
Crusade	1999	Plague	A spin-off from the TV show Babylon 5
After Armageddon	2010	Plague	TV Film about a family trying to survive after a global outbreak.
Dance Of The Dead	2005	Plague	Masters of Horror episode directed by Tobe Hooper. It has a triple apocalyptic theme as it features a man made virus causing a zombie outbreak after World War 3.
Jeremiah	2002–2004	Plague	Showtime cable television series, based on the comic of the same name. In the year 2021, 15 years after a virus kills everyone over the age of puberty, the child survivors have grown up, living on the scraps of the old world.
Not with a Bang	1990	Plague	ITV show, about 3 people who lived after everyone else in England was turned to dust by a chemical that was accidentally released by a television presenter.
Smallpox	2002	Plague	TV movie
The Stand	1994	Plague	miniseries
Survivors	1975–1977	Plague	BBC series about the daily struggles of British survivors of a plague which kills most of the world population.
Survivors	2008	Plague	BBC television series a remake of the 70's series of the same name
The Tribe	1999–2003	Plague	The New-Zealand TV series, that takes place in a near-future in which all the adults have been killed by a man-made Virus and the children have to survive on their own.
Where Have All The People Gone?	1974	Plague	Made for TV movie. A mutated virus created by a solar flare destroys virtually all of the human population. One family has survived, and endeavors to travel across America to their family home.
The Colony	2009-2010	Plague	Reality television style drama about a group of survivors forced to live in a warehouse in the virus ravaged city of Los Angeles, California.

Novels

Title	Year	Type	Author	Notes
Blood Music	1985	Plague	Bear, Greg
Burning Stones	2005	Plague	Mills, Steven
The Children of Men	1992	Plague	James, P. D.
The City, Not Long After	1990	Plague	Murphy, Pat	In the wake of a devastating worldwide plague, a handful of artists transform the City of San Francisco, and fend off marauders with a touch of magic.
Clay's Ark	1984	Plague	Butler, Octavia
The Day of the Triffids	1951	Plague	Wyndham, John
Doomsday Book	1993	Plague	Willis, Connie
Earth Abides	1949	Plague	Stewart, George R.
Empty World	1977	Plague	Christopher, John	A virus wipes out the weak and the old, until the planet is populated by young teenagers only.
Full Circle	2003	Plague	Mitchell, David
The Fourth Horseman	1985	Plague	Nourse, Alan E.	Follows the progression of a new outbreak of Black Plague and the struggle to survive as society collapses.
A Gift Upon the Shore	1990	Plague	Wren, M. K.
The Girl Who Owned a City	1975	Plague	Nelson, O. T.
I Am Legend	1954	Plague	Matheson, Richard	Filmed as The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007)
Idlewild	2001	Plague	Sagan, Nick
The Jetty Journals	2009	Plague	Buchanan, Ian	Four teenagers try to survive a world falling apart after a virus outbreak.
The Killing Moon	2009	Plague	Glenn, Rod	Five friends struggle to survive 20 years after the collapse of civilisation. Set in northern England.
The Last Canadian	1977	Plague	Heine, William C.	The planet is decimated by a virus, as told through the eyes of one survivor.
The Last Man	1826	Plague	Shelley, Mary
The Martian General's Daughter	2008	Plague	Collapse of global civilization caused by virus-like nanotechnology
The Night of the Triffids	2001	Plague	Clark, Simon	Sequel to The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Oryx and Crake	2003	Plague	Atwood, Margaret
Pandemia	2006	Plague	Rand, Johnathan and Knight, Christopher	A mutated bird flu virus wipes out everyone except the young. Set in Michigan.
The Passage	2010	Plague	Justin Cronin	A virus turns humanity into vampire-esque creatures, leading to the collapse of civilization, while survivors eke out a bleak existence.
Plague 99	1989	Plague	Ure, Jean	Sequels Come Lucky April and Watchers at the Shrine
Plague Year	2007	Plague	Carlson, Jeff	Slated to be a trilogy
A Planet for the President	2004	Plague	Beaton, Alistair
Quentel	2007	Plague	Budendorf, Deric R.
The Scarlet Plague	1912	Plague	London, Jack
Some Will Not Die	1954	Plague	Budrys, Algis
The Stand	1978	Plague	King, Stephen
The Transall Saga	1998	Plague	Paulsen, Gary
White Devils	2004	Plague	McAuley, Paul
The Empire of Texas	2005	Plague	Olsen, Rodger
The Uglies Trilogy	2004–2007	Plague	Westerfeld, Scott	Uglies, Pretties, Specials and the companion novel, Extras, take place in a future civilization that arose after our current civilization collapsed because of an engineered bacterium that attacked not people, but oil, changing its chemical composition so that it exploded on contact with oxygen (first explained on p. 345 of Uglies).
The White Plague	1982	Plague	Herbert, Frank
World War Z	2006	Plague	Brooks, Max
The Years of Rice and Salt	2002	Plague	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
Two Journeys	2009	Plague	Clemens P. Suter	A business man travels home across post-pandemic Eurasia

Other

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
Abomination: The Nemesis Project	1999	Plague	Video game
After The Bomb	2001	Plague	Role-play game
The City	1950	Plague	Short Story by Ray Bradbury
Deus Ex	2000	Plague	Game in relation to the Gray Death
Eden: It's an Endless World	1998 to present	Plague	Manga by Hiroki Endo
Left 4 Dead	2008	Plague	Video game featuring people transformed into crazed zombie-like mutants by an infection.
Left 4 Dead 2	2009	Plague	Video Game featuring the same as Left 4 Dead but expanded.
Night Surf	1977	Plague	Short Story by Stephen King. Collected in the book Night Shift.
Quarantine	2006	Plague	Poetry by Brian Henry.
Resident Evil	1996 to present	Plague	Video game series
The Scarlet Plague	1912	Plague	Short Story by Jack London
The Visitor	1951	Plague	Short Story (The Illustrated Man) by Ray Bradbury
Wandering Ones	2001 to present	Plague	Webcomic by Clint Hollingsworth
Y: The Last Man	2002 to 2008	Plague	Comic series features a lone man & his monkey in a world populated only by women, series written by Brian K. Vaughan and published by Vertigo Comics
Soldiers of Anarchy	2002	Plague	Video game featuring a group of ex-soldiers who spent ten years underground after the Spontaneous Genome Degeneration Syndrome (SGDS), an artificially created virus raged across the globe in 2004, nearly wiping off humanity. Although the virus was released to make money with the antidote, it wasn't distributed for some reason.

Astronomic impact (meteorites, asteroids, planets, etc.)

Films

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
Meteor	1979	Meteor
Night of the Comet	1984	Meteor	When a comet passes too close to earth, two girls are left amid mutants.
Super Comet: After The Impact	2007	Meteor	A speculative documentary produced by the Discovery Channel which hypothesizes the effects on modern-day earth of a large comet impact.
Tank Girl	1995	Meteor	Loosely based on the comic by Jamie Hewlett
The Time Machine	2002	Meteor	Downfall of man caused by the Moon breaking apart and bombarding Earth with rocks after extensive lunar mining.
Post Impact	2004	Meteor	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".
Meteor Apocalypse	2010	Meteor	A gigantic meteor enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
When Worlds Collide (1951 film)	1951	Star	Scientists discover a star named Bellus is on a collision course with Earth.
Quantum Apocalypse	2010	Comet	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

Title	Year	Type	Notes
Asteroid	1997	Meteor
Highlander: The Animated Series	1994	Meteor
The Last Train	1999	Meteor	Cruel Earth in Canada. British TV six part drama.
Three Moons Over Milford	2006	Meteor
Thundarr the Barbarian	1980 to 1982	runaway planet	Events 2000 years after the disaster of 1994
Thunderstone	1999	Meteor

Novels

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

Other

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

Alien invasion

Films

Title	Year	Type	Notes
The War of the Worlds	1953	Invasion	Based on the novel of the same name.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	1956	Invasion	Based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.
The Day of the Triffids	1962	Invasion	Based on a John Wyndham novel of the same name (in the novel, the Triffids seem to have been bioengineered on Earth, while in the film they were aliens who arrived as spores in a meteor shower).
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD	1966	Invasion	Based loosely on BBC Television series, but not part of the official canon.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	1978	Invasion	Another film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.
Maximum Overdrive	1986	Invasion	Initially people believe radiation from a passing comet is the cause, but it turns out that aliens are remotely control Earth machines (Trucks, cars and even vending machines) to kill the population before invading. Based on the Stephen King short story Trucks.
They Live	1988	Invasion	Part science fiction thriller and part black comedy.
I Come in Peace	1990	Invasion	Also known as Dark Angel, directed by Craig R. Baxley.
Body Snatchers	1993	Invasion	Another film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.
Independence Day	1996	Invasion	1996 science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth.
Mars Attacks!	1996	Invasion	Based on the trading card series Mars Attacks (1962).
Battlefield Earth	2000	Invasion	Based on the novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard.
Titan A.E.	2000	Invasion	2000 animated post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	2001	Invasion	CGI animated film.
Signs	2002	Invasion	Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Alien Apocalypse	2005	Invasion	Produced by Sci Fi Channel.
War of the Worlds	2005	Invasion	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.
The Invasion	2007	Invasion	Yet another film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.
Invasion of the Pod People	2007	Invasion	A low-budget remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers made by The Asylum to capitalise on the release of The Invasion.
Transformers	2007	Invasion	A race of both robotic aliens battle for mankind.
Transmorphers	2007	Invasion	A race of alien robots devastate the Earth.
Resiklo	2007	Invasion	Philippine film. An alien invasion of the world and philippines in 2021
Transmorphers: Fall of Man	2009	Invasion	A race of semi-autonomous robots seize control of the planet Earth

Novels

Title	Year	Type	Author	Notes
The War of the Worlds	1898	Invasion	H. G. Wells
The Moon Men	1926	Invasion	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.
The Puppet Masters	1951	Invasion	Robert A. Heinlein
The Kraken Wakes	1953	Invasion	John Wyndham
The Genocides	1965	Invasion	Thomas M. Disch	Alien flora is seeded on Earth, and quickly comes to dominate all landmasses, threatening Human extinction.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	1979–1992	Invasion	Douglas Adams
Battlefield Earth	1980	Invasion	L. Ron Hubbard	based on the novel.
The Mist	1980	Invasion	Stephen King
The Visitors	1980	Invasion	Clifford D. Simak
Footfall	1985	Invasion	Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle	Baby elephant-like invaders hurl asteroids at earth, humans revolt.
The Forge of God	1987	Invasion	Greg Bear
The Killing Star	1996	Invasion	Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski	Aliens conduct a preemptive strike against humanity with relativistic missiles.
War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches	1996	Invasion	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.
Shade's Children	1997	Invasion	Garth Nix	"Overlords" destroy all human life over the age of 14.
The Alien Years	1997	Invasion	Robert Silverberg
War of the Worlds: New Millennium	2005	Invasion	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.
Eight Worlds	2005	Invasion	John Varley
Outlanders		Invasion	Mark Ellis aka James Axler
The Tripods		Invasion	John Christopher
Legacy Trilogy	2003–2007	Invasion	Ian Douglas
Vampire Earth	2003	Invasion	Knight, E. E.	Series.
The Host	2008	Invasion	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.

Television

Title	Year	Type	Notes
The Dalek Invasion of Earth	1964	Invasion	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).
The Invaders	1966	Invasion	The television series created by Quinn Martin and Larry Cohen.
UFO	1970	Invasion	The television series by Gerry Anderson Production.
V	1983–1985	Invasion	The television series.
The Tripods	1984–1985	Invasion	An adaptation of the first two books in the trilogy by John Christopher.
The Tripods	1986	Invasion	The series by Tomes & Talismans.
War Of The Worlds: The Second Invasion	1988–1990	Invasion	The second season of this television spin-off from the 1953 movie was set after a successful alien invasion.

Other

Title	Year	Type	Notes
The War of the Worlds	1938	Invasion	The radio play directed and narrated by Orson Welles.
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross	1982–1983	Invasion	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).
Genesis Climber Mospeada	1983–1984	Invasion	The anime series (see also Robotech).
Outlanders	1986–1989	Invasion	The manga by Johji Manabe.
Manhunter	1988	Invasion	The computer game.
X-COM: UFO Defense and subsequent follow-ups	1993	Invasion	The computer game.
Chrono Trigger	1995	Invasion	The console game, where modern civilization is at risk of being destroyed by an alien parasite in 1999 AD.
Spellcross	1997	Invasion	Turn based strategy game on PC
Half-Life	1998	Invasion	The computer game and its sequel.
Getter Robo Armageddon	1998	Invasion	The OVA, where a combination of a nuclear missile and amorphous alien Invaders results in a war with the fate of humanity at stake.
Getter Robo Armageddon	1998	Invasion	The OVA, where a combination of a nuclear missile and amorphous alien Invaders results in a war with the fate of humanity at stake.
Chrono Cross	1999	Invasion	The 1999 console game, where in alternate time lines modern civilization was destroyed by an alien parasite in 1999 AD.
UFO: Aftermath	2003	Invasion	The computer game and its sequels UFO: Aftershock & UFO: Afterlight by Altar Games.
Destroy All Humans!	2005	Invasion	The 2005 console game, in which the player controls a Furon alien in an attempt to overthrow mankind.
Eureka Seven	2005–2006	Invasion	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".
Gears of War	2006	Invasion	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.
Mother 3	2006	Invasion	The Game Boy Advance game, where in the final chapter, the protagonists find out the island they live on is a post-apocalyptic utopia that is being contaminated by Porky Minch (From the previous game).
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars	2007	Invasion	The computer game . In the midst of the Third Tiberium War, an alien faction known as the Scrin lands on Earth seeking the alien mineral Tiberium for themselves. The prequels suggest the apocalypse was actually caused by humans, though.
Halo video game series		Invasion	The 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.
Resistance: Fall of Man		Invasion	An alien species known as the chimera have almost wiped out the human race. The game focuses on taking a last stand in Britain.
Crysis		Invasion	A near future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the ground on an island in the East Philippines sea.

Ecological catastrophe

Films

Title	Year	Type	Notes
The Last Woman on Earth	1960	Ecological	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.
Beyond the Time Barrier	1960	Ecological	X-plane arrives in future after solar radiation catastrophe
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	1961	Ecological	The Van Allen belt catches on fire.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire	1964	Ecological	Earth starts hurtling toward sun as a result of man's nuclear testing
No Blade of Grass	1970	Ecological	Based on the novel The Death of Grass.
Silent Running	1972	Ecological
Idaho Transfer	1973	Ecological
Prophecies of Nostradamus	1974	Ecological
Logan's Run	1975	Ecological	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.
Quintet	1979	Ecological
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	1984	Ecological	Based on the manga of the same name.
Solarbabies	1986	Ecological	Also known as Solarwarriors
Millennium	1989	Ecological
Slipstream	1989	Ecological
Mindwarp	1990	Ecological	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.
Omega Cop	1990	Ecological	After an environmental holocaust, a lone cop battles a gang of rampaging marauders.
The Last Border - Viimeisellä Rajalla	1993	Ecological	One man's quest for revenge in a world where toxic waste has driven the remains of civilization into the Arctic Circle.
Waterworld	1995	Ecological
Jason X	2002	Ecological	The tenth Friday the 13th film, Earth became a polluted wasteland by 2455. Humanity left Earth and colonized a planet designated as Earth 2.
Dragon Head	2003	Ecological	Based on the Manga of the same name.
It's All About Love	2003	Ecological
The Day After Tomorrow	2004	Ecological	Based in part on the novel The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell & Whitley Strieber.
Serenity	2005	Ecological	The Earth's resources and biosphere get used up prompting mass exodus for the stars.
The World Sinks Except Japan	2006	Ecological	A parody of Japan Sinks. All the land on earth sinks into the ocean, with Japan being the last to go. The sinking has something to do with tectonic plates.
The Happening	2008	Ecological	The movie depicts an unknown deadly neurotoxin.
Lost City Raiders	2008	Ecological
WALL-E	2008	Ecological	Earth is abandoned after becoming too polluted to sustain life. A robot stays behind and cleans Earth.
Wynter Dark	2009	Ecological	Set 800 years in the future after the world is devastated by an ice age.
The Third Garden	2009	Ecological
2012	2009	Ecological

Novels

Title	Year	Type	Author	Notes
Theologus Autodidactus	13th century	Ecological	Ibn al-Nafis
The Purple Cloud	1901	Ecological	M.P. Shiel	A volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas.
Mr. Adam	1946	Ecological	Pat Frank	depicts a world in which a nuclear power plant explosion renders the entire male population infertile.
The Death of Grass	1956	Ecological	John Christopher	A virus that destroys plants causes massive famine and the breakdown of society. Made into the film No Blade of Grass
The Wind from Nowhere	1961	Ecological	J.G. Ballard	First published novel. World destroyed by increasingly powerful winds
Hothouse	1962	Ecological	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."
The Drowned World	1962	Ecological	J.G. Ballard	Climate change causes flooding.
The Wanting Seed	1962	Ecological	Anthony Burgess	Global over-population and famine leads to mass chaos
The World in Winter (UK)/The Long Winter (US)	1962	Ecological	John Christopher	A decrease in radiation from the sun causes a new ice age.
Cat's Cradle	1963	Ecological	Kurt Vonnegut	All the water on Earth becomes Ice-Nine
The Drought	1964	Ecological	J.G. Ballard	A super drought evaporates all water on earth.
Greybeard	1964	Ecological	Brian Aldiss	The human race becomes sterile
Time of the Great Freeze	1964	Ecological	Robert Silverberg	Another ice-age has engulfed the earth. A group from New York travels over the ice to London in the year 2650.
A Wrinkle in the Skin (The Ragged Edge(US))	1965	Ecological	John Christopher	Civilization destroyed by massive worldwide earthquakes
The Crystal World	1966	Ecological	J.G. Ballard	The jungle in Africa starts to crystallize all life and expands outward
Make Room! Make Room!	1966	Ecological	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.
The Ice Schooner	1969	Ecological	Michael Moorcock	Set in a new ice age on earth
The Sheep Look Up	1972	Ecological	John Brunner	The United States is overwhelmed by environmental irresponsibility and authoritarianism.
The End Of The Dream	1972	Ecological	Philip Wylie
The Bridge	1973	Ecological	D. Keith Mano	Presents a world dominated by a global environmental fascism, where the government ultimately promotes the extinction of the human race by enforced mass suicide, so as to ‘save’ the environment.
The HAB Theory	1976	Ecological	Allan W. Eckert	The stability of the Earth comes into question.
The Winter of the World	1976	Ecological	Poul Anderson	Civilization and a new species has emerged from a deadly Ice Age that has destroyed all previous life.
The Quiet Earth	1981	Ecological	Craig Harrison	Also the film adaption by the same name
The Last Gasp	1983	Ecological	Trevor Hoyle
In the Drift	1984	Ecological	Michael Swanwick	Also an alternate history story), in which the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor incident resulted in a very large release of radioactivity, devastating the Northeastern U.S.
The Handmaid's Tale	1985	Ecological	Margaret Atwood	Dystopia is fueled by rampant infertility caused by pollution.
Nature's End	1986	Ecological	Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka.
Stark	1989	Ecological	Ben Elton
Fallen Angels	1991	Ecological	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn	Space-based civilization exists despite the government's wishes during an ice age.
The Fifth Sacred Thing	1993	Ecological	Starhawk
Deus X	1993	Ecological	Norman Spinrad	The results of global warming
This Other Eden	1993	Ecological	Ben Elton	The Earth's population is forced to live in Biodomes for 50 years while the environment recovers from mankind's actions.
Mother of Storms	1995	Ecological	John Barnes	A tactical nuclear strike in the North Pacific releases massive amounts of methane, spawning worldwide super hurricanes.
Ill Wind	1995	Ecological	Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason	A microbe consumes all materials based on petroleum.
Aftermath	1998	Ecological	Charles Sheffield	Alpha Centauri goes supernova and causes cataclysmic climate change
Dust	1998	Ecological	Charles Pellegrino	All the insect species on Earth die out, and the ecology crashes as a result
The Rift	1999	Ecological	Walter Jon Williams
Oryx and Crake	2003	Ecological	Margaret Atwood
Clade	2003	Ecological	Mark Budz
The Secret Under My Skin	2003	Ecological	Janet Mcnaughton	Set in a period following a technocaust, when scientists were blamed for environmental disasters and taken to concentration camps.
Crache	2004	Ecological	Mark Budz
The Snow	2004	Ecological	Adam Roberts	The world is buried under kilometres of unnatural snow.
First Ark to Alpha Centauri	2005	Ecological	Abdul Ahad	World governments in the 23rd century build and launch a 12-mile long generation starship to Alpha Centauri to escape a global Ice Age threatening the future of humanity.
Small-Minded Giants	2006	Ecological	Oisín McGann
Return (novel)	2006	Ecological	Clayton J Elliott	Ecological and social unrest leave a world fighting to find a new relationship to the earth. An anti-technology novel
Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow		Ecological	H. M. Hoover	Set in California several centuries after pollution all but wiped out the human race
The Snowfall triliogy, (Snowfall, Kingdom River, and Moonrise)		Ecological	Mitchell Smith	North America has retreated into hunter-gatherer societies and military kingdoms some 500 years after an apocalyptic ice age.
The Mara and Dann novels Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: A Novel		Ecological	Doris Lessing	Set in a future ice age. Other Lessing novels like Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta deal with apocalyptic themes.
The Greatwinter trilogy		Ecological		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.
Flood	2008	Ecological	Stephen Baxter	Huge underground oceans start leaking to the surface, lifting sea levels by thousands of metres over several decades.
Mai Shangri-La	2008	Ecological	Robert J. Rubis	In 2030 climate has "flipped", world sea-levels have risen 7 meters, and the survivors struggle to fashion new lives from the remnants of industrialized society.
The Windup Girl	2009	Ecological	Paolo Bacigalupi,	In future Thailand, calories are the most needed energy source, a unexpected girl struggles to live like as she wants.
Drain	2010	Ecological	Davis Schneiderman	Lake Michigan mysteriously empties of water, and a end-of-time cult occupies the lakebed, waiting for a reflooding of the zone by the power of giant Worm.

Television

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
Inferno	1970	Volcanic apocalypse	Doctor Who serial Inferno in which attempts to tap the Earths core for power leads to a volcanic apocalypse.
Timeslip	1971	Global warming	The 1971 TV series Timeslip The Year of the Burn Up - Terraforming causes global warming.
Ark II	1976–1979	Pollution	The 1976–1979 TV series Ark II - pollution devastates humanity.
The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series)	1981	Meteor	The 1981 adaptation of The Day of the Triffids based on the book by John Wyndham.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs	1993	Science fiction	The 1993 animated series.
Cowboy Bebop	1998–1999	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.
Encrypt	2003	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.
Category 6: Day of Destruction	2004	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
10.5	2004	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.
Innocent Venus	2006	Hyper-hurricanes disaster	Set after the world population and economy is devastated by simultaneous hyper-hurricanes.
Captain Planet	1990-1992	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
The Poison Sky	2008	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.
Earth 2100	2009	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.

Other

Title	Year	Type	Notes
The Birds	1952	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 mankind
Flight of the Horse	1973		Collection of short stories Flight of the Horse by Larry Niven.
The Screwfly Solution	1977		Short story, tells the tale of a virus which turns males into female-hating psychopaths when sexually aroused.
The End of the Whole Mess	1986		The 1986 short story The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King in which a distillate of a Texas aquifer, originally harvested and distributed worldwide to reduce human propensity for violence—curses humanity with premature Alzheimer's disease and senility.
Secret of Mana	1993	The console game	Takes place long after a time of environmental collapse that destroyed the world's older advanced civilizations.
Final Fantasy VI	1994	The console game	Named Final Fantasy III during initial American launch of the game, features a plot twist in where villain Kefka moves magical statues out of their intended alignment, which in turn causes the balanced fictional world to fall into ruin, and for Kefka to become its new god while protected by the powers of the same statues.
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō	1994–2006		The Japanese manga series, set in a peaceful post-cataclysmic Japan, after an untold environmental disaster.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	2002	The computer game	Video game in which a flood has decimated the fictional world of Hyrule.
Overman King Gainer	2002–2003		Anime series, which depicts humanity living in domes after an ecological disaster.
Getter Robo Armageddon	1998	Invasion	The OVA, where a combination of a nuclear missile and amorphous alien Invaders results in a war with the fate of humanity at stake.
The Garden Where My Rains Grows	2005	Post-apocalypse	Short story by Brian Keene, set in a post-apocalyptic world where it started raining one day and never stopped.
Zoids: Genesis	2005–2006	Environment disaster	Anime series where an earthquake triggers a series of worldwide natural disasters that devastate Planet Zi.
Nebulous	2005-present		Radio sitcom by Graham Duff, in which much of the world was destroyed by an event known as "the Withering".
Ergo Proxy	2006	Environment disaster	Anime series by the Japanese production company Manglobe, in which an undefined global ecological disaster has decimated the surface of the Earth, and the small remaining human population lives in isolated, city-state dome complexes.
Battlefield 2142	2006	The computer game	The PC game in which a new ice age renders most of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable. Wars are fought over the remaining habitable land.
Command & Conquer: Tiberian series	1995-present	The computer game	Series of games in which a radioactive, self-replicating alien crystal known as Tiberium has rendered most of the Earth's surface uninhabitable.
Dark Sun	1991	The computer game	The game from TSR, Inc.
Darkwind: War on Wheels	2007	The computer game	A 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.
Final Fantasy X	2001	The console game	The game where an advanced civilization is destroyed by a supernatural.

Cybernetic revolt (apocalyptic wars between humans and technology)

See also: Cybernetic revolt

Film

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution	1965
Terminator	1984–2009		Series of films.
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin	1985
Gunhed	1989
Moontrap	1989
American Cyborg: Steel Warrior	1992
Screamers	1995
Omega Doom	1996
Matrix	1999–2003		Series of films.
Galerians: Rion	2003
I, Robot	2004
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	2004
9	2005
Meet the Robinsons	2007
9	2009		Adaptation of 2005 year's film 9.

Novels

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
The Book of Machines	1872		The novel Erewhon's section The Book of Machines.
The Machine Stops	1909		A short story by E. M. Forster, emphasizing machinery instead of computers.
The Mind Machine	1919		By Michael Williams
R.U.R.	1921		Play by Karel Čapek, notable for coining the term 'robot'.
The Metal Giants	1926		By Edmond Hamilton.
Automata	1929		By S. Fowler Wright
The War of the Giants	1931		By Fletcher Pratt.
Rex	1934		Short story by Harl Vincent
Nightmare Number Three	1935		By Stephen Vincent Benet
With Folded Hands	1947		By Jack Williamson
The Brain	1948		By Alexander Blade
The Last Revolution	1951		Short story by Lord Dunsany
Slaves To The Metal Horde	1954		Short story by Milton Lesser.
Answer	1954		Short story by Fredric Brown.
Magnus, Robot Fighter	1963		Comic books series by Gold Key Comics.
Colossus	1966		By Dennis Feltham Jones.
Berserker	1967-2005		Series by Fred Saberhagen.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	1967		Short story by Harlan Ellison.
The Cyberiad	1967		A series of short stories by Stanisław Lem.
The God Machine	1968		By Martin Caidin
Plan for Conquest	1969		By A.A. Glynn
Moderan	1971		Series by David R. Bunch
Night of the Robots	1972		Aka Regiments of Night by Brian N. Ball
Trucks	1973		By Stephen King
Robot Revolt	1981		By Nicholas Fisk
Uncanny X-Men	1981		Story arc, "Days of Future Past" by Chris Claremont & John Byrne
The Adolescence of P-1	1985		By Thomas J. Ryan.
La Rebelión de los Robots	1989		Short story in Spanish by Alberto I. Balcells.
Computer One	1993		By Warwick Collins.
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect	1993		By Roger Williams.
Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith	1995	Comics	Great Droid Revolution
Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88	1996		By Kevin J. Anderson.
Galaxy Express 999	1977-1996	Manga	Manga series.
Robota	2003		An illustrated book by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card.
Legends Of Dune trilogy	2002-2004		Part of the Dune universe.
[[The Butlerian Jihad]	2002		Part of the Dune universe by Kevin J. Anderson.
The Machine Crusade	2003		Part of the Dune universe by Kevin J. Anderson.
The Battle of Corrin	2004		Part of the Dune universe by Kevin J. Anderson.
The Matrix	2003		Comic books.
Deus Vitae	2004	Manga	A series created by Takuya Fujima.
How to Survive a Robot Uprising	2005		A semi-satirical book by Daniel H. Wilson.
Lego Exo-Force	2005-2007		Comics and books.

Television

Title	Year	Type	Notes
Android Apocalypse	2006	Cybernetic revolt
Battlestar Galactica	2003–2009	Cybernetic revolt
Bucky O'Hare	1990–1991	Cybernetic revolt
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future	1987–1988	Cybernetic revolt
Casshan	1973–1974	Cybernetic revolt
Digimon Tamers	2001–2002	Cybernetic revolt
Doctor Who	1966	Cybernetic revolt	The episode "The War Machines", as well as others.
Galaxy Express 999	1978–1981	Cybernetic revolt
Lego Exo-Force	2006	Cybernetic revolt
Power Rangers: RPM	2009	Cybernetic revolt	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.
Space: Above and Beyond	1995	Cybernetic revolt
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	2008–2009	Cybernetic revolt
The Outer Limits	1996, 1999	Cybernetic revolt	The 1996 episode "Resurrection" and the 1999 episode "The Human Operators"
Zentrix	2004	Cybernetic revolt

Gaming

Title	Year	Type	Author and notes
Robotron 2084	1982		Created by Williams.
The Mechanoid Invasion	1985	Gamebook	And its source books, supplements and sequels was the first role-playing game from Palladium Books, conceived and written by Kevin Siembieda.
Earthsiege	1994		And sequels, from Sierra Entertainment.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	1995		From Cyberdreams.
RayForce	1993	Cross-platform	a Japanese scrolling shooter arcade game.
Mega Man X series	1993-present		A video game series created by Capcom.
Rise of the Robots	1994	Cross-platform	Developed by Mirage Studios. A fighting game.
Vertical Force	1995	Virtual Boy game	A vertical shoot-em-up scroller game, with two layers for Nintendo's Virtual Boy video game system.
Red Alarm	1995	Nintendo game
GURPS Reign of Steel	1997		A setting for the GURPS role playing system.
RayCrisis	1998	Cross-platform	A prequel to RayForce.
Toxic			A flash game by Nitrome Limited about a character in a yellow hazmat suit attempting to free the world from a race of robots with a variety of bombs.
Toxic 2			Sequel to Toxic.
System Shock	1994		By Looking Glass Technologies, incorporates elements from Alien invasion theory.
Choose Your Own Adventure	1979-1998	Gamebook	By Edward Packard.
KKND2: Krossfire	1998		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.
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun	1999		Is the expansion pack Firestorm from Westwood Studios.
System Shock 2	1999		Sequel to System Shock.
Galerians	1999	PlayStation	Developed by Polygon Magic.
Descent 3	1999	PC	Developed by Outrage Entertainment, which explains that mostly mining robots attacked by an unknown virus and now attacking people.
Splicers	2004		A role-playing game set in the midst of a war between humans and a worldwide computer intelligence.
Gunlok	2000		Is a squad based action adventure computer game developed by Rebellion.
Deus Ex	2000		A conflict between a Friendly AI and a non-friendly one.
Outlive	2001		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.
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel	2001		As part of its plot, the AI Calculator a fusion of computers and human brains sent army of robots to attack the world.
Neuroshima	2003		The Polish role-playing game from Portal Publishing.
Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume	2004	Cross-platform	Is a Japanese post-apocalyptic visual novel and video game.
Fallout 3	2008		As a single, customizable character, go out into a radiated wasteland in search for your father.
Too Human	2008	Xbox game	By Canadian developer Silicon Knights.

Other

Title	Year	Author and Notes
Humans Are Dead		By Flight of the Conchords
The Eighth Day		By Hazel O'Connor
Obsolete (album)	1998	By Fear Factory
Citizens of Tomorrow		By Tokyo Police Club
The Protomen		The self-titled album by The Protomen.

The decline and fall of the human race

• The latter part of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895)
• The 1939 cartoon short Peace on Earth by Hugh Harman, in which animals rebuild a post-apocalyptic world after humanity has fought wars to the point of extinction.
• The novel At Winter's End (1988) by Robert Silverberg
• The poem Bedtime Story from Collected Poems 1958–1970 by George Macbeth
• Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun series
• The novel The Camp of the Saints (1973) by Jean Raspail.
• The novel The Bridge (1973) by D. Keith Mano presents a world dominated by a global environmental fascism, where the government ultimately promotes the extinction of the human race by enforced mass suicide, so as to ‘save’ the environment.
• Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
• The novel City (1952) by Clifford D. Simak
• Friday (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein, which portrays human society on a future Earth as slipping into a gradual, but inevitable, collapse.
• Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut. After an ambiguous eradication of the human species, several people on a cruise to the Galápagos Islands get stranded there. Much to the dismay of the only male left, the women of the island continue the human species for thousands of years where they evolve into seal-like creatures.
• Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
• The 1974 John Boorman film Zardoz
• The Japanese manga Biomega, NOiSE, Blame! and Net Sphere Engineer by Tsutomu Nihei
• The Japanese manga and anime The Big O, where humans apparently suffered mass amnesia 40 years prior and are afraid to leave their city, Paradigm. It is a sort of mecha/apocalypse subclass of its own; the protagonist has to battle mechanical beings and other robots who are trying to destroy the remnants of the human race.
• The Cartoon Network/Adult Swim animated parody of the barbarian/post-apocalyptic genres, Korgoth of Barbaria
• The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
• The 1979 Australian movie Mad Max depicts a declining civilization.
• Michael Haneke's film Le Temps du Loup (The Time of the Wolf), following a family through the (French?) country side after an undefined catastrophic collapse of civilization.
• The movie A.I. depicts human extinction after 2000 years.
• The manga/anime series Wolf's Rain takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where constant conflicts between nobles leaves whole parts of the earth uninhabited, cities in ruins, and technology rare. Only the nobles possess futuristic ships, and the richest have domed cities where the debilitated earth can still support life. A second apocalypse ends the series, with a presumable renewing of the planet.
• The song In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans, which describes, stage by stage, the decline of the human race. Covers the 26th, 36th, 46th, 56th, 66th, 76th, 86th and 96th centuries.
• The television series The Future Is Wild, which uses computer animation to simulate the sort of creatures that may evolve from present-day animals. In the world depicted in the series, the human race either has become extinct or has left Earth. The reason is not given.
• The short story "To Serve The Master" By Philip K. Dick
• The 2006 film Children of Men, where the human race has become infertile.
• The 1984 film 1990:The Bronx Warriors In 1990 the Bronx is declared a No Mans Land after a catastrophic uprising.
• The 1997 film The End of Evangelion, in which all humankind are reverted to a "primordial soup" and merged into a single consummate being.
• The The House of the Dead series of video games. Scientist Dr. Curien finds a way to reanimate the dead, though not without disastrous results. Later in the series' timeline, Caleb Goldman uses the undead in his mission to destroy the human race and protect the Earth from further destruction by humans.
• The 2006 novel Return by Clayton J Elliott - in which ecological and social unrest leave a world fighting to find a new relationship to the earth. An anti-technology novel.
• The 2007 film Tooth and Nail Post-apocalyptic movie where a group of survivors, called Foragers, take cover in an old abandoned hospital where the group attempt to re build society. All we know of the apocalypse is that man "Ran out of gas", but not in the sense of oil, just that our time was up.
• The 2001 video game Pikmin and its sequel, the 2004 video game Pikmin 2, is set on an unnamed planet simply called as the planet of the Pikmins, 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.
• The 2004 film 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.

Monsters and biologically altered humans

See also Zombie apocalypse

Title	Year	Medium	Author or Director	Notes
The Day of the Triffids	1951	Novel	Wyndham, John	About a blinding meteor shower and the bioengineered Triffid plants.
Them!	1954	Film		Desert nuclear tests create mutated gigantic ants
I Am Legend	1954	Novel	Matheson, Richard	A vampire apocalypse novel, I Am Legend was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007)
Night of the Living Dead	1968	Film	Romero, George	A zombie apocalypse film, Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2005) followed Night of the Living Dead.
Day by Day Armageddon	2004	Novel	Bourne, J.L.	A zombie apocalypse novel.
The Rats quadrilogy	1974	Novel	Herbert, James	The last two novels of The Rats quadrilogy show how after a nuclear war, humanity is overthrown by mutated Giant Black Rats.
Moonbane	1989	Novel	Sarrantonio, Al	About a worldwide uprising of werewolves
Skeletons	1992	Novel	Sarrantonio, Al	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
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs	1993	Animated TV series		In which dinosaurs reclaim the earth. Based upon the comic series "Xenozoic Tales"
28 Days Later	2002	Film		The 2002 film 28 Days Later, and its 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later
Reign of Fire	2002	Film		In which dragons over take human civilization.
Trinity Blood	2005	Light novel		Involving a war between humans and vampires.
Cell	2006	Novel	King, Stephen	A strange cell phone signal turns ordinary humans into killer zombies.
The Quick and the Undead	2006	Film
Kairo	2001	Novel	Kurosawa, Kiyoshi	In which the world is overrun by Humanoid Ghosts, and everything is destroyed by them.
Gurren Lagann	2007	Animated TV series		In which cloned "Beastmen" fight an apocalyptic battle with humanity.
The Mist	2007	Film		Based upon the 1980 short story "The Mist" by Stephen King.
REC	2007	Film	Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza	Spanish horror film about altered humans by Devil.
Quarantine	2008	Film	John Erick Dowdle	American horror film which is a remake of the Spanish horror film REC.
Dead Set	2008			A UK television series which chronicles a zombie outbreak.
The Forest of Hands and Teeth	2009	Novel	Ryan, Carrie	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.
REC 2	2009	Film	Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza	The sequel to 2007's REC.
Denizen (2010 film)	2010	Film	Steel, J.A.	“To catch a monster you must become a monster.”
Tooth and Nail (novel)	2010	Novel	DiLouie, Craig	Zombie apocalypse from perspective of soldiers deployed in New York City during the outbreak.

After the fall of space-based civilization

• Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke
• Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda series
• Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita
• The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Dragon Masters, by Jack Vance
• Dan Simmons's Endymion & The Rise of Endymion
• The Mote in God's Eye by Niven & Pournelle
• Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun
• The PlayStation video game Xenogears
• Red Dwarf, the British Science-Fiction Sitcom
• Star Man's Son 2250 A.D. by Andre Norton
• Reaches series by David Drake
• Transfusion by Chad Oliver
• Larry Niven's Ringworld, 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.
• The Last Legionary series by Douglas Hill, in which 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.
• The computer game Supreme Commander is set at the end of a thousand year long war, called the infinite war, between two separate factions of humans and a race of cyborgs.
• Homeworld- 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.
• Space Viking by H. Beam Piper.
• The General series by S. M. Stirling and David Drake

Expanding or Dying Sun

• The 1895 novel The Time Machine. Towards the end of the book The Time Traveler witnesses the Suns expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth.
• The 1912 novel The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, in which the Sun burns out and the last of humanity is sheltered in an arcology from the hostile environment and the creatures adapted for it.
• The 1945 short story Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke
• The 1971 short story Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven.
• The 1974 film Where Have All The People Gone? A solar flare destroys virtually all of the human population. One family has survived, and endeavours to travel across America to their family home.
• The 1976 novel A World Out of Time by Larry Niven
• The 1980 novel The Shadow of the Torturer by 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).
• The 1981 novel The Quiet Earth by Craig Harrison Adapted into the 1985 movie of the same name.
• The episode "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", of J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5
• The episode "The End of the World", of the television series Doctor Who
• The novel Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke in which the last survivors of Earth arrive at a distant colony unexpectedly.
• The comic series Just a Pilgrim by Garth Ennis
• The video game "Tetris Worlds"
• The poem "Darkness" by Lord Byron describes the end of life on earth after the sun's extinction.
• The movie "Last Night" by Don McKellar, which 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).
• The short story "Finis" by Frank Lillie Pollock where a second sun's light incinerates the Earth.
• The 2007 movie, Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle. The film follows a spaceship crew in the year 2057 who are tasked with reigniting Earth's dying sun.
• The 2009 movie, "Knowing" tells of a story where the end of the world, caused by a solar flare erupting onto the solar system, is accurately predicted.

Religious and supernatural apocalypse (Eschatological fiction)

• The 1908 novel Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson.
• The 1953 short story The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke, taken from the short story collection of the same name.
• The 2009 apocalyptic fiction series Dominion by Compasse, a supernatural thriller with religious and geopolitical themes. Through seven books, 'the secret language of music has been discovered', and becomes a powerful force in this end-times scenario. Published by Sacrata Dei Press.
• The evangelical Christian film series 1972 A Thief in the Night, sometimes referred to as the Mark IV films.
• A series of films made in the 1990s and 2000s by Cloud Ten Pictures
• The young adult book series Countdown by Daniel Parker, in which a demon wipes out the entire human population save for teenagers.
• The Deadlands: Hell on Earth role-playing game, in which the Earth is reduced to a haunted, radioactive wasteland as a result of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ravaging the planet shortly after an eldritch nuclear war.
• The End of the Age, by Pat Robertson
• The book and film series Left Behind, concerning the Rapture.
• The novels Black Easter and The Day After Judgment by James Blish, in which a black magician brings about the end of the world by releasing all the demons from Hell.
• The Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz
• 1995. The sci-fi anime Neon Genesis Evangelion in which mankind'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.
• 2007-Ongoing . Rebuild of Evangelion- remake of the anime series. The first of the four films, Evangelion: 1.0- You are [Not] Alone, debuted in 2007, with the second part, 2.0- You Shall (Not) Advance, debuting in 2009.
• The film The Rapture (1991)
• The 1989 novel The Dead, by Mark E. Rogers. Combines themes of the rapture and zombies.
• The zombie novels The Rising and its sequel City of the Dead by Brian Keene. 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.
• Brian Keene has also written The Conqueror Worms which is a very Lovecraftian tale of one of the last survivors on earth. In the novel, the world floods causing several monsters appear, mainly gigantic, maneating earthworms.
• The novel Shade's Children by Garth Nix, in which a group of extradimensional beings invade earth and cause all human adults to vanish.
• The manga and subsequent anime movies and TV series Silent Möbius by Kia Asamiya. The story is set in a Blade Runner-style world which has been invaded by demonic beings.
• The novel The Taking, by Dean Koontz in which a malevolent demonic force kills off the majority of the human race.
• John Shirley's 2000 novel Demons revolves around a demonic invasion of Earth.
• The Third Millennium (1995) and The Fourth Mellennium (1996), by Paul Meier
• The Tribe 8 role-playing game, in which sadistic demons invade (and conquer) the Earth.
• The Clamp anime X/1999 in which the seven Dragons of Heaven battle the Dragons of Earth to save the world.
• Hellgate: London – computer game released in 2007, where demons and humans are in constant struggle on earth.
• The Doom series of computer games, in which demons invade a human base on Phobos (changed to Mars in Doom 3) and then move on to Earth.
• The 2006 film Pulse and its 2009 sequel Pulse 2: Afterlife.
• The Shadow of Yesterday 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.

Social or economic collapse

Title	Year	Medium	Author	Notes
Foundation	1951	Novel	Asimov, Isaac.	Mathematician Hari Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way.
"Last of the Masters, The"	1954	Short story (novelette)	Dick, Philip K.	200 years after a global anarchist revolution, society has stagnated due to the loss of scientific knowledge during the revolt. Elsewhere, the last government, a highly centralized and efficient society, is in hiding from the Anarchist League, a global militia preventing the recreation of any government.
Atlas Shrugged	1957	Novel	Rand, Ayn	American society slowly collapses after the country's leading industrialists mysteriously disappear.
Dark Future	1988	Miniature wargame	Games Workshop	A role-playing game franchise composed of the game and associated novels and short-story anthologies set within the Dark Future universe.
Wolf and Iron	1990	Novel	Dickson, Gordon R.	A man and a wolf band together to survive in an America devastated by financial collapse.
Deus Ex: Invisible War	2003	Video game	Ion Storm Inc. (developer) Eidos Interactive (publisher)	After total global economic collapse (an event known simply as 'The Collapse'), all religion is collected into one, which is in conflict with the new world order. Throughout the game, the player can choose to be on either side, affecting the game's outcome.
Apocalypse and the Beauty Queen	2005	Film		The world crashed, not with a scream, but just a whimper. The failure of the national power grid caused the government to crumble.
Puzzlehead	2006	Film	Bai, James (writer/director)	Set in what looks like Brooklyn, "after the decline", the streets are empty and there seems to be constant random killings.
Return	2006	Novel	Elliott, Clayton J.	Ecological and social unrest leave a world fighting to find a new relationship to the earth. An anti-technology novel
World Made By Hand	2008	Novel	Kunstler, James	Explores life in an agrarian village in upstate New York after America collapses under the combined trauma of plague, peak oil, global warming, and nuclear terrorism.
"Turn Left" (Doctor Who episode #197)	2008	Television series	Davies, Russell T.(writer)	Explores an apocalyptic alternative future in which British society has collapsed due to the death of Doctor.
"Resurrection Insurrection"	2008	Short story	Bachard, Kurt	A socio-political story using the theme of a Zombie apocalypse as a framework.
Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse	2009	Novel	Rawles, James W.	An apocalyptic survivalist novel about a total socio-economic collapse.
American Apocalypse I: Beginning	2009	Novel	nova	An apocalyptic novel describing the slow economic decay and descent into squalor and violence of a failed economic system.

Unspecified phenomena

• The 1885 novel After London by Richard Jefferies; the nature of the catastrophe is never stated, except that apparently most of the human race quickly dies out, leaving England to revert to nature.
• The 1914 novel Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England, in which two characters wake from suspended animation and find that some great disaster has torn an enormous chasm in the Earth and created a second moon.
• The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and on NBC in the United States.
• The 1975 novel Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.
• The 1978 short story "Trucks" by Stephen King. An unknown phenomenon makes Earth's machines turn against mankind. It was later made into the movie Maximum Overdrive which added an alien invasion subplot.
• The 1978 novel "False Dawn" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Two humans searching for a way to survive in toxic wasteland. Republished in 2001.
• The 1985 picture book Baaa by David Macaulay, in which the human race has somehow gone extinct, leaving sheep to take over the world. The sheep's civilization winds up displaying the same array of economic troubles, overpopulation, and crime, and after a while they too become extinct.
• The Dayworld series by Philip Jose Farmer, in which 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, Dayworld Rebel.
• The 1987 novel In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster.
• The 1994 novel Vanishing Point by Michaela Roessner. Life in Silicon Valley 30 years after the mysterious and spontaneous disappearance of 90% of the world's population. The Winchester Mystery House ("The House") serves as a focal point for parallel universes and inexplicable energies that are changing the world and its post-Vanishing children.
• The Emberverse series novels by S. M. Stirling, in which a disaster of indeterminate cause (most speculation within the novels concerns an all-powerful outside force, often facetiously referred to as "Alien space bats") causes electricity, combustion engines, and modern explosives to cease functioning.
• The series of novels set in the world of Wraeththu by Storm Constantine, in which humanity is replaced as the planet's dominant species by a race of mystic hermaphrodites. War and plague ravage the human population, but no single cause is specified.
• The 1988 novel Tea from an Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan, set in a cyberpunk world following a vaguely described natural cataclysm.
• Ongoing comic series Wasteland takes place roughly 100 years in the future, where North America is a dustbowl and lacking modern technology.
• The 1997 movie Alien Resurrection features a deleted scene (restored to the film in the Alien Quadrilogy box set) in which Ripley and the other survivors land the Auriga in a devastated Paris. The cause of the destruction is never made clear, but presumably there was a war.
• The 2006 film Android Apocalypse, cause of apocalypse unknown
• The 2006 video game Mother 3, in which a small group of humans escape to a post-apocalyptic utopia after the "old world" is destroyed. While the game never explains what happened to the "old world", they say that the humans were the ones that caused its destruction.
• The 2006 novel Guardando la fine del mondo by Riccardo Deias, set in alternative world and time.
• The 2006 novel "Night Work" by Thomas Glavinic, in which a man wakes up to find that everyone else has disappeared.
• The 2009 film The Road, based on the 2006 novel of the same name.
• Desolation: Post Apocalyptic Fantasy Roleplaying, a 2008 RPG from Greymalkin Designs.
• The 2004 Flash movie "Salad Fingers" (although a 'great war' is mentioned, it may not be the cause of Salad Fingers' dwelling being in a dilapidated, post-apocalyptic state)
• The 2009 album "Songs From The Floodplain" by Jon Boden
• The 2009 French film Les derniers jours du monde epicts the story of a man, Robinson, who travels across France and Spain during the end of the world.
• The 2008 TV documentary film, Life after People, and the spin-off, Life After People: The Series, document life on earth where the human race had gone extinct. The shows doesn't mention on a cause of the extinction of humans.

See also

• Apocalypse
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
• List of time travel science fiction
• Nuclear holocaust
• Nuclear weapons in popular culture
• Survivalism
• Survivalism in fiction
• World War III
• List of nuclear holocaust fiction

External links

• Dodson, Eric (2003). Post-apocalyptic film and the post-modern apocalypse. State University of West Georgia. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); External link in |title= (help)
• Quiet Earth - A website dedicated to post apocalyptic media
• Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction - online book by Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University.
• 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.
• The Empire of Texas by Rodger Olsen
• Post Apocalyptic Media - Lists of P.A. games / movies / etc
• List of songs related to World War III and nuclear war