List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

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This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works.

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[edit] Examples (listed by nature of the catastrophe)

[edit] World War III and Other Conflicts

[edit] Films

[edit] Television

[edit] Novels

[edit] Short stories

[edit] Role-playing games

[edit] Other

[edit] Pandemic

[edit] Astronomic impact (meteorites)

[edit] Alien invasion

[edit] Ecological catastrophe

[edit] Cybernetic revolt

See main article: Cybernetic revolt

[edit] The decline and fall of the human race

[edit] After the fall of space-based civilization

[edit] The Sun's expansion

[edit] Religious and supernatural apocalypse (Eschatological fiction)

  • The evangelical Christian film series 1972 A Thief In The Night, sometimes referred to as the Mark IV films.
  • 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 anime and manga Neon Genesis Evangelion in which over half of the human population is killed and the survivors are subsequently attacked by beings of apparently mystical nature named "Angels."
  • The film Prince of Darkness, directed by John Carpenter, in which all Hell breaks loose.
  • The film The Rapture (1991)
  • 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. Keene has also written Conqueror Worms which is a very Lovecraftian tale of one of the last survivors on earth.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Hellgate: London computer game to be 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.

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  • The 1989 film Slipstream, by Steven Lisberger
  • The game Final Fantasy X
  • 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.
  • Much of the work of J. G. Ballard, in which the current era is sometimes described as the pre-Third, referring to World War III.
  • The film Crack in the World
  • The novels Dies the Fire and The Protector's War by S. M. Stirling, in which a disaster of indeterminate cause (most speculation within the novels concerns an all-powerful outside force ie. aliens or an act of god/gods) causes electricity, combustion engines, and modern explosives to cease functioning.
  • The manga and movie Dragon Head, by Mochizuki Minetaro
  • The machinima Red vs. Blue, the main characters are sent to the future in what they believe is a post-apocalyptic world.
  • Jules Verne's The Eternal Adam, in one night all the emerged land submerges and some island emerge. The survivors start a new mankind.
  • The movie The Last Woman on Earth, directed by Roger Corman, in which all the Earth's oxygen temporarily vanishes - leaving only three survivors.
  • The novel The Lost Continent (1916) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, in which an isolated and feuding Europe has retreated into barbarism
  • The novel Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter has the deliberate creation of a new vacuum state in the universe, incidentally annihilating all existing matter in the Universe - including the Earth.
  • Nightfall by Isaac Asimov; A rare cosmological event causes an Earth-like society inhabiting a multistar system to collapse as they experience their first nightfall.
  • The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel; An unknown event floods the earth with a poisonous gas, leaving only two survivors
  • The Revenants by Sheri S. Tepper; the nature of the catastrophe is never stated but technology has been displaced and a bizarre religion is dividing society into ever-smaller, racially-divided units.
  • Although not generally recognized as such, the Star Trek franchise falls into this category as it takes place in the decades and centuries following World War III on Earth, which nearly led to the collapse of human civilization. The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Encounter at Farpoint" depicts one aspect of the "post-atomic horror"; the film Star Trek: First Contact takes place about a decade after the war and depicts one pocket of civilization living in a camp in Montana, and the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Demons" and "Terra Prime" refer to the rise of military rule and an act of genocide perpetrated on radiation-scarred survivors of the war a century earlier.
  • The novel Taronga, by Victor Kelleher; after an unknown disaster simply described as "Last Days" a boy ventures throughout his surroundings, finding refuge in Tarronga Zoo and befriending a tiger.
  • The film Titan A.E., in which the Drej destroy Earth to stop the advancement of humankind.
  • The video game Final Fantasy VI where the villain destroys and takes over the world, creating the World of Ruin.
  • The anime OVA series Giant Robo, in which a scientific experiment causes all power generation to stop worldwide, resulting in the death of one-third of the Earth's population in a week.
  • The novel Présence de la mort (1922) by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz where the Earth falls into the Sun.
  • The film The Omen (6-6-06)
  • The novel Wolf and Iron, by Gordon R. Dickson where after the fall of civilization from a worldwide financial collapse, a young scientist is trying to go cross country to his brother's ranch and gets help from a lone wolf.
  • The animated series Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, in which a distant planet's technology fails following the Alignment of its Three Suns.
  • It is widely believed that Third Earth, the setting for much of the Thundercats cartoon, is our own planet following two separate apocalypses, the exact natures of which are unknown.
  • The video game "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time", where the evil wizard Ganondorf attempts to take over Hyrule through the spirit realm.

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  • The novel The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin contains apocalyptic science fiction elements.
  • The manga Japan, written by Eiji Otsuka and illustrated by Mami Ito.
  • The film The Dark Crystal chronicles the Great Conjunction of the planet Thra's three suns. Aughra, a character in the movie, claims that the Great Conjunction will mean "the end of the world...or the beginning." The cracking of the Dark Crystal also placed the world of Thra into a semi-apocalyptic state.
  • The "X-Men" story arcs "Age of Apocalypse" and "Days of Future Past" feature devastated alternate timelines.
  • Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels offers many hints implying that it is set in the distant future (or past, since it depicts time as cyclical) of our own world, with the current order of life passing away in a sort of "mystical singularity".
  • "Tales From The Afternow" is an audio book-style story following a single person in a world where copyrights and 'listener licenses' are the rule of law.
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