List of nuclear holocaust fiction

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This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war, or nuclear holocaust.

1 Films
2 Television productions
3 Novels
4 Short stories
5 Comics
6 Television episodes
7 Animation shorts
8 Music
9 Games
10 References
11 External links
12 See also

[edit] Films

Five (1951)
Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
Captive Women (1952)
Day the World Ended (1955)
On the Beach, (1959)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959 film), (1959)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
La Jetée, (1962)
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
This is Not a Test (1962)
Fail-Safe, (1964)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The End Of August At The Hotel Ozone, (1966)
In the Year 2889, (1967)
Planet of the Apes (1968) and its four sequels
The Bed Sitting Room, (1969)
Glen and Randa, (1971)
A Boy and His Dog, (1975)
Logan's Run, (1976 film)
Damnation Alley (1977)
Mad Max (1979) and sequels
The New Barbarians (1982)
2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
WarGames, (1983)
Testament (1983)
The Terminator series, (1984, 1991, 2003)
Red Dawn, (1984)
Def-Con 4, (1985)
Radioactive Dreams, (1985)
Dead Man's Letters, (1986)
The Sacrifice, (1986)
When the Wind Blows (1986), based on the 1982 graphic novel
Whoops Apocalypse, (1986)
Akira, (1988)
Miracle Mile, (1988)
Dreams ("Mount Fuji in Red"), (1990)
Star Trek: First Contact, (1996)
The Postman (1997), very loose adaptation of novel The Postman by David Brin
Six-String Samurai, (1998)
Deterrence, (1999)

[edit] Television productions

Alas Babylon (Playhouse 90, 1960)
The War Game (BBC, 1965)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series) (NBC,1979)
World War III miniseries, (1982)
Whoops Apocalypse (ITV, 1982)
Special Bulletin (NBC, 1983)
Testament (PBS, 1983)
The Day After (ABC, 1983)
Countdown to Looking Glass (HBO, 1984)
Threads, (BBC, 1984)
By Dawn's Early Light (HBO, 1990)
Woops! (FOX, 1992)
Fail Safe, (CBS, 2000)
On the Beach, (Showtime, 2000)
Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi, 2004)
Jericho (CBS, 2006-2008)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox, 2008-)

[edit] Novels

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)
Airship Nine by Thomas Block (Antarctic residents as last survivors)
A Small Armageddon by Mordecai Roshwald
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Arc Light by Eric Harry
Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Commander-1 by Peter George
The Dark Tower Saga by Stephen King 1971-2006
Dark December by Alfred Coppel [1]
Dark Mirrors by Arno Schmidt
The Day They H-Bombed Los Angeles by Robert Moore Williams
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick
Domain by James Herbert
Doomday Wing by George H. Smith
Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
Dune (Series) by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Earthwreck! by Thomas N. Scortia
Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
Eon by Greg Bear
End of the World by Dean Owen (novelization of the film Panic in Year Zero!)
Fire Brats by Scott Siegel & Barbara Siegel
Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem (regarding Hatfork)
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Hostage by Colin Mason
The Last Children of Schewenborn by Gudrun Pausewang
The Last Ship by William Brinkley
Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
Light's Out by Halffast
The Long Mynd by Edward P. Hughes
Malevil by Robert Merle
Not This August by Cyril M. Kornbluth
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
The Outward Urge, by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes
The Postman, a 1985 post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin
Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno
Red Alert, by Peter George
Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Pre-Empt, by John Vorhies
Prime Directive, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (A Star Trek novel where an alien civilization is apparently destroyed by a sudden, unexpected nuclear war among its own people.)
Pulling Through, by Dean Ing (first half of the book is a novel on a family surviving a nuclear blast, the second half was a non-fiction survival guide)
The School for Atheists by Arno Schmidt
The Seventh Day by Hans Hellmut Kirst (original title Keiner Kommt Davon)
Solution T-25 by Theodora DuBois
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Systemic Shock by Dean Ing (First in the Ted Quantril trilogy)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
This Time Tomorrow by Lauran Paine
Tomorrow! by Phillip Wylie
The Triton Ultimatum by Laurence Delaney
Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
When the Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs
The Ashes Series by William W. Johnstone
The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
The World Next Door by Brad Ferguson
Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove (alternate history: World War II turns nuclear in 1943, another nuclear war in the 1960s)
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
The Zone series by James Rouch^[1]

[edit] Short stories

"The Blast" by Stuart Cloete (1947), published in 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, 1954
"By the Waters of Babylon" (1937) by Stephen Vincent Benet (written prior to the development of nuclear weaponry, it is noted among the genre for its prescience)
"A Clean Escape" by John Kessel (1985)
"The Edge of the Knife" by H. Beam Piper (see [2]).
"Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) by Ward Moore (inspiration for the film Panic in Year Zero!)
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1951)
"If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke a short story featuring a boy living in a colony on the moon, left isolated by the destruction of the Earth.

[edit] Comics

2000AD/Judge Dredd, set in a post war Earth where the majority of the United States is called the "Cursed Earth".
Akira features Tokyo after a nuclear conflict.
Barefoot Gen, Japanese manga about life after the Hiroshima bombing
Fist of the North Star, a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear Earth.
The Punisher - The End, a one shot issue of Marvel Comic's Punisher by Garth Ennis and Richard Corben.
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd is set in an England which has survived through a nuclear war which decimated the majority of the rest of the world.