Welcome to the End…It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
There are many ways in which our world may meet its demise: plague, planet killing meteor, polar shift, death of the sun, interplanetary war, zombies, vampiric viruses; the list goes on. No matter the means to our eventual end, somebody has written about it.
Here is a partial list of some of the prophetic warnings we have been given. Listen closely, there will be a quiz, perhaps the ultimate quiz - maybe sooner than you think.
1880s
▪ 1885. After London by Richard Jefferies
1930s
▪ 1933. The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells, 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.
▪ 1934. Quinzinzinzili by Régis Messac, 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.
▪ 1937. By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet.
1940s
▪ 1948. Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley. Also screenplay.
▪ 1949. Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.
1950s
▪ 1950. Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov. (A later book, Robots and Empire, gave a different explanation)
▪ 1952. Star Man's Son by Andre Norton
▪ 1954. Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie
▪ 1955. The Chrysalids (U.S. title: Re-Birth) by John Wyndham
▪ 1955 Few Were Left by Harold Rein
▪ 1955. The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett, in the aftermath of a nuclear war scientific knowledge is feared and restricted.
▪ 1956. The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick
▪ 1957. On the Beach by Nevil Shute (also the films based on the book)
▪ 1958. Red Alert by Peter George. Filmed as Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick.
▪ 1959. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community.
▪ 1959. A Canticle for Leibowitz and later its sequel Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, both by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
▪ 1959. Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald.
1960s
▪ 1961. Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye.
▪ 1963. Triumph by Philip Wylie
▪ 1964. Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
▪ 1964. The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
▪ 1965. Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick
▪ 1967. Ice by Anna Kavan. Nuclear winter is encroaching the entire planet.
▪ 1968. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, filmed as Blade Runner.
▪ 1969. Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny (made into a movie 1977).
▪ 1969. Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
1970s
▪ 1970. The Incredible Tide by Alexandar Key.
▪ 1970. The Year Of The Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker.
▪ 1971. Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy.
▪ 1971. The Overman Culture by Edmund Cooper.
▪ 1972. Malevil by Robert Merle.
▪ 1974. The Last Canadian by William C Heine.
▪ 1975. Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien.
▪ 1975. Caravan by Stephen Goldin.
▪ 1975. The Coming of the Horseclans by Robert Adams, followed by seventeen other books in the horseclans series.
▪ 1977. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
▪ 1976. Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick in collaboration with Roger Zelazny.
▪ 1979. Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham.
1980s
▪ 1980. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.
▪ 1980. The Fifth Horseman by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
▪ 1982. Survivors by John Nahmlos.
▪ 1983. The Last Children of Schewenborn (Die Letzten Kinder Von Schewenborn) by Gudrun Pausewang (in German).
▪ 1983. Pulling Through by Dean Ing
▪ 1983. Trinity's Child by William Prochnau
▪ 1983. Hiero's Journey (sequel The Unforsaken Hiero 1985), by Sterling E. Lanier. A "metis" priest/killman quests across post-apocalyptic northeastern North America, seven thousand years in the future.
▪ 1984. Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
▪ 1984. Emergence by David R. Palmer
▪ 1984. Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
▪ 1985. Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
▪ 1985. The Postman by David Brin and the 1997 movie of the same name.
▪ 1985. This is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
▪ 1987. Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
▪ 1988. The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
▪ 1988. The Last Ship by William Brinkley.
1990s
▪ 1990. Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (extension written by Silverberg of the Asimov story of the same name)
▪ 1991. Yellow Peril in Chinese by activist Wang Lixiong under the pseudonym Bao Mi, about a nuclear civil war in the People's Republic of China
▪ 1997. Aftermath by Levar Burton. American civilization crumbles after a civil war pitting blacks against whites and a devastating earthquake.
▪ 1999. Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois, set 10 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into nuclear war.
▪ 1999. Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles
2000s
▪ 2001. Project Phoenix: Dead Rising by Darrin Brent Patterson.
▪ 2003. Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana by Robert J. Szmidt
▪ 2003. The City of Ember and its sequel, The People of Sparks, and prequel, The Prophet of Yonwood, by Jeanne DuPrau
▪ 2004. Cowl by Neal Asher.
▪ 2004. Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson
▪ 2004. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell contains one of six novellas set in a post-apocalyptic future.
▪ 2005. The Empire of Texas by Rodger Olsen is about a post-apocalyptic United States
▪ 2005. Deadlands by Scott A. Johnson
▪ 2006. The Road (novel) by Cormac McCarthy. A father and son's post-apocalyptic tale of survival.
▪ 2006. The Book of Dave by Will Self. Split between modern London and post-apocalyptic London where a new society and religion is based on the legacy of a cab driver.
▪ 2007. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
▪ 2007. The Oblivion Society by Marcus Alexander Hart
Book series and uncertain dates
▪ Masters of the Fist and The Long Mynd by Edward P. Hughes
▪ The Goodness Gene by Sonia Levitin
▪ The King Awakes and The Empty Throne by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after a nuclear war. Both novels deal with the return of King Arthur and his friendship with a youth from the post-holocaust world
▪ The Last War by Kir Bulychev
▪ The Steel, the Mist and the Blazing Sun by Christopher Anvil
▪ The World Ends in Hickory Hollow by Ardath Mayhar
▪ Time Capsule by Mitch Berman
▪ Series The Amtrak Wars by Patrick Tilley
▪ Series Deathlands by James Axler
▪ Series Firebrats by Scott Siegel and Barbera Siegel
▪ Series Horseclans by Robert Adams
▪ Series Mortal Engines Quartet by Phillip Reeve
▪ Series Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
▪ Series Shannara Series by Terry Brooks
▪ Series The Ashes by William W. Johnstone
▪ Series The Pelbar Cycle by Paul O. Williams
▪ Series The Survivalist by Jerry Ahern, first novel Total War from 1981
▪ Series Traveler by D. B. Drumm, first novel First, You Fight from 1984
▪ Series Wingman by Mack Maloney, 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 Vampire Hunter D novels (and later anime movies), set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in 1999
▪ Trilogy The Greatwinter Trilogy by Sean McMullen
▪ Trilogy The Uglies Trilogy: Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and the companion novel, Extras by Scott Westerfeld
Pandemic (Plague)
▪ The 1826 novel The Last Man by Mary Shelley
▪ The 1912 novella The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
▪ The 1949 novel Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
▪ The 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
▪ The 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, filmed as The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007)
▪ The 1954 novel Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys
▪ The 1975 novel The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
▪ The 1977 novel The Last Canadian (book by William C. Heine. The planet is decimated by a virus, as told through the eyes of one survivor.
▪ The 1978 novel The Stand by Stephen King
▪ The 1982 novel The White Plague by Frank Herbert
▪ The 1984 novel Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler
▪ The 1985 novel Blood Music and the 1983 novelette of the same name by Greg Bear
▪ The 1989 novel Plague 99 by Jean Ure and its sequels Come Lucky April and Watchers at the Shrine
▪ The 1990 novel A Gift Upon the Shore by M.K. Wren
▪ The 1992 novel The Children of Men by P.D. James
▪ The 1993 novel Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
▪ The 1998 novel Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt. Set 1000 years after a civilization-destroying plague.
▪ The 1999 novel The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
▪ The 2001 novel The Night of the Triffids by Simon Clark (sequel to The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham)
▪ The 2001 novel Hole in the Sky by Pete Hautman
▪ The 2002 novel Year Zero by Jeff Long
▪ The 2003 novel Idlewild by Nick Sagan
▪ The 2003 novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
▪ The 2003 novel Full Circle By Michael Boyle
▪ The 2003 novel trilogy Fire-Us
▪ The 2004 novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
▪ The 2004 novel Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
▪ The 2004 novel A Planet for the President by Alistair Beaton
▪ The 2004 novel White Devils by Paul McAuley
▪ The 2006 novel Burning Stones by Steven Mills
▪ The 2007 novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
▪ The 2007 novel Quentel by Deric R Budendorf
▪ The 2007 novel Dead Sea by Brian Keene
▪ The 2007 novel Plague Year by Jeff Carlson (slated to be a trilogy)
▪ The Trilogy including Monster Island (2006), Monster Nation (2006), and Monster Planet (2007), by David Wellington
Astronomic impact (meteorites)
▪ The 13th century novel Theologus Autodidactus by Ibn al-Nafis
▪ The 1932 novel When Worlds Collide by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer, and the 1951 and 2008 films of the same name.
▪ The 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham on a blinding meteor strike and the (bioengineered?) Triffid plants.
▪ The 1977 novel Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
▪ The 1997 novel Titan, by Stephen Baxter
▪ The 1998 novel Moonfall, by Jack McDevitt
▪ The 2001-present book series Remnants, by K.A. Applegate
▪ The 2002 novel The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
▪ The 2004 novel Earth, the New Frontier by Adam Celaya
▪ The 2004 novel Singularity by Bill DeSmedt, in which it turns out that a presumed meteor that struck the earth is in fact a microscopic black hole that entered the earth's crust, and never exited.
▪ The 2005 novel It's Only Temporary by Eric Shapiro
Alien invasion
▪ The 1898 novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
▪ The 1951 novel The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
▪ The 1953 novel The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
▪ The 1956 novel The Genocides by Thomas M. Disch. Alien flora is seeded on Earth, and quickly comes to dominate all landmasses, threatening Human extinction.
▪ The 1979-1992 book series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
▪ The 1980 novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
▪ The 1980 novel The Mist, by Stephen King
▪ The 1980 novel The Visitors by Clifford D. Simak
▪ The 1985 novel Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
▪ The 1987 novel The Forge of God by Greg Bear
▪ The 1996 novel The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski - aliens conduct a preemptive strike against humanity with relativistic missiles
▪ The 1997 novel Shade's Children by Garth Nix. "Overlords" destroy all human life over the age of 14.
▪ The 1998 novel The Alien Years by Robert Silverberg
▪ The Eight Worlds series, by John Varley
▪ The Outlanders series by Mark Ellis aka James Axler
▪ The Tripods series by John Christopher
▪ The Legacy Trilogy trilogy by Ian Douglas
Ecological catastrophe
▪ The 13th century novel Theologus Autodidactus by Ibn al-Nafis
▪ The 1946 novel Mr. Adam by Pat Frank depicts a world in which a nuclear power plant explosion renders the entire male population infertile.
▪ The 1956 novel The Death Of Grass by John Christopher, which was made into the film No Blade Of Grass, in which a virus that destroys plants causes massive famine and the breakdown of society
▪ The 1961 novel The Wind From Nowhere by J.G. Ballard - First published novel. World destroyed by increasingly powerful winds
▪ The 1962 novel Hothouse by Brian Aldiss, which 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 1962 novel The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard Climate change causes flooding.
▪ The 1962 novel The World in Winter (UK)/The Long Winter (US) by John Christopher in which a decrease in radiation from the sun causes a new ice age.
▪ The 1963 novel Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, in which all the water on Earth freezes
▪ The 1964 novel The Drought by J.G. Ballard A super drought evaporates all water on earth.
▪ The 1964 novel Greybeard by Brian Aldiss, in which the human race becomes sterile
▪ The 1965 novel A Wrinkle in the Skin (The Ragged Edge(US)) -John Christopher - Civilization destroyed by massive world-wide earthquakes
▪ The 1966 novel The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard Jungle in Africa starts to crystallize all life and expands outward
▪ The 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, which was made into a 1973 film Soylent Green directed by Richard Fleischer, showing a world where humanity had become massively overpopulated.
▪ The 1969 novel The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock which is set in a new ice age on earth
▪ The 1972 novel The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, in which the United States is overwhelmed by environmental irresponsibility and authoritarianism.
▪ The 1976 novel The HAB Theory by Allan W. Eckert, in which the stability of the Earth comes into question.
▪ The 1981 novel The Quiet Earth written by Craig Harrison and the film adaption by the same name
▪ The 1983 novel The Last Gasp by Trevor Hoyle
▪ The 1984 novel In the Drift by 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 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, in which the dystopia is fueled by rampant infertility caused by pollution.
▪ The 1986 novel Nature's End by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka.
▪ The 1991 novel Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn, in which space-based civilization exists despite the government's wishes during an ice age.
▪ The 1993 novel The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
▪ The 1993 novel Deus X by Norman Spinrad, the results of global warming
▪ The 1993 novel This Other Eden by Ben Elton in which the earths population is forced to live in Biodomes for 50 years while the environment recovers from mankind's actions.
▪ The 1995 novel Mother of Storms by John Barnes - where a tactical nuclear strike in the North Pacific releases massive amounts of methane, spawning world-wide super hurricanes.
▪ The 1995 novel Ill Wind (novel) by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason in which a microbe consumes all materials based on petroleum.
▪ The 1998 novel Aftermath by Charles Sheffield, in which Alpha Centauri goes supernova and causes cataclysmic climate change
▪ The 1998 novel Dust by Charles Pellegrino, in which all the insect species on Earth die out, and the ecology crashes as a result
▪ The 1999 novel The Rift by Walter Jon Williams.
▪ The 2003 novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
▪ The 2003 novel Clade by Mark Budz
▪ The 2003 novel The Secret Under My Skin by Janet Mcnaughton, set in a period following a technocaust, when scientists were blamed for environmental disasters and taken to concentration camps.
▪ The 2004 novel Crache by Mark Budz
▪ The 2004 novel The Snow by Adam Roberts, in which the world is buried under kilometres of unnatural snow.
▪ The 2006 novel Small-Minded Giants by Oisín McGann
▪ The novels Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow by H. M. Hoover, set in California several centuries after pollution all but wiped out the human race
▪ The novel trilogy Snowfall by Mitchell Smith (Snowfall, Kingdom River, and Moonrise) in which North America has retreated into hunter-gatherer societies and military kingdoms some 500 years after an apocalyptic ice age.
▪ The novels Mara and Dann, Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: A Novel by Doris Lessing Set in a future ice age. Other Lessing novels like Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta deal with apocalyptic themes.
▪ The novel At Winter's End (1988) by Robert Silverberg
▪ The novel The Bridge (1973) by D. Keith Mano
▪ 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 Galapagos 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 Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
Monsters and biologically altered humans
▪ The 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham's, on a blinding meteor strike and the (bioengineered?) Triffid plants.
▪ "The Mist" included in the short story collection "Skeleton Crew" by Stephen King, 1980
▪ The 2006 novel Cell by Stephen King
▪ The 2006 book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
After the fall of space-based civilization
▪ Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke
▪ The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
▪ The Dragon Masters, by Jack Vance
▪ The final two novels in Frank Herbert's Dune series, set after the disintegration of the Padishah Empire into many smaller factions.
▪ Dan Simmons's Endymion & The Rise of Endymion
The Sun's expansion
▪ 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 1971 short story Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven.
▪ The 1976 novel A World Out of Time by Larry Niven
▪ The novel Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke in which the last survivors of Earth arrive at a distant colony unexpectedly.
Religious and supernatural apocalypse (Eschatological fiction)
▪ The young adult book series Countdown by Daniel Parker, in which a demon wipes out the entire human population save for teenagers.
▪ 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
▪ 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 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 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
▪ The 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. American society slowly collapses after the country's leading industrialists mysteriously disappear.
▪ The 1990 novel Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson. A man and a wolf band together to survive in an America devastated by financial collapse.
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 1975 novel Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany.
▪ The 1987 novel In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster.
▪ The novels Dies the Fire (2004), The Protector's War (2005), The Meeting at Corvallis (2006), and The Sunrise Lands (2007) by S. M. Stirling, in which a disaster of indeterminate cause (most speculation within the novels concerns an all-powerful outside force, i.e. aliens or an act of god/gods) causes electricity, combustion engines, and modern explosives to cease functioning.
▪ The 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
▪ 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 a vaguely described natural cataclysm.
END OF THE WORLD ALPHABETICAL BOOK LIST
(May contain some duplicates of above listings)
A
▪ A Boy and His Dog (by Harlan Ellison)
▪ A Canticle for Leibowitz (by Walter Miller)
▪ After London (by Richard Jefferies)
▪ After The Fire
▪ After The Fire II
▪ After The Fire III
▪ After Worlds Collide (by Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie)
▪ The Air Battle: A Vision Of The Future
▪ Alas Babylon (by Pat Frank)
▪ Ashes Ashes (by Rene Barjavel)
B
▪ Battle Circle Trilogy (by Piers Anthony)
▪ Battlefield Earth
▪ Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The (by Storm Constantine)
▪ Blessing Trilogy, The (by William Barnwell)
▪ Blood Crazy
▪ Book of the New Sun, The
▪ Burning World, The (by J G Ballard)
▪ Brother in the Land (by Robert Swindells)
▪ By the Waters of Babylon (by Stephen Vincent Benet)
C
▪ C.A.D.S Series (by Ryder Syvertsen/David Alexander)
▪ Casca Series of Books, The (by Barry Sadler)
▪ Castle Keeps, The (by Andrew J Offutt)
▪ Cat's Cradle (by Kurt Vonnegut)
▪ Children of the Dust (by Louise Lawrence)
▪ Childhood's End (by Arthur C Clark)
▪ Chrysalids, The (by John Wyndham)
▪ Collapse of Homo Sapiens, The
▪ Crystal World, The (by J G Ballard)
D
▪ Damnation Alley (by Roger Zelazny)
▪ Dark December
▪ Darkness and Dawn (by George Allan England)
▪ Darwath Trilogy
▪ Dawn (by S Fowler Wright)
▪ Dawn's Uncertain Light (by Neal Barrett Jnr)
▪ The Day of the Triffids (by John Wyndham)
▪ Death is a Dream
▪ Deathland Series (by James Axler)
▪ The Death of Grass (by John Christopher)
▪ Defender Series of Books (by Jerry Ahern)
▪ Deluge (by S Fowler Wright)
▪ Destiny's Road
▪ Dies The Fire (by S M Stirling)
▪ Doomsday Warrior Series of Books (by Ryder Syvertsen)
▪ Dr. Bloodmoney (by Philip K Dick)
▪ The Dream Millenium
▪ The Drought (by J G Ballard)
▪ The Drowned World (by J G Ballard)
E
▪ Earth Abides (by George R Stewart)
▪ Earthblood Series (by James Axler)
▪ Emergence (by David Palmer)
▪ Empty World (by John Christopher)
▪ The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (by Storm Constantine)
▪ The End of all Songs (by Michael Moorcock)
▪ End of the World
▪ Ende: A Diary Of The Third World War
▪ Endgame (play by Samuel Beckett)
▪ Endworld Series of Books (by David L Robbins)
▪ Eternity Road
F
▪ False Dawn
▪ Famine (by Graham Masterton)
▪ Faraday's Orphans
▪ Farnham's Freehold
▪ Flying Dutchman (by Joseph Ward Moore)
▪ The Folk of the Fringe
▪ Fugue for a Darkening Island (by Christopher Priest)
▪ The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire (by Storm Constantine)
▪ Full Circle (by Bruce Arris)
G
▪ Galapagos (by Kurt Vonnegut)
▪ The Genocides (by Thomas Disch)
▪ A Gift Upon the Shore (by M K Wren)
▪ Girl Who Owned a City
▪ Glimmering (by Elizabeth Hand)
▪ God's Grace
▪ Greybeard (by Brian W Aldiss)
▪ Guardians Series of Books (by Victor Milan aka Richard Austin)
H
▪ The Handmaids Tale (by Margaret Atwood)
▪ He, She and It (by Marge Piercy)
▪ The Hollow Lands (by Michael Moorcock)
▪ Horsclans Series of Books (by Robert Adams)
▪ Hospital Ship (by Martin Bay)
I
▪ I Am Legend (by Richard Matheson)
▪ The Ice People (by Rene Barjavel)
▪ In the Country of Last Things (by Paul Auster)
▪ The Iron Dream
K
▪ Kelwin (by Neal Barrett Jnr)
▪ King Blood
▪ The Kraken Awakes
L
▪ La Nuit Des Temps
▪ The Last Fourteen (by Tyrone Barry)
▪ The Last Man (by Mary Shelley)
▪ The Last Ship
▪ The Last Wave (by Petru Popescu)
▪ Legends from the End of Time (by Michael Moorcock)
▪ Level 7
▪ The Little Puppy that Could
▪ The Long Loud Silence (by Wilson Tucker)
▪ The Long Way Back (by Margot Bennet)
▪ The Long Winter (by John Christopher)
▪ Lot (by Ward Moore)
▪ Lot's Daughter (by Ward Moore)
▪ Lucifers Hammer (by Larry Niven)
M
▪ Malevil
▪ Maurai Series (by Poul Anderson)
▪ A Messiah at the End of Time (by Michael Moorcock)
▪ Mop Up (by Richard Laymon)
▪ Mysic Rebel Series (by Ryder Syvertsen)
N
▪ Natures End
▪ Neena Gathering
▪ Nightfall
▪ Night of the Long Knives
▪ No Blade of Grass (by John Christopher)
▪ Nordenholt's Million
O
▪ On the Beach (by Nevil Shute)
▪ Out of the Deeps
▪ Outlanders Series (by James Axler)
▪ Overload Series of Books (by Bob Hams)
P
▪ Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse (by James W Rawles)
▪ Pendulum (by John Christopher)
▪ Penultimate Truth, The (by Philip K Dick)
▪ Phoenix Series of Books (by David Alexander)
▪ Place of the Gods (by Stephen Vincent Benet)
▪ Plague (by Graham Masterton)
▪ Plague of Angels, A
▪ Postman, The (by David Brin)
▪ Protectors War, The (by S M Stirling))
▪ Pulling Through
▪ Purple Cloud, The
R
▪ The Ragged Edge (by John Christopher)
▪ Ravage
▪ Rebirth
▪ Re-Birth
▪ Riddley Walker
▪ The Rift (by Walter J Williams)
S
▪ Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (by Walter Miller)
▪ The Scarlet Plague
▪ The Second Deluge
▪ Shadow Hunter
▪ The Shadow On The Hearth
▪ The Shore Of Women
▪ Some Will Not Die (by Algis Budrys)
▪ Stand, The (by Stephen King)
▪ Star Beast
▪ Steel Beach
▪ The Strange Invaders
▪ Strange Tomorrow
▪ The Sun Grows Cold (by Howard Berk)
▪ Survivalist Series Of Books (by Jerry Ahern)
▪ Survivors (by Terry Nation)
▪ Survivors: Genesis of a Hero (by John Eyers)
▪ Swan Song (by Robert R McCammon)
T
▪ Third World War, The (by Sir John Hackett)
▪ This Immortal (by Roger Zelazny)
▪ This Is The Way The World Ends
▪ Thunder and Roses (by Theodore Strugeon)
▪ Through Darkest America (by Neal Barrett Jnr)
▪ Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back
▪ Time Capsule
▪ The Time Disease
▪ Tomorrow!!
▪ Toms A-Cold
▪ The Torch (by Jack Bechdolt)
▪ The Traveler Series Of Books
▪ Twilight World (by Poul Anderson)
▪ Triumph
V
▪ Vanishing Point
W
▪ Warday (by Whitley Streiber and James Kuselka)
▪ Wasteworld Series Of Books (by James Barton)
▪ When The Wind Blows (by Raymond Briggs)
▪ When Worlds Collide (by Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie)
▪ Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
▪ The White Plague
▪ The Wild Shore
▪ The Wind From Nowhere
▪ Wingman Series Of Books (by Mack Maloney)
▪ The Winter of the World (by Poul Anderson)
▪ A World For The Meek (by Harry Willson)
▪ The World In Winter (by John Christopher)
▪ Wolf And Iron
▪ A Wrinkle In The Skin (by John Christopher)
Z
▪ Z for Zachariah (by Robert C O'Brien)
▪ Zone Series Of Books (by James Rouch)