List of nuclear holocaust fiction

• A Carol for Another Christmas (ABC, 1964), Rod Serling TV film • ''A Day Called 'X''' (CBS, 1957) • Adventure Time (Cartoon Network, 2010–2018) • American Horror Story: Apocalypse (FX, 2018) • Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi, 2003, 2004–2009) • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (NBC, 1979) • ''By Dawn's Early Light'' (HBO, 1990) • Countdown to Looking Glass (HBO, 1984) • Dark Angel (Fox, 2000–2002) • Der Dritte Weltkrieg (ZDF, 1998) • Fail Safe (CBS, 2000) • Fallout (Prime Video, 2024–) • Genesis II (CBS, 1973) • Jericho (CBS, 2006–2008) • Level Seven (BBC, 1966), adapted by J. B. Priestley for Out of the Unknown • On the Beach (Showtime, 2000) • Planet Earth (ABC, 1974) • Special Bulletin (NBC, 1983) • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox, 2008–2009) • Testament (PBS, 1983) • The 100 (The CW, 2014–2020) • The Day After (ABC, 1983) • The Martian Chronicles miniseries (NBC, 1980) • The War Game (BBC, 1965) • Threads (BBC, 1984) • Whoops Apocalypse (ITV, 1982) • Woops! (Fox, 1992) • World War III miniseries (NBC, 1982) Television episodes • The Motorola Television Hour: "Atomic Attack" (1954 ABC-TV series Season 1, Episode 15) – A family living 50 miles away try to flee from the fallout of a hydrogen bomb that fell on New York City. Based on the novel Shadow on the Hearth (1950) by Judith Merrill. • The Twilight Zone: "Time Enough at Last" (1959) • Playhouse 90: "Alas, Babylon" (1960) • The Twilight Zone: "The Old Man in the Cave" (1963) • Doctor Who: "The Daleks" (1963) • Star Trek: "Space Seed" (1967). References a third world war taking place in the 1990s (also known as the Eugenics Wars). The later series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds would retcon this to taking place in the mid-21st century, concurrent with the nuclear war established by the film Star Trek: First Contact and other Star Trek series. • Star Trek: "Assignment: Earth" (1968) – The crew goes back in time to find out how the human race was able to survive the Cold War. • The Twilight Zone: "A Little Peace and Quiet" (1985) • The Twilight Zone: "Quarantine" (1986) • The Twilight Zone: "Shelter Skelter" (1987) • The Outer Limits: "Bits of Love" (1997) • The Outer Limits: "The Human Factor" (2002) • The Twilight Zone: "Chosen" (2002) • Masters of Science Fiction: "A Clean Escape" (2007) • What If...?: What If... Ultron Won?" (2021) • A few episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise depict both humans and Vulcans as being close to extermination caused by nuclear war. ==Novels==

• After The Bomb by Gloria D. Miklowitz • Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank • Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem (regarding Hatfork) • Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley • Arc Light by Eric Harry • ''Armageddon's Children'' By Terry Brooks (2006) (Genesis of Shannara Trilogy book 1) • The Ashes Series by William W. Johnstone • The Beast of Heaven by Victor Kelleher • Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells • A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1960) • Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence • The Chrysalids by John Wyndham • Commander-1 by Peter George • Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny • Dark December by Alfred Coppel • Dark Mirrors (original title) Schwarze Spiegel by Arno Schmidt • Davy and other works by Edgar Pangborn • The Day They H-Bombed Los Angeles by Robert Moore Williams • Deathlands series by a variety of authors writing under the pen name James Axler • Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick • Domain by James Herbert • Doomday Wing by George H. Smith • Doomsday Plus Twelve by James D. Forman • Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham • Earthwreck! by Thomas N. Scortia • The Eclipse Trilogy by John Shirley • The Egghead Republic by Arno Schmidt • ''Einstein's Monsters'' by Martin Amis • End of the World by Dean Owen (novelization of the film Panic in Year Zero!) • Ende: A Diary of the Third World War by Anton-Andreas Guha • Endworld series by David Robbins • Eon by Greg Bear • The Erthing Cycle by Wayland Drew • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury • ''Farnham's Freehold'' by Robert A. Heinlein • Fire Brats by Scott Siegel and Barbara Siegel • First Angel by Ed Mann, published by Soldier of Fortune magazine • Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson • Free Flight by Douglas Terman • ''The Gate to Women's Country'' by Sheri S. Tepper • A Gift Upon the Shore by M. K. Wren • ''God's Grace'' by Bernard Malamud • The Guardians series by Richard Austin • The Hot War series by Harry Turtledove • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins • The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad • Jenny, My Diary by Yorick Blumenfeld • The Last Children of Schewenborn by Gudrun Pausewang • The Last Ship by William Brinkley • The Last War, a 1986 novel by Martyn Godfrey • Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald • The Long Loud Silence by Wilson Tucker • The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett • Long Voyage Back by George Cockcroft, under the pen name Luke Rhinehart, 1983 • Malevil by Robert Merle • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury • Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky • The Metrozone Series by Simon Morden • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell • Not This August by C.M. Kornbluth • Obernewtyn and subsequent novels in the series by Isobelle Carmody • On the Beach by Nevil Shute • One Second After by William R. Forstchen • The Outward Urge, by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes • The Pelbar Cycle Book One (Beyond Armageddon) by Paul O. Williams • Plan of Attack, a 2004 thriller by Dale Brown • The Postman, a 1985 post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin • Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno • 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 is a non-fiction survival guide • Red Alert, by Peter George • Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois • Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban • The School for Atheists by Arno Schmidt • Second Ending, by James White • The Seventh Day by Hans Hellmut Kirst (original title Keiner Kommt Davon) • Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril (1950) – a novel about a traditional housewife's ordeals in the aftermath of nuclear attack • The Shannara Series, by Terry Brooks • The Silo Series by Hugh Howey (2011) – A nuclear exchange is used to cover up a nano-bot attack. • Single Combat by Dean Ing (second in the Ted Quantril trilogy) • A Small Armageddon by Mordecai Roshwald • ''Star Man's Son by Andre Norton (1952) – a post-apocalyptic novel that takes place about two centuries after the Great-Blowup. It is titled Daybreak – 2250 AD'' in reprint editions. • The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun by Christopher Anvil • The Survivalist by Jerry Ahern • Swan Song by Robert McCammon • Systemic Shock by Dean Ing (first in the Ted Quantril trilogy) • Tengu (Novel) by Graham Masterton • Test of Fire by Ben Bova • There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson • This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow • This Time Tomorrow by Lauran Paine • Time Capsule by Mitch Berman • Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie • ''Trinity's Child'' by William Prochnau (1983) • Triumph by Philip Wylie • The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove • Vaneglory by George Turner • Viper Three by Walter Wager • Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka • When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs • Wild Country by Dean Ing (Third in the Ted Quantril Trilogy) • The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson • Without Warning by John Birmingham • The World Next Door by Brad Ferguson • The World Set Free by H. G. Wells • 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 ==Short stories==

• "The Blast" by Stuart Cloete (1947), published in 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, 1954 • "Thunder and Roses" (1947) by Theodore Sturgeon • "Not with a Bang" (1949) by Damon Knight • "The Last Word" (1956) by Damon Knight • "A Clean Escape" (1985) by John Kessel • "The 16th October 1985" (2009) by James Plumridge • "The Edge of the Knife" (1957) by H. Beam Piper • "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 (1950) • "Preview of the War We Do Not Want", published in ''Collier's Magazine'' (1951) • "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke – featuring a boy living in a colony on the moon, left isolated by the destruction of the Earth • "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison (1969) • "Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl (1985) • "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" by Joe R. Lansdale (1986) • "The Custodians" by Richard Cowper • "Summer Thunder" by Stephen King • "By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet (1937) ==Short story collections==

• Countdown To Midnight, 1984, edited by H. Bruce Franklin • Beyond Armageddon, 1985, edited by Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin Harry Greenberg • Nuclear War, 1988, edited by Gregory Benford and Martin Harry Greenberg • The Folk of the Fringe, 1989, Orson Scott Card ==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. • AXA, set in the aftermath of a nuclear- and biological war with heroine AXA fighting against evil • Barefoot Gen, Japanese manga about life after the Hiroshima bombing • Cobalt 60 by Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodē and Larry Todd, set in a post-apocalyptic world • Fist of the North Star, a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear Earth • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a Japanese graphic novel, later partly adapted in film, set in a far, post-apocalyptic future, rife with themes of bioethics, environmentalism, genetics and psionics • The Punisher: The End, a one-shot issue of Marvel Comic's Punisher by Garth Ennis and Richard Corben • Strontium Dog, set in a post-nuclear war earth where many humans have been deformed by the radiation and are branded as "mutants" • V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is set in an England which has survived through a nuclear war which devastated the majority of the rest of the world. ==Animation shorts==

• The Big Snit (National Film Board of Canada, Richard Condie; 1985) • The Hole, 1962, featuring the voice of Dizzy Gillespie • A Short Vision, 1956 • Good Will to Men, 1955 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) • Picadon (1978) ==Games==