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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)
It is an early example of post-nuclear apocalyptic fiction and has an entry in David Pringle's book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels. The novel deals with the effects of a nuclear war on the fictional small town of Fort Repose, Florida, which is based upon the actual city of Mount Dora, Florida , approximately 35 miles northwest of Orlando ...
Pages in category "Novels about nuclear war and weapons" ... The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States; 2084: The End ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Alas, Babylon, a 1959 novel dealing with the effects of a nuclear war on the fictional small town of Fort Repose, Florida Warday , a 1984 novel about a limited nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the Soviets and its subsequent aftermath, which also includes a resurgence of British Imperial power
Video games about nuclear war and weapons (3 C, 72 P) Pages in category "Fiction about nuclear war and weapons" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea (1979) is a post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The book won the 1989 Iowa Books for Young Adults Poll. [3] A May 1985 review published in the Wausau Daily Herald by Alice Hornbacker described the subject-matter of the book as "scary and morbid", but also as offering young readers afraid of nuclear war not only an opportunity to "sort out their unspoken fears, but articulate and share them as well". [4]