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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 ...
An action strategy game for the Apple II, where the player defends the United States against a nuclear attack. [9] [10] Nuclear Throne: 2015 A twin-stick shooter roguelike following a group of mutants in a nuclear wasteland Nuclear War: 1989 A turn-based strategy game for Amiga and DOS NukeWar: 1980
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.
Pages in category "Novels about nuclear war and weapons" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
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]
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.
N. The Navajo People and Uranium Mining; No Place to Hide (Bradley book) Non-Nuclear Futures; Normal Accidents; Not for the Faint of Heart; Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction