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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.
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)
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.
Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war. The book provided the underlying narrative structure for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. [1] Kubrick's film differs significantly from the novel in that the film is a black comedy.
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 .
On July 4, 2005, in a fictionalized United States alternate history reality, two towns in Texas (El Paso and Abilene) were destroyed by twin nuclear attacks, killing thousands and triggering a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, sending the United States into a state of chaos and hysteria, as well as a Third World War (a fictionalized version of what the nation may have become under the ...
It is a fictional account of the authors travelling across the U.S. five years after a limited nuclear attack in order to assess how the nation has changed after the war. [2] The novel takes the form of a first-person narrative research article [3] and includes government documents, interviews with survivors and aid workers, and present-tense ...
Shortly after takeoff from New York, Jonah is informed that Israel has attacked Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo with nuclear weapons in retaliation for their radioactive poisoning of Tel Aviv's water supply. Israel's strike triggers a worldwide nuclear holocaust while the plane is en route to London, the Soviet Union and China attacking America and ...