This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre 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...

 works as protrayed in literature, film, television, and, comics.

Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 that is concerned with the end of civilization

Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth

Various existential risks could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.-Types of risks:...

 due to a potentially existential catastrophe

Existential risk

Existential risks are dangers that have the potential to destroy, or drastically restrict, human civilization. They are distinguished from other forms of risk both by their scope, affecting all of humanity, and severity; destroying or irreversibly crippling the target.Natural disasters, such as...

 such as nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is detonated on an opponent. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage...

, pandemic

Pandemic

A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic...

, extraterrestrial attack

Alien invasion

The alien invasion is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrial life invades Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under a colonial system, harvest humans for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.The...

, impact event

Impact event

An impact event is the collision of a large meteorite, asteroid, comet, or other celestial object with the Earth or another planet. Throughout recorded history, hundreds of minor impact events have been reported, with some occurrences causing deaths, injuries, property damage or other significant...

, cybernetic revolt

Cybernetic revolt

Cybernetic revolt or robot uprising is a scenario in which an artificial intelligence decide that humans are a threat , are inferior, or are oppressors and try to destroy or to enslave them potentially leading to...

, technological singularity

Technological singularity

Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than-human intelligence through technological means. Since the capabilities of such an intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as...

, dysgenics

Dysgenics

Dysgenics is the study of factors producing the accumulation and perpetuation of defective or disadvantageous genes and traits in offspring of a particular population or species. Dysgenic mutations have been studied in animals such as the mouse and the fruit fly...

, supernatural phenomena, divine judgement

Eschatology

Eschatology is a part of theology, philosophy, and futurology concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world or the World to Come...

, climate change

Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...

, resource depletion

Resource depletion

Resource depletion is an economic term referring to the exhaustion of raw materials within a region. Resources are commonly divided between renewable resources and non-renewable resources...

 or some other general disaster

Disaster

A disaster is a natural or man-made hazard that has come to fruition, resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment...

. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized).

Apocalypse

Apocalypse

An Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament...

 is a Greek word referring to the end of the world. Apocalypticism

Apocalypticism

Apocalypticism is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end time very soon, even within one's own lifetime...

 is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end very soon, even within one's own lifetime.

Apocalyptic fiction does not portray catastrophes, or disasters, or near-disasters that don't result in apocalypse. A threat of an apocalypse doesn't make a piece of fiction apocalyptic. The films Armageddon and Deep Impact

Deep Impact (film)

Deep Impact is a 1998 science-fiction disaster-drama film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film was directed by Mimi Leder and stars Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, and Morgan Freeman...

, for example, are not considered apocalyptic fiction because, although earth and/or human-kind are terribly threatened, in the end they manage to avoid destruction. Apocalyptic fiction is not the same as fiction that provides visions of a dystopian future. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party...

for example, is dystopian fiction, not apocalyptic fiction.

Works of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Format	Year	Cause	Title	Author&Notes
Story	1969	War	A Boy and His Dog A Boy and His Dog A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives and films including or stemming from works of science fiction author Harlan Ellison.Ellison began the cycle with the 1969 short story of the same title, and a revised and expanded novella-length version was published in Ellison's story collection The Beast...	Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media... . Filmed in 1975.
Story	2001	War	Autobahn nach Poznan	Andrzej Ziemianski Andrzej Ziemianski Andrzej Ziemiański is the Polish science fiction writer and columnist. He won twice the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in class 'short story': 2001 for Autobahn nach Poznań and in 2003 for Zapach szkła...
Story		War	Dear Devil	Eric Frank Russell Eric Frank Russell Eric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and...
Story		War	Enta Geweorc	Nicholas Waller (Interzone 198, 2004).
Story		War	Extinction is Forever	Louise Lawrence Louise Lawrence Elizabeth Holden, better known by her pen name Louise Lawrence, is an English science fiction author, acclaimed during the 1970s and 1980s. She has been classified as a writer for young adults, though due to the content of her books some have disagreed.... . A scientist uses a time machine Time travel Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...  to travel to the future and film the results of a nuclear war in a bid to prevent it from happening. However, his actions could have serious repercussions for the mutated descendants of the human race.
Story		War	Let the Ants Try	Frederik Pohl Frederik Pohl Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...  under the pseudonym Pseudonym A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...  James MacCreigh
Story		War	Magic City	Nelson S. Bond Nelson S. Bond Nelson Slade Bond was an American author who wrote extensively for books, magazines, radio, television and the stage....
Story		War	Second Variety Second Variety "Second Variety" is an influential short story by Philip K. Dick first published in Space Science Fiction magazine, in May 1953. It is one of Dick's many stories in which nuclear war has rendered the Earth's surface an uninhabitable, gray ash pile, and the only things remaining are killer robots...	Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...
Story		War	Time to Rest	Short story sequel No Place Like Earth By John Wyndham John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes...
Game		War	Operation Overkill	Game A BBS Door BBS door A door is a computer program, on a bulletin board system, that runs outside of the main bulletin board program. Sometimes called external programs, doors are the most common way to add games, utilities, and other extensions to BBSes. From the 1990s on, most BBS software had the capability to...
Comic		War	Appleseed	Japanese manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...  (and subsequent anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....  adaptations) by Masamune Shirow Masamune Shirow is an internationally renowned manga artist, born on November 23, 1961.Masamune Shirow is a pen name, based on a famous swordsmith, Masamune. He is best known for the manga Ghost in the Shell, which has since been turned into two theatrical anime movies, two anime TV series, an anime TV movie, and...
Comic		War	Battle Angel Alita Battle Angel Alita Battle Angel Alita, known in Japan as , is a manga series created by Yukito Kishiro in 1990 and originally published in Shueisha's Business Jump magazine. Two of the nine-volume comics were adapted into two anime original video animation episodes titled Battle Angel for North American release by...	Manga series contains post-apocalyptic elements, and takes place in a highly futuristic dystopian world.
Comic		War	Desert Punk Desert Punk is a post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Usune Masatoshi, serialized in Enterbrain's Comic Beam since 1997. The published chapters have been collected in 13 volumes....	Manga series (Later adapted into an anime)
Comic		War	Ex-Mutants Ex-Mutants Ex-Mutants was a comic book series created by writer David Lawrence and artist Ron Lim along with editor David Campiti in 1986. It was first published by Eternity Comics and then Amazing Comics. Contractual problems resulted in a move to Pied Piper Comics. A legal dispute followed, and after...	Set in a post-nuclear world.
Comic		War	Cobalt 60 (comics)	Manga series
Comic		War	Incredible Hulk: The End: The Last Titan Incredible Hulk: The End: The Last Titan Hulk: The End is a one-shot comic book published by Marvel Comics. Written by Peter David, pencilled by Dale Keown and inked by Joe Weems, the story depicts a possible future for the Hulk like all of the other The End stories.-Publication history:...
Comic		War	Judge Dredd vs. Aliens Judge Dredd vs. Aliens Judge Dredd vs. Aliens is an intercompany crossover, featuring Judge Dredd and the Alien from the Alien franchise. It was published weekly in 2000 AD in 2003.-Plot:...	Manga series
Comic		War	Kamandi Kamandi Kamandi is an American comic book character, created by artist Jack Kirby and published by DC Comics. The bulk of Kamandi's appearances occurred in the comic series Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, which ran from 1972 to 1978....	Featuring the last boy on earth first published in 1972.
Comic		War	Post-Nuke	Webcomic taking place during a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter Nuclear winter Nuclear winter is a predicted climatic effect of nuclear war. It has been theorized that severely cold weather and reduced sunlight for a period of months or even years could be caused by detonating large numbers of nuclear weapons, especially over flammable targets such as cities, where large...
Comic		War	Saikano Saikano is a manga, anime, and OVA series by Shin Takahashi, creator of Iihito and Kimi no Kakera. Saikano was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine....	Manga series
Comic		War	The Last American The Last American The Last American is a four-issue comic book mini-series released by Marvel's Epic imprint in 1990. It was written by John Wagner and Alan Grant with art by Mike McMahon.-Publication history:Wagner wrote the first two parts and Grant the last two...	Series originally from Marvel Marvel Comics Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...  in 1990/1991, re-released by Com.X Com.x -2000-2002:Com.x wwas founded in 2000 by Eddie Deighton, Russell Uttley and Neil Googe. Deighton later described how the group came together in 1999:...
Comic		War	The Punisher: The End The Punisher: The End The Punisher: The End is a one-shot title published by Marvel Comics under the MAX imprint as part of their The End series. The story focuses on the Punisher's final days in a post-apocalyptic future...
Comic		War	X/1999	Manga series
Other		War	April 2031	Song by the band Warrant Warrant (American band) Warrant is an American heavy metal band from Hollywood, California, that experienced success from 1989-1996 with five albums reaching international sales of over 10 million. The band first came into the national spotlight with their debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, and one of its...  on the "Dog Eat Dog" album depicts an earth devastated by war where life lives on only by artificial means.
Other		War	Ayreon Ayreon Ayreon is a project by Dutch composer and musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen.Ayreon's musical style derives mostly from heavy metal and progressive rock, but combines them with genres like folk, classical and electronica...	Song Series of concept albums depicts the end of life on Earth in 2084 due to, among other factors, a catastrophic nuclear war.
Poem		War	The Horses	Poem by Edwin Muir Edwin Muir Edwin Muir was an Orcadian poet, novelist and translator born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands. He was remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry in plain language with few stylistic preoccupations.... . Deals with society's regression to pre Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times...  conditions in the wake of a nuclear war
Other		War	Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume	Visual novel Visual novel A is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art, or occasionally live-action stills or video footage...
Poem		War	Your Attention Please	Poem by Peter Porter Peter Porter (poet) Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a British-based Australian poet.-Life:Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18, and went to work as a trainee journalist... , written in the style of a radio broadcast warning of an impending nuclear attack
Song		War	Your Attention Please	Song adaptation of the above Porter poem written and recorded by the Scottish Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...  post-punk Post-punk Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...  group the Scars Scars (band) Scars were a Post-punk band that hailed from Edinburgh, Scotland, and were a part of that city's bustling music scene of the late 70s - early 80s.-History:...
Game		Impact Event	Advance Wars: Days of Ruin Advance Wars: Days of Ruin Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is a turn-based tactics video game for the Nintendo DS handheld game console...	With virtually all of humanity wiped out by a meteor strike, the game follows the exploits of an army of survivors, fighting bandit raiders and hostile armies across the planet's desolate remains.
Game		Impact Event	Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Compilation of Final Fantasy VII is a series of games and animated features developed by Square Enix based in the world and continuity of Final Fantasy VII...	Includes video games, short stories, and animated features, revolves largely around the fate of a planet which is ravaged by the impact a giant meteor/asteroid, summoned by magic.
Game		Impact Event	Godzilla: Unleashed Godzilla: Unleashed Godzilla: Unleashed, abbreviated as G3 or GU, is a 3D fighting video game based on the Godzilla film franchise for the Wii and PlayStation 2, developed by Pipeworks and published by Atari. The PS2 version was released on November 20 and the Wii version on December 5, 2007 in North America and both...	PCVideo Game, From Pipeworks, set in the post-apocalyptic earth in which earth has been destroyed by crystals.
Game		Impact Event	Rage Rage (video game) Rage is a first-person shooter video game by id Software which was released on October 4, 2011 in North America. It uses the company's new OpenGL based id Tech 5 engine. The game was first shown as a tech demo on June 11, 2007, at Apple's WWDC, and was officially announced on August 2, 2007, at...	Video Game, iD Software's new project, set after a meteor collision with the Earth.
Novel		Aliens	Outlanders Outlanders Outlanders is a long-running series of science-fiction novels created by Mark Ellis and published by Gold Eagle, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises.- Plot :...	Mark Ellis Mark Ellis (writer) Mark Ellis is an American novelist and comic-book writer who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the Outlanders paperback novel series and other books, as well as numerous independent comics series....  aka James Axler
Novel		Aliens	The Tripods The Tripods The Tripods is a series of young adult novels written by John Christopher, beginning in 1967. The first two were the basis of a science fiction TV-series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s....	John Christopher
Other		Aliens	Halo video game series	The video game series. An alien alliance called the Covenant Covenant (Halo) The Covenant are a fictional theocratic military alliance of alien races who serve as the main antagonists in the Halo video game series. They are composed of a variety of diverse species, united under the religious worship of the enigmatic Forerunners and their belief that Forerunner ringworlds...  begin attacking human colonies in 2525. By 2552, almost all of the human colonies are destroyed and the Covenant are attacking Earth.
Other		Aliens	Resistance: Fall of Man Resistance: Fall of Man Resistance: Fall of Man is a first-person shooter video game for the PlayStation 3. It was developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game is set in an alternate history 1951, and follows Sgt...	An alien species known as the chimera have almost wiped out the human race. The game focuses on taking a last stand in Britain.
Other		Aliens	Crysis Crysis Crysis is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek , published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, and released in November 2007. It is the first game of a trilogy. A separate game entitled Crysis Warhead was released on September 12, 2008, and follows similar...	A near future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the ground on an island in the East Philippines sea.
Novel		Eco	Children of Morrow and Treasures of Morrow	H. M. Hoover H. M. Hoover Helen Mary Hoover is a children's book author. Her science fiction works tend to be for older children and often refer to friendships between those of different generations... . Set in California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...  several centuries after pollution Pollution Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light...  all but wiped out the human race
Novel		Eco	The Snowfall trilogy, (Snowfall, Kingdom River, and Moonrise)	Mitchell Smith Mitchell Smith Mitchell Smith is an American author writing crime fiction and science fiction.-Biography:Mitchell Smith was born in upper New York State, and went to military school on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. He attended Columbia University where he studied English and history. He enlisted in the army... . North America has retreated into hunter-gatherer societies and military kingdoms some 500 years after an apocalyptic ice age Ice age An ice age or, more precisely, glacial age, is a generic geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers... .
Novel		Eco	The Mara and Dann novels Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog: A Novel	Doris Lessing Doris Lessing Doris May Lessing CH is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos.... . Set in a future ice age. Other Lessing novels like Memoirs of a Survivor Memoirs of a Survivor The Memoirs of a Survivor is a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing. It was first published in 1974 by Octagon Press. It was made into a film in 1981, starring Julie Christie and Nigel Hawthorne, and directed by David Gladwell.-Plot:... and Shikasta Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta is a 1979 science fiction novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United States in October 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in... deal with apocalyptic themes.
Novel		Eco	The Greatwinter Greatwinter The Greatwinter Series is a series of science fiction novels by Sean McMullen. In Australia, the home country of the author, the first book was released as two separate novels, Voices in the Light and Mirrorsun Rising...  trilogy	An ancient whale species recreated through a genetic experiment turns out to have been telepathic, and the whales issue a telepathic call which cause most of humanity and other large land mammals to walk into the oceans and drown.
Game		Technology	Toxic	A flash game by Nitrome Limited Nitrome Limited Nitrome Limited, commonly known as Nitrome, is an independent game development company based in London, England, United Kingdom. The company makes Flash-based games. Their games are recognizable by the pixel art design and cartoon-like appearance, along with a jingle to the start of every game and...  about a character in a yellow hazmat suit attempting to free the world from a race of robots with a variety of bombs.
Game		Technology	Toxic 2	Sequel to Toxic.
Other		Technology	Humans Are Dead	By Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.They were named...
Other		Technology	The Eighth Day	By Hazel O'Connor Hazel O'Connor Hazel O'Connor is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of a soldier from Galway who settled in England after World War II to work in a car plant...
Other		Technology	Citizens of Tomorrow	By Tokyo Police Club Tokyo Police Club Tokyo Police Club is an indie rock band from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. It consists of vocalist and bassist David Monks , keyboardist Graham Wright, guitarist Josh Hook , and drummer Greg Alsop ....
Other		Technology	The Protomen The Protomen The Protomen is an American rock band best known for composing original concept albums loosely based on the popular video game series Mega Man...	The self-titled album by The Protomen The Protomen The Protomen is an American rock band best known for composing original concept albums loosely based on the popular video game series Mega Man... .
Film		Human Decline	Le Temps du Loup Le Temps du Loup Time of the Wolf is a dystopian post-apocalyptic drama film, directed by Austrian director Michael Haneke. It was released theatrically in 2003....	Michael Haneke Michael Haneke Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work... 's film (The Time of the Wolf), following a family through the (French?) country side after an undefined catastrophic collapse of civilization.
Film		Human Decline	A.I. A.I. (film) A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I., is a 2001 science fiction drama film directed, produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg. Based on Brian Aldiss' short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", the film stars Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Jude Law, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas...	Depicts human extinction after 2000 years.
Television		Human Decline	Korgoth of Barbaria Korgoth of Barbaria Korgoth of Barbaria is a pilot episode for what was originally planned as an American animated television series created by Aaron Springer, storyboard writer and director for Dexter's Laboratory, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and SpongeBob SquarePants. The pilot episode first aired in the...	The Cartoon Network Cartoon Network Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States.... /Adult Swim Adult Swim Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...  animated parody.
Television		Human Decline	Wolf's Rain Wolf's Rain is an anime series created by writer and story editor Keiko Nobumoto and produced by Bones Studio. The series was directed by Tensai Okamura and featured character designs by Toshihiro Kawamoto with a soundtrack produced and arranged by Yoko Kanno. It focuses on the journey of four lone wolves...	The manga/anime series, takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where constant conflicts between nobles leaves whole parts of the earth uninhabited, cities in ruins, and technology rare. Only the nobles possess futuristic ships, and the richest have domed cities where the debilitated earth can still support life. Wolves are proclaimed extinct, but found a way to enchant humans. Five wolves are on a quest to find 'Paradise', along with a Flower-Maiden, who was created from a Lunar Flower by a Noble. A second apocalypse ends the series, with a presumable renewing of the planet. Four of the five characters are seen in the renewed world.
Television		Human Decline	The Future Is Wild The Future is Wild The Future Is Wild was a 2002 seven-part documentary television miniseries. Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if Homo sapiens became extinct; the Discovery Channel broadcast changed this outlook by stating the human...	Uses computer animation to simulate the sort of creatures that may evolve from present-day animals. In the world depicted in the series, the human race either has become extinct or has left Earth. The reason is not given.
Novel		Human Decline	The Book of the New Sun The Book of the New Sun The Book of the New Sun is a novel in four parts written by science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a disgraced journeyman torturer who rises to the position of Autarch, the one ruler of the free world...	Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the... 's series.
Novel		Human Decline	Childhood's End Childhood's End Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival ends all war, helps form a world government, and turns the planet into a near-utopia...	By Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,... .
Novel		Human Decline	Friday (novel) Friday (novel) Friday is a 1982 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It is the story of a female "artificial person," the titular character, genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smarter, and generally better than normal humans...	By Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of... , which portrays human society on a future Earth as slipping into a gradual, but inevitable, collapse.
Novel		Human Decline	Galápagos	By Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early... . After an ambiguous eradication of the human species, several people on a cruise to the Galápagos 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.
Novel		Human Decline	Planet of the Apes	By Pierre Boulle Pierre Boulle Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes .-Biography:... .
Novel		Human Decline	Biomega	And followed manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...  NOiSE NOiSE This article is about NOiSE the manga. For other uses, see Noise . is a one volume manga created by Tsutomu Nihei as a prequel to his ten-volume work, Blame!. Noise offers some information concerning the Megastructure's origins and initial size, as well as the origins of Silicon life... , Blame! Blame! , pronounced "blam", is a ten-volume 1998 cyberpunk manga by Tsutomu Nihei published by Kodansha. A six part original net animation was produced in 2003, with a seventh episode included on the DVD release.- Plot :...  and Net Sphere Engineer Net Sphere Engineer is a manga series by Tsutomu Nihei. Presented as the sequel to Blame!, the first chapter debuted in the infrequently published Bessatsu Morning magazine...  by Tsutomu Nihei Tsutomu Nihei is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop... .
Novel		Human Decline	The Dark Tower Series	By Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books... .
Story		Human Decline	To Serve The Master	The short story by Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered... .
Television		Future Collapse	Andromeda Andromeda (TV series) Andromeda is a Canadian-American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt...	Created by Gene Roddenberry Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer... .
Television		Future Collapse	Red Dwarf Red Dwarf Red Dwarf is a British comedy franchise which primarily comprises eight series of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and Dave from 2009–present. It gained cult following. It was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who also wrote the first six series...	The British Science-Fiction Sitcom.
Novel		Future Collapse	Against the Fall of Night Against the Fall of Night Against the Fall of Night is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Originally appearing in the November, 1948 issue of the magazine Startling Stories, it was first published in book form in 1953 by Gnome Press. It was later expanded and revised as The City and the Stars...	Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
Novel		Future Collapse	Battle Angel Alita Battle Angel Alita Battle Angel Alita, known in Japan as , is a manga series created by Yukito Kishiro in 1990 and originally published in Shueisha's Business Jump magazine. Two of the nine-volume comics were adapted into two anime original video animation episodes titled Battle Angel for North American release by...	Yukito Kishiro Yukito Kishiro is a Japanese manga artist, born March 20, 1967 in Tokyo, Japan.-Works:*Hito **Kikai **Kaiousei **Hito **Dai-Majin **Mirai Tokyo Headman **Uchukaizokushonendai...
Novel		Future Collapse	The City and the Stars The City and the Stars The City and the Stars is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It is a complete rewrite of his earlier novella, Against the Fall of Night.-Overview:...	Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
Novel		Future Collapse	The Dragon Masters The Dragon Masters "The Dragon Masters" is a science fiction novella by American author Jack Vance. It was first published in Galaxy magazine, August 1962, and in 1963 in book form, as half of Ace Double F-185...	Jack Vance Jack Vance John Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...
Novel		Future Collapse	Endymion	By Dan Simmons Dan Simmons Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle.... , also is sequel The Rise of Endymion The Rise of Endymion The Rise of Endymion is a 1997 science fiction novel by Dan Simmons. It is the fourth and final novel in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe... .
Novel		Future Collapse	The Mote in God's Eye The Mote in God's Eye The Mote in God's Eye is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1974. The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between humanity and an alien species. The title of the novel is a...	by Niven & Pournelle
Novel		Future Collapse	Trigun Trigun is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow, published from 1996 to 2008 and spanning 17 collected volumes....	Manga by Yasuhiro Nightow Yasuhiro Nightow is a Japanese manga artist and game creator who created the anime and manga Trigun. Nightow was born on April 8, 1967 in Yokohama, Japan. He moved to Yokosuka when he was in elementary school, and spent the junior high and high school years in Shizuoka.... .
Novel		Future Collapse	Star Man's Son 2250 A.D.	Andre Norton Andre Norton Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
Novel		Future Collapse	Reaches	David Drake David Drake David Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
Novel		Future Collapse	Transfusion Transfusion (short story) Transfusion is a science fiction short story by Chad Oliver, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in June, 1959. Like many of his stories, it puts the author's own profession of anthropology into a science fiction context. In this case, the addition of time travel theoretically enables...	Chad Oliver Chad Oliver Symmes Chadwick Oliver was an American science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin...
Novel		Future Collapse	Ringworld Ringworld Ringworld is a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. It is followed by three sequels, and preceded by four prequels, and ties into numerous other books set in Known Space...	By Larry Niven, an expedition from earth to find a futuristic planet, a ring surrounding a star, results in the members finding that a meteor puncture in the ring's floor and power failure caused the cities to break apart and civilization to collapse.
Novel		Future Collapse	Last Legionary	Series by Douglas Hill Douglas Hill Douglas Arthur Hill was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of a railroad engineer, and was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. An avid science fiction reader from an early age, he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan... , in which a lone soldier fights to bring down the organisation which unleashed a deadly radiation Radiation In physics, radiation is a process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space. There are two distinct types of radiation; ionizing and non-ionizing...  against his planet, killing all his people and rendering the planet uninhabitable.
Novel		Future Collapse	Space Viking Space Viking Space Viking is a science fiction novel written by H. Beam Piper and is set in his Terro-Human future history. It tells the story of one man's search for his wife's murderer and its unexpected consequences...	H. Beam Piper H. Beam Piper Henry Beam Piper was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of "Paratime" alternate history tales.He wrote under the name H. Beam Piper...
Novel		Future Collapse	The General series The General series The General is a set of military science fiction books written by S.M. Stirling from an outline by David Drake...	By S. M. Stirling S. M. Stirling Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. Stirling is probably best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series.-Personal:Stirling was born on...  and David Drake David Drake David Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
Film		Sun	Last Night	By Don McKellar Don McKellar -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College... , which follows the lives of several individuals as they cope with their final six hours on Earth before the apparent incineration of the Earth by the sun (the cause of the apocalypse is never directly stated).
Television		Sun	The Deconstruction of Falling Stars The Deconstruction of Falling Stars "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" is the final episode of the fourth season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. This was the final episode of Babylon 5 to air on PTEN.-Synopsis:...	The episode of Babylon 5 Babylon 5 Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262... , written by J. Michael Straczynski J. Michael Straczynski Joseph Michael Straczynski , known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is a playwright, a former journalist,... .
Television		Sun	The End of the World The End of the World (Doctor Who) "The End of the World" is the second episode of Series One of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by show runner Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn, the episode was first broadcast on 2 April 2005....	The episode of the television series Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... .
Novel		Sun	Songs of Distant Earth Songs of Distant Earth The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1986. Clarke has claimed that it is his own favourite novel. He also wrote a short story and a short movie synopsis with the same title.-Plot summary:...	By Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...  in which the last survivors of Earth arrive at a distant colony unexpectedly.
Poem		Sun	Darkness Darkness (poem) Darkness is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816. That year was known as the Year Without a Summer - this is because Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East Indies the previous year, casting enough ash in to the atmosphere to block out the sun and cause abnormal weather across much of...	by Lord Byron describes the end of life on earth after the sun's extinction.
Story		Sun	Finis	The short story by Frank Lillie Pollock where a second sun's light incinerates the Earth.
Comic		Sun	Just a Pilgrim Just a Pilgrim Just a Pilgrim is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Garth Ennis, with art by Carlos Ezquerra, and published by Black Bull, the short-lived comics publishing division of Wizard Entertainment, in 2001...	The comic series by Garth Ennis Garth Ennis Garth Ennis is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise... .
Film		Supernatural	Left Behind Left Behind (series) Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world. The primary conflict of the series is the members of the Tribulation...	The book and film series, concerning the Rapture Rapture The rapture is a reference to the "being caught up" referred to in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, when the "dead in Christ" and "we who are alive and remain" will be caught up in the clouds to meet "the Lord".... .
Television		Supernatural		The manga and subsequent anime movies and TV series by Kia Asamiya Kia Asamiya is the pen-name of Japanese manga artist Michitaka Kikuchi whose work spans multiple genres and appeals to diverse audiences.He is well known for using influences from American comics, television, and films in his work, and describes himself as a big fan of both Batman and Star Wars... . The story is set in a Blade Runner Blade Runner Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K... -style world which has been invaded by demonic beings.
Television		Supernatural	X/1999	The Clamp Clamp (manga artists) , is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid 1980s. Many of the group's manga series are often adapted into anime after release. It consists of their leader , who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for all their works and adaptations of those works respectively ,...  anime in which the seven Dragons of Heaven battle the Dragons of Earth to save the world.
Television		Supernatural	Supernatural Supernatural (TV series) Supernatural is an American supernatural and horror television series created by Eric Kripke, which debuted on September 13, 2005 on The WB, and is now part of The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the brothers as they...	Season 4 and 5 are based around the pre-apocalyptic world in which the angels are gearing up for a battle between heaven Heaven Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings originate, are enthroned or inhabit...  and hell Hell In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations... .
Novel		Supernatural	Countdown	The young adult book series by Daniel Parker, in which a demon wipes out the entire human population save for teenagers.
Novel		Supernatural	The End of the Age	By Pat Robertson Pat Robertson Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and businessman who is politically aligned with the Christian Right in the United States.... .
Novel		Supernatural	Left Behind Left Behind (series) Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world. The primary conflict of the series is the members of the Tribulation...	The book and film series Left Behind Left Behind (series) Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world. The primary conflict of the series is the members of the Tribulation... , concerning the Rapture Rapture The rapture is a reference to the "being caught up" referred to in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, when the "dead in Christ" and "we who are alive and remain" will be caught up in the clouds to meet "the Lord".... .
Novel		Supernatural	Black Easter Black Easter Black Easter is a Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novel by James Blish in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the Demons of Hell on earth for a single day. It was first published in 1968. The sequel is The Day After Judgment. Together, those two short novels form the third...	By James Blish James Blish James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling, Jr.-Biography:... , in which a black magic Black magic Black magic is the type of magic that draws on assumed malevolent powers or is used with the intention to kill, steal, injure, cause misfortune or destruction, or for personal gain without regard to harmful consequences. As a term, "black magic" is normally used by those that do not approve of its... ian brings about the end of the world by releasing all the demons from Hell.
Novel		Supernatural	The Day After Judgment The Day After Judgment The Day After Judgment Is the second of a pair of short novels by James Blish. The first is the novel Black Easter. They have more recently been published as a single book called The Devil's Day.-Plot introduction:...	By James Blish James Blish James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling, Jr.-Biography:... , in which a black magic Black magic Black magic is the type of magic that draws on assumed malevolent powers or is used with the intention to kill, steal, injure, cause misfortune or destruction, or for personal gain without regard to harmful consequences. As a term, "black magic" is normally used by those that do not approve of its... ian brings about the end of the world by releasing all the demons from Hell.
Novel		Supernatural	Power of Five	A series of fantasy and suspense novels.
Novel		Supernatural	The Rising	And its sequel City of the Dead City of the Dead (novel) City of the Dead by Brian Keene was first published in 2005. It is the sequel to The Rising.-Plot summary:Jim finds Danny alive as the book opens but the living dead soon converge on their location. Frankie and Martin join Jim in the house and they are soon trapped in the attic. As they see... by Brian Keene Brian Keene Brian Keene is an American author, primarily of horror, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won two Bram Stoker Awards.- Background :Keene was born in 1967. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and many of his books take place in these locales. After graduating high school, he... . 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.
Novel		Supernatural	The Conqueror Worms The Conqueror Worms The Conqueror Worms is a post-apocalyptic themed horror novel written by author Brian Keene. "Earthworm Gods" was a 9,000 word short story that simultaneously was printed in 4x4 and No Rest For The Wicked...	By Brian Keene. Which is a very Lovecraftian tale of one of the last survivors on earth. In the novel, the world floods causing several monsters appear, mainly gigantic, maneating earthworms.
Novel		Supernatural	Shade's Children Shade's Children Shade's Children is a young adult science fiction/fantasy novel written by Garth Nix. It was first published in 1997 by HarperCollins.-Background:...	The novel by Garth Nix Garth Nix Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the... , in which a group of extradimensional beings invade earth and cause all human adults to vanish.
Novel		Supernatural	The Taking The Taking The Taking is a 2004 novel written by Dean Koontz.-Plot summary:In the midst of an oddly sudden rain storm, author Molly Sloan awakens in the middle of the night. Unable to return to sleep, she leaves her husband Neil slumbering in bed and goes downstairs to work on a manuscript in progress.Dark...	The novel by Dean Koontz Dean Koontz Dean Ray Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with...  in which a malevolent demonic force kills off the majority of the human race.
Game		Supernatural	Tribe 8	The role-playing game, in which sadistic demons invade (and conquer) the Earth.
Game		Supernatural	Doom	The series of computer games, in which demons invade a human base on Phobos Phobos (moon) Phobos is the larger and closer of the two natural satellites of Mars. Both moons were discovered in 1877. With a mean radius of , Phobos is 7.24 times as massive as Deimos...  (changed to Mars Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...  in Doom 3 Doom 3 Doom 3 is a science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An example of the first-person shooter genre, Doom 3 was first released for Microsoft Windows on August 3, 2004. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported by Aspyr Media for Mac... ) and then move on to Earth.
Game		Supernatural	The Shadow of Yesterday The Shadow of Yesterday The Shadow of Yesterday is a narrativist sword and sorcery indie role-playing game, designed by Clinton R...	The 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.
Game		Supernatural	Final Fantasy X Final Fantasy X is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square as the tenth title in the Final Fantasy series. It was released in 2001 for Sony's PlayStation 2, and will be re-released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2012...	A role-playing game, in which an advanced civilization is threatened and destroyed by supernatural forces that religion is knowingly, and in some ways unknowingly, centered around.
Novel		Unspecified	Dayworld	Series by Philip Jose Farmer Philip José Farmer Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.... , in which the reasons for the Dayworld dystopia seems to be a combination involving overpopulation, ecological catastrophe, some sort of disaster that rendered petroleum unusable, and World War III. This is hinted at in the second book, Dayworld Rebel Dayworld Rebel Dayworld Rebel is the second book in the Dayworld Trilogy.... .
Novel		Unspecified	The Emberverse series The Emberverse series Emberverse, or Change World, is a series of post-apocalyptic alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. The novels depict the events following "The Change", which caused electricity, guns, explosives, internal combustion engines, and steam power to stop working...	The series by S. M. Stirling S. M. Stirling Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. Stirling is probably best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series.-Personal:Stirling was born on... , in which a disaster of indeterminate cause (most speculation within the novels concerns an all-powerful outside force, often facetiously referred to as "Alien space bats Alien space bats Alien space bats is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible.-Definition:... ") causes electricity, combustion engines, and modern explosives to cease functioning.
Novel		Unspecified	Wraeththu Wraeththu The Wraeththu are a sci-fi post-apocalyptic hermaphroditic species which evolved from humanity in the Wraeththu novels, created by British science fiction and fantasy author Storm Constantine.- Novel series :* The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit...	The series of novels set in the world of Wraeththu by Storm Constantine Storm Constantine Storm Constantine is a British science fiction and fantasy author, primarily known for her Wraeththu series.- Life and work :Since the late 1980s Constantine has written more than 20 novels, plus several non-fiction books... , 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.
Novel		Unspecified	Wasteland Wasteland (comic) Wasteland is a monthly comic book series written by Antony Johnston, drawn by Christopher Mitten with covers by Ben Templesmith, and published by Oni Press. Issue #1 debuted in July 2006....	Ongoing comic series, which takes place roughly 100 years in the future, where North America is a dustbowl and lacking modern technology.
Novel	13th century	Impact Event	Theologus Autodidactus	Ibn al-Nafis
Novel	13th century	Eco	Theologus Autodidactus	Ibn al-Nafis
Novel	1826	War	The Last Man The Last Man The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s...	Shelley, Mary Mary Shelley Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
Novel	1826	Disease	The Last Man The Last Man The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s...	Shelley, Mary Mary Shelley Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
Novel	1872	Technology	The Book of Machines	The novel Erewhon Erewhon Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country... s section The Book of Machines.
Novel	1885	War	After London	Jefferies, Richard Richard Jefferies John Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction...
Novel	1885	Unspecified	After London	By Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies John Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction... ; 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.
Novel	1895	Human Decline	The Time Machine The Time Machine The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction...	The latter part of H. G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
Novel	1895	Sun	The Time Machine The Time Machine The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction...	Towards the end of the book The Time Traveler witnesses the Suns expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth.
Novel	1898	Aliens	The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.The War of the Worlds may also refer to:- Radio broadcasts :* The War of the Worlds , the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles...	H. G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
Novel	1901	Eco	The Purple Cloud The Purple Cloud The Purple Cloud is a "last man" novel by the British writer M. P. Shiel. It was published in 1901. H. P. Lovecraft later praised the novel as exemplary weird fiction, "delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty." Frank Belknap Long deemed it "the most unutterably...	M.P. Shiel. A volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas.
Novel	1908	Supernatural	Lord of the World Lord of the World Lord of the World is a 1908 apocalyptic novel by Robert Hugh Benson. It is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. Michael D. O'Brien's Catholic apocalyptic series, Children of the Last Days follows a very similar theme as well....	By Robert Hugh Benson Robert Hugh Benson Robert Hugh Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson and his wife, Mary... .
Story	1909	Technology	The Machine Stops The Machine Stops "The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review , the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928...	A short story by E. M. Forster E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society... , emphasizing machinery instead of computers.
Story	1912	Disease	The Scarlet Plague The Scarlet Plague The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912.The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet...	Short story by Jack London Jack London John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone... .
Novel	1912	Disease	The Scarlet Plague The Scarlet Plague The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912.The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet...	London, Jack Jack London John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
Novel	1912	Sun	The Night Land The Night Land The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre...	By William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his... , in which the Sun burns out and the last of humanity is sheltered in an arcology Arcology Arcology, a portmanteau of the words "architecture" and "ecology", is a set of architectural design principles aimed toward the design of enormous habitats of extremely high human population density. These largely hypothetical structures would contain a variety of residential, commercial, and...  from the hostile environment and the creatures adapted for it.
Novel	1914	Unspecified	Darkness and Dawn	By George Allan England George Allan England George Allan England was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.-Life:England was born in... , in which two characters wake from suspended animation and find that some great disaster has torn an enormous chasm in the Earth and created a second moon.
Novel	1916	War	The Lost Continent Beyond Thirty Beyond Thirty is a short science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was written in 1915 and first published in All Around Magazine in February 1916, but did not appear in book form in Burroughs' lifetime...	Burroughs, Edgar Rice Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
Novel	1919	Technology	The Mind Machine	By Michael Williams
Play	1921	Technology	R.U.R. R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, an English phrase used as the subtitle in the Czech original. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.The...	Play by Karel Capek Karel Capek Karel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings... , notable for coining the term 'robot'.
Novel	1926	Aliens	The Moon Men	Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:... . The series comprising The Moon Maid The Moon Maid The Moon Maid is an Edgar Rice Burroughs Lost World novel. It was written in three parts, Part 1 was begun in June 1922 under the title The Moon Maid, Part 2 was begun in 1919 under the title Under the Red Flag, later retitled The Moon Men, Part 3 was titled the The Red Hawk...  with the action set on the moon; The Moon Men set in 2120 after the Kalkars have invaded the earth; and The Red Hawk which jumps to 2430 and in which the Great Feud reaches its climax.
Novel	1926	Technology	The Metal Giants	By Edmond Hamilton Edmond Hamilton Edmond Moore Hamilton was an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he was raised there and in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania... .
Novel	1929	Technology	Automata Automata Automata is the plural form of automaton, a self-operating machine. It may also refer to:* "Automata", a short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann* "Automata", a hardboiled science fiction crime series by Penny Arcade...	By S. Fowler Wright S. Fowler Wright Sydney Fowler Wright was a prolific British editor, poet, science fiction author, writer of screenplays, mystery fiction and works in other genres...
Novel	1931	Technology	The War of the Giants	By Fletcher Pratt Fletcher Pratt Murray Fletcher Pratt was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.- Life and work :... .
Novel	1933	War	The Shape of Things to Come The Shape of Things to Come The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. The book is dominated by Wells's belief in a world state as the solution to mankind's problems....	Wells, H. G. H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... , predicting an extended world war fought with modern scientific weapons, societal upheaval, and the beginning of space travel. Filmed as Things to Come Things to Come Things to Come is a British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come and his 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness...  in 1936.
Novel	1934	War	Quinzinzinzili Quinzinzinzili Quinzinzinzili is a science fiction novel written in 1935 by the French author Régis Messac .This was one of the first post-cataclysmic novels....	Messac, Régis, 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.
Novel	1934	War	The Black Flame The Black Flame (novel) The Black Flame is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Stanley G. Weinbaum. It starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world with advanced science. The book is divided into two novels -...	Weinbaum, Stanley G. Stanley G. Weinbaum Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential... . Comprises two novellas, Dawn of Flame and The Black Flame, with a common character, Black Margot, aka Margaret of Urbs, aka The Black Flame.
Story	1934	Technology	Rex	Short story by Harl Vincent Harl Vincent Harl Vincent was the publication name of Harold Vincent Schoepflin, an American mechanical engineer and science fiction author. He was published regularly in science fiction "pulp" magazines.-Life and work:...
Novel	1935	Technology	Nightmare Number Three	By Stephen Vincent Benet Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By...
Film	1936	War	Things to Come Things to Come Things to Come is a British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come and his 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness...	A future second world war leads to a breakdown of civilization in most of the world, with technology returning to medieval levels by 1970.
Novel	1936	War	Wild Harbour	MacPherson, Ian Ian Macpherson (novelist) Ian Macpherson , was born in Scotland. He was graduated from Aberdeen University in 1928 with a first class honours degree in English.His first novel, Shepherds Calendar, was published in 1931... , a war much worse than World War I leads to complete social collapse in Britain.
Story	1937	War	By the Waters of Babylon By the Waters of Babylon "By the Waters of Babylon" is a post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen Vincent Benét first published July 31, 1937, in The Saturday Evening Post as "The Place of the Gods"...	Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét Stephen Vincent Benét was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By... .
Other	1938	Aliens	The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds (radio) The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker...	The radio play directed and narrated by Orson Welles Orson Welles George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio... .
Novel	1939	War	The Death Guard The Death Guard The Death Guard is the only published novel of the English author Philip George Chadwick. Despite the fact that the author is virtually unknown to the wider public, his work has received attention from literary scholars. The novel contains many themes later developed by L Ron Hubbard and James Blish...	Philip George Chadwick, when a near-invincible army of artificially created soldiers - the flesh guard - falls into the hands of an untrustworthy power, continental Europe forms an alliance and invades Britain. The resulting carnage, involving poisonous electric gas, "humanite" (atomic) bombs, and the unfeeling march of the Flesh Guard, reduces whole cities and towns in Europe to smoking rubble.
Film	1939	Human Decline	Peace on Earth	A cartoon short by Hugh Harman, in which animals rebuild a post-apocalyptic world after humanity has fought wars to the point of extinction.
Story	1941	War	Nightfall	Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
Novel	1943	War	Gather, Darkness	Leiber, Fritz
Novel	1945	Sun	Rescue Party Rescue Party "Rescue Party" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in May 1946. It was his first story that he sold, though not the first actually published. It was republished in Sir Arthur’s second collection, Reach for Tomorrow and also appears in The Collected...	By Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,... .
Novel	1946	Eco	Mr. Adam Mr. Adam Mr. Adam is the first novel written by Pat Frank dealing with the effects of a nuclear mishap causing worldwide male infertility. The work was initially published by J. B. Lippincott Company, but was reprinted once in 1959 by Pocket Books under the title Mr...	Pat Frank. Depicts a world in which a nuclear power plant explosion renders the entire male population infertile.
Novel	1947	Technology	With Folded Hands With Folded Hands "With Folded Hands ..." is a 1947 science fiction novelette by Jack Williamson . Willamson's influence for this story was in the aftermath of World War II and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and his concern that "some of the technological creations we had developed with the best...	By Jack Williamson Jack Williamson John Stewart Williamson , who wrote as Jack Williamson was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction" following the death in 1988 of Robert A...
Novel	1948	War	Ape and Essence Ape and Essence Ape and Essence is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US. It is set in a dystopia, similar to that in Brave New World, Huxley's more famous work...	Huxley, Aldous Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel... , also screenplay.
Novel	1948	Technology	The Brain	By Alexander Blade
Novel	1949	Disease	Earth Abides Earth Abides Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. Beginning in the United States in the 1940s, it deals with Isherwood "Ish" Williams, Emma, and the community they...	Stewart, George R. George R. Stewart George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley... , plague
Story	1949	War	Not with a Bang Not with a Bang (short story) "Not with a Bang" is a science fiction short story written by Damon Knight. It first appeared in the winter 1949 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and has been reprinted a number of times, including in Far Out , The Best of Damon Knight , 50 Short Science Fiction Tales, and The...	Damon Knight Damon Knight Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre.-Biography:... .
Novel	1950	War	Pebble in the Sky Pebble in the Sky Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1950. This work is his first novel — parts of the Foundation series had appeared from 1942 onwards, in magazines, but Foundation was not published in book form until 1951...	Asimov, Isaac Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000... , a later book, Robots and Empire Robots and Empire Robots and Empire is science fiction novel written by the American author Isaac Asimov and published by Doubleday Books in 1985. It is part of Asimov's Robot series, consisting of many short stories and novels.... gave a different explanation.
Story	1950	War	There Will Come Soft Rains There Will Come Soft Rains (short story) "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury which was first published in the May 6, 1950 issue of Collier's...	Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...  in The Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists... .
Story	1950	Disease	The City	Short story by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th... .
Film	1951	War	Five Five (1951 film) Five is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film produced, directed and written by Arch Oboler. The title refers to the number of survivors of an atomic bomb disaster that wipes out the rest of the human race...	By Arch Oboler Arch Oboler Arch Oboler was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director who was active in radio, films, theater, and television. He generated much attention with his radio scripts, particularly the horror series Lights Out, and his work in radio remains the outstanding period... , the film shows the aftermath of a nuclear war, centered on a group of five survivors.
Story	1951	Disease	The Visitor	Short story (The Illustrated Man The Illustrated Man The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. While none of the stories has a plot or character connection with the next, a recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of... ) by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th... .
Novel	1951	Disease	The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen-name combinations drawn from his lengthy real...	Wyndham, John John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes...
Film	1951	Impact Event	When Worlds Collide (1951 film) When Worlds Collide (film) When Worlds Collide is a 1951 science fiction film based on the 1933 novel co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer. The film was shot in Technicolor, directed by Rudolph Maté and was the winner of the 1951 Academy Award for special effects....	Scientists discover a star named Bellus is on a collision course with Earth.
Novel	1951	Impact Event	The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen-name combinations drawn from his lengthy real...	John Wyndham John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes... . Initially thought to be a blinding meteor strike, but later suggested to be a manmade satellite based weapon accidentally discharged and the (bioengineered?) Triffid plants.
Novel	1951	Aliens	The Puppet Masters The Puppet Masters The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space...	Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...
Story	1951	Technology	The Last Revolution	Short story by Lord Dunsany
Other	1951	Monsters	The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen-name combinations drawn from his lengthy real...	Wyndham, John John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes... . Novel. About a blinding meteor shower and the bioengineered Triffid plants.
Novel	1951	Social Collapse	Foundation Foundation (novel) Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy . Foundation is a collection of five short stories, which were first published together as a book by Gnome Press in 1951...	By Asimov, Isaac Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000... . Mathematician Hari Seldon Hari Seldon Hari Seldon, a fictional character, is the intellectual hero of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. In his capacity as mathematics professor at Streeling University on Trantor, he developed psychohistory, allowing him to predict the future in probabilistic terms...  foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way.
Film	1952	War	Captive Women Captive Women Captive Women is an American Sci-Fi film from 1952. The movie is fairly short, only 64 minutes and is in black-and-white. In 1956 it was re-released by the name 1000 Years from Now. In the United Kingdom the movie is known as 3000 A.D, the film's original title...	A new primitive society emerges long after a nuclear war. The film portrays tribes called the "Norms", the "Upriver People", and the "Mutates" fighting in the remains of New York City.
Film	1952	War	Invasion USA Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film) Invasion U.S.A. is a 1952 motion picture set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union....
Novel	1952	War	Star Man's Son	Norton, Andre Andre Norton Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
Story	1952	Eco	The Birds The Birds (story) "The Birds" is a famous novelette by Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community, who are attacked by flocks of seabirds who have organized themselves into avian suicide warriors. The story is set in...	Survival horror. The 1952 short story The Birds The Birds (story) "The Birds" is a famous novelette by Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community, who are attacked by flocks of seabirds who have organized themselves into avian suicide warriors. The story is set in... by Daphne du Maurier Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was a British author and playwright.Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Her elder sister was... , made into the 1963 film The Birds The Birds (film) The Birds is a 1963 horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the 1952 short story "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts Bodega Bay, California which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few...  by Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...  - in which birds begin launching spontaneous mass attacks against mankind
Novel	1952	Human Decline	City City (book by Clifford D. Simak) City is a 1952 science fiction fix-up novel by Clifford D. Simak. The original version consists of eight linked short stories, all originally published between 1944 and 1951, along with brief "notes" on each of the stories. These notes were created especially for the book, and serve as a bridging...	By Clifford D. Simak Clifford D. Simak Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo awards and by colleagues with one Nebula award and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1977.-Biography:Clifford Donald Simak was born in... .
Film	1953	Aliens	The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds (1953 film) The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. It was the first on-screen loose adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic novel of the same name...	Based on the novel of the same name.
Novel	1953	Aliens	The Kraken Wakes The Kraken Wakes The Kraken Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the UK in 1953 and first published in the US in the same year by Ballantine Books under the title Out of the Deeps as a mass market paperback...	John Wyndham John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes...
Story	1953	Supernatural	The Nine Billion Names of God The Nine Billion Names of God "The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. The story was the winner of the retrospective Hugo Award for Best Short Story for the year 1954.-Plot summary:...	A short story by Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,... , taken from the short story collection of the same name.
Novel	1954	War	Tomorrow!	Wylie, Philip
Play	1954	War	The Offshore Island	Play By Marghanita Laski Marghanita Laski Marghanita Laski was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.- Personal life :... .
Novel	1954	Disease	I Am Legend	By Matheson, Richard Richard Matheson Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been... . Filmed as The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Omega Man The Omega Man The Omega Man is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston. It is based on the novel I Am Legend by American writer Richard Matheson... (1971) and I Am Legend I Am Legend (film) I Am Legend is a 2007 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It is the third feature film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name, following 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's The Omega Man. Smith plays virologist Robert...  (2007)
Novel	1954	Disease	Some Will Not Die	Budrys, Algis Algis Budrys Algis Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason", "Alger Rome", "John A. Sentry", "William Scarff", and "Paul Janvier."-Biography:...
Story	1954	Technology	Slaves To The Metal Horde	Short story by Milton Lesser.
Story	1954	Technology	Answer	Short story by Fredric Brown Fredric Brown Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati.He had two sons: James Ross Brown and Linn Lewis Brown .... .
Other	1954	Monsters	I Am Legend	Novel by Matheson, Richard Richard Matheson Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been... . A vampire apocalypse novel, I Am Legend was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man The Omega Man The Omega Man is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston. It is based on the novel I Am Legend by American writer Richard Matheson... (1971) and I Am Legend I Am Legend (film) I Am Legend is a 2007 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It is the third feature film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name, following 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's The Omega Man. Smith plays virologist Robert...  (2007)
Story	1954	Social Collapse	The Last of the Masters The Last of the Masters "The Last of the Masters" is a science fiction novelette by Philip K. Dick. The original manuscript of the story was received by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency on July 15, 1953, and the story was published by the Hanro Corporation in the final issue of Orbit Science Fiction in 1954. It has...	Short story (novelette) by Dick, Philip K. Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered... . 200 years after a global anarchist Anarchism Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...  revolution, society has stagnated due to the loss of scientific knowledge during the revolt. Elsewhere, the last government, a highly centralized and efficient society, is in hiding from the Anarchist League, a global militia preventing the recreation of any government.
Film	1955	War	Day the World Ended Day the World Ended Day the World Ended was the fourth film directed by Roger Corman. Rick is a heroic scientist who, among others, must face off against a mutant monster after an atomic war destroys human civilization...
Novel	1955	War	The Chrysalids The Chrysalids The Chrysalids is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham, first published in 1955 by Michael Joseph. It is the least typical of Wyndham's major novels, but regarded by some people as his best...	Wyndham, John John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes... , U.S. title: Re-Birth, the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Canadian community.
Novel	1955	War	Few Were Left	Rein, Harold
Novel	1955	War	The Long Tomorrow The Long Tomorrow (novel) The Long Tomorrow is a science fiction novel by Leigh Brackett, originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc in 1955. Set in the aftermath of a nuclear war, scientific knowledge is feared and restricted.-Plot summary:...	Brackett, Leigh Leigh Brackett Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep , Rio Bravo , The Long Goodbye and The Empire Strikes Back .-Life:Leigh Brackett was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California... , in the aftermath of a nuclear war scientific knowledge is feared and restricted.
Film	1956	War	World Without End	By Edward Bernd, starring Hugh Marlowe Hugh Marlowe Hugh Marlowe was an American film, television, stage and radio actor.Marlowe was born Hugh Herbert Hipple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and began his stage career in the 1930s at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. Marlowe was usually a secondary lead or supporting actor in the films he... , Rod Taylor Rod Taylor (actor) Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor is an Australian-American actor of film and television.-Early life:Born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, Taylor was the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and the former Mona Thompson, a writer of... . Robust 20th Century men—narrowly escaping the ubiquitous "time warp"—kill giant spiders, help pale nerds and their beautiful women emerge from underground, and retake the post World War III surface from troglodyte mutants.
Novel	1956	War	The World Jones Made The World Jones Made The World Jones Made is a 1956 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick examining notions of precognition, humanity, and politics. It was first published by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-150, bound dos-à-dos with Agent of the Unknown by Margaret St. Clair.-Plot summary:The World Jones Made...	Dick, Philip K. Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...
Story	1956	War	The Last Word The Last Word (Knight short story) "The Last Word" is a science fiction short story written by Damon Knight. It first appeared in the February 1957 issue of Satellite Science Fiction and has been reprinted twice, in Far Out and The Best of Damon Knight .- Synopsis :...	Damon Knight Damon Knight Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre.-Biography:... .
Story	1956	Impact Event	A Pail of Air A Pail of Air "A Pail of Air" is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber which appeared in the December 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and was dramatized on the radio show X Minus One in March 1956.-Plot:...	Short story by Fritz Leiber Fritz Leiber Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With... . A small family struggles to survive at near-zero temperatures after Earth is ripped from its solar orbit.
Film	1956	Aliens	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Based on the novel The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes the fictional town of Santa Mira, California being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space...  by Jack Finney Jack Finney Jack Finney was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.-Biography:Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and given the... .
Novel	1956	Eco	The Death of Grass The Death Of Grass The Death of Grass is a 1956 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author Samuel Youd under the nom de plume John Christopher...	John Christopher. A virus that destroys plants causes massive famine and the breakdown of society. Made into the film No Blade of Grass
Novel	1957	War	On the Beach	Shute, Nevil Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-... , also the films based on the book.
Novel	1957	Social Collapse	Atlas Shrugged Atlas Shrugged Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing...	By Rand, Ayn Ayn Rand Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.... . American society slowly collapses after the country's leading industrialists mysteriously disappear.
Film	1958	War	Teenage Cave Man Teenage Cave Man Teenage Cave Man is the name of a 1958 science fiction film directed by Roger Corman. It was shot as Prehistoric World, but was changed by American International Pictures to its final title. Years later in an interview, Corman stated "I never directed a film called Teenage Caveman"...
Film	1958	War	Terror from the Year 5000 Terror from the Year 5000 Terror from the Year 5000 is a 1958 American science fiction film directed by Robert J. Gurney Jr. starring Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens and Fred Herrick....
Television	1958	War	Doomsday For Dyson	Tom Dyson is suddenly caught up in the chaos of a nuclear war. Several of the issues brought up in the programme were discussed in an hour-long debate following its conclusion.
Television	1958	War	Underground Underground (1958 TV play) Underground was a science fiction television play presented as part of the British anthology series Armchair Theatre which was broadcast live by the ITV commercial network on 30 November 1958...	A group of survivors from an atomic war become trapped in an underground station London Underground The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England... . During the play, broadcast live on Armchair Theatre Armchair Theatre Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television after 1968.... , one of the actors (Gareth Jones Gareth Jones (actor) Gareth Jones was a British actor, chiefly remembered for the circumstances of his death.... ) actually died whilst the show was on the air.
Novel	1958	War	Red Alert	George, Peter, filmed as Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...  by Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...
Poem	1958–1970	Human Decline	Bedtime Story	The poem from Collected Poems 1958–1970 by George Macbeth George MacBeth George Mann MacBeth was a Scottish poet and novelist. He was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire.When he was three, his family moved to Sheffield.... .
Film	1959	War	On the Beach On the Beach (1959 film) On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic drama film based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name. The film features Gregory Peck , Ava Gardner , Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins...	By Stanley Kramer Stanley Kramer Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer. Kramer was responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies... , starring Gregory Peck Gregory Peck Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an... , Fred Astaire Fred Astaire Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute... , Anthony Perkins Anthony Perkins Anthony Perkins was an American actor, best known for his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion and as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho , and its three sequels.-Early life:...  and Ava Gardner Ava Gardner Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress.She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers . She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day... . The crew of an American submarine finds temporary safety from the fallout in Australia after the nuclear holocaust (from the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-... ).
Film	1959	War	The World, the Flesh and the Devil	Adapted from M.P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud The Purple Cloud The Purple Cloud is a "last man" novel by the British writer M. P. Shiel. It was published in 1901. H. P. Lovecraft later praised the novel as exemplary weird fiction, "delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty." Frank Belknap Long deemed it "the most unutterably... .
Television	1959	War	The Offshore Island	A TV adaptation of a play by Marghanita Laski Marghanita Laski Marghanita Laski was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.- Personal life :... .
Novel	1959	War	Alas, Babylon Alas, Babylon Alas, Babylon is a 1959 novel by American writer Pat Frank . It was one of the first apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age and remains popular fifty years after it was first published...	Frank, Pat, the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community.
Novel	1959	War	Level 7 Level 7 Level 7 is a 1959 science fiction novel by the American writer Mordecai Roshwald. It is told from the first person perspective of a modern soldier X-127 living in the underground military complex Level 7, where he was expected to reside permanently, fulfilling the role of commanding his nation's...	Roshwald, Mordecai Mordecai Roshwald Mordecai Roshwald is an American academic and writer. Born in Poland, he later emigrated to Israel. His most famous work is the novel Level 7, a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel...
Television	1959–1987	War	The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist... , numerous episodes, and its revivals	"Time Enough at Last Time Enough at Last "Time Enough at Last" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It was adapted from a short story by Lyn Venable , which had been published in the January 1953 edition of the science fiction magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction... " (1959); "Two Two (The Twilight Zone) "Two" is the season 3 premiere of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:Few details are given about the war that preceded the events of the episode. The voice-over suggests the time could be hundreds of years in the future or millions of years in the past... " (1961); "The Old Man in the Cave" (1963); "A Little Peace and Quiet" (1985); "Quarantine Quarantine (The Twilight Zone) "Quarantine" is the second segment of the seventeenth episode from the first season of the television series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:... " (1986); "Shelter Skelter" (1987); and "Voices in the Earth" (1987)
Film	1960	War	Atomic War Bride Atomic War Bride Atomic War Bride , is a 1960 Yugoslav science fiction drama film directed by Veljko Bulajić.The film won three Golden Arena awards at the 1960 Pula Film Festival, including for Best Director , Best Actor and Best Scenography , and was nominated for the Golden Lion award at the 1960 Venice Film...	A Yugoslav Cinema of Yugoslavia -SFR Yugoslavia:The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had an internationally acclaimed film industry.Prominent male actors included Danilo Bata Stojković, Ljuba Tadić, Bekim Fehmiu, Fabijan Šovagović, Mustafa Nadarević, Bata Živojinović, Boris Dvornik, Ljubiša Samardžić, Dragan Nikolić and...  science fiction Science fiction Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...  drama film directed Film director A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...  by Veljko Bulajic Veljko Bulajic Veljko Bulajić , today is a Croatian film director and actor of Montenegrin descent, most of his life working in Croatia... .
Film	1960	War	The Final War	By Shigeaki Hidaka, a Japanese film about a third world war started when the US accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Korea (Japanese title: Dai-sanji sekai taisen: Yonju-ichi jikan no kyofu).
Film	1960	War	The Time Machine The Time Machine (1960 film) The Time Machine is a 1960 American science fiction film based on the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells in which a man in Victorian England constructs a time-travelling machine which he uses to travel to the future...	had an atomic war to explain the downfall of civilization.
Novel	1960	War	A Canticle for Leibowitz A Canticle for Leibowitz A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller, Jr., first published in 1960. Set in a Roman Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the story spans thousands of years as...	Miller, Jr, Walter M. Walter M. Miller, Jr. Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was an American science fiction author. Today he is primarily known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, the only novel he published in his lifetime. Prior to its publication he was a prolific writer of short stories.- Biography :Miller was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida... , sequel: Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
Film	1960	Eco	The Last Woman on Earth	The Earth's oxygen levels drop suddenly, suffocating most life–survivors in an oxygen-producing jungle speculate that this happened because of "a bigger and better bomb" but the reasons are not made clear.
Film	1960	Eco	Beyond the Time Barrier	X-plane arrives in future after solar radiation catastrophe
Film	1961	War	The Last War The Last War (1961 film) The Last War, known in Japan as , is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1961. Its special effects were created by Eiji Tsuburaya who is also known for working on Godzilla and Ultraman....	By Shuei Matsubayashi, another Japanese film about World War III (Japanese title: Sekai daisenso).
Novel	1961	War	Dark Universe Dark Universe (novel) Dark Universe is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Daniel F. Galouye, first published in 1961. It is currently in publication by Victor Gollancz Ltd as a collector's edition.The book was nominated for a Hugo award in 1962.-Plot summary:...	Galouye, Daniel F.
Film	1961	Eco	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is an American science fiction film, produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released by 20th Century Fox in 1961. The story was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett. Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with Robert Sterling as Captain Lee Crane...	The Van Allen belt catches on fire.
Novel	1961	Eco	The Wind from Nowhere The Wind From Nowhere The Wind from Nowhere, first published in 1961 is the debut novel by English author J.G. Ballard. Prior to this, his published work had consisted solely of short stories....	J.G. Ballard. First published novel. World destroyed by increasingly powerful winds
Film	1962	War	La jetée La Jetée La jetée is a 1962 French science fiction film by Chris Marker. It is also known in English as The Jetty or The Pier. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. The film runs for 28 minutes and is in black and white...	By Chris Marker Chris Marker Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa... .
Film	1962	War	Panic in Year Zero! Panic in Year Zero! Panic in Year Zero! , sometimes known as End of the World, is a science fiction film directed by and starring Ray Milland. The original music score was composed by Les Baxter...	A 1962 movie about a family that escapes Los Angeles after the city is devastated by a nuclear attack.
Film	1962	War	This Is Not a Test This is Not a Test (1962 film) This Is Not a Test is an American motion picture released in 1962. Produced at the height of the Cold War, the film was one of a number of productions of the late-1950s and early-1960s based upon the premise of the outbreak of nuclear war.-Plot:...
Film	1962	Aliens	The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids (1962 film) The Day of the Triffids is a 1962 British film adaptation of the science fiction novel of the same name by John Wyndham. It was directed by Steve Sekely, and Howard Keel played the central character, Bill Masen. The movie was filmed in colour with monaural sound and ran for 93...	Based on a John Wyndham novel of the same name (in the novel, the Triffids seem to have been bioengineered on Earth, while in the film they were aliens who arrived as spores in a meteor shower).
Novel	1962	Eco	Hothouse Hothouse (novel) Hothouse is a 1962 award-winning fantasy/science fiction novel by British author Brian Aldiss, composed of 5 novelettes that were originally serialized in a magazine. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth; the full version was not published there until 1976...	Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society... . 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."
Novel	1962	Eco	The Drowned World The Drowned World The Drowned World is a 1962 science fiction novel by J. G. Ballard. In contrast to much post-apocalyptic fiction, the novel features a central character who, rather than being disturbed by the end of the old world, is enraptured by the chaotic reality that has come to replace it...	J.G. Ballard. Climate change causes flooding.
Novel	1962	Eco	The Wanting Seed The Wanting Seed The Wanting Seed is a dystopian novel by the English author Anthony Burgess, written in 1962.-Theme:Although the novel addresses many societal issues, the primary subject is overpopulation and its relation to culture. Religion, government, and history are also addressed...	Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works... . Global over-population and famine leads to mass chaos
Novel	1962	Eco	The World in Winter (UK)/The Long Winter (US) The World in Winter The World in Winter is a 1962 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Christopher. It deals with a new ice age caused by a reduction in the output of the Sun.-Plot summary:...	John Christopher. A decrease in radiation from the sun causes a new ice age.
Novel	1963	War	Triumph	Wylie, Philip
Novel	1963	Eco	Cat's Cradle Cat's Cradle Cat's Cradle is the fourth novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1963. It explores issues of science, technology, and religion, satirizing the arms race and many other targets along the way...	Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early... . All the water on Earth becomes Ice-Nine Ice-nine Ice-nine is a fictional material appearing in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. It is supposed to be a more stable polymorph of water than common ice which instead of melting at 0 degrees Celsius , melts at 45.8 °C...
Novel	1963	Technology	Magnus, Robot Fighter Magnus, Robot Fighter Magnus, Robot Fighter is a fictional comic book superhero created by writer/artist Russ Manning in 1963, based primarily on Tarzan. Magnus first appeared in Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D. #1, published by Gold Key Comics in February 1963...	Comic books series by Gold Key Comics Gold Key Comics Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands. Also known as Whitman Comics, Gold Key operated from 1962 to 1984.-History:... .
Film	1964	War	Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...	By Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career... , adapting the novel Red Alert by Peter George.
Film	1964	War	The Last Man on Earth	This is the first film adaptation based on Richard Matheson Richard Matheson Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been... 's 1954 novel, I Am Legend.
Film	1964	War	The Time Travelers The Time Travelers (1964 film) The Time Travelers is a science fiction film directed by B-movie director Ib Melchior that inspired the 1966 TV series The Time Tunnel as well as the 1967 remake Journey to the Center of Time...
Novel	1964	War	Davy Davy (novel) Davy is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Edgar Pangborn, nominated for the 1965 Hugo Award. It is set in the Northeastern United States some centuries after an atomic war ended high-technology civilization, with some scenes on an unnamed Atlantic island.The novel is a...	Pangborn, Edgar Edgar Pangborn Edgar Pangborn was an American mystery, historical, and science fiction author.-Life:Edgar Pangborn was born in New York City on February 25, 1909, to Harry Levi Pangborn, an attorney and dictionary editor, and Georgia Wood Pangborn, a noted writer of supernatural fiction...
Novel	1964	War	Farnham's Freehold Farnham's Freehold Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...	Heinlein, Robert A. Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...
Novel	1964	War	The Penultimate Truth The Penultimate Truth The Penultimate Truth is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future where the bulk of humanity is kept in large underground shelters. The people are told that World War III is being fought above them, when in reality the war ended years ago. The...	Dick, Philip K. Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...
Film	1964	Disease	The Last Man on Earth
Television	1964	Aliens	The Dalek Invasion of Earth The Dalek Invasion of Earth The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from November 21 to December 26, 1964....	The Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...  serial. As well as other Alien invasions in the 1963–1989 run including in 1966 The Tenth Planet The Tenth Planet The Tenth Planet is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 8 October to 29 October 1966. It was William Hartnell's last regular appearance as the First Doctor, and the first story to feature the Cybermen... ' 1968 The Web of Fear The Web of Fear The Web of Fear is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 3 February to 9 March 1968. This serial — which marks the return of the Yeti, the Great Intelligence, and Professor Travers — is the sequel to The Abominable...  & in the same year The Invasion The Invasion (Doctor Who) The Invasion is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in eight weekly parts from 2 November to 21 December 1968... , in 1970 Spearhead from Space Spearhead from Space Spearhead from Space is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 3 January to 24 January 1970. The serial opened Series 7 of the show and was the first to be produced in colour. The serial introduced Jon Pertwee as the... , 1971 Terror of the Autons Terror of the Autons Terror of the Autons is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, broadcast in four weekly parts from 2 to 23 January 1971...  this list is not complete but can be said to represent milestone episodes. Some examples from the relaunch are in 2006 Army of Ghosts Army of Ghosts "Army of Ghosts" is the twelfth and penultimate episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who which was first broadcast on 1 July 2006...  and Doomsday Doomsday (Doctor Who) "Doomsday" is the thirteenth and final episode in the second series of the revival of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on 8 July 2006 and is the conclusion of a two-part story; the first part, "Army of Ghosts", was broadcast on 1 July 2006... , and in 2007 The Sound of Drums The Sound of Drums "The Sound of Drums" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 23 June 2007, and is the twelfth episode of Series 3 of the revived Doctor Who series...  and Last of the Time Lords Last of the Time Lords "Last of the Time Lords" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 30 June 2007, and is the thirteenth and final episode of Series 3 of the revived Doctor Who series...  (though it could be argued that only the Master is alien).
Film	1964	Eco	The Day the Earth Caught Fire The Day the Earth Caught Fire The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a British science fiction disaster film starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. It was directed by Val Guest and released in 1961....	Earth starts hurtling toward sun as a result of man's nuclear testing
Novel	1964	Eco	The Drought The Drought The Burning World is a 1964 science fiction novel by British author J. G. Ballard. An expanded version, retitled The Drought, was first published in 1965 by Jonathan Cape.- Plot :...	J.G. Ballard. A super drought evaporates all water on earth.
Novel	1964	Eco	Greybeard Greybeard Greybeard is a science fiction novel by British author Brian Aldiss, published in 1964.-Plot summary:Set decades after the Earth's population has been sterilised as a result of nuclear bomb tests conducted in Earth's orbit, the book shows a world emptying of humans, with only an ageing, childless...	Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society... . The human race becomes sterile
Novel	1964	Eco	Time of the Great Freeze Time of the Great Freeze Time of the Great Freeze is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, first published by Holt Rhinehart Winston in 1964. The novel concerns a group of explorers, living in an underground city three hundred years after an environmental catastrophe has triggered a new Ice Age, who decide to...	Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:... . Another ice-age has engulfed the earth. A group from New York travels over the ice to London in the year 2650.
Television	1964–2002	War	The Outer Limits The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction, rather than fantasy stories...	"Soldier" (Cited as an influence on the movie The Terminator The Terminator The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los... ); "Bits of Love"; "The Human Factor The Human Factor (2002 The Outer Limits) "The Human Factor" is an episode of the television show The Outer Limits. It first aired January 11, 2002, in the show's seventh season.-Opening narration:-Plot:... "
Television	1965	War	The War Game The War Game The War Game is a 1965 television documentary-style drama depicting the effects of nuclear war on Britain. Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology series, it caused dismay within the BBC and in government and was withdrawn from television...	By Peter Watkins Peter Watkins Peter Watkins is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and... .
Novel	1965	War	Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965....	Dick, Philip K. Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered...
Game	1965	War	Nuclear War Card Game Nuclear War (card game) Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1965. It is currently published by Flying Buffalo, and has inspired several expansions...	Game by Flying Buffalo. A comical cataclysmic card game for 2-6 players of all ages.
Novel	1965	Aliens	The Genocides The Genocides The Genocides is a 1965 science fiction novel written by American author Thomas M. Disch. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.-Plot summary:...	Thomas Disch Thomas M. Disch Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W... . Alien flora is seeded on Earth, and quickly comes to dominate all landmasses, threatening Human extinction.
Novel	1965	Eco	A Wrinkle in the Skin (The Ragged Edge(US)) A Wrinkle in the Skin A Wrinkle In The Skin is a 1965 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author John Christopher.-Plot summary:...	John Christopher. Civilization destroyed by massive worldwide earthquakes
Film	1965	Technology	Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
Television	1966	War	Ape and Essence	Television adaptation of the Novel of the same name Ape and Essence Ape and Essence is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US. It is set in a dystopia, similar to that in Brave New World, Huxley's more famous work... .
Story	1966	War	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a postapocalyptic science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring...	Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
Film	1966	Aliens	Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. is the second of two films based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It was the sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks , and starred Peter Cushing in his return to the role of the eccentric inventor and time traveller "Dr. Who". It also...	Based loosely on BBC Television series, but not part of the official canon.
Television	1966	Aliens	The Invaders The Invaders The Invaders, a Quinn Martin Production , is an ABC science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968...	The television series created by Quinn Martin Quinn Martin Quinn Martin was one of the most successful American television producers. He had at least one television series running in prime time for 21 straight years , an industry record.-Early life:...  and Larry Cohen Larry Cohen Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films - often containing a police procedural element - during 1970s and 1980s... .
Novel	1966	Eco	The Crystal World The Crystal World The Crystal World is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, published in 1966.- Plot introduction :The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility...	J.G. Ballard . The jungle in Africa starts to crystallize all life and expands outward
Novel	1966	Eco	Make Room! Make Room! Make Room! Make Room! Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Harry Harrison exploring the consequences of unchecked population growth on society. The novel was the basis of the 1973 science fiction movie Soylent Green, although the movie changed much of the plot and theme, and introduced...	Harry Harrison Harry Harrison Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! , the basis for the film Soylent Green... . Made into the 1973 film Soylent Green Soylent Green Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution,...  directed by Richard Fleischer Richard Fleischer -Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO... , showing a world where humanity had become massively overpopulated, and a vague ecological disaster is creating a growing dust bowl, and the entire economy is collapsing.
Novel	1966	Technology	Colossus Colossus (novel) Colossus is a science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones, about super-computers assuming control of man. Two sequels, The Fall of Colossus and Colossus and the Crab continued the story...	By Dennis Feltham Jones Dennis Feltham Jones Dennis Feltham Jones was a British science fiction author who wrote under the byline D.F. Jones. He was a naval commander in World War II and lived in Cornwall.... .
Film	1967	War	The End of August at the Hotel Ozone	Czech title: Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon
Film	1967	War	In the Year 2889 In the Year 2889 In the Year 2889 is a 1967 apocalyptic science fiction television film about a futuristic nuclear war. The film is the remake of Day the World Ended . In the film, a nuclear war has wiped out almost all of Earth's citizens. It is set in the year 1977; not 2889...	A remake of the 1955 Roger Corman film Day the World Ended Day the World Ended Day the World Ended was the fourth film directed by Roger Corman. Rick is a heroic scientist who, among others, must face off against a mutant monster after an atomic war destroys human civilization...  set in the year 1977, despite the title.
Film	1967	War	Journey to the Center of Time Journey to the Center of Time Journey to the Center of Time is a 1967 science fiction film, directed by David L. Hewitt, and starring Scott Brady and Anthony Eisley. It is a remake of The Time Travelers , and was also known as Time Warp.-Plot:...
Novel	1967	War	Ice	Kavan, Anna Anna Kavan Anna Kavan was a British novelist, short story writer and painter.-Biography:... , earth threatened by Nuclear winter Nuclear winter Nuclear winter is a predicted climatic effect of nuclear war. It has been theorized that severely cold weather and reduced sunlight for a period of months or even years could be caused by detonating large numbers of nuclear weapons, especially over flammable targets such as cities, where large... .
Story	1967	Technology	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a postapocalyptic science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring...	Short story by Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media... .
Novel	1967	Technology	The Cyberiad The Cyberiad The Cyberiad is a series of humorous short stories by Stanisław Lem. The Polish version was first published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl and Klapaucius, the "constructors"....	A series of short stories by Stanislaw Lem Stanislaw Lem Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire. He was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has... .
Novel	1967–2005	Technology	Berserker Berserker (Saberhagen) The Berserker series is a series of space opera science fiction short stories and novels by Fred Saberhagen, in which robotic self-replicating machines intend to destroy all life. These Berserkers, named after the human berserker warriors of Norse legend, are doomsday weapons left over from an...	Series by Fred Saberhagen Fred Saberhagen Fred Thomas Saberhagen was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and S.F... .
Film	1968	War	Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes (1968 film) Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle. The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison...	Adapted from the novel La planète des singes by Pierre Boulle Pierre Boulle Pierre Boulle was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes .-Biography:... .
Novel	1968	War	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick first published in 1968. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who befriends some of the...	Dick, Philip K. Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered... , basis for the film Blade Runner Blade Runner Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...
Novel	1968	Technology	The God Machine The God Machine (1968 novel) The God Machine is a science fiction written by Martin Caidin and first published in 1968. Set in the near future, the novel tells the story of a top secret cybernetic technician Steve Rand, one of the brains behind Project 79, a top-secret US government project dedicated to creating artificial...	By Martin Caidin Martin Caidin Martin Caidin was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.Caidin wrote more than 50 books, including Samurai!, Black Thursday, Thunderbolt!, Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38, Zero!, The Ragged, Rugged Warriors, A Torch to the Enemy and many other works of military history...
Novel	1968	Social Collapse	Stand on Zanzibar Stand on Zanzibar Stand on Zanzibar is a dystopian New Wave science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1968. The book won a Hugo Award for Best Novel at the 27th World Science Fiction Convention in 1969, as well as the 1969 BSFA Award and the 1973 Prix Tour-Apollo Award.-Description:A...	By John Brunner John Brunner (novelist) John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year... . Set in a future of extreme over-population. Winner of Hugo Award, British Science Fiction award, and the French Prix Apollo.
Film	1969	War	The Bed Sitting Room The Bed-Sitting Room (film) The Bed-Sitting Room is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Richard Lester and based on the play of the same name. It was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:...	Absurdist comedy film set in a post-war London destroyed by a nuclear bomb in World War III. Originally based on a play by Spike Milligan Spike Milligan Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...  and John Antrobus John Antrobus John Antrobus is an English playwright and script writer. He has written extensively for stage, screen, TV and radio, including the epic World War II play, Crete and Sergeant Pepper at the Royal Court... .
Television	1969	War	Salve Regina Salve Regina The "Salve Regina", also known as the Hail Holy Queen, is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. The Salve Regina is traditionally sung at Compline in the time from the Saturday before Trinity...	Four people seek refuge in the basement of a department store following a nuclear explosion.
Novel	1969	War	Damnation Alley Damnation Alley Damnation Alley is the title of a 1967 science fiction short story by Roger Zelazny, which he expanded into a novel in 1969. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1977.-Plot introduction:...	Zelazny, Roger Roger Zelazny Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series... , made into a movie 1977.
Novel	1969	War	Heroes and Villains Heroes and Villains (novel) Heroes and Villains is a 1969 post-apocalyptic novel by Angela Carter.-Reception:Writing for The New York Times, Richard Boston found Heroes and Villains to be "a strange, compelling book. . ....	Carter, Angela Angela Carter Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works...
Film	1969	Disease	The Seed of Man	By Marco Ferreri (Italian title: Il Seme dell'uomo)
Novel	1969	Eco	The Ice Schooner	Michael Moorcock Michael Moorcock Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels.... . Set in a new ice age on earth
Novel	1969	Technology	Plan for Conquest	By A.A. Glynn
Film	1970	War	Beneath the Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a 1970 American science fiction film directed by Ted Post and written by Paul Dehn. It is the second of five films in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs...	The second film in the Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes (franchise) Planet of the Apes is a United States media franchise with seven films , two television series, and comic books. The series began with the 1968 science fiction film Planet of the Apes, which was based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle.-Background:The original series of...  feature film series.
Novel	1970	War	The Incredible Tide The Incredible Tide The Incredible Tide is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by Alexander Key, published in 1970. It was the inspiration for the Japanese animated television series Future Boy Conan, directed by Hayao Miyazaki.-Overview:...	Key, Alexander Alexander Key Alexander Hill Key was an American science fiction writer, most of whose books were aimed at a juvenile audience. He became a nationally known illustrator before he became an author...
Novel	1970	War	The Last War	Bulychev, Kir Kir Bulychev Kir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko , who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965... , in Russian language Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
Novel	1970	War	The Year Of The Quiet Sun The Year of the Quiet Sun (novel) The Year of the Quiet Sun is a 1970 science fiction novel by Wilson Tucker about the use of forward time travel to ascertain future political and social events. It won a retrospective John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1976...	Tucker, Wilson Wilson Tucker Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker was an American mystery, action adventure, and science fiction writer, who wrote professionally as Wilson Tucker....
Television	1970	Aliens	UFO UFO (TV series) UFO is a 1970-1971 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth, created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company.UFO first aired in the UK and Canada...	The television series by Gerry Anderson Production.
Film	1970	Eco	No Blade of Grass	Based on the novel The Death of Grass The Death Of Grass The Death of Grass is a 1956 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author Samuel Youd under the nom de plume John Christopher... .
Television	1970	Eco	Inferno Inferno (Doctor Who) Don Houghton came to Terrence Dicks with an idea for the story based on the real life Project Mohole. A smaller budget for the serial drove the idea of a parallel world, where the studio could use the same actors in multiple roles...	Volcanic apocalypse. Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...  serial Inferno Inferno (Doctor Who) Don Houghton came to Terrence Dicks with an idea for the story based on the real life Project Mohole. A smaller budget for the serial drove the idea of a parallel world, where the studio could use the same actors in multiple roles...  in which attempts to tap the Earths core for power leads to a volcanic apocalypse.
Film	1971	War	Glen and Randa Glen and Randa Glen and Randa is a 1971 rated X post-apocalypse movie directed by Jim McBride. It was co-written by McBride, Lorenzo Mans and Rudy Wurlitzer...
Film	1971	War	The Omega Man The Omega Man The Omega Man is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston. It is based on the novel I Am Legend by American writer Richard Matheson...	An immune survivor of a biological/nuclear war battles plague-altered quasi-vampires bent on erasing all vestiges of science and technology. The movie is based on Richard Matheson Richard Matheson Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been... 's 1954 novel, I Am Legend.
Novel	1971	War	Love in the Ruins Love in the Ruins Love in the Ruins is a novel of speculative or science fiction by author Walker Percy from 1971. It follows its main character, Dr Thomas More, namesake and descendant of Sir Thomas More author of Utopia, a psychiatrist in a small town in Louisiana called Paradise...	Percy, Walker Walker Percy Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962...
Novel	1971	War	The Overman Culture	Cooper, Edmund Edmund Cooper Edmund Cooper was an English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, romances, technical essays, several detective stories, and a children's book. These were published under his own name and several pen names...
Film	1971	Disease	The Omega Man The Omega Man The Omega Man is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston. It is based on the novel I Am Legend by American writer Richard Matheson...
Television	1971	Eco	Timeslip Timeslip Timeslip is a British children's science fiction television series made by ATV for the ITV network and broadcast between 1970 and 1971. The series centres around two children, Simon Randall and Liz Skinner who discover the existence of a strange anomaly, known as the “Time Barrier”, that enables...	Global warming. The 1971 TV series Timeslip Timeslip Timeslip is a British children's science fiction television series made by ATV for the ITV network and broadcast between 1970 and 1971. The series centres around two children, Simon Randall and Liz Skinner who discover the existence of a strange anomaly, known as the “Time Barrier”, that enables...  The Year of the Burn Up - Terraforming causes global warming.
Novel	1971	Technology	Moderan	Series by David R. Bunch David R. Bunch David Roosevelt Bunch was an American writer of short stories and poetry. He worked mainly in the genres of science fiction, satire, surrealism, and literary fiction. Although prolific and critically acclaimed, Bunch remained obscure throughout his career...
Novel	1971	Sun	Inconstant Moon Inconstant Moon Inconstant Moon is a science fiction short story collection by American author Larry Niven that was published in 1973. "Inconstant Moon" is also a 1971 short story that is included in the collection. The title is a quote from the balcony scene in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...	By Larry Niven Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics... .
Novel	1972	War	Malevil Malevil Malevil is a 1972 science fiction novel by French writer Robert Merle. It was adapted into a 1981 film directed by Christian de Chalonge and starring Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret and Jean-Louis Trintignant .-Plot summary:...	Merle, Robert Robert Merle Robert Merle was a French novelist.-Biography:Born in Tébessa in French Algeria, he moved to France in 1918. A professor of English Literature at several universities, during World War II Merle was conscripted in the French army and assigned as an interpreter to the British Expeditionary Force...
Novel	1972	War	There Will Be Time There Will Be Time There Will Be Time is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson. It was published in 1972 in a hardback edition by Doubleday and in 1973 in a paperback edition by New American Library....	Poul Anderson Poul Anderson Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories...
Film	1972	Eco	Silent Running Silent Running Silent Running is a 1972 environmentally themed science fiction film starring Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked as a special effects supervisor on such science fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain.-Plot summary:Silent Running depicts a...
Novel	1972	Eco	The Sheep Look Up The Sheep Look Up The Sheep Look Up is a science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, first published in 1972. The novel's setting is decidedly dystopian; the book deals with the deterioration of the environment in the United States...	John Brunner John Brunner (novelist) John Kilian Houston Brunner was a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1968 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel. It also won the BSFA award the same year... . The United States is overwhelmed by environmental irresponsibility and authoritarianism Authoritarianism Authoritarianism is a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority. It is usually opposed to individualism and democracy... .
Novel	1972	Eco	The End Of The Dream	Philip Wylie
Novel	1972	Technology	Night of the Robots	Aka Regiments of Night by Brian N. Ball
Film	1972	Supernatural	A Thief in the Night	The evangelical Christian film series, sometimes referred to as the Mark IV films.
Film	1973	War	Battle for the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It is the fifth and last entry in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P...	The fifth movie in the Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes (franchise) Planet of the Apes is a United States media franchise with seven films , two television series, and comic books. The series began with the 1968 science fiction film Planet of the Apes, which was based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle.-Background:The original series of...  feature film series.
Film	1973	War	Genesis II	By Gene Roddenberry Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer... , later remade as unsuccessful TV pilot Planet Earth Planet Earth (TV pilot) Planet Earth was a science fiction television movie that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett . It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and starred John Saxon as Dylan Hunt. It was presented as a pilot for what was hoped to be a new weekly...
Film	1973	War	Refuge of Fear	(Spanish title: El refugio del miedo)
Film	1973	Eco	Idaho Transfer Idaho Transfer Idaho Transfer is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Peter Fonda. It stars Kelley Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Dale Hopkins, and Keith Carradine.-Plot summary:...
Novel	1973	Eco	The Bridge	D. Keith Mano. Presents a world dominated by a global environmental fascism, where the government ultimately promotes the extinction of the human race by enforced mass suicide, so as to ‘save’ the environment.
Other	1973	Eco	Flight of the Horse	Collection of short stories Flight of the Horse by Larry Niven Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics... .
Other	1973	Eco	Violence Jack Violence Jack is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai in 1973. It has had several serializations and one-shot stories which have run in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s...	Manga series by Go Nagai Go Nagai , better known by the penname , is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s. In 2005, he became a... , tells the tale of a Japan devastated by a massive earthquake and isolated from the rest of the world, with the remnants of humanity divided between the strong and the weak. A sequel to Nagai's Devilman Devilman is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Demon Lord Dante. A 39 episode anime series was developed by Toei in 1972 and Nagai began Devilman as a manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen...  series.
Novel	1973	Technology	Trucks Trucks (short story) "Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:"Trucks" takes place in a truck-stop in the United States...	By Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
Novel	1973	Human Decline	The Camp of the Saints The Camp of the Saints The Camp of the Saints is a 1973 French novel by Jean Raspail. A translation by Norman Shapiro was published by Scribner in 1975...	The novel by Jean Raspail Jean Raspail Jean Raspail is a French author, traveler and explorer.Jean Raspail was born the son of factory manager Octave Raspail and Marguerite Chaix... .
Novel	1973	Human Decline	The Bridge	By D. Keith Mano presents a world dominated by a global environmental fascism, where the government ultimately promotes the extinction of the human race by enforced mass suicide, so as to ‘save’ the environment.
Television	1973	Unspecified	The Starlost The Starlost The Starlost is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and syndicated to local stations in the United States. The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark, which has gone off-course...	A Canadian-produced science fiction television series devised by writer Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...  and broadcast on CTV in Canada and on NBC in the United States.
Television	1973–1974	Technology	Casshan Casshan Casshan also known as in Japan, is an anime series created by animation studio Tatsunoko Productions in 1973, which was based on a serialization in Kodansha’s Terebi Magazine and Akita Shoten’s “Boken Oh” ....
Film	1974	War	The Third Cry	(Swiss film, French title: Le Troisième Cri)
Film	1974	War	Zardoz Zardoz Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction/fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman. It stars Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, and Sara Kestelman. Zardoz was Connery's second post-James Bond role...
Television	1974	War	Planet Earth Planet Earth (TV pilot) Planet Earth was a science fiction television movie that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett . It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and starred John Saxon as Dylan Hunt. It was presented as a pilot for what was hoped to be a new weekly...	Unsuccessful TV pilot remake of Genesis II
Television	1974	War	Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes (TV series) Planet of the Apes was a short-lived American science fiction television series that aired on Friday evenings at 8:00 PM Eastern/7:00 PM Central on CBS in 1974. The series starred Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, and James Naughton, Mark Lenard and Booth Colman...	TV series
Novel	1974	War	The Last Canadian The Last Canadian The Last Canadian is a 1974 science fiction novel by William C. Heine about the adventures of Eugene Arnprior after North America is devastated by a plague. The U.S. release of the novel was titled Death Wind.- Plot introduction :...	Heine, William C. William C. Heine William C. Heine is a Canadian author most notably known for The Last Canadian, a science fiction novel filmed as The Patriot starring Steven Seagal. Heine was editor in chief of the London Free Press, London, Ontario, Canada....
Television	1974	Disease	Where Have All The People Gone? Where Have All The People Gone? Where Have All The People Gone? was a made for TV movie that was broadcast in 1974. It starred Peter Graves, Kathleen Quinlan, George O'Hanlon Jr., and Verna Bloom.-Plot:...	Made for TV movie. A mutated virus created by a solar flare destroys virtually all of the human population. One family has survived, and endeavors to travel across America to their family home.
Film	1974	Eco	Prophecies of Nostradamus Prophecies of Nostradamus also known as The Last Days of Planet Earth or Catastrophe: 1999 is an experimental 1974 feature film by Toshio Masuda, inspired by the prophecies of Nostradamus. The film credits Toshio Yasumi as principal screenwriter, though Yasumi did not actually work on the film...
Film	1974	Human Decline	Zardoz Zardoz Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction/fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman. It stars Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, and Sara Kestelman. Zardoz was Connery's second post-James Bond role...	By John Boorman John Boorman John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,... .
Other	1974	Monsters	The Rats The Rats (novel) The Rats is a horror novel written by British author James Herbert. This was Herbert's first novel and included graphic depictions of death and mutilation. A film adaptation was made in 1982, called Deadly Eyes. A 1985 adventure game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum based on the book was... trilogy	James Herbert James Herbert James Herbert, OBE is a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. He is a full-time writer who also designs his own book covers and publicity.-Family:... . The last two novels of The Rats trilogy show how after a nuclear war, humanity is overthrown by mutated Giant Black Rats.
Film	1974	Sun	Where Have All The People Gone? Where Have All The People Gone? Where Have All The People Gone? was a made for TV movie that was broadcast in 1974. It starred Peter Graves, Kathleen Quinlan, George O'Hanlon Jr., and Verna Bloom.-Plot:...	A solar flare destroys virtually all of the human population. One family has survived, and endeavours to travel across America to their family home.
Film	1975	War	A Boy and His Dog A Boy and His Dog A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives and films including or stemming from works of science fiction author Harlan Ellison.Ellison began the cycle with the 1969 short story of the same title, and a revised and expanded novella-length version was published in Ellison's story collection The Beast...	A young man (Don Johnson Don Johnson Donnie Wayne "Don" Johnson is an American actor known for his work in television and film. He played the lead role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s TV cop series, Miami Vice, which led him to huge success. He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, Nash Bridges... ) and his dog (Tiger, the dog actor Tiger (dog actor) Tiger was a mixed-breed dog and animal actor owned by Lou Schumacher and trained by Joe Hornok.-Career:Tiger appeared in one episode of the American television situation comedy The Brady Bunch, produced by ABC. During the taping of the episode "Katchoo" during the first season, the dog actor who... ) struggle for survival and encounter strife in a harsh, post-apocalyptic wasteland where food, water, and women are scarce. Based on the writings of Harlan Ellison.
Film	1975	War	Black Moon	Surreal French production.
Film	1975	War	La città dell'ultima paura
Film	1975	War	The Noah The Noah The Noah is a complex and innovative feature film written and directed by Daniel Bourla, starring Robert Strauss in his final film performance. Noah , the sole survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to accept his unique predicament...	By Daniel Bourla. An American soldier becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear war.
Television	1975	War	Day of the Daleks Day of the Daleks Day of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 1 January to 22 January 1972.-Synopsis:...	A Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...  story that also features alien invasion. Guerrillas from the future explain that they are attempting to kill someone because he caused an explosion at the peace conference, starting a series of wars that left humanity vulnerable to Dalek conquest.
Television	1975	War	Return to the Planet of the Apes Return to the Planet of the Apes Return to the Planet of the Apes is a short-lived animated series, by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with 20th Century Fox Television, based upon Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel had previously been adapted in a series of movies, beginning with the 1968 Planet of the...	Animated TV series
Television	1975	War	Strange New World	Another unsuccessful TV pilot remake of Genesis II & Planet Earth Planet Earth (TV pilot) Planet Earth was a science fiction television movie that was created by Gene Roddenberry, written by Roddenberry and Juanita Bartlett . It first aired on April 23, 1974 on the ABC network, and starred John Saxon as Dylan Hunt. It was presented as a pilot for what was hoped to be a new weekly...
Novel	1975	War	Caravan	Goldin, Stephen Stephen Goldin Stephen Charles Goldin is an American science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:Goldin was born in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
Novel	1975	War	The Coming of the Horseclans	Robert Adams Robert Adams (science fiction writer) Franklin Robert Adams was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, formerly a career soldier. He is best known for his "Horseclans" books. He wrote as Robert Adams, an abbreviation of his complete name.-Writings:... , followed by seventeen other books in the horseclans Horseclans Horseclans is a science fiction series by Robert Adams, set in a North America that had been thrown back to a medieval level by a full-scale nuclear war.-Background:...  series.
Novel	1975	War	Horseclans Horseclans Horseclans is a science fiction series by Robert Adams, set in a North America that had been thrown back to a medieval level by a full-scale nuclear war.-Background:...	Series by Adams, Robert Robert Adams (science fiction writer) Franklin Robert Adams was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, formerly a career soldier. He is best known for his "Horseclans" books. He wrote as Robert Adams, an abbreviation of his complete name.-Writings:... , first book 1975
Novel	1975	War	Z for Zachariah Z for Zachariah Z for Zachariah is a novel by Robert C. O'Brien which was published posthumously in 1973. He died when writing the last chapter, so his family finished the book for him. It is written from the first person perspective of a sixteen-year-old girl named Ann Burden, who survives a nuclear war in a...	O'Brien, Robert C. Robert C. O'Brien Robert Leslie Conly was an American author and journalist for National Geographic Magazine.-Early life:...
Film	1975	Disease	The Ultimate Warrior The Ultimate Warrior (1975 film) The Ultimate Warrior is a 1975 science fiction and action-adventure film directed by Robert Clouse. One of the first in a series of post-apocalyptic films from the 1960s and 1970s, it is set in post-civilization 2012 New York City and depicts the struggles of a small enclave of inhabitants...
Novel	1975	Disease	The Girl Who Owned a City The Girl Who Owned a City The Girl Who Owned a City is a novel by O. T. Nelson, first published in 1975. This book, sometimes taught in schools, is considered to be best suited for those between the ages of 10 and 15. The graphic novel adaptation by Dan Jolley with art by Joëlle Jones and Jenn Manley Lee has a scheduled...	Nelson, O. T.
Film	1975	Eco	Logan's Run Logan's Run Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, it depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching a particular age...	Society is chased into domes by an ecological disaster, and holds a ceremonial death ritual for all citizens who reach the age of 30 to control the population. A man who formerly helped control the population flees the domed city to avoid his own ceremony.
Novel	1975	Unspecified	Dhalgren Dhalgren Dhalgren is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. The story begins with a cryptic passage:to wound the autumnal city.So howled out for the world to give him a name.The in-dark answered with wind....	By Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. Delany Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., also known as "Chip" is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.His science fiction novels include Babel-17, The Einstein... .
Television	1975–1977	Disease	Survivors Survivors Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977...	BBC series about the daily struggles of British survivors of a plague which kills most of the world population.
Film	1976	War	The People Who Own the Dark	By Amando de Ossorio Amando de Ossorio Amando de Ossorio was one of the foremost Spanish horror film directors during the European horror film surge in the 1970s, known especially for his "Blind Dead" tetralogy....  (Spanish title: Último deseo)
Novel	1976	War	Deus Irae Deus Irae Deus Irae is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1976. Deus irae means God of wrath in Latin. The name is a play on Dies Irae, meaning Day of Wrath or Judgment Day...	Dick, Philip K. Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and altered... , in collaboration with Roger Zelazny Roger Zelazny Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
Story	1976	War	Aspic's Mystery	Arsen Darnay.
Story	1976	War	Plutonium	Arsen Darnay.
Novel	1976	Eco	The HAB Theory The HAB Theory The HAB Theory is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Allan W. Eckert. The novel is from the apocalyptic fiction subgenre. Eckert believed that the real-world facts and conclusions he quoted in the novel, were worthy of further exploration...	Allan W. Eckert Allan W. Eckert Allan W. Eckert was an American historian, historical novelist, and naturalist.-Biography:Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in the Chicago, Illinois area, but had been a long-time resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, near where he attended university... . The stability of the Earth comes into question.
Novel	1976	Eco	The Winter of the World	Poul Anderson Poul Anderson Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories... . Civilization and a new species has emerged from a deadly Ice Age that has destroyed all previous life.
Novel	1976	Sun	A World Out of Time A World Out of Time A World Out of Time is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and published in 1976. It is set outside the Known Space universe of many of Niven's stories, but is otherwise fairly representative of his 1970s hard science fiction novels...	By Larry Niven Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics... .
Television	1976–1979	Eco	Ark II Ark II Ark II is an American live-action science fiction series aimed at children that aired on CBS beginning in 1976 as part of its Saturday morning line-up...	Pollution. The 1976–1979 TV series Ark II Ark II Ark II is an American live-action science fiction series aimed at children that aired on CBS beginning in 1976 as part of its Saturday morning line-up...  - pollution devastates humanity.
Film	1977	War	Damnation Alley Damnation Alley (film) Damnation Alley is a 1977 film, directed by Jack Smight, loosely based on the novel of the same name by Roger Zelazny. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.-Plot:...	A surviving American ICBM crew sets out across the U.S. in an armored vehicle in search of survivors in Albany, New York Albany, New York Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River... . Based on the novel Damnation Alley Damnation Alley is the title of a 1967 science fiction short story by Roger Zelazny, which he expanded into a novel in 1969. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1977.-Plot introduction:...  by Roger Zelazny Roger Zelazny Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series... .
Film	1977	War	Wizards Wizards (film) Wizards is a 1977 American animated post-apocalyptic science fantasy film about the battle between two wizards, one representing the forces of magic and one representing the forces of industrial technology. It was written, produced, and directed by Ralph Bakshi...	By Ralph Bakshi Ralph Bakshi Ralph Bakshi is an Israeli-American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote... . A good wizard and his evil brother battle some two millennia after Armageddon Armageddon Armageddon is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location... .
Novel	1977	War	Lucifer's Hammer Lucifer's Hammer Lucifer's Hammer is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1977. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. A comic book adaptation was published by Innovation Comics in 1993....	Niven, Larry Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics... , coauthor Jerry Pournelle Jerry Pournelle Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog.... . An asteroid Impact.
Novel	1977	War	Shannara Series	Series by Brooks, Terry Terry Brooks Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print... , first book 1977
Comic	1977	War	Judge Dredd Judge Dredd Judge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...	By John Wagner John Wagner John Wagner is a comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy. Alongside Pat Mills, Wagner was responsible for revitalising British boys' comics in the 1970s, and has continued to be a leading light in British comics ever since.He is best known for his work on... , Carlos Ezquerra Carlos Ezquerra Carlos Sanchez Ezquerra , who has also worked under the alias L. John Silver, is a Spanish comics artist who works mainly in British comics and currently lives in Andorra...  and Pat Mills Pat Mills Pat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since.... .
Novel	1977	Disease	Empty World Empty World Empty World is a science fiction novel written by John Christopher aimed at an adolescent audience. It was Christopher's eleventh such novel. The German station ZDF produced a TV adaptation of Empty World in 1987...	By Christopher, John. A virus wipes out the weak and the old, until the planet is populated by young teenagers only.
Novel	1977	Disease	The Last Canadian The Last Canadian The Last Canadian is a 1974 science fiction novel by William C. Heine about the adventures of Eugene Arnprior after North America is devastated by a plague. The U.S. release of the novel was titled Death Wind.- Plot introduction :...	By Heine, William C. William C. Heine William C. Heine is a Canadian author most notably known for The Last Canadian, a science fiction novel filmed as The Patriot starring Steven Seagal. Heine was editor in chief of the London Free Press, London, Ontario, Canada.... . The planet is decimated by a virus, as told through the eyes of one survivor.
Story	1977	Disease	Night Surf Night Surf "Night Surf" is a post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen King, first published in the spring 1969 issue of Ubris magazine, and later collected in a heavily revised version in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Plot summary:...	Short Story by Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books... . Collected in the book Night Shift Night Shift (book) Night Shift is the first collection of short stories by Stephen King, first published in 1978. Many of King's most famous short stories were included in this collection.-Stories collected:-Details:... .
Novel	1977	Impact Event	Lucifer's Hammer Lucifer's Hammer Lucifer's Hammer is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1977. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978. A comic book adaptation was published by Innovation Comics in 1993....	Larry Niven Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics... . Coauthor: Jerry Pournelle Jerry Pournelle Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog....
Story	1977	Eco	The Screwfly Solution The Screwfly Solution "The Screwfly Solution" is a 1977 science fiction short story by Raccoona Sheldon, a pen name for psychologist Alice Sheldon, who was better known by her other nom de plume, James Tiptree, Jr...	Short story, tells the tale of a virus which turns males into female-hating psychopaths when sexually aroused.
Comic	1977–1996	Technology	Galaxy Express 999 Galaxy Express 999 is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. It is set in a space-faring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality.The manga won the...	Manga series.
Film	1978	War	Deathsport Deathsport Deathsport is a 1978 science fiction B-movie produced by Roger Corman, directed by Allan Arkush and Nicholas Niciphor. The film stars David Carradine and Playboy Playmate Claudia Jennings.-Plot:...
Television	1978	War	Future Boy Conan Future Boy Conan is an anime series, which premiered across Japan on the NHK network between April 4 and October 31, 1978 on the Tuesday 19:30-20:00 timeslot. The official English title used by Nippon Animation is Conan, The Boy in Future....	An anime series by Hayao Miyazaki. Supermagnetic WMDs devastate Earth and causes virtually all land to be submerged underwater.
Film	1978	Disease	Plague Plague (1978 film) Plague is a 1978 Canadian science fiction film about a genetic engineering accident, a fertilizing bacterium that escapes from a laboratory in Canada. The film is also known internationally as Induced Syndrome , M-3: The Gemini Strain or Mutation .-Plot:A deadly bacteria called M3 is released and...	Also known as Induced Syndrome (UK), M-3: The Gemini Strain (USA), or Mutation.
Novel	1978	Disease	The Stand The Stand The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. It demonstrates the scenario in his earlier short story, Night Surf...	Stephen King
Film	1978	Aliens	Invasion of the Body Snatchers Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. It is a remake of the 1956 film of the same name. It was directed by Philip Kaufman and starred Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Leonard Nimoy.A San Francisco health inspector and...	Another film based on the novel The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes the fictional town of Santa Mira, California being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space...  by Jack Finney Jack Finney Jack Finney was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.-Biography:Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and given the... .
Story	1978	Unspecified	Trucks Trucks (short story) "Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:"Trucks" takes place in a truck-stop in the United States...	A short story by Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books... . An unknown phenomenon makes Earth's machines turn against mankind. It was later made into the movie Maximum Overdrive Maximum Overdrive Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American action-horror-science fiction film written and directed by novelist Stephen King. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story, Trucks, which was included in King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift.Maximum Overdrive is...  which added an alien invasion subplot.
Novel	1978	Unspecified	False Dawn	By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Two humans searching for a way to survive in toxic wasteland. Republished in 2001.
Game	1978–2010	War	Gamma World Gamma World Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978. It borrowed heavily from James M. Ward's earlier product, Metamorphosis Alpha.-Setting:...	Game from TSR, Inc. TSR, Inc. Blume and Gygax, the remaining owners, incorporated a new company called TSR Hobbies, Inc., with Blume and his father, Melvin Blume, owning the larger share. The former assets of the partnership were transferred to TSR Hobbies, Inc.... , the makers of Dungeons & Dragons Dungeons & Dragons Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
Film	1979	War	Ravagers Ravagers (1979 film) Ravagers is a 1979 film directed by Richard Compton and based on the novel by Robert Edmond Alter. In the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust survivors do what they can to protect themselves against ravagers, a mutated group of vicious marauders who terrorize the few remaining civilized...
Television	1979	War	Buck Rogers In The 25th Century Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired....	Mostly futuristic in appearance, but outside of the gleaming Utopian city lies apocalyptic ruins swarming with mutants.
Novel	1979	War	Down to a Sunless Sea Down to a Sunless Sea David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea 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...	Graham, David David Graham (author) David Graham was the pen name of Evan Wright , a British crime fiction author who is mainly remembered for his post apocalyptic novel, Down to a Sunless Sea.-As David Graham:*Down to a Sunless Sea *Sidewall...
Film	1979	Impact Event	Meteor Meteor (film) Meteor is a 1979 science fiction Technicolor disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The movie starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood.It was directed by Ronald Neame...
Film	1979	Eco	Quintet Quintet (film) Quintet is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film by Robert Altman produced in 1979. It features among others Paul Newman, Brigitte Fossey, Bibi Andersson, Fernando Rey, Vittorio Gassman and Nina Van Pallandt....
Film	1979	Human Decline	Mad Max Mad Max Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and revised by Miller and Byron Kennedy over the original script by James McCausland. The film stars Mel Gibson, who was unknown at the time. Its narrative based around the traditional western genre, Mad Max tells a story...	an Australian movie, depicts a declining civilization.
Novel	1979	Unspecified	Engine Summer Engine Summer Engine Summer is a novel by John Crowley, published in 1979 by Doubleday. It was nominated for the 1980 National Book Award for hardcover science fiction, as well as both the British Fantasy and John W. Campbell Awards the same year...	By John Crowley John Crowley John Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer... . Civilization transformed several millennia past an unspecified collapse of civilization.
Novel	1979–1992	Aliens	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon...	Douglas Adams Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
Game	1979–1998	Technology	Choose Your Own Adventure Choose Your Own Adventure Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. The series was based on a...	GamebookBy Edward Packard Edward Packard Edward Packard is an American author, in addition to his work as a lawyer, essayist, and poet. He was born in Huntington, New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School... .
Novel	1980	War	The Fifth Horseman The Fifth Horseman (novel) The Fifth Horseman is a novel written by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. In a suspenseful novel of terrorist threat, Libyan leader Gaddafi holds New York City hostage with the threat of setting off a hidden nuclear bomb...	Collins, Larry Larry Collins (writer) Larry Collins, born John Lawrence Collins Jr., , was an American writer.-Life:... , coauthor Dominique Lapierre Dominique Lapierre Dominique Lapierre is a French author.-Life:Dominique Lapierre was born in Châtelaillon-Plage, Charente-Maritime, France. At the age of thirteen, he traveled to America with his father who was a diplomat...
Novel	1980	War	Riddley Walker Riddley Walker Riddley Walker is a science fiction novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel in 1982, as well as an Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award in 1983...	Hoban, Russell Russell Hoban Russell Conwell Hoban is an American writer, now living in England, of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magic realism, poetry, and children's books-Biography:...
Novel	1980	War	This Time of Darkness	Hoover, H.M.
Novel	1980	War	The Zone	James Rouch, chronicling the conflict between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe.
Film	1980	Disease	Fukkatsu no hi Fukkatsu no hi , literally Day of Resurrection is a 1980 post-apocalyptic science fiction movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a novel written by Sakyo Komatsu. The movie starred Masao Kusakari, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos, Ken Ogata, Glenn Ford and...	Japanese film also known as Virus, directed by Kinji Fukasaku Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer...
Novel	1980	Aliens	Battlefield Earth Battlefield Earth (novel) Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 1982 science fiction novel written by the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz....	L. Ron Hubbard L. Ron Hubbard Lafayette Ronald Hubbard , better known as L. Ron Hubbard , was an American pulp fiction author and religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology... . Based on the novel.
Novel	1980	Aliens	The Mist The Mist The Mist is a horror novella by the American author Stephen King, in which the small town of Bridgton, Maine is suddenly enveloped in an unnatural mist that conceals otherworldly monsters. It was first published as the first and longest story of the 1980 horror anthology Dark Forces. A slightly...	Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
Novel	1980	Aliens	The Visitors The Visitors (novel) The Visitors is a 1980 science fiction novel by author Clifford D. Simak. It is based on a similar story of the same name, which was published in serial form in Analog magazine.-Plot summary:...	Clifford D. Simak Clifford D. Simak Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo awards and by colleagues with one Nebula award and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1977.-Biography:Clifford Donald Simak was born in...
Novel	1980	Sun	The Shadow of the Torturer The Shadow of the Torturer The Shadow of the Torturer is a science fantasy novel by Gene Wolfe, first released in 1980. It is the first volume in the four-volume novel, The Book of the New Sun...	By Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the... . Followed by The Claw of the Conciliator The Claw of the Conciliator The Claw of the Conciliator is a science fantasy novel by Gene Wolfe, first released in 1981. It is the second volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun.-Plot introduction:...  (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1981), The Citadel of the Autarch (1982), and The Urth of the New Sun The Urth of the New Sun The Urth of the New Sun is a 1987 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a sort of coda to his 4-volume Book of the New Sun series. Like Book, it is of the dying earth subgenre...  (1987).
Television	1980–1982	Impact Event	Thundarr the Barbarian Thundarr the Barbarian Thundarr the Barbarian is a Saturday morning animated television series, created by Steve Gerber and produced by Ruby-Spears Productions. The series ran 2 seasons, 1980-1981 and 1981-1982...	Events 2000 years after the disaster of 1994
Game	1980–1983	War	The Morrow Project The Morrow Project The Morrow Project is a science fiction role-playing game created by Kevin Dockery, Robert Sadler and Richard Tucholka and published by TimeLine Limited. It is set after a devastating nuclear war. It was first released in the 1980s, and it still has a loyal following...	Game from Timeline Ltd
Film	1981	War	Escape From New York Escape from New York Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film directed and scored by John Carpenter. He co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Castle. The film is set in the near future in a crime-ridden United States that has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into a maximum security...
Film	1981	War	Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Mad Max 2 is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller. The film is the second installment in the Mad Max film series, with Mel Gibson starring as Max Rockatansky...
Film	1981	War	Malevil Malevil Malevil is a 1972 science fiction novel by French writer Robert Merle. It was adapted into a 1981 film directed by Christian de Chalonge and starring Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret and Jean-Louis Trintignant .-Plot summary:...	Film version directed by Christian de Chalonge. Starring Michel Serrault Michel Serrault Michel Serrault was a celebrated French actor who appeared in over 150 films.-Biography :... , Jacques Dutronc Jacques Dutronc Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 30 March 1981 and the two have a son . He also has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann...  and Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean-Louis Trintignant Jean-Louis Trintignant is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Career:... .
Novel	1981	War	The Survivalist The Survivalist The Survivalist is the generic title of Jerry Ahern's long-lived series of pulp novels. While he was pre-dated by six years by the novel The Survivalist by Giles Tippette Ahern was the first novelist to create a series of novels with an iconic central character with distinctive survivalist...	Series by Ahern, Jerry Jerry Ahern Jerry Ahern is a science fiction and action novel author best known for his post apocalyptic survivalist series The Survivalist. The books in this series are heavy with descriptions of the weapons the protagonists use to survive and prosecute a seemingly never-ending war amongst the remnants of... , first book 1981, Total War
Game	1981	War	Aftermath! Aftermath! Aftermath! is a role-playing game created by Paul Hume & Robert Charette which was published in 1981 by Fantasy Games Unlimited.It is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which the characters typically have to fight for food, water, basic supplies and shelter. The rules are reasonably complex and...	Game from Fantasy Games Unlimited Fantasy Games Unlimited Fantasy Games Unlimited, often referred to as just FGU, is a publishing house for both table-top and role-playing games. They have no in-house design teams and rely on submitted material from outside talent.-History:... .
Novel	1981	War	The Pelbar Cycle	Series of seven books by Williams, Paul O. Paul O. Williams Paul O. Williams was an American science fiction writer and haiku poet. Williams was professor emeritus of English at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.... , first book 1981, The Breaking of Northwall A thousand years after a series of nuclear exchanges. Republished in 2005.
Novel	1981	Eco	The Quiet Earth The Quiet Earth The Quiet Earth is a 1981 science fiction novel by New Zealand writer Craig Harrison.The novel was adapted into a 1985 New Zealand science fiction film of the same name directed by Geoff Murphy.-Alone:...	Craig Harrison. Also the Film adaption The Quiet Earth (film) The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Pete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison...  by the same name
Television	1981	Eco	The Day of the Triffids (1981 TV series)	Meteor. The 1981 adaptation of The Day of the Triffids based on the book by John Wyndham John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes... .
Novel	1981	Technology	Robot Revolt	By Nicholas Fisk Nicholas Fisk Nicholas Fisk is the pseudonym of David Higginbottom , a writer of science fiction books, mainly for children. His works include Grinny, You Remember Me, Space Hostages and Trillions...
Novel	1981	Technology	Uncanny X-Men Uncanny X-Men Uncanny X-Men, first published as The X-Men, is the flagship Marvel Comics comic book series for the X-Men franchise. It is the mainstream continuity featuring the adventures of the eponymous group of mutant superheroes...	Story arc, "Days of Future Past Days of Future Past "Days of Future Past" is a popular storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book The Uncanny X-Men issues #141 and #142, published in 1981. It deals with a dystopian alternate future in which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps... " by Chris Claremont Chris Claremont Chris Claremont is an award-winning American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 17-year stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters, and with introducing complex literary themes into superhero...  & John Byrne
Novel	1981	Sun	The Quiet Earth The Quiet Earth The Quiet Earth is a 1981 science fiction novel by New Zealand writer Craig Harrison.The novel was adapted into a 1985 New Zealand science fiction film of the same name directed by Geoff Murphy.-Alone:...	Adapted into the 1985 movie The Quiet Earth (film) The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Pete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison...  of the same name.
Film	1982	War	2020 Texas Gladiators	Post-apocalyptic Italian film
Film	1982	War	The Aftermath The Aftermath (film) The Aftermath is a 1982 science fiction, horror, and action independent film.-Plot:Three astronauts return to Earth after a nuclear holocaust, although one dies in a crash landing. The two survivors, Newman and Matthews, encounter some mutants before discovering that Los Angeles has been...	Returning astronauts encounter bikers and mutants in a post-nuclear setting. Released as "Zombie Aftermath" in the UK.
Comic	1982–1990	War	Akira Akira (manga) is a manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, the work uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of turmoil. Initially serialized in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected in six volumes by Japanese publisher Kodansha...	Cyberpunk manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...  series by Katsuhiro Otomo Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese comic book creator, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the 2006 feature film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.-Biography:Katsuhiro Otomo was...  published by Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book... , about a group of young bikers in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo who clash with the government and psychics with incredible power. Adapted into a 1988 animated movie Akira (film) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, and starring the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Taro Ishida. The screenplay is based on Otomo's manga Akira.... .
Film	1982	War	Human Highway Human Highway Human Highway is a 1982 comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo...
Film	1982	War	She She (1982 film) -Plot:Set 23 years after an event called "The Cancellation", the film follows Tom, whose sister is captured by a local tribe. He sets out to find and rescue her, while avoiding the dangerous tribes he encounters along the way. Sandahl Bergman plays "She" who ends up aiding Tom after he escapes from...	A low-budget B-movie B-movie A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature.... , an extremely loose adaptation of the novel She She (novel) She, subtitled A History of Adventure, is a novel by Henry Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887. She is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and with over 83 million copies sold in 44 different languages, one of the best-selling books...  by H. Rider Haggard H. Rider Haggard Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire... , starring Sandahl Bergman as a post-civilization warrior.
Film	1982	War	Warriors of the Wasteland
Television	1982	War	Whoops Apocalypse Whoops Apocalypse Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 television sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 movie from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two...
Novel	1982	War	Survivors	Nahmlos, John
Novel	1982	Disease	The White Plague The White Plague The White Plague is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert.-Plot:When an IRA bomb goes off, the wife and children of molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill are killed on May 20, 1996. Driven halfway insane by loss, his mind fragments into several personalities that carry out his plan for him. He...	Herbert, Frank Frank Herbert Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its five sequels...
Game	1982	Technology	Robotron: 2084 Robotron: 2084 Robotron: 2084 is an arcade video game developed by Vid Kidz and released by Williams Electronics in 1982. It is a shooting game that features two-dimensional graphics. The game is set in the year 2084, in a fictional world where robots have turned against humans...	Created by Williams.
Other	1982–1983	Aliens	The Super Dimension Fortress Macross The Super Dimension Fortress Macross is an anime television series. According to story creator Shoji Kawamori, it depicts "a love triangle against the backdrop of great battles" during the first Human-alien war....	The anime series and its sequels (rewritten and combined with The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross was the third Japanese animated series released under the "Super Dimension" moniker by the sponsor Big West. This 1984 science fiction robotic mecha series followed Super Dimension Fortress Macross created by Studio Nue with Artland and produced by Tatsunoko, and Super Dimension Century Orguss ,... and Genesis Climber Mospeada Genesis Climber Mospeada is an anime science fiction series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma. The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan... to create Robotech Robotech Robotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985... ', which dealt similarly with post-apocalyptic themes).
Film	1983	War	2019, After the Fall of New York 2019, After the Fall of New York 2019, After the Fall of New York is a 1983 Italian science fiction film directed by Sergio Martino in both English and Italian. It is of the post-apocalyptic Italian genre similar to the films 1990 The Bronx Warriors, Blastfighter, and Endgame. It is set in 2019, after a nuclear apocalypse, and...	An Italian film set in 2019 featuring a mercenary out to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth.
Film	1983	War	Endgame
Film	1983	War	Exterminators of the Year 3000
Film	1983	War	Le Dernier Combat Le Dernier Combat Le Dernier Combat , released in 1983 French film is the first feature film made by Luc Besson. The film is a dark vision of post-apocalyptic survival.The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation...	By Luc Besson Luc Besson Luc Besson is a French film director, writer, and producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company. He has been involved with over 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and/or producer.-Early life:...
Film	1983	War	Stryker
Film	1983	War	Testament Testament (film) Testament is a drama film directed by Lynne Littman and starring Jane Alexander.The film tells the story of how one small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after a nuclear war destroys outside civilization....
Film	1983	War	Warrior of the Lost World Warrior of the Lost World Warrior of the Lost World is a 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic science fiction film written and directed by David Worth starring Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, and Donald Pleasence...	Wanderer of a super-sonic motorcycle becomes the savor of misfits vs the Omegas.
Film	1983	War	Yor, the Hunter from the Future Yor, the Hunter from the Future Yor, The Hunter From The Future is a film released in 1983. It was directed by the famous Italian B-movie director Antonio Margheriti Yor, The Hunter From The Future is a film released in 1983. It was directed by the famous Italian B-movie director Antonio Margheriti Yor, The Hunter From The Future...
Television	1983	War	The Day After The Day After The Day After is a 1983 American television movie which aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. It was seen by more than 100 million people during its initial broadcast....	The effects of nuclear war on a Kansas town.
Novel	1983	War	The Amtrak Wars The Amtrak Wars The Amtrak Wars is a series of novels written by British author Patrick Tilley. The series is a post-apocalyptic science fiction with some fantasy elements such as the existence of magic. Six novels and an illustrated companion guidebook were published between 1983 and 1990, with additional books...	Series by Patrick Tilley Patrick Tilley Patrick Tilley is a British science fiction author best known for The Amtrak Wars series of books - a futureworld epic set on the eve of the third millennium in a world emerging from the ravages of a dimly understood global holocaust. The name "Amtrak" - appropriated by a specific group of... , first book 1983, set at the end of the 3rd millennium
Novel	1983	War	The Ashes	Series by William W. Johnstone William W. Johnstone William Wallace Johnstone was a prolific American author, mostly of western, horror and survivalist novels.- Biography :... , first book 1983, Out of the Ashes Out of the Ashes (Ashes Series) Out of the Ashes is the first in The Ashes series by William W. Johnstone.-Overview:The book depicts life after a nuclear and biological holocaust has wiped out most of the world, and follows main character Ben Raines, a former Hellhound and ex-mercenary, as he explores the remnants of the United...
Comic	1983–1988	War	Fist of the North Star Fist of the North Star is a Japanese manga series written by Buronson and drawn by Tetsuo Hara that was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1983 to 1988, spanning 245 chapters, which were initially collected in a 27-volume tankōbon edition by Shueisha...	Influential shonen manga series by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara Tetsuo Hara is a Japanese manga artist famous for drawing the series Fist of the North Star , which he co-authored with Buronson... . A warrior trained in a powerful martial arts style rights wrongs and battles evil warlords in a post-apocalyptic world. Inspired the landmark anime series, a live-action film, and many games.
Novel	1983	War	Hiero's Journey	Lanier, Sterling E. Sterling E. Lanier Sterling Edmund Lanier was an American editor, science fiction author and sculptor who published as both Sterling Lanier and Sterling E. Lanier. He is perhaps known best as the editor who championed the publication of Frank Herbert’s bestselling novel Dune.-Life:Lanier was born in New York City... , sequel is The Unforsaken Hiero 1985, A "metis" priest/killman quests across post-apocalyptic northeastern North America, seven thousand years in the future.
Novel	1983	War	The Last Children of Schewenborn The Last Children of Schewenborn The Last Children of Schewenborn is a 1983 novel by Gudrun Pausewang, depicting life in Germany in the aftermath of a nuclear war....	Pausewang, Gudrun Gudrun Pausewang Gudrun Pausewang is a German writer for children and teens. She is also noted in science fiction for Young-Adult novels like The Last Children of Schewenborn.... , Die Letzten Kinder Von Schewenborn in German German language German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
Novel	1983	War	Pulling Through	Ing, Dean Dean Ing Dean Ing is an American author, who usually writes in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres.Dean Charles Ing was formerly a member of the United States Air Force, an aerospace engineer, and a university professor who holds a doctorate in communications theory. He has been a professional...
Novel	1983	War	Trinity's Child Trinity's Child Trinity's Child is a 1983 novel by William Prochnau. The book depicts a nuclear war waged between the United States of America and the Soviet Union.-Plot summary:...	Prochnau, William William Prochnau William Walter Prochnau is an American journalist.His work on the Vietnam War while at the Seattle Times landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents....
Novel	1983	War	Vampire Hunter D Vampire Hunter D is a series of Japanese novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano since 1983.To date, twenty-two novels have been published in the main series, with some novels comprising as many as four volumes...	Series by Kikuchi, Hideyuki Hideyuki Kikuchi is a Japanese author famous for his horror novels. His most famous works including the Vampire Hunter D series, Darkside Blues and Wicked City. He has been compared to both Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft.-Biography:... , first book 1983, Novels (and later anime movies), set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in 1999,
Novel	1983	Eco	The Last Gasp	Trevor Hoyle
Other	1983–1984	Aliens	Genesis Climber Mospeada Genesis Climber Mospeada is an anime science fiction series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma. The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan...	The anime series (see also Robotech Robotech Robotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985... ).
Television	1983–1985	Aliens	V	The television series.
Film	1984	War	Dark Enemy
Comic	1984–1995	Technology	Dragon Ball Dragon Ball is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995; later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Dragon Ball was inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the...	In the Cell saga of Dragon Ball Z, a time traveler arrives from a post-apocalyptic future where two powerful killer androids have destroyed much of the world, and attempts to stop the same thing from happening in the main timeline.
Film	1984	War	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	By Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli,...
Film	1984	War	Radio Free Steve	Steve is a radio pirate in the days after World War Three, bringing hope to the people after the remnants of the government re-emerged and shut down all TV and radio stations that had been broadcasting without permission.
Film	1984	War	Radioactive Dreams Radioactive Dreams Radioactive Dreams is a 1985 post-apocalyptic science fiction-comedy film. The film was directed by Albert Pyun, and stars Michael Dudikoff, Don Murray, and Lisa Blount...	After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in a bunker, then they find the keys to the last MX missile.
Film	1984	War	Sexmisja	A Polish Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...  comedy.
Television	1984	War	Threads Threads Threads is a British television drama produced by the BBC in 1984. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, it is a documentary-style account of a nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in northern England....	BBC Television Docudrama.
Television	1984	War	Z for Zachariah Z for Zachariah Z for Zachariah is a novel by Robert C. O'Brien which was published posthumously in 1973. He died when writing the last chapter, so his family finished the book for him. It is written from the first person perspective of a sixteen-year-old girl named Ann Burden, who survives a nuclear war in a...	BBC adaptation of the 1975 novel of the same name.
Novel	1984	War	Brother in the Land Brother in the Land Brother in the Land is a 1984 post-apocalyptic novel by Robert E. "Bob" Swindells. It follows a teenage boy as he fights for survival following a nuclear attack on his home...	Swindells, Robert Robert Swindells Robert E. "Bob" Swindells is an English author of children's and young adult literature.- Biography :Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Swindells worked for a newspaper after leaving school aged 15. He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a primary school teacher...
Novel	1984	War	Doomsday Plus Twelve Doomsday Plus Twelve Doomsday Plus Twelve is a post-apocalyptic novel by James D. Forman.-Plot introduction:The story is set in 2000, twelve years after the world nuclear war known as "Doomsday." A group of Oregon teenagers seek to use peaceful protest to stop militarists in San Diego from using the nuclear missiles...	Forman, James D.
Novel	1984	War	Emergence Emergence (novel) Emergence is a science fiction novel written by David R. Palmer. It first appeared as a novella published in Analog Science Fiction in 1981. Analog also published Part II, 'Seeking,' in 1983. The completed novel then was published by Bantam in 1984. The plot follows a precocious 11-year-old...	Palmer, David R.
Novel	1984	War	Traveler	Series by Drumm, D. B., first book, First, You Fight
Novel	1984	War	Warday Warday Warday is a novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, first published in 1984. It is a fictionalized account of the authors traveling across America five years after a limited nuclear attack in order to assess how the nation had changed after the war. The novel takes the form of a research...	Strieber, Whitley Whitley Strieber Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his perceived experiences with non-human entities. Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the film about... , coauthor James Kunetka
Novel	1984	Disease	Clay's Ark	Butler, Octavia
Film	1984	Impact Event	Night of the Comet Night of the Comet Night of the Comet is a 1984 film directed by Thom Eberhardt and starring Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, and Kelli Maroney. It has elements of such diverse genres as science fiction, horror, zombie apocalypse, comedy, and romance....	When a comet passes too close to earth, two girls are left amid mutants.
Film	1984	Eco	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	Based on the manga of the same name Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga) is a post-apocalyptic manga written and illustrated by acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki. It was serialised intermittently from 1982 to 1994 in Japan... .
Novel	1984	Eco	In the Drift	Michael Swanwick Michael Swanwick Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s.-Biography:... . Also an alternate history Alternate history (fiction) Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. It can be variously seen as a sub-genre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction; different alternate...  Story Narrative A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"... , in which the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor incident resulted in a very large release of radioactivity, devastating the Northeastern U.S.
Film	1984	Human Decline	1990:The Bronx Warriors	In 1990 the Bronx is declared a No Mans Land after a catastrophic uprising.
Television	1984–1985	Aliens	The Tripods	An adaptation of the first two books in the trilogy by John Christopher.
Television	1984–1987	War	Fist of the North Star	Landmark post-apocalyptic anime series based on the manga.
Game	1984–1993	War	Twilight: 2000	Game from Game Designer's Workshop, set in a world where a Sino-Russian war degenerates into a limited nuclear conflict that eventually drags in Europe and America.
Film	1984–2009	Technology	Terminator Terminator (franchise) The Terminator series is a science fiction franchise encompassing a series of films and other media concerning battles between Skynet's artificially intelligent machine network, and John Connor's Resistance forces and the rest of the human race....	Series of films dealing with a future devastated by a war between humans and machines, the attempt of the machines to kill the hero of the human resistance in the past, and the attempt of the hero and others to prevent this future from ever coming to pass.
Film	1985	War	City Limits
Film	1985	War	Def-Con 4 Def-Con 4 Def-Con 4 is a 1985 post-apocalyptic film, portraying three astronauts who survive World War III aboard a space station and return to earth to find greatly changed circumstances.-Synopsis:...
Film	1985	War	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie, written by Miller, Doug Mitchell and Terry Hayes, and starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. It is the third installment in the action movie Mad Max franchise...
Film	1985	War	Warriors of the Apocalypse Warriors of the Apocalypse Warriors of the Apocalypse is a 1985 science fiction / action genre film, directed by Bobby A. Suarez.-Synopsis:After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life. Along the way they encounter pygmy tribes, bands of...	After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life.
Novel	1985	War	Children of the Dust	Lawrence, Louise Louise Lawrence Elizabeth Holden, better known by her pen name Louise Lawrence, is an English science fiction author, acclaimed during the 1970s and 1980s. She has been classified as a writer for young adults, though due to the content of her books some have disagreed....
Novel	1985	War	Fiskadoro	Denis Johnson Denis Johnson Denis Hale Johnson is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son and his novel Tree of Smoke , which won the National Book Award. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction.- Biography :...
Novel	1985	War	Freeway Fighter	Livingstone, Ian Ian Livingstone Ian Livingstone OBE is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. He is a co-writer of the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and co-founder of Games Workshop.... , part of the Fighting Fantasy Fighting Fantasy Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player fantasy roleplay gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volumes in the series were published by Puffin in 1982, with the rights to the franchise eventually being purchased by Wizard Books in 2002...  Gamebook Gamebook A gamebook is a work of fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making effective choices. The narrative branches along various paths through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages...  series (Like a Choose Your Own Adventure Choose Your Own Adventure Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. The series was based on a...  book)
Novel	1985	War	The Long Mynd	Edward P. Hughes, also author of Masters of the Fist
Novel	1985	War	The Postman The Postman The Postman , is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by David Brin. A drifter stumbles across the uniform of an old United States Postal Service letter carrier and with empty promises of aid from the "Restored United States of America", gives hope to a community threatened by local warlords...	Brin, David David Brin Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.-Biography:... , the 1997 movie of the same name.
Novel	1985	War	The Steel, the Mist and the Blazing Sun	Anvil, Christopher Christopher Anvil Christopher Anvil is a pseudonym used by American author Harry C. Crosby. He began publishing science fiction with the story "Cinderella, Inc." in the December 1952 issue of the science fiction magazine Imagination...
Novel	1985	War	This is the Way the World Ends	Morrow, James James Morrow James Morrow is a fiction author. A self-described "scientific humanist", his work satirises organized religion and elements of humanism and atheism....
Film	1985	Disease	City Limits
Novel	1985	Disease	Blood Music	Bear, Greg Greg Bear Gregory Dale Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict , artificial universes , consciousness and cultural practices , and accelerated evolution...
Novel	1985	Disease	The Fourth Horseman	By Nourse, Alan E. Alan E. Nourse Alan Edward Nourse was an American science fiction author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His SF works generally focused on medicine and/or psionics.-Biography:Alan Nourse was born August 11, 1928 to... . Follows the progression of a new outbreak of Black Plague and the struggle to survive as society collapses.
Novel	1985	Aliens	Footfall Footfall Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It was nominated for the both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1986, and was a No...	Larry Niven Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...  and Jerry Pournelle Jerry Pournelle Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog.... . Baby elephant-like invaders hurl asteroids at earth, humans revolt.
Novel	1985	Eco	The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction, written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985...	Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C... . Dystopia is fueled by rampant infertility caused by pollution.
Film	1985	Technology	Starchaser: The Legend of Orin Starchaser: The Legend of Orin Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 animated movie. It was written by animation writer Jeffrey Scott and was originally released in 3-D by Atlantic Releasing. Starchaser was one of the first animated movies to mix traditional and computer animation. It is the only 3-D film distributed by...
Novel	1985	Technology	The Adolescence of P-1 The Adolescence of P-1 The Adolescence of P-1 is a 1977 science fiction novel by Thomas J. Ryan, published by Macmillan Publishing, and in 1984 adapted into a Canadian-made TV film entitled "Hide and Seek". It features a hacker who creates an artificial intelligence named P-1, which goes rogue and takes over computers in...	By Thomas J. Ryan.
Game	1985	Technology	The Mechanoid Invasion The Mechanoid Invasion The Mechanoid Invasion was the first role-playing game from Palladium Books, conceived and written by Kevin Siembieda, with contributions from Erick Wujcik....	GamebookAnd its source books, supplements and sequels was the first role-playing game from Palladium Books, conceived and written by Kevin Siembieda.
Film	1985	Sun	The Quiet Earth The Quiet Earth (film) The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Pete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison...	Based on the 1981 novel The Quiet Earth The Quiet Earth The Quiet Earth is a 1981 science fiction novel by New Zealand writer Craig Harrison.The novel was adapted into a 1985 New Zealand science fiction film of the same name directed by Geoff Murphy.-Alone:...  by Craig Harrison.
Novel	1985	Unspecified	Baaa	A picture book by David Macaulay, in which the human race has somehow gone extinct, leaving sheep to take over the world. The sheep's civilization winds up displaying the same array of economic troubles, overpopulation, and crime, and after a while they too become extinct.
Film	1986	War	America 3000 America 3000 America 3000 is a 1986 post-apocalyptic science-fiction film which takes place 900 years in the future in Colorado. Mankind has been reduced to Stone Age conditions and is under the rule of Amazon-like women warriors. The film was directed by David Engelbach, and stars Chuck Wagner, Laurene Landon,...	In Colorado, 900 years after a nuclear war in the USA, the mankind is back to the stone ages.
Film	1986	War	Dead Man's Letters Dead Man's Letters Dead Man's Letters , also known as Letters from a Dead Man, is a 1986 Soviet science fiction film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and produced by Lenfilm studios.-Plot:...
Film	1986	War	Fist of the North Star Fist of the North Star (1986 film) is a 1986 Japanese animated film adaptation of the manga series of the same name. It was produced by Toei Animation, the same studio who worked on the TV series that was airing at the time, with much of the same staff and cast working on both...	Animated Japanese film.
Film	1986	War	Robot Holocaust Robot Holocaust -Plot summary:Neo, a drifter from the atomic-blasted wastelands, and his klutzy robot sidekick, arrive at a factory where slaves labor to fuel the Dark One's Power Station. He meets a woman who convinces him to help rescue her father, a scientist who invented a device that can break the Dark One's...
Film	1986	War	The Sacrifice The Sacrifice The Sacrifice is a 1986 film, and the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it.-Synopsis:...
Film	1986	War	When the Wind Blows	By Jimmy Murakami Jimmy Murakami Teruaki "Jimmy" Murakami, , is a Japanese American animator and director with a long career working in numerous countries. Among his best-known works are the animated adaptations of the Raymond Briggs books When the Wind Blows and The Snowman... , adapting the graphic novel by Raymond Briggs Raymond Briggs Raymond Redvers Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children...
Film	1986	War	Whoops Apocalypse
Novel	1986	War	Deathlands Deathlands The Deathlands is a series of novels published by Gold Eagle Publishing. The first novel 'Pilgrimage to Hell' was first published in 1986. This series of novels was first written by Christopher Lowder, under the pen name Jack Adrian. Mr. Lowder became ill after developing the plot and writing most...	Series by Axler, James James Axler James Axler is a house name used by the publishing company Gold Eagle Publishing, the action adventure series published by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.... , first book 1986
Novel	1986	War	Endworld Endworld Endworld is a best-selling science fiction series by David L. Robbins. The first book was published in 1986. There have been 28 novels so far. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel sequel to Endworld called Blade.Endworld is post-apocalyptic fiction...	Series by Robbins, David L., first book 1986
Film	1986	Disease	Dead Man's Letters Dead Man's Letters Dead Man's Letters , also known as Letters from a Dead Man, is a 1986 Soviet science fiction film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and produced by Lenfilm studios.-Plot:...	By Konstantin Lopushanskij
Story	1986	Aliens	Maximum Overdrive Maximum Overdrive Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American action-horror-science fiction film written and directed by novelist Stephen King. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story, Trucks, which was included in King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift.Maximum Overdrive is...	Initially people believe radiation from a passing comet is the cause, but it turns out that aliens are remotely control Earth machines (Trucks, cars and even vending machines) to kill the population before invading. Based on the Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...  short story Trucks Trucks (short story) "Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:"Trucks" takes place in a truck-stop in the United States... .
Film	1986	Eco	Solarbabies Solarbabies Solarbabies is a 1986 science fiction film, made by Brooksfilms and directed by Alan Johnson. It was released on DVD on March 6, 2007....	Also known as Solarwarriors
Novel	1986	Eco	Nature's End	Whitley Strieber Whitley Strieber Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his perceived experiences with non-human entities. Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the film about...  and James Kunetka.
Story	1986	Eco	The End of the Whole Mess The End of the Whole Mess "The End of the Whole Mess" is a short science fiction story by Stephen King which was first published in Omni Magazine in 1986, and later published in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse .-Plot summary:The story, narrated by Howard Fornoy in the...	The 1986 short story The End of the Whole Mess The End of the Whole Mess "The End of the Whole Mess" is a short science fiction story by Stephen King which was first published in Omni Magazine in 1986, and later published in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse .-Plot summary:The story, narrated by Howard Fornoy in the... by Stephen King in which a distillate of a Texas aquifer, originally harvested and distributed worldwide to reduce human propensity for violence—curses humanity with premature Alzheimer's disease and senility.
Other	1986–1989	Aliens	Outlanders	The manga by Johji Manabe Johji Manabe is a Japanese manga artist.He is not to be confused with an animator of the same name , who worked mainly in the 1970s for Oh! Production: A Dog of Flanders, Genshi Shōnen Ryû, Marco, Dokonjō Gaeru, King Arthur, Galaxy Express 999, Lupin the 3rd: Season 1, Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro,... .
Film	1987	War	Cherry 2000 Cherry 2000 Cherry 2000 is a 1987 science fiction cult film starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews.-Plot :In the year 2017, robotic technology has made tremendous developments. Business executive Sam Treadwell's "Cherry 2000" android , short circuits during a make out session on the wet kitchen floor...
Film	1987	War	Creepozoids Creepozoids Creepozoids is a 1987 low budget science fiction/horror film directed by David DeCoteau, and starring Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda and Kim McKamy -Plot summary:...
Film	1987	War	Death Run Death Run Death Run is a low budget British science fiction film directed by Michael J. Murphy. Shot on Super 8mm, the film suffers from its bargain basement sets and props, and is little saved by its low-rent actors, some of whom are incapable of playing a scene without laughing...
Film	1987	War	Hell Comes to Frogtown Hell Comes to Frogtown Hell Comes to Frogtown is a 1988 cult film that was created by Donald G. Jackson. The screenplay for this film was written by Jackson and Randall Frakes. The film was directed by Jackson and R. J...
Film	1987	War	Steel Dawn Steel Dawn Steel Dawn is a 1987 American post-apocalyptic feature film, with elements of western science fiction.-Plot:An enigmatic swordsman named Nomad , wanders through the remains of a post-World War III world...
Film	1987	War	The Survivalist	The Soviet Union blames the U.S. for a nuclear explosion, and in the ensuing chaos, the protagonist must defend his family. Based on the Jerry Ahern Jerry Ahern Jerry Ahern is a science fiction and action novel author best known for his post apocalyptic survivalist series The Survivalist. The books in this series are heavy with descriptions of the weapons the protagonists use to survive and prosecute a seemingly never-ending war amongst the remnants of...  pulp novel series The Survivalist The Survivalist is the generic title of Jerry Ahern's long-lived series of pulp novels. While he was pre-dated by six years by the novel The Survivalist by Giles Tippette Ahern was the first novelist to create a series of novels with an iconic central character with distinctive survivalist... .
Film	1987	War	Survivor
Film	1987	War	Urban Warriors	Three technicians working in an underground laboratory discover that a nuclear war has destroyed most of the above ground world.
Television	1987	War	Knights of God Knights of God Knights of God was a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by Richard Cooper, a writer who had previously worked in both children's and adult television drama...
Novel	1987	War	Fire Brats Fire Brats Firebrats is a series of children's books about two teenagers, Matt and Dani, who both survive post apocalyptic World War 3. The books were written by Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel and Barbara Steiner...	Series by Siegel, Scott, first book 1987, co-author Barbera Siegel, Grade 8-10
Novel	1987	War	Obernewtyn Chronicles Obernewtyn Chronicles The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a series of science fiction and fantasy novels by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. The series has a post apocalyptic setting, and depict a world long after its destruction by a global nuclear holocaust....	Series by Isobelle Carmody, first book 1987
Novel	1987	War	Swan Song Swan Song (novel) Swan Song is a 1987 horror novel by American novelist Robert R. McCammon. It is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction describing the aftermath of a nuclear war that provokes an evolution in humankind.- Plot :...	McCammon, Robert R. Robert R. McCammon Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon...
Novel	1987	War	Wingman	Series by Maloney, Mack, first book 1987, follows a former U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds The Thunderbirds are the air demonstration squadron of the U.S. Air Force , based at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, Nevada. The squadron tours the United States and much of the world, performing aerobatic formation and solo flying in specially marked USAF jet aircraft...  pilot trying to restore a balkanized and largely disarmed United States of America while flying the last remaining F-16 Fighting Falcon F-16 Fighting Falcon The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force . Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,400 aircraft have been built since...  in existence.
Game	1987	War	Crystalis Crystalis Crystalis, known in Japan as , is an action RPG/action-adventure video game produced by SNK for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released on April 13, 1990 in Japan and later that July in the United States. Though Crystalis never became a runaway hit, it is now considered a cult classic...	Game from SNK
Novel	1987	Aliens	The Forge of God The Forge of God The Forge of God is a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks....	Greg Bear Greg Bear Gregory Dale Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict , artificial universes , consciousness and cultural practices , and accelerated evolution...
Novel	1987	Eco	Wolf In Shadow	David Gemmell David Gemmell David Andrew Gemmell was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Best known for his debut, Legend, Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explore... . The world is devastated by huge tsunamis. Most of the technology left in the world is on par with the mid to late 1800s but there are some newer weapons around.
Other	1987	Technology	Twilight of The Gods	By Helloween Helloween Helloween is a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band was a pioneering force in the European Power Metal movement and their second and third studio albums, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt...
Novel	1987	Unspecified	In the Country of Last Things In the Country of Last Things In the Country of Last Things is a dystopian epistolary novel written by American author Paul Auster and first published in 1987.- Plot summary :...	By Paul Auster Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies... .
Television	1987–1988	Technology	Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future is a 1987–88 science fiction/action television series, merging live action with animation based on computer-generated images, that ran for 22 episodes in Canadian/American syndication...	After a war against the machines in which the humans lost, a small group of resistance fighters must keep humanity alive against the evil forces of Lord Dread.
Film	1988	War	Akira Akira (film) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, and starring the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Taro Ishida. The screenplay is based on Otomo's manga Akira....	Groundbreaking anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....  movie based on the manga of the same name Akira (manga) is a manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, the work uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of turmoil. Initially serialized in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected in six volumes by Japanese publisher Kodansha... .
Film	1988	War	Empire of Ash Empire of Ash Empire of Ash is a post-apocalyptic science fiction movie from 1988. The movie was re-released in 1989 as Empire of Ash II. It was followed by one sequel: Empire of Ash III....
Film	1988	War	Miracle Mile Miracle Mile (film) Miracle Mile is a 1988 apocalyptic thriller cult film written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham that takes place mostly in real time. It is named after the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles, where most of the action takes place. The movie was...
Film	1988	War	She-Wolves of the Wasteland She-Wolves of the Wasteland She-Wolves of the Wasteland, also known as Phoenix the Warrior and She Wolves of the Wasteland, is 1988 post apocalyptic film directed by Robert Hayes.-Plot:Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe...
Film	1988	War	World Gone Wild World Gone Wild World Gone Wild is a 1988 film directed by Lee H. Katzin. It stars Bruce Dern and Michael Paré. It was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1989.-Cast:*Bruce Dern as Ethan*Michael Paré as George Landon*Catherine Mary Stewart as Angie...
Novel	1988	War	Freeway Warrior Freeway Warrior Freeway Warrior is a series of 4 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever. The books were published between 1988 and 1989, detailing the complete story of a band of nuclear holocaust survivors as they flee Texas to the relative safety of California....	Series by Dever, Joe Joe Dever Joe Dever is an award-winning British fantasy author and game designer. Originally a musician, Dever became the first British winner of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Championship of America in 1982.... , first book 1988
Novel	1988	War	The Gate to Women's Country The Gate to Women's Country The Gate to Women's Country is a post-apocalyptic novel by Sheri S. Tepper written in 1988. It describes a world set three hundred years into the future after a catastrophic war which has fractured the United States into several nations. The setting of the story is Women's Country, apparently in...	Tepper, Sheri S. Sheri S. Tepper Sheri Stewart Tepper is an American author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels; she is particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant....
Novel	1988	War	The Last Ship The Last Ship The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by William Brinkley.-Background:The Last Ship tells the wordy story of a fictional United States Navy guided missile destroyer, the USS Nathan James , on patrol in the Barents Sea during a brief, full-scale nuclear war between the...	Brinkley, William William Brinkley William Clark "Bill" Brinkley was an American writer and journalist.Brinkley is perhaps best known for his 1988 novel, The Last Ship, and his 1956 novel, Don't Go Near the Water, which was later adapted to film in 1957 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Don't Go Near the Water.-Early life and...
Novel	1988	War	Time Capsule	Berman, Mitch Mitch Berman Mitch Berman is an American fiction writer known for his imaginative range, exploration of characters beyond the margins of society, lush prose style and dark humor.-Time Capsule:...
Game	1988	War	Wasteland Wasteland (computer game) Wasteland is a post-apocalyptic computer role-playing game first released in 1988. The game was designed by Alan Pavlish, Brian Fargo, Michael A. Stackpole and Ken St...
Film	1988	Aliens	They Live They Live They Live is a 1988 science fiction/horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Frank Armitage ....	Part science fiction thriller and part black comedy.
Other	1988	Aliens	Manhunter	The computer game.
Game	1988	Technology	Wasteland	PCPost-Apocalyptic RPG, main story features a rogue AI that not only caused a nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union, but also is attempting to eradicate any humans that survived.
Novel	1988	Human Decline	At Winter's End	By Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:... .
Game	1988	Social Collapse	Dark Future Dark Future Dark Future is a 1988 miniature wargame by Games Workshop. It is set in an alternate reality where the United States—and indeed the rest of the world—is falling apart. Society is going to ruins, and the natural laws of physics are breaking down...	Miniature wargamingMiniature wargame Miniature wargaming Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming that incorporates miniature figures, miniature armor and modeled terrain as the main components of play...  by Games Workshop Games Workshop Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000... . A role-playing game franchise composed of the game and associated novels and short-story anthologies set within the Dark Future universe.
Novel	1988	Unspecified	Tea from an Empty Cup Tea from an Empty Cup - Plot summary :Tea From an Empty Cup is at its core a tightly plotted detective novel.The story revolves around near mythical Japan, which has been destroyed in a vaguely described natural cataclysm several decades before the story opens. The generation that remembers "Old Japan" appears to have...	A novel by Pat Cadigan, set in a cyberpunk world following a vaguely described natural cataclysm.
Television	1988–1990	Aliens	War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion War of the Worlds (TV series) War of the Worlds is a television program that ran for two seasons, from 1988 to 1990. The series is an extension of the original 1953 film The War of the Worlds, using the same War Machine, often incorporating aspects from the film, radio adaptation, and original novel into its mythology.Though...	The second season of this television spin-off from the 1953 movie was set after a successful alien invasion.
Film	1989	War	The Blood of Heroes The Blood of Heroes The Blood of Heroes is a 1989 Australian post-apocalyptic film directed by David Webb Peoples and starring Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen. The film is also known by the names The Salute of the Jugger and Salute to the Jugger...	Australian film written and directed by David Webb Peoples.
Film	1989	War	Cyborg Cyborg (film) Cyborg is a 1989 American martial-arts science fiction film directed by Albert Pyun. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, a mercenary who battles a group of murderous marauders led by Fender Tremolo along the East coast of the United States in a post-apocalyptic future.-Plot:A...
Film	1989	War	Deadly Reactor
Film	1989	War	Empire of Ash II
Film	1989	War	Empire of Ash III Empire of Ash III Empire of Ash III is a post-apocalyptic science fiction movie from 1989. It is sequel to movie known as Empire of Ash or Empire of Ash II....
Novel	1989	War	Folk of the Fringe	Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the... , novella "West," plus several short stories.
Novel	1989	War	The King Awakes	Elliott, Janice, also author of The Empty Throne
Novel	1989	War	Masters of the Fist	Hughes, Edward P., coauthor The Long Mynd
Game	1989	War	Badlands Badlands (video game) Badlands is a 1989 arcade game published by Atari Games. It was later ported by Domark under the Tengen label to a number of home computers. It is set in the aftermath of a nuclear war and races around abandoned wastelands with many hazards...	Game by Atari Games Atari Games Atari Games Corporation was an American producer of arcade games, and originally part of Atari, Inc..-History:When, in 1984, Warner Communications sold the Atari Consumer division of Atari Inc...
Film	1989	Disease	Cyborg Cyborg (film) Cyborg is a 1989 American martial-arts science fiction film directed by Albert Pyun. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, a mercenary who battles a group of murderous marauders led by Fender Tremolo along the East coast of the United States in a post-apocalyptic future.-Plot:A...
Novel	1989	Disease	Plague 99 Plague 99 Plague 99 is a 1989 novel written by Jean Ure. It deals with a pandemic that shuts down London and group of three teenagers that survive the outbreak. The book takes an apocalyptic view and details the event of the three principal characters at the end of the year 1999 as the plague wipes out the...	Jean Ure. Sequels Come Lucky April and Watchers at the Shrine
Film	1989	Eco	Millennium Millennium (film) Millennium is a 1989 film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman and Daniel J. Travanti. The original music score was composed by Eric N. Robertson...
Film	1989	Eco	Slipstream Slipstream (1989 film) Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has been changed and is windswept by storms of great power...
Novel	1989	Eco	Stark Stark (novel) Stark is a 1989 novel by comedian Ben Elton. It was commercially and critically successful in the United Kingdom and Australia. It was Elton's first novel, and launched his writing career...	Ben Elton Ben Elton Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV....
Novel	1989	Human Decline	Dollarville	A novel by Pete Davis. A fierce fast cocktail of comedy and horror, wildlife and war, satellites and salsa moving from Africa to America to all the ends of the World.
Film	1989	Technology	Gunhed Gunhed (film) is a 1989 Japanese live-action mecha film. It is an adaptation of the manga "Gunhed" by Kia Asamiya.-Plot:In 2038, a gang of scavengers infiltrate an industrial complex on a island within a prohibited zone. They are looking for the element Texmexium, which is rare and very valuable...
Film	1989	Technology	Moontrap Moontrap Moontrap is a 1989 science fiction movie from Magic Films. It was written by Tex Ragsdale and directed by Robert Dyke. A comic book adaptation was released on the same year by Caliber Comics. The cast features Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell and Leigh Lombardi...
Story	1989	Technology	La Rebelión de los Robots	Short story in Spanish by Alberto I. Balcells.
Other	1989	Monsters	Moonbane	Novel by Al Sarrantonio. About a worldwide uprising of werewolves
Novel	1989	Supernatural	The Dead	By Mark E. Rogers Mark E. Rogers Mark E. Rogers is an American author-illustrator.-Biography:Rogers, while a student at Pt. Pleasant Beach High School, wrote a short novel, The Runestone, which has since been adapted into a 1990 film starring Peter Riegert and Joan Severance... . Combines themes of the rapture and zombies.
Film	1990	War	The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale (film) The Handmaid's Tale is a 1990 film adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff the film stars Natasha Richardson , Faye Dunaway , Robert Duvall , Aidan Quinn , and Elizabeth McGovern . The screenplay was written by Harold Pinter...
Film	1990	War	Hardware
Film	1990	War	Mindwarp Mindwarp (film) Mindwarp is a 1992 post-apocalyptic science fiction movie, starring Bruce Campbell as Stover, Angus Scrimm as the Seer, Marta Martin as Judy, Elizabeth Kent as Cornelia, and Wendy Sandow as Claude...
Film	1990	War	Robot Jox Robot Jox Robot Jox is a 1990 science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon, and starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Paul Koslo.-Plot:Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, open war is forbidden by the surviving nations, which have merged into two opposing super-nations: the American-influenced...
Television	1990	War	The Girl from Tomorrow The Girl from Tomorrow The Girl from Tomorrow is an Australian children's television series created by Film Australia. The series is based around Alana , a girl from the year 3000...	Australian children's drama in which a girl from the 31st century (after the Northern Hemisphere has been destroyed in the Great Disaster, later revealed to be a nuclear holocaust) becomes stranded in the 20th century. In the sequel, Tomorrow's End The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End is an Australian children's television series created by Film Australia. The series is a sequel series to The Girl from Tomorrow.... (1993), she and her friends fight to prevent history from being changed in such a way that the Southern Hemisphere is destroyed as well.
Novel	1990	War	Nightfall	Asimov, Isaac Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000... , Robert Silverberg (extension written by Silverberg of the Asimov story of the same name)
Game	1990	War	Mad Max Mad Max (video game) Mad Max is a NES game that is based on the film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.-General information:The object is to survive life after the end of the world by battling survivalists and collecting valuable food, water, gasoline, and money in order to continue racing into the desert wasteland that lies...	Game
Game	1990	War	Rifts Rifts (role-playing game) Rifts is a multi-genre role-playing game created by Kevin Siembieda in 1990 and published continuously by Palladium Books since then. Rifts takes place in a post-apocalyptic future, deriving elements from cyberpunk, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western, mythology and many other genres.Rifts...	Game A nuclear exchange triggers the return of Ley Lines and Interdimensional Rifts or portals. These Ley Lines and Portals subsequently cause several natural and supernatural disasters.
Film	1990	Disease	A Wind Named Amnesia A Wind Named Amnesia , also known as Wind of Amnesia in the United Kingdom, is a Japanese novel authored by Hideyuki Kikuchi, originally published in 1983 by Asahi Sonorama. An anime film adaptation was released theatrically on December 22, 1990, directed by Kazuo Yamazaki...	A mysterious plague has swept over the entire world, causing everyone to suffer from amnesia, leading to the collapse of civilization. Based on a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi Hideyuki Kikuchi is a Japanese author famous for his horror novels. His most famous works including the Vampire Hunter D series, Darkside Blues and Wicked City. He has been compared to both Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft.-Biography:... .
Television	1990	Disease	Not with a Bang Not with a Bang Not with a Bang was a short-lived British television sitcom produced by London Weekend Television in 1990. It ran for seven episodes, each 30 minutes long, before being cancelled due to poor ratings and a stagnant plot. The show was a dark science fiction comedy, focusing on the end of the human...	ITV ITV ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...  show, about 3 people who lived after everyone else in England was turned to dust by a chemical that was accidentally released by a television presenter.
Novel	1990	Disease	The City, Not Long After	By Murphy, Pat. In the wake of a devastating worldwide plague, a handful of artists transform the City of San Francisco, and fend off marauders with a touch of magic.
Novel	1990	Disease	A Gift Upon the Shore A Gift Upon the Shore A Gift Upon the Shore is a 1990 novel by M. K. Wren.-Plot introduction:"Set in the near future, A Gift traces the first generations to survive nuclear war and its aftermath. Writer Mary Hope and painter Rachel Morrow scratch out a meager existence on a farm on the Oregon coast...	Wren, M. K. M. K. Wren Martha Kay Renfroe is an Oregon writer, author of mystery and science fiction under the penname M.K. Wren...
Film	1990	Aliens	I Come in Peace I Come in Peace I Come in Peace is a 1990 science fiction action thriller feature film about a rule-breaking vice cop who becomes involved in the investigation of a number of mysterious drug-related murders on the streets of Houston, Texas. The film was directed by Craig R...	Also known as Dark Angel, directed by Craig R. Baxley Craig R. Baxley Craig Redding Baxley is an American actor, director and stunt performer. He is best known for his work in the action and thriller genres.... .
Novel	1990	Aliens	The Madness Season	Celia S. Friedman Celia S. Friedman Celia S. Friedman is a writer of science fiction and fantasy.Friedman writes epic science fiction and fantasy novels which feature complex interweavings of plot and richly detailed settings. To date she has published eight novels, several short stories, and a sourcebook for White Wolf's Vampire:...
Film	1990	Eco	Mindwarp Mindwarp (film) Mindwarp is a 1992 post-apocalyptic science fiction movie, starring Bruce Campbell as Stover, Angus Scrimm as the Seer, Marta Martin as Judy, Elizabeth Kent as Cornelia, and Wendy Sandow as Claude...	Taking place in the year 2037, the loss of the ozone layer has left most of the planet a desolate wasteland scattered with highly radioactive Death Zones.
Film	1990	Eco	Omega Cop Omega Cop Omega Cop is a 1990 film starring Adam West, Ronald L. Marchini, Stuart Whitman, and Troy Donahue. It was also released under the title John Travis: Solar Survivor. This film was also written and produced by Ronald L...	After an environmental holocaust, a lone cop battles a gang of rampaging marauders.
Novel	1990	Social Collapse	Wolf and Iron	By Dickson, Gordon R. Gordon R. Dickson Gordon Rupert Dickson was an American science fiction author.- Biography :Dickson was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1923. After the death of his father, he moved with his mother to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1937... . A man and a wolf band together to survive in an America devastated by financial collapse.
Television	1990–1991	Technology	Bucky O'Hare Bucky O'Hare Bucky O'Hare is a fictional character and the hero of an eponymous comic book series as well as spin-off media including an animated TV series and various toys and video games...
Television	1990–1992	Eco	Captain Planet	Environment disaster. The Captain Planet two-parter Two Futures, in which the character Wheeler gets a glimpse of what could happen if damage to the environment was allowed to continue unchecked
Novel	1990–1994	War	Gan Moondark	Donald E. McQuinn Donald E. McQuinn Donald E. McQuinn is an American best-selling author, and former U.S. Marine.McQuinn graduated high school in Texas, and attended the University of Washington on a Navy scholarship. He served twenty years in the Marines—retiring in 1971 as a major—before becoming an author... , trilogy Warrior, Wanderer, & Witch, set in the Pacific Northwest, generations after World War III.
Film	1991	War	Delicatessen Delicatessen (film) Delicatessen is a 1991 French black comedy film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon and Karin Viard. It is set in an apartment building in a post-apocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period. The story focuses on the tenants of the building and their desperate...	By Jean-Pierre Jeunet Jean-Pierre Jeunet -Life and career:Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and...  and Marc Caro Marc Caro Marc Caro, born April 2, 1956, is a French filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his co-directing projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The two of them met at a film festival in 1974, and directed three short and two feature length films together....
Novel	1991	War	Yellow Peril Yellow Peril (novel) Yellow Peril is a 1991 novel by Wang Lixiong, written in Chinese under the pseudonym Bao Mi , about a civil war in the People's Republic of China that becomes a nuclear exchange and soon engulfs the world, causing World War III...	Wang Lixiong Wang Lixiong Wang Lixiong is a Chinese writer and scholar, best known for his political prophecy fiction, Yellow Peril , which was ranked 41st in The 100 Most Influential Chinese Novels in 20th Centuryby Asia Weekly and has gained widespread popularity in China as well as worldwide media attention despite... , in the Chinese Chinese language The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...  under the pseudonym Bao Mi, about a nuclear civil war in the People's Republic of China People's Republic of China China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
Game	1991	War	Armour-Geddon Armour-Geddon Armour-Geddon is a 3D computer game developed and published in 1991 by Psygnosis for the Amiga, MS-DOS and Atari ST platforms.There is also a sequel of this game called Armour-Geddon 2: Codename Hellfire available only for Amiga...	Game from Psygnosis
Novel	1991	Impact Event	Survival 2000	James McPhee
Novel	1991	Eco	Fallen Angels Fallen Angels (science fiction novel) Fallen Angels is a Prometheus Award-winning novel by science fiction authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn published by Jim Baen. The novel was written as a tribute to science fiction fandom, and includes many of its well-known figures, legends, and practices...	Larry Niven Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics... , Jerry Pournelle Jerry Pournelle Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog.... , and Michael Flynn. Space-based civilization exists despite the government's wishes during an ice age.
Game	1991	Eco	Dark Sun Dark Sun Dark Sun is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting featuring the fictional desert world of Athas. The original Dark Sun Boxed Set campaign setting was released in 1991....	A Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting by TSR, Inc. TSR, Inc. Blume and Gygax, the remaining owners, incorporated a new company called TSR Hobbies, Inc., with Blume and his father, Melvin Blume, owning the larger share. The former assets of the partnership were transferred to TSR Hobbies, Inc.... , focusing on a world that has been turned into an inhospitable desert by overuse of magic that destroyed the surrounding vegetation.
Film	1991	Supernatural	The Rapture The Rapture (film) The Rapture is a 1991 psychological/religious drama film starring Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau, Marvin Elkins, Will Patton, and Stephanie Menuez; directed by Michael Tolkin; rated R; 100 minutes long; and produced by New Line Cinema.-Cast:*Mimi Rogers... Sharon*David...
Television	1992	War	woops! Woops! Woops! is an American post-apocalyptic sitcom that aired on the Fox network from September 27 to December 6, 1992.-Synopsis:The series centered around the six survivors of a world nuclear holocaust. The six of them live together in an abandoned farm house while trying to survive and re-establish...	Short-lived sitcom about the survivors of a nuclear war.
Game	1992	War	Outlander Outlander (video game) Outlander is an action driving video game with a post-apocalyptic theme. It was developed and published by Mindscape in 1992 for the Sega Genesis and in 1993 for the Super Nintendo.-Gameplay:...	Game Mad Max inspired driving game from 1992/93 for Snes and Genesis
Novel	1992	Disease	The Children of Men The Children of Men The Children of Men is a dystopian novel by P. D. James that was published in 1992. Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility...	James, P. D. P. D. James Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL , commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.-Life and career:James...
Film	1992	Technology	American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
Other	1992	Monsters	Skeletons	Novel by Al Sarrantonio. The galaxy passes through a 'cloud' in space, which causes all previously expired creatures on Earth to return to life as bloodthirsty skeletons shrouded in ghostly mirages of their former selves
Film	1993	War	Cyborg 2 Cyborg 2 Cyborg 2, released in some countries as Glass Shadow, is a 1993 science fiction action film directed by Michael Schroeder. It is an unrelated sequel to the 1989 film Cyborg, although footage from the original is used in a dream sequence...
Film	1993	War	Robot Wars Robot Wars (film) Robot Wars is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Albert Band and written by Charles Band and Jackson Barr.It has been listed sometimes as a sequel to Robot Jox, but is not a real sequel, story-wise...	Sequel to Robot Jox
Novel	1993	Disease	Doomsday Book Doomsday Book (novel) Doomsday Book is a 1992 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. The novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was shortlisted for other awards...	Willis, Connie Connie Willis Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for Blackout/All Clear...
Film	1993	Aliens	Body Snatchers Body Snatchers (1993 film) Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science fiction horror film and loosely based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. The film was directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, R...	Another film based on the novel The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes the fictional town of Santa Mira, California being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space...  by Jack Finney Jack Finney Jack Finney was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.-Biography:Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and given the... .
Other	1993	Aliens	X-COM: UFO Defense X-COM: UFO Defense UFO: Enemy Unknown is a critically acclaimed strategy video game created by Julian Gollop and published by MicroProse Software in 1993...  and subsequent follow-ups	The computer game.
Film	1993	Eco	The Last Border - Viimeisellä Rajalla	One man's quest for revenge in a world where toxic waste has driven the remains of civilization into the Arctic Circle.
Novel	1993	Eco	The Fifth Sacred Thing The Fifth Sacred Thing The Fifth Sacred Thing is a 1993 post-apocalyptic novel written by Starhawk.-Plot:The novel describes a world set in the year 2048 after a catastrophe which has fractured the United States into several nations...	Starhawk Starhawk Starhawk is an American writer and activist. She is well known as a theorist of Paganism, and is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism. She is a columnist for Beliefnet.com and On Faith, the Newsweek/Washington Post online forum on religion...
Novel	1993	Eco	Deus X	Norman Spinrad Norman Spinrad Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,... . The results of global warming Global warming Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
Novel	1993	Eco	This Other Eden This Other Eden (novel) This Other Eden is a satirical novel written by Ben Elton.-Plot introduction:The novel is set in the reasonably near future. Earth is being devastated by Mankind's continued exploitation, and it seems obvious that the environment will collapse sometime in the near future...	Ben Elton Ben Elton Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV.... . The Earth Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets... 's population is forced to live in Biodome Closed ecological system Closed ecological systems are ecosystems that do not rely on matter exchange with any part outside the system.The term is most often used to describe small manmade ecosystems... s for 50 years while the environment recovers from mankind's actions.
Television	1993	Eco	Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (TV series) Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is an American Saturday morning animated television series which aired on CBS Kids in the United States from 1993 to 1994. Based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Schultz, the show was created by screenwriter Steven E...	Science fiction. The 1993 animated series.
Game	1993	Eco	Secret of Mana Secret of Mana Secret of Mana is an action role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed and published by Square in 1993. The game was re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console in 2008, and was ported to Japanese mobile phones in 2009...	console Takes place long after a time of environmental collapse that destroyed the world's older advanced civilizations.
Novel	1993	Technology	Computer One Computer One Computer One is a science fiction novel of the near future by British novelist Warwick Collins, published in 1993. The novel charts the discovery by Professor Enzo Yakuda that the international civil network of computers known as "Computer One" will come to see humanity as a threat and move to...	By Warwick Collins Warwick Collins Warwick Collins is a British novelist, screenwriter, yacht designer, and evolutionary theorist.Collins was born in Johannesburg to English-speaking parents. His father, Robin Collins, was a novelist who wrote under the nom-de-plume Robin Cranford... .
Novel	1993	Technology	The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a 1994 novella by Roger Williams, a computer programmer living in New Orleans. It deals with the ramifications of a powerful, superintelligent supercomputer that discovers a method of rewriting the "BIOS" of reality while studying a little known quirk of...	By Roger Williams.
Game	1993	Technology	RayForce RayForce RayForce is a vertical space shooter style game by Taito released for the Taito F3 arcade hardware in 1993 and later ported to the Sega Saturn in 1995....	Multia Japanese scrolling shooter arcade game.
Other	1993	Monsters	Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (TV series) Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is an American Saturday morning animated television series which aired on CBS Kids in the United States from 1993 to 1994. Based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Schultz, the show was created by screenwriter Steven E...	AnimatedTV series. In which dinosaurs reclaim the earth. Based upon the comic series "Xenozoic Tales Xenozoic Tales Xenozoic Tales is an alternative comic book by Mark Schultz set in a post-apocalyptic future. Publication began in 1986 with the story "Xenozoic!" included in the comic anthology Death Rattle. This was shortly followed by Xenozoic Tales #1 in February 1987... "
Game	1993–present	Technology	Mega Man X series Mega Man X series The Mega Man X series is the second Mega Man franchise released by Capcom. It debuted December 17, 1993 in Japan on the Super NES/Super Famicom and spawned sequels on several systems, with the PC platform notably having the most releases within the series...	A video game series created by Capcom Capcom is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Chaos Legion, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Capcom developed and published Bionic Commando, Lost Planet and Dark Void too, but they are less known. Its... .
Television	1994	War	Knight Rider 2010 Knight Rider 2010 Knight Rider 2010 is a 1994 made-for-TV movie for Universal Television's Action Pack very loosely based on the television series Knight Rider.- Differences between Knight Rider and Knight Rider 2010 :...	Made for TV movie that was designed to be a pilot for a post- Apocalyptic spin-off from the original Knight Rider
Television	1994	Disease	The Stand	miniseries
Television	1994	Impact Event	Highlander: The Animated Series Highlander: The Animated Series Highlander: The Animated Series is a Canadian-French animated television series which premiered on September 18, 1994. It is a loose spinoff of the cult classic 1986 film of the same name. The series was produced by Gaumont Multimedia with the worldwide distribution rights owned by Bohbot...
Game	1994	Impact Event	Illusion of Gaia Illusion of Gaia , known in Europe as Illusion of Time, is an action role-playing game that was released on September 1, 1994, for the Super NES . It was developed by Quintet. Enix published the game in Japan, and Nintendo published it worldwide...	Super Nintendo A game were a comet passes next to Earth, which is a malicious being whose light turns humans into monsters. The story takes place in an altered reality, where to approaching comet already changed timeline and reality.
Game	1994	Eco	Final Fantasy VI Final Fantasy VI is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square , released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as a part of the Final Fantasy series. Set in a fantasy world with a technology level equivalent to that of the Second Industrial Revolution, the game's story focuses on a...	console Named Final Fantasy III during initial American launch of the game, features a plot twist in where villain Kefka moves magical statues out of their intended alignment, which in turn causes the balanced fictional world to fall into ruin, and for Kefka to become its new god while protected by the powers of the same statues.
Game	1994	Technology	Earthsiege	And sequels, from Sierra Entertainment Sierra Entertainment Sierra Entertainment Inc. was an American video-game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams... .
Game	1994	Technology	Rise of the Robots Rise of the Robots Rise of the Robots is a 1994 fighting style video game developed by Mirage Studios and published by Time Warner Interactive. It was ported to numerous home console and computer formats, and was also released as an arcade game cabinet....	MultiDeveloped by Mirage Studios. A fighting game.
Game	1994	Technology	System Shock System Shock System Shock is a first-person action-adventure video game developed by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems. Released in 1994, the game is set aboard the fictional Citadel Station in a cyberpunk vision of 2072...	By Looking Glass Technologies, incorporates elements from Alien invasion Alien invasion The alien invasion is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrial life invades Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under a colonial system, harvest humans for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.The...  theory.
Novel	1994	Unspecified	Vanishing Point Vanishing Point Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action-road movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian; starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger....	By Michaela Roessner Michaela Roessner Michaela-Marie Roessner-Hermann is an American science-fiction writer publishing under the name Michaela Roessner. Born in San Francisco, she was raised in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Thailand, and Oregon... . Life in Silicon Valley 30 years after the mysterious and spontaneous disappearance of 90% of the world's population. The Winchester Mystery House Winchester Mystery House The Winchester Mystery House is a well-known mansion in California. It once was the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester. It was continuously under construction for 38 years and is reported to be haunted. It now serves as a tourist attraction...  ("The House") serves as a focal point for parallel universes and inexplicable energies that are changing the world and its post-Vanishing children.
Other	1994–2006	Eco	Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko is a science fiction manga written and illustrated by Hitoshi Ashinano. The title can be translated Yokohama Shopping Log or Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip. One tankōbon volume, the publisher's former English language website, and the second original video animation series have the subtitle...	The Japanese manga series, set in a peaceful post-cataclysmic Japan, after an untold environmental disaster.
Film	1995	War	Fist of the North Star Fist of the North Star (1995 film) Fist of the North Star is a 1995 American straight-to-video live-action film based on the eponymous manga by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara. The film was directed by Tony Randel, who also co-wrote the script with Peter Akins, and stars Gary Daniels, Costas Mandylor, Chris Penn, Isako Washio, and Malcom...	Live-action martial arts film.
Film	1995	War	Judge Dredd Judge Dredd (film) Judge Dredd is a 1995 American science fiction action film directed by Danny Cannon, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the strip of the same name in the British comic 2000 AD...
Television	1995	War	Summer Days Dream	In the years following a nuclear war, in which Britain is ruled by a world government World government World government is the notion of a single common political authority for all of humanity. Its modern conception is rooted in European history, particularly in the philosophy of ancient Greece, in the political formation of the Roman Empire, and in the subsequent struggle between secular authority,... , a family is visited by three representatives of said government.
Film	1995	Disease	Twelve Monkeys Twelve Monkeys 12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film La jetée, and starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer....	Directed by Terry Gilliam Terry Gilliam Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys... . Based on La jetée (see above).
Film	1995	Impact Event	Tank Girl Tank Girl (film) Tank Girl is a 1995 science fiction action film loosely based on the Tank Girl comic book created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. It was directed by Rachel Talalay and stars Lori Petty as Rebecca Buck, aka the eponymous Tank Girl, who had originally appeared in the UK comic magazine...	Loosely based on the comic by Jamie Hewlett Jamie Hewlett Jamie Christopher Hewlett is an English comic book artist and designer. He is known for being the co-creator of the comic Tank Girl and co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz.-Biography:...
Other	1995	Aliens	Chrono Trigger Chrono Trigger is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995. Chrono Triggers development team included three designers that Square dubbed the "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Square's Final Fantasy series; Yuji Horii, a...	The console game, where modern civilization is at risk of being destroyed by an alien parasite in 1999 AD.
Film	1995	Eco	Waterworld Waterworld Waterworld is a 1995 post-apocalyptic science fiction film. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It is based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it. It was distributed by Universal Pictures...	Global Warming has caused all landmasses on Earth to be covered by the sea. The remnants of humanity survive on "atolls," mechanical floating cities that are constantly attacked by pirates with steam-driven ships. Some humans have evolved to become amphibious to live among the old wreckage beneath the waves. Many people live in hope of finding the mythical "Dryland," the place safe from the seas (which turns out to be the Himalayan Mountains).
Novel	1995	Eco	Mother of Storms Mother of Storms Mother of Storms is a 1994 science fiction novel by John Barnes. It was nominated for three major science fiction awards.-Plot summary:In the early 21st century, the earth suffers from a giant hurricane spawned by the release of clathrate compounds, as the result of a nuclear explosion...	John Barnes John Barnes (author) -Writing:Two of his novels, The Sky So Big and Black and The Duke of Uranium have been reviewed as having content appropriate for a young adult readership, comparing favorably to Robert A. Heinlein's "juvenile" novels... . A tactical nuclear strike in the North Pacific releases massive amounts of methane, spawning worldwide super hurricanes.
Novel	1995	Eco	Ill Wind	Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels...  and Doug Beason Doug Beason Doug Beason is an American scientist and science fiction author.He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 with a dual major in physics and math. He started his first novel while at the Academy after returning there as an officer in the 1980s to teach physics. He is a retired... . A microbe consumes all materials based on petroleum.
Film	1995	Technology	Screamers
Comic	1995	Technology	Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith is a six-part story arc in the Tales of the Jedi series of comic books written by Kevin J. Anderson. The first issue was published on 1 February 1996 by Dark Horse Comics. The story is set in the Star Wars galaxy 3,997 BBY years before the Battle of Yavin...	Comics, great Droid Revolution
Television	1995	Technology	Space: Above and Beyond Space: Above and Beyond Space: Above and Beyond was a short-lived mid-90s American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Originally planned for five seasons, it ran only for the single 1995–1996 season. It was nominated for two Emmy Awards and one Saturn...
Game	1995	Technology	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	From Cyberdreams.
Game	1995	Technology	Vertical Force Vertical Force Vertical Force is a vertically-scrolling shooter, with two layers for Nintendo's Virtual Boy video game system. It was developed by Hudson Soft and released in 1995.-Gameplay:...	Virtual Boy Virtual Boy The was a video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was the first video game console that was supposed to be capable of displaying "true 3D graphics" out of the box. Whereas most video games use monocular cues to achieve the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional... A vertical shoot-em-up scroller game, with two layers for Nintendo's Virtual Boy video game system.
Game	1995	Technology	Red Alarm Red Alarm is a game for the Virtual Boy video game console. Released in August 1995 by T&E Soft, it was one of the four titles available at the console's introduction. The game takes place 70 years in the future , where a computer named KAOS threatens to take over the world and destroy mankind...	Nintendo
Television	1995	Supernatural	Neon Genesis Evangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion , commonly referred to as Evangelion, is a commercially and critically successful Japanese anime series that began airing in October 1995. The series was highly influential, and launched the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. It garnered several major animation awards...	The science fiction anime, in which mankind's unearthing of a being known as Adam brings about Second Impact, a catastrophic shockwave which destroys Antarctica and subsequently leads to the extinction of thousands of organisms, the destruction of much of the civilized world, and the deaths of billions. Millions more die from the social and economic troubles which follow this impact and the ensuing wars.
Novel	1995	Supernatural	The Third Millennium	By Paul Meier Paul Meier (author) Paul Meier, is an American Doctor of Medicine and Christian author of several self help books as well as a series of Christian novels, the Third Millennium series, which according to its publisher have sold more than 300,000 copies.... . Also 1996's The Fourth Mellennium.
Game	1995–present	Eco	Command & Conquer: Tiberian series Command & Conquer: Tiberian series The Command & Conquer: Tiberian series is a sub-series of real-time strategy video games belonging to the extensive Command & Conquer franchise by Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts...	PC Series of games in which a radioactive, self-replicating alien crystal known as Tiberium Tiberium Tiberium or Ichor is a fictional substance that is central to the plot of much of the Command & Conquer series of real-time strategy video games...  has rendered most of the Earth's surface uninhabitable.
Film	1996	War	Escape from L.A. Escape from L.A. Escape From L.A. is a 1996 film directed by John Carpenter. The sequel to the action film Escape from New York, the film follows former war hero Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell...
Film	1996	War	Star Trek: First Contact Star Trek: First Contact Star Trek: First Contact is the eighth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise, released in November 1996, by Paramount Pictures. First Contact is the first film in the franchise to feature no cast members from the original Star Trek television series of the 1960s...	A late-21st century Earth is devastated by nuclear conflict.
Novel	1996	War	Arc Light Arc Light Arc Light is the debut novel by Eric L. Harry, a techno-thriller about limited nuclear war published in 1994 and written in 1991-2.As China and Russia clash in Siberia in June 1999, nuclear missiles strike the United States. The U.S. retaliates against Russia, and World War III begins...	Eric L. Harry, limited nuclear war between the US and Soviets.
Game	1996	War	Land of Devastation	Game A BBS Door BBS door A door is a computer program, on a bulletin board system, that runs outside of the main bulletin board program. Sometimes called external programs, doors are the most common way to add games, utilities, and other extensions to BBSes. From the 1990s on, most BBS software had the capability to...
Film	1996	Aliens	Independence Day Independence Day (film) Independence Day is a 1996 science fiction film about an alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 – the same...	1996 1996 in film Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...  science fiction film Science fiction film Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...  about a hostile alien invasion Alien invasion The alien invasion is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrial life invades Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under a colonial system, harvest humans for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.The...  of Earth Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets... .
Film	1996	Aliens	Mars Attacks! Mars Attacks! Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Tim Burton and based on the cult trading card series of the same name. The film uses elements of black comedy, surreal humour, and political satire, and claims to be also a parody of multiple science fiction B movies...	Based on the trading card Trading card A trading card is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing and a short description of the picture, along with other text...  series Mars Attacks Mars Attacks Mars Attacks is a science fiction trading card series released in 1962. The cards feature artwork by science-fiction artist Wallace Wood and tell the story of the invasion of Earth by cruel, hideous Martians. The cards depicted futuristic battle scenes and bizarre methods of Martian attack, torture... (1962).
Novel	1996	Aliens	The Killing Star The Killing Star The Killing Star is a hard science fiction novel by Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski, published in April, 1995. It covers several familiar speculative fiction ideas such as sublight interstellar travel, genetic cloning, virtual reality, advanced robotics, alien contact, and interstellar...	Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski George Zebrowski George Zebrowski is a science fiction author and editor who has written and edited a number of books. He lives with author Pamela Sargent, with whom he has co-written a number of novels, including Star Trek novels.Zebrowski won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1999 for his novel Brute Orbits... . Aliens conduct a preemptive strike against humanity with relativistic missiles.
Novel	1996	Aliens	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches is a 1996 Bantam Spectra science fiction anthology, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. It is a tribute to H. G...	Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels... . Edited by Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels...  is an anthology of short stories set during the events of The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.The War of the Worlds may also refer to:- Radio broadcasts :* The War of the Worlds , the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles... by H. G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games... .
Film	1996	Technology	Omega Doom Omega Doom Omega Doom is a 1996 film by Albert Pyun, starring Rutger Hauer who plays a robot who, during a nuclear winter, plays both sides of a robot civil war against each other in a small town...
Novel	1996	Technology	Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88	By Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels... .
Game	1996	Human Decline	The House of the Dead The House of the Dead (series) The House of the Dead is a video game franchise published by Sega and created by in-house designer Atsushi Seimiya of AM1....	SegaThe The House of the Dead The House of the Dead (series) The House of the Dead is a video game franchise published by Sega and created by in-house designer Atsushi Seimiya of AM1.... series of video games. Scientist Dr. Curien finds a way to reanimate the dead, though not without disastrous results. Later in the series' timeline, Caleb Goldman uses the undead in his mission to destroy the human race and protect the Earth from further destruction by humans.
Television	1996, 1999	Technology	The Outer Limits The Outer Limits (1995 TV series) The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002...	The 1996 episode "Resurrection" and the 1999 episode "The Human Operators"
Television	1996–1997	Impact Event	After War Gundam X After War Gundam X After War Gundam X, known in Japan as , is an anime television series from Japan. It is a part of the Gundam franchise that started in 1979, but takes place in an alternate universe called After War Era. The series has 39 episodes, aired in Japan from April 5, 1996 to December 28, 1996 across TV...	Anime series
Game	1996–present	Disease	Resident Evil	MultiVideo game series
Film	1997	War	The Postman The Postman (film) The Postman is an American post-apocalyptic epic film based on the 1985 novel of the same name by David Brin. It was filmed in northeastern Washington , Fidalgo Island, Washington, central Oregon and Tucson, Arizona, and was directed by Kevin Costner, who also stars in the film...	Partly based on the David Brin David Brin Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.-Biography:...  Novel
Novel	1997	War	Aftermath	Burton, LeVar LeVar Burton Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. , professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, director, producer and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley... , American civilization crumbles after a civil war pitting blacks against whites and a devastating earthquake.
Game	1997	War	Interstate '76 Interstate '76 Interstate '76 is a vehicular combat video game for Windows. It was developed and published by Activision and released in March 1997.-Gameplay:...	Game from Activision Activision Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles...
Game	1997	War	KKnD series	Game
Television	1997	Impact Event	Asteroid Asteroid (film) Asteroid is a 1997 NBC TV movie about the United States government trying to stop an asteroid colliding with the Earth. It stars Michael Biehn. The movie won the 1997 Emmy Award in category Outstanding Special Visual Effects.-Plot:...
Novel	1997	Impact Event	Titan	Stephen Baxter Stephen Baxter Stephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.- Writing style :...
Novel	1997	Aliens	Shade's Children Shade's Children Shade's Children is a young adult science fiction/fantasy novel written by Garth Nix. It was first published in 1997 by HarperCollins.-Background:...	Garth Nix Garth Nix Garth Nix is an Australian author of young adult fantasy novels, most notably the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the... . "Overlords" destroy all human life over the age of 14.
Novel	1997	Aliens	The Alien Years The Alien Years The Alien Years is a three-part miniseries that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on April 19 1988. It was directed by Donald Crombie and written by Peter Yeldham. It stars Victoria Longley, John Hargreaves and Academy Award-winner, Christoph Waltz...	Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:...
Other	1997	Aliens	Spellcross Spellcross Spellcross: The Last Battle is a turn-based DOS strategy game for the PC, developed by the Czechoslovakia company Cauldron HQ and published by SCi in 1997/1998...	Turn based strategy game on PC
Game	1997	Eco	7th Legion 7th Legion 7th Legion is a real-time strategy computer game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Vision Software and Epic Games and published by Microprose in 1997...	PCThe Chosen, a group consisting of a corporate- and government-determined human elect, depart a heavily polluted Earth via a fleet of starships, returning as a force to reoccupy Earth, fighting against the titular 7th Legion, a coalition of the most advanced post-apocalypse humans on Earth.
Game	1997	Technology	GURPS Reign of Steel GURPS Reign of Steel Reign of Steel is a setting sourcebook for the GURPS role-playing game system describing a future world conquered by a conspiracy of artificial intelligences...	A setting for the GURPS GURPS The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...  role playing system.
Film	1997	Human Decline	The End of Evangelion The End of Evangelion is a 1997 Japanese animated science fiction film written and directed by Hideaki Anno along with Kazuya Tsurumaki; it ended the anime releases in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise until the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy remakes were announced in 2006....	All humankind are reverted to a "primordial soup" and merged into a single consummate being.
Film	1997	Unspecified	Alien Resurrection	Features a deleted scene (restored to the film in the Alien Quadrilogy box set) in which Ripley and the other survivors land the Auriga in a devastated Paris. The cause of the destruction is never made clear.
Game	1997–2010	War	Fallout series Fallout series Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing games published by Interplay Entertainment and later by Bethesda Softworks. Although the series is set during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, its retrofuturistic story and artwork are influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s America, and its...	Game from Interplay Interplay Entertainment Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo. The company had been a quality developer until they started publishing their own games in 1988, like Neuromancer and Battle Chess. The company was renamed...  (Fallout and Fallout 2 Fallout 2 Fallout 2 is a computer role-playing game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay in 1998. The game's story takes place in 2241, 80 years after the events of Fallout... ) and Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks, LLC, is an American video game company. A subsidiary of ZeniMax Media, the company was originally based in Bethesda, Maryland and eventually moved to their current location in Rockville, Maryland...  (Fallout 3 Fallout 3 Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and the third major installment in the Fallout series. The game was released in North America, Europe and Australia in October 2008, and in Japan in December 2008 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...  and Fallout: New Vegas Fallout: New Vegas Fallout: New Vegas is a first person action role-playing video game in the Fallout series developed by Obsidian Entertainment, and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is based in a post-apocalyptic environment in and around Las Vegas, Nevada... )
Film	1998	War	Six-String Samurai Six-String Samurai Six-String Samurai is a 1998 post-apocalyptic action/comedy film directed by Lance Mungia. Brian Tyler composed the score for this film along with the Red Elvises, the latter providing the majority of the soundtrack....
Game	1998	War	BattleTanx BattleTanx BattleTanx is an action game for the Nintendo 64, produced by 3DO. The game is followed by a sequel titled BattleTanx: Global Assault.-Plot:...	Game from The 3DO Company The 3DO Company The 3DO Company , also known as 3DO , was a video game company...
Game	1998	War	Vigilante 8 Vigilante 8 Vigilante 8 is a vehicular combat video game released on June 4, 1998 for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Color. It is a spinoff of the PC game Interstate '76, and features several concepts carried over from that title.Vigilante 8 was developed with a team of only five people Vigilante...	By Activision Activision Activision is an American publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. Its current CEO is Robert Kotick. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the world's first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles... .
Novel	1998	Disease	The Transall Saga The Transall Saga The Transall Saga is a 1998 novel by Gary Paulsen. It is a survival story like most of his other books, but also involves the science fiction genre with its post-apocalyptic setting.-Plot:...	Paulsen, Gary Gary Paulsen Gary James Paulsen is an American writer who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books , 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults and teens.-Biography:Gary Paulsen was born in...
Novel	1998	Impact Event	Moonfall	Jack McDevitt Jack McDevitt Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology....
Film	1998	Aliens	The Faculty The Faculty The Faculty is a 1998 science fiction horror film written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Robert Rodriguez...	Directed by Robert Rodriguez Robert Rodriguez Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet... . Six students are about to find out their teachers really are from another planet.
Other	1998	Aliens	Half-Life	The computer game and its sequel Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2 , the sequel to Half-Life, is a first-person shooter video game and a signature title in the Half-Life series. It is singleplayer, story-driven, science fiction, and linear... .
Other	1998	Aliens	Getter Robo Armageddon Getter Robo Armageddon , often simply referred to as Change!! Getter Robo in Japan, is an original video animation released in 1998 by Bandai Visual, based on the manga and anime series Getter Robo, created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa...	The OVA, where a combination of a nuclear missile and amorphous alien Invaders results in a war with the fate of humanity at stake.
Other	1998	Aliens	Getter Robo Armageddon Getter Robo Armageddon , often simply referred to as Change!! Getter Robo in Japan, is an original video animation released in 1998 by Bandai Visual, based on the manga and anime series Getter Robo, created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa...	The OVA, where a combination of a nuclear missile and amorphous alien Invaders results in a war with the fate of humanity at stake.
Novel	1998	Eco	Aftermath	Charles Sheffield Charles Sheffield Charles Sheffield , was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author. He had been a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.... . Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus...  goes supernova Supernova A supernova is a stellar explosion that is more energetic than a nova. It is pronounced with the plural supernovae or supernovas. Supernovae are extremely luminous and cause a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy, before fading from view over several weeks or months...  and causes cataclysmic climate change
Novel	1998	Eco	Dust	Charles Pellegrino. All the insect species on Earth die out, and the ecology crashes as a result
Other	1998	Eco	Getter Robo Armageddon Getter Robo Armageddon , often simply referred to as Change!! Getter Robo in Japan, is an original video animation released in 1998 by Bandai Visual, based on the manga and anime series Getter Robo, created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa...	Invasion. The OVA, where a combination of a nuclear missile and amorphous alien Invaders results in a war with the fate of humanity at stake.
Game	1998	Technology	RayCrisis RayCrisis RayCrisis, known as RayCrisis: Series Termination in North America, is the third game released in the "Ray" series of Taito shooting games. Chronologically, it is considered a prequel to the first game, RayForce...	MultiA prequel to RayForce RayForce RayForce is a vertical space shooter style game by Taito released for the Taito F3 arcade hardware in 1993 and later ported to the Sega Saturn in 1995.... .
Game	1998	Technology	KKND2: Krossfire KKND2: Krossfire KKnD2: Krossfire is the sequel to KKnD released on October 31, 1998. It is set 2179, 100 years after the World Nuclear War. After spending another 4 decades underground, hiding from the first loss against the Evolved, the Survivors rose up to a new enemy: the Series 9...	Is the sequel to KKnD KKnD KKnD, or Krush, Kill 'n' Destroy is a series of post-apocalyptic real-time strategy games by Beam Software. KKnD was released in 1997, while a sequel - KKND2: Krossfire was released in 1998... , as part of its plot, Series 9 are advanced farming robots that have taken it unto themselves to destroy all life.
Other	1998	Technology	Obsolete (album) Obsolete (album) Obsolete is the third studio album by American industrial metal band Fear Factory, released on July 28, 1998. Conceptually, it is a sequel to 1995's Demanufacture...	By Fear Factory Fear Factory Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...
Game	1998	Future Collapse	Xenogears Xenogears is a science-fiction console role-playing game developed and published by Square for Sony's PlayStation. It was released on February 11, 1998 in Japan and on October 20, 1998 in North America. The game was never released in PAL territories...	PlayStationSet in a world with two nations fight with weapons found in ancient ruins. Also human fossils are all recent in the planet.
Film	1998	Supernatural	Apocalypse	Also, the series of films made in the 1990s and 2000s by Cloud Ten Pictures Cloud Ten Pictures Cloud Ten Pictures is a film production and distribution company located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, specializing in Christian-themed films.- Overview :Cloud Ten was formed by brothers Peter LaLonde and Paul LaLonde in 1994... .
Comic	1998 to present	Disease	Eden: It's an Endless World Eden: It's an Endless World Eden: It's an Endless World! is a manga by Hiroki Endo, published monthly in the magazine Afternoon. It is published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics, in the United Kingdom by Titan Books, and in Germany by Egmont Manga & Anime...	Manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...  by Hiroki Endo
Television	1998–1999	Eco	Cowboy Bebop Cowboy Bebop is a critically acclaimed and award-winning 1998 Japanese anime series directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, written by Keiko Nobumoto, and produced by Sunrise. Its 26 episodes comprise a complete storyline: set in 2071, the series follows the adventures, misadventures and tragedies of five bounty...	Disaster. The 1998–1999 anime series in which a man made disaster has caused Earth's moon to fragment, resulting in a constant rain of meteor strikes on the planet and forcing humanity to move out into the solar system.
Television	1999	War	Now and Then, Here and There Now and Then, Here and There is a thirteen episode anime series directed by Akitaro Daichi and written by Hideyuki Kurata. The story was originally conceived by director Daichi. It premiered in Japan on the WOWOW television station on October 14, 1999 and ran until January 20, 2000. It was licensed for Region 1 DVD English...	An Anime series that takes place 10 billion years into the future, where mankind lusts for power, and children are forced into military duty.
Novel	1999	War	Greatwinter Trilogy Greatwinter The Greatwinter Series is a series of science fiction novels by Sean McMullen. In Australia, the home country of the author, the first book was released as two separate novels, Voices in the Light and Mirrorsun Rising...	Series by McMullen, Sean Sean McMullen Sean Christopher McMullen is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author.-Biography:McMullen has a degree in physics and history from Melbourne University , a postgraduate degree in library and information science, and a PhD in Medieval Literature... , trilogy, first book 1999
Novel	1999	War	Resurrection Day Resurrection Day Resurrection Day is a novel written by Brendan DuBois in 1999. It is an alternate history where the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to a full scale war, the Soviet Union is devastated, and the USA has been reduced to a third-rate power, relying on Britain for aid...	DuBois, Brendan Brendan DuBois Brendan DuBois is an American mystery fiction and suspense writer. In this field he has won a Shamus Award for Best Short Story of the Year. He also had his short story "The Dark Snow'" published in Best American Mystery Stories of the Century edited by Otto Penzler and Tony Hillerman ISBN 0618012710... , set 10 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War... , which escalated into nuclear war.
Game	1999	War	BattleTanx: Global Assault BattleTanx: Global Assault BattleTanx: Global Assault is a multi-player video game for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation in which players control futuristic tanks. It is a sequel to the popular N64 game BattleTanx, which utilized the same method of game play. New features were added, such as the ability to utilize special...	Game from The 3DO Company The 3DO Company The 3DO Company , also known as 3DO , was a video game company...
Game	1999	War	Warzone 2100 Warzone 2100 Warzone 2100 is an open source real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive...
Television	1999	Disease	Crusade Crusade (TV series) Crusade is a spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. A race called the Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five...	A spin-off from the TV show Babylon 5 Babylon 5 Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...
Game	1999	Disease	Abomination: The Nemesis Project Abomination: The Nemesis Project Abomination: The Nemesis Project is a real-time tactics/action computer game released in 1999. In the game, the player leads a team of eight genetically altered supersoldiers to defeat an infestation of a global genetic plague which slowly turns into a superorganism.Prior to release, Abomination...	Video game
Television	1999	Impact Event	The Last Train	Cruel Earth in Canada. British TV six part drama.
Television	1999	Impact Event	Thunderstone Thunderstone (TV series) Thunderstone is a 1999 Australian children's television series produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions set in a post-apocalyptic world after Earth is hit by a comet. The main character Noah is played by Jeffrey Walker...
Other	1999	Aliens	Chrono Cross Chrono Cross is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is the sequel to Chrono Trigger, which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System...	The 1999 console game, where in alternate time lines modern civilization was destroyed by an alien parasite in 1999 AD.
Novel	1999	Eco	The Rift The Rift (novel) The Rift is a novel by author Walter Jon Williams. Published in 1999, it is a 726 page epic concerning the effects of a massive earthquake in Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana...	Walter Jon Williams Walter Jon Williams Walter Jon Williams is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired , Voice of the Whirlwind and Angel Stationn...
Game	1999	Technology	Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and released in . The main storyline follows the second major war between the Global Defense Initiative of the United Nations, and the global terrorist organization known as the Brotherhood of Nod who...	Is the expansion pack Firestorm from Westwood Studios Westwood Studios Westwood Studios was a computer and video game developer, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in as Westwood Associates, and renamed to Westwood Studios when it merged with Virgin Interactive in... .
Game	1999	Technology	System Shock 2 System Shock 2 System Shock 2 is a 1999 first-person action role-playing video game, designed by Ken Levine for Microsoft Windows. The title is a sequel to the 1994 PC game System Shock, and was co-developed by Irrational Games and Looking Glass Studios...	Sequel to System Shock System Shock System Shock is a first-person action-adventure video game developed by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems. Released in 1994, the game is set aboard the fictional Citadel Station in a cyberpunk vision of 2072... .
Game	1999	Technology	Galerians Galerians is a PlayStation video game developed by Polygon Magic. It was originally published in Japan by Enterbrain, and published by Crave Entertainment for North America. Galerians is a psychic survival horror game with a dark setting. It follows a boy named Rion who discovers he has psychic powers...	PlayStationDeveloped by Polygon Magic.
Game	1999	Technology	Descent 3	PCDeveloped by Outrage Entertainment, which explains that mostly mining robots attacked by an unknown virus and now attacking people.
Television	1999	Human Decline	The Big O The Big O is a Japanese animated television series created by director Kazuyoshi Katayama and designer Keiichi Sato for Sunrise Studios. The writing staff was assembled by the series' head writer, Chiaki J. Konaka....	The Japanese manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...  and anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons.... , where humans apparently suffered mass amnesia Amnesia Amnesia is a condition in which one's memory is lost. The causes of amnesia have traditionally been divided into categories. Memory appears to be stored in several parts of the limbic system of the brain, and any condition that interferes with the function of this system can cause amnesia...  40 years prior and are afraid to leave their city, Paradigm. It is a sort of mecha Mecha A mech , is a science fiction term for a large walking bipedal tank or robot, including ones on treads and animal shapes.-Characteristics:... /apocalypse subclass of its own; the protagonist has to battle mechanical beings and other robots who are trying to destroy the remnants of the human race.
Game	1999	Future Collapse	Homeworld Homeworld Homeworld is a real-time strategy computer game released on September 28, 1999, developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. It was the first fully three-dimensional RTS. In 2003, Relic released the source code for Homeworld...	PCDeveloper Relic Entertainment Relic Entertainment Relic Entertainment is a Canadian game development company that specializes in 3D real-time strategy games and has released a number of unique PC games. Relic specializes in creative, visually appealing, and combat intense RTS games.-History:... . A small human civilization on the desert planet of Kharak on the edge of the galaxy is brought to the brink of extinction for violating a forgotten 5000-year old treaty forbidding them from developing hyperspace Hyperspace (science fiction) Hyperspace is a plot device sometimes used in science fiction. It is typically described as an alternative region of space co-existing with our own universe which may be entered using an energy field or other device...  technology. The survivors, however, are fortunate to have the use of the recently-completed Mothership - a large colony vessel meant to take them back to their ancient and forgotten homeworld near the center of the galaxy, Hiigara. The game was succeeded by sequels Homeworld: Cataclysm Homeworld: Cataclysm Homeworld: Cataclysm was originally developed in 2000 as an expansion of Homeworld, but was released as a stand-alone game. It was published by Sierra Entertainment, as was the original, but it was developed by Barking Dog Studios.-Gameplay:... and Homeworld 2 Homeworld 2 Developed by Relic Entertainment and released in 2003 by now defunct publisher Sierra Entertainment, Homeworld 2 is a real-time strategy computer game sequel to Homeworld. It takes place after the events in Homeworld and concerns Hiigara's response to a new enemy called the Vaygr. Its gameplay... .
Game	1999–2000	War	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is the critically acclaimed science fiction 4X turn-based strategy video game sequel to the Civilization series. Sid Meier, designer of Civilization, and Brian Reynolds, designer of Civilization II, developed Alpha Centauri after they left MicroProse to join the newly...	Game A ship leaves Earth on the eve of World War III to found a new colony orbiting Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus...
Television	1999–2003	Disease	The Tribe	The New Zealand TV series, that takes place in a near-future in which all the adults have been killed by a man-made Virus and the children have to survive on their own.
Film	1999–2003	Technology	Matrix	Series of films dealing with a future where machines have trapped humanity in an illusory world, and the struggle of the surviving humans of the post-apocalyptic real world to free the rest of humanity from the illusion.
Film	2000	War	On the Beach On the Beach (2000 film) On the Beach is an apocalyptic television movie released in 2000, airing originally on Showtime. It is a remake of the 1959 film, and is based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute. It starred Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward...	A remake of the 1959 film.
Game	2000	War	Earth 2150 Earth 2150 Earth 2150 also known as Earth 2150: Escape from the Blue Planet is a real-time strategy game, originally published in 2000 by SSI and the Polish developer Reality Pump and a sequel to the largely unknown Earth 2140...	Game Also Earth 2160 Earth 2160 Earth 2160 is a real time strategy computer game, the third in the "Earth" series and developed by Reality Pump studios. It is a direct sequel to Earth 2150... The world is destroyed in 2150 and people settle on mars in 2160.
Game	2000	Disease	Deus Ex Deus Ex Deus Ex is an action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000, which combines gameplay elements of first-person shooters with those of role-playing video games...	PCGame in relation to the Gray Death
Game	2000	Impact Event	Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development division for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan on April 27, 2000, North America on October 26, 2000, and Europe on November 17, 2000. The game sold approximately 314,000 copies during its first...	Nintendo 64 Nintendo 64 The , often referred to as N64, was Nintendo′s third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, March 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil... A game where the main character, Link, has three days to save the world of Termina from its moon that has broken from orbit.
Film	2000	Aliens	Battlefield Earth Battlefield Earth (film) Battlefield Earth is a 2000 American science fiction film adapted from L. Ron Hubbard's novel of the same name. It was directed by Roger Christian, and stars John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, and Barry Pepper...	Based on the novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard L. Ron Hubbard Lafayette Ronald Hubbard , better known as L. Ron Hubbard , was an American pulp fiction author and religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology... .
Film	2000	Aliens	Titan A.E. Titan A.E. Titan A.E. is an American animated post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman released in 2000. The title refers to the spacecraft that is central to the plot, with A.E. meaning "After Earth."...	2000 2000 in film The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....  animated Animation Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...  post-apocalyptic dystopia Dystopia A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four... n science fiction Science fiction film Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic... .
Game	2000	Technology	Gunlok Gunlok Gunlok is a squad based action adventure computer game developed by Rebellion, released in 2000. An action-RPG hybrid, Gunlok features more than 15 unique 3D environments.-Plot:...	Is a squad based action adventure computer game developed by Rebellion Rebellion Rebellion, uprising or insurrection, is a refusal of obedience or order. It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors aimed at destroying or replacing an established authority such as a government or a head of state... .
Game	2000	Technology	Deus Ex Deus Ex Deus Ex is an action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000, which combines gameplay elements of first-person shooters with those of role-playing video games...	A conflict between a Friendly AI and a non-friendly one.
Novel	2000	Supernatural	Demons	By John Shirley John Shirley John Shirley is an American fantasist, author of noir fiction, and science-fiction writer. Shirley is a prolific writer of novels and short stories, TV scripts and screenplays who has published over 30 books and 10 collections... , revolves around a demonic invasion of Earth.
Television	2000–2002	Social Collapse	Dark Angel Dark Angel (TV series) Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons...	After terrorists detonate a nuclear weapon in the Earth's orbit, all computer data is destroyed, bringing about a economic collapse, but with minimal loss of life. Created by James Cameron James Cameron James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...  and Charles H. Eglee Charles H. Eglee Charles H. Eglee is an Emmy Award winning American film and television writer and producer. He worked extensively for Steven Bochco productions throughout the 1990s. For Bochco productions he co-created Byrds of Paradise with frequent collaborator Channing Gibson and co-created Murder One with... .
Novel	2001	War	Mortal Engines Quartet	Series by Reeve, Phillip, first book 2001, Set in the distant future
Game	2001	War	Darwin's World Darwin's World Darwin's World, created by Dominic Covey, is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game first published under the d20 Open Game License in 2001. Originally designed as a quick adaptation of the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons rules, the game has since been greatly expanded and revised and now utilizes...	Game A role-playing game from Impressions
Film	2001	Disease	Ever Since the World Ended
Novel	2001	Disease	Idlewild Idlewild (book) Idlewild is a science fiction novel by Nick Sagan, published in 2003. It is the first of a trilogy, with sequels Edenborn and Everfree. The story is split between two settings: the middle of the 21st century and a generation later...	Sagan, Nick Nick Sagan Nick Sagan is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the science fiction novels Idlewild, Edenborn, and Everfree, and his screen credits include episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager...
Novel	2001	Disease	The Night of the Triffids The Night of the Triffids The Night of the Triffids is a science fiction novel by Simon Clark published in 2001. It is a sequel to John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids. Clark has been commended for his success at mimicking Wyndham's style, but most reviewers have not rated his creation as highly as the original 1951 work...	By Clark, Simon Simon Clark Simon Clark is a horror novel writer from Doncaster, England. One of his most notable works is the novel The Night of the Triffids.Clark has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and British Fantasy Award... . Sequel to The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen-name combinations drawn from his lengthy real... by John Wyndham John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes...
Game	2001	Disease	After The Bomb	Role-play game
Novel	2001	Impact Event	The Peshawar Lancers The Peshawar Lancers The Peshawar Lancers is an alternate history, steampunk, post-apocalyptic fiction adventure novel by S. M. Stirling, with its point of divergence occurring in 1878 when the Earth is struck by a devastating meteor shower...	S.M. Stirling
Game	2001	Impact Event	Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies , released in PAL territories as Ace Combat: Distant Thunder, is a semi-realistic flight simulation developed by Namco for the PlayStation 2 video game console...	PlayStation 2 PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
Film	2001	Aliens	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 Japanese-American computer animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series of role-playing video games. It was the first photorealistic computer animated feature film and also holds the record for the most...	CGI animated film.
Game	2001	Technology	Outlive Outlive Outlive is a Brazilian real-time strategy computer game developed and produced by Continuum Entertainment. It is a mission-based real-time strategy game where the player controls either the human military or robot forces and attempts to eliminate all opposing forces...	A real-time strategy. Earth created robotic lifeforms allegedly to mine Titan's resources, though in reality they were to be used as a secret army. When the plan surfaced, the World Council lost power but the robots returned and occupied the planet in the name of their creators.
Game	2001	Human Decline	Pikmin Pikmin is a strategy video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube video game console in 2001. Pikmin is the first game in the Pikmin series of video games, and the third game for the Gamecube overall. It was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto. Pikmin was released on October 26, 2001...	And its sequel, the 2004 video game Pikmin 2 Pikmin 2 is a real-time strategy video game developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube. It was released in Japan on April 29, 2004, in North America on August 30, 2004, in Europe on October 8, 2004, and in Australia on November 4, 2004.... , is set on an unnamed planet simply called as the planet of the Pikmin, inhabited by animals and plants. Although it is unnamed in-game, several cutscenes shows it as Earth, or at least a very Earth-like planet. Further hints is man-made objects in both games like the Abstract Masterpiece, a bottle cap Bottle cap Bottle caps are a type of closure used to seal the openings of bottles of many types. They can be small circular pieces of metal, usually steel, with plastic backings, and for plastic bottles a plastic cap is used instead. A bottle cap is typically colorfully decorated with the logo of the brand... , and the Remembered Old Buddy, a R.O.B. R.O.B. R.O.B. , released in Japan as the , is an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in July 1985 in Japan and later that year in North America. It had a short product lifespan, with support for only two games which comprised the "Robot Series"; Gyromite and Stack-Up. R.O.B... , as well as the stage based on the Pikmin planet in Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. Brawl, known in Japan as , often abbreviated as SSBB or simply as Brawl, is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of crossover fighting games, developed by an ad hoc development team consisting of Sora, Game Arts and staff from other developers, and published by... , Distant Planet, which its data refers to as Earth.
Other	2001	Monsters	Kairo Kairo (film) is a 2001 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film was based on his novel of the same name, and was released in the United States in 2005 as Pulse. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...	Novel by Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.-Biography:Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa... . In which the world is overrun by Humanoid Humanoid A humanoid is something that has an appearance resembling a human being. The term first appeared in 1912 to refer to fossils which were morphologically similar to, but not identical with, those of the human skeleton. Although this usage was common in the sciences for much of the 20th century, it...  Ghosts, and everything is destroyed by them.
Game	2001	Sun	Tetris Worlds Tetris Worlds Tetris Worlds is a version of the popular video game Tetris. Originally released in 2001 for PC and the GBA, it later was released for the Xbox, GameCube, and PlayStation 2 in 2002. In 2003, an Xbox Live capable and a single-disc compilation versions Tetris Worlds is a version of the popular video...	Cross
Television	2001–2002	Technology	Digimon Tamers Digimon Tamers is the third animated series based on the Japanese Digimon franchise, first broadcast in 2001 on Fuji TV in Japan and on Fox Kids in the United States. The story takes place initially in a "alternative" universe, on a world much like Earth where Digimon is just a franchise, composed of video games,...
Film	2002	War	Equilibrium Equilibrium (film) Equilibrium is a 2002 American science fiction action film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer. It stars Christian Bale as John Preston, a warrior-priest and enforcement officer in a future dystopia where both feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens take daily injections of drugs...	After barely surviving another worldwide conflict, mankind rejects all emotion and outlaws all forms of expression which might encourage emotional response.
Television	2002	War	Saikano Saikano is a manga, anime, and OVA series by Shin Takahashi, creator of Iihito and Kimi no Kakera. Saikano was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine....	Anime series.
Film	2002	Disease	28 Days Later 28 Days Later 28 Days Later is an acclaimed 2002 British horror film directed by Danny Boyle. The screenplay was written by Alex Garland, and the film stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, and Christopher Eccleston...	Ordinary citizens are forced to fight through hordes of rabid zombies after a virus ravages Britain
Film	2002	Disease	Teenage Caveman Teenage Caveman (2002 film) Teenage Caveman is a 2002 film directed by controversial filmmaker Larry Clark. It was made as part of a series of low-budget made-for-television movies loosely inspired by b-movies that Samuel Z...	Set in the post-apocalyptic future where majority of humans die from a mysterious viral plague, the remaining humans have conformed to primitive tribalism. Directed by Larry Clark Larry Clark Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa...
Television	2002	Disease	Smallpox	TV movie
Novel	2002	Disease	The Years of Rice and Salt The Years of Rice and Salt The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel with major Buddhist and Islamic religious elements written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, a thought experiment about a world in which neither Christianity nor the European cultures based on it achieve lasting impact on world...	By Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research... . Set in a world devastated by the Black Death in medieval Europe, which killed 99% of the European population before they could discover the Americas
Game	2002	Disease	Soldiers of Anarchy Soldiers of Anarchy Soldiers of Anarchy is a 2002 squad-based real-time tactics computer game released by Simon and Schuster. Gameplay involves squad tactics, vehicles, and a wide variety of weapons and ammo.-Plot:...	PCVideo game featuring a group of ex-soldiers who spent ten years underground after the Spontaneous Genome Degeneration Syndrome (SGDS), an artificially created virus raged across the globe in 2004, nearly wiping off humanity. Although the virus was released to make money with the antidote, it wasn't distributed for some reason.
Film	2002	Impact Event	The Time Machine The Time Machine (2002 film) The Time Machine is a 2002 American science fiction film loosely adapted from the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, and the 1960 film screenplay by David Duncan...	Downfall of man caused by the Moon breaking apart and bombarding Earth with rocks after extensive lunar mining.
Film	2002	Aliens	Signs Signs (film) Signs is a 2002 American science fiction horror film directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It was adapted from a screenplay also written by Shyamalan. Executive producers for the film comprised Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Sam Mercer. The story focuses on a former preacher named Graham...	Directed by M. Night Shyamalan M. Night Shyamalan Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan,known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-born American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that climax with a twist ending. He is also known for filming his movies in and around... .
Film	2002	Eco	Jason X Jason X Jason X is a 2002 science fiction horror slasher film directed by James Isaac. It is the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series and stars Kane Hodder as the undead mass murderer Jason Voorhees, the film made $16,951,798 worldwide with a budget of $14 million...	The tenth Friday the 13th film, Earth became a polluted wasteland by 2455. Humanity left Earth and colonized a planet designated as Earth 2.
Game	2002	Eco	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, released as in Japan, is an action-adventure game and the tenth installment in The Legend of Zelda series. It was released for the Nintendo GameCube in Japan on December 13, 2002, in North America on March 24, 2003, in Europe on May 2, 2003, and in Australia on...	Video game in which a flood has decimated the fictional world of Hyrule Hyrule The fictional universe depicted in The Legend of Zelda series of video games consists of a variety of lands, the most commonly appearing of these being , and was created by Japanese video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto.-Hyrule:... .
Novel	2002	Technology	The Butlerian Jihad	Part of the Dune universe Dune universe Dune is a science fiction franchise which originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Considered by many to be the greatest science fiction novel of all time, Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history...  by Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels... .
Other	2002	Monsters	28 Days Later 28 Days Later 28 Days Later is an acclaimed 2002 British horror film directed by Danny Boyle. The screenplay was written by Alex Garland, and the film stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, and Christopher Eccleston...	And its 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later 28 Weeks Later 28 Weeks Later is a 2007 British/Spanish film sequel to the 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later. 28 Weeks Later was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and released in the United Kingdom and United States on 11 May 2007...
Other	2002	Monsters	Reign of Fire	Film. In which dragons over take human civilization.
Other	2002–2003	Monsters	Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. As with other series from the Gundam franchise, Gundam SEED takes place in a parallel timeline, in this case the Cosmic Era, the first to do so... .	Anime Series. Involving a war between naturally-born humans (Naturals) and genetically enhanced humans (Coordinators).
Other	2002–2003	Eco	Overman King Gainer Overman King Gainer is a TV anime series, created by Sunrise. Directed by longtime animator Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the Gundam series, written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, and featuring character designs by Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kinu Nishimura and Ken'ichi Yoshida, the series ran from September 7, 2002 to March 22, 2003...	Anime series, which depicts humanity living in domes after an ecological disaster.
Game	2002–2004	War	Neocron Neocron Neocron is a 2002 post-apocalyptic cyberpunk massively multiplayer online role playing game developed by Hanover, Germany-based software developer Reakktor Media GmbH and published by cdv Software Entertainment. It is considered the first cyberpunk-genre MMORPG, and is designed to integrate...	Game for the Personal Computer Personal computer A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...  by Reakktor Media.
Television	2002–2004	Disease	Jeremiah	Showtime cable television series, based on the comic of the same name. In the year 2021, 15 years after a virus kills everyone over the age of puberty, the child survivors have grown up, living on the scraps of the old world.
Novel	2002–2004	Technology	Legends Of Dune trilogy Legends of Dune Legends of Dune is a prequel trilogy of novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe.* Dune: The Butlerian Jihad * Dune: The Machine Crusade * Dune: The Battle of Corrin...	Part of the Dune universe Dune universe Dune is a science fiction franchise which originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Considered by many to be the greatest science fiction novel of all time, Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history... .
Comic	2002–2008	Disease	Y: The Last Man Y: The Last Man Y: The Last Man is a comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra published by Vertigo beginning in 2002. The series is about the only man to survive the apparent simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth...	Comic series features a lone man & his monkey in a world populated only by women, series written by Brian K. Vaughan Brian K. Vaughan Brian Keller Vaughan is an American comic book and television writer. He is best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, and Pride of Baghdad, and was one of the principal writers of the television series Lost, during seasons three through five...  and published by Vertigo Comics
Film	2003	War	Deathlands: Homeward Bound Deathlands: Homeward Bound Deathlands: Homeward Bound is a 2003 Sci Fi Channel television film based loosely on the Deathlands series of books. The film stars Vincent Spano and Traci Lords, and was directed by Joshua Butler.-Synopsis:...	Based on the book series Deathlands Deathlands The Deathlands is a series of novels published by Gold Eagle Publishing. The first novel 'Pilgrimage to Hell' was first published in 1986. This series of novels was first written by Christopher Lowder, under the pen name Jack Adrian. Mr. Lowder became ill after developing the plot and writing most...
Film	2003	War	Time of the Wolf
Novel	2003	War	The City of Ember The City of Ember The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic novel by Jeanne DuPrau that was published in 2003. Similar to Suzanne Martel's The City Under Ground published in 1963, the story is about Ember, an underground city that is slowly running out of power and supplies due to its aging infrastructure...	DuPrau, Jeanne Jeanne DuPrau Jeanne DuPrau is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.-Home life:... , set 241 years post nuclear war, in an underground city.
Novel	2003	War	Revelation by Lord John	Szmidt, Robert J. Robert J. Szmidt Robert Jerzy Szmidt, born 26 July 1962 in Wrocław, Poland, is a Polish science fiction and fantasy writer, translator and journalist. He was the founder of the Science Fiction magazine and Nautilus Award, and author of three novels and 12 short stories as well as several translations.Szmidt is... , polish: Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana
Novel	2003	War	The Third World War The Third World War (novel) The Third World War is an apocalyptic novel, by the British journalist and author Humphrey Hawksley, portraying the modern world as it deals with the ever-worsening geopolitical situation...	Humphrey Hawksley Humphrey Hawksley -Education:Hawksley was educated at the Junior and Senior schools of St. Lawrence College, an independent school for boys , in the coastal seaside town of Ramsgate in Kent, in south east England.-Life and career:...
Game	2003	War	Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death is a first-person shooter video game based on the Judge Dredd character from the 2000 AD comic series, developed by Rebellion Developments. It was released on October 17, 2003 in Europe and February 8, 2005 in the United States...	Game
Game	2003	War	Neuroshima Neuroshima Neuroshima is a Polish tabletop roleplaying system inspired by such films and games as Mad Max, Fallout, The Matrix, Terminator and Deadlands: Hell on Earth. It is currently available only in Polish...	Game from Portal Publishing
Novel	2003	Disease	Full Circle	Mitchell, David David Mitchell (author) David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written five novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.- Biography :...
Novel	2003	Disease	Oryx and Crake Oryx and Crake Oryx and Crake is a novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Atwood has at times disputed the novel being science fiction, preferring to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she...	Atwood, Margaret Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
Story	2003	Impact Event	Shikari in Galveston Shikari in Galveston Shikari in Galveston is an alternate history short story written by S. M. Stirling. It is a prequel to The Peshawar Lancers.-Plot summary:...	Short story
Novel	2003	Aliens	Vampire Earth Vampire Earth Vampire Earth is a series of science fiction/dark fantasy novels written by E. E. Knight, who is also known for writing the Age of Fire series novels.- Background : The story begins in 2065 in a post-apocalyptic American setting...	Knight, E. E. E. E. Knight E. E. Knight is the pen name for a science fiction and fantasy writer, born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota and now resides in Oak Park, Illinois with his wife, newborn daughter and young son.... . Series.
Other	2003	Aliens	UFO: Aftermath UFO: Aftermath UFO: Aftermath, is a 2003 real-time strategy game with real-time tactical battles from ALTAR Interactive, being a homage to the X-COM series of games. It started as The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge, an abortive project by the Mythos Games, original developers of the X-COM series...	The computer game and its sequels UFO: Aftershock UFO: Aftershock UFO: Aftershock is a computer real-time tactical strategy game created by Altar and released in 2005. It is a squad combat game at its core with overlying strategic elements and a clear debt to the lauded classic X-COM: UFO Defense , though a smaller one than that of its predecessor, UFO:...  & UFO: Afterlight UFO: Afterlight UFO: Afterlight is a 2007 strategy computer game and the third in Altar's UFO series. Like its predecessors UFO: Aftermath and UFO: Aftershock, it combines squad-level tactical combat with overlying strategic elements in a manner that's deliberately very much like the major 1994 classic X-COM: UFO...  by Altar Games Altar Games Altar Games, previously known as Altar Interactive, is a video game development company founded in 1997 in Brno, Czech Republic. The company is a member of IDEA Games, a marketing and commerce supporting association founded in 2005 with Bohemia Interactive and Black Element Software. September 30,... .
Film	2003	Eco	Dragon Head Dragon Head is a post-apocalyptic disaster manga by Minetaro Mochizuki. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from 1995 and 2000 and collected in ten tankōbon volumes. It is licensed in English by Tokyopop, with Volume 10 released 2008-04-01...	Based on the Manga Manga Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...  of the same name.
Film	2003	Eco	It's All About Love It's All About Love It's All About Love is a 2003 film written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Its narrative can be classified as apocalyptic science fiction, but Vinterberg prefers to call it "a dream". Unlike the director's earlier Danish-language films, It's All About Love is entirely in English and stars...
Novel	2003	Eco	Oryx and Crake Oryx and Crake Oryx and Crake is a novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Atwood has at times disputed the novel being science fiction, preferring to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she...	Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
Novel	2003	Eco	Clade Clade (novel) Clade is a science fiction novel written by Mark Budz, published in 2003. In Clade, an environmental disaster called the Ecocaust has caused sea levels to rise and causing additional strains on human resources...	Mark Budz Mark Budz Mark Budz is an American science fiction writer. Budz was born on November 1, 1960 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey into a family that traveled prodigiously. In the late 1980s, Mark moved to Oregon to become a full-time writer...
Novel	2003	Eco	The Secret Under My Skin	Janet Mcnaughton. Set in a period following a technocaust, when scientists were blamed for environmental disasters and taken to concentration camps.
Television	2003	Eco	Encrypt Encrypt (film) Encrypt is a television movie that premiered June 14, 2003 on the Sci-Fi Channel. Set in the year 2068, the Earth's surface is in a cataclysmic upheaval, much of it transformed into wasteland by unstoppable storms...	Cataclysm. Set in the year 2068, the Earth's surface is in a cataclysmic upheaval, much of it transformed into wasteland by unstoppable storms (the byproduct of the destruction of the ozone layer). It was directed by Oscar Luis Costo.
Film	2003	Technology	Galerians: Rion
Novel	2003	Technology	Robota Robota Robota is an illustrated book by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card about a mysterious fourth planet of the solar system named Orpheus. In a time before the events of the book, an alien race known as the Olm came to Orpheus and warned the people, explaining that their planet will crash into Earth in...	An illustrated book by Doug Chiang Doug Chiang Doug Chiang is an American film designer and artist. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1962 and grew up in the United States.Chiang studied film at UCLA and industrial design at the College for Creative Studies. During the late 1980s he worked at various production studios including Rhythm and Hues...  and Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the... .
Novel	2003	Technology	The Machine Crusade	Part of the Dune universe Dune universe Dune is a science fiction franchise which originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Considered by many to be the greatest science fiction novel of all time, Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history...  by Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels... .
Novel	2003	Technology	The Matrix The Matrix The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...	Comic books.
Game	2003	Technology	Neuroshima Neuroshima Neuroshima is a Polish tabletop roleplaying system inspired by such films and games as Mad Max, Fallout, The Matrix, Terminator and Deadlands: Hell on Earth. It is currently available only in Polish...	The Polish Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...  role-playing game Role-playing game A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...  from Portal Publishing.
Game	2003	Social Collapse	Deus Ex: Invisible War Deus Ex: Invisible War Deus Ex: Invisible War is an action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive. Released simultaneously for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox video game console on December 2, 2003, the game is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Deus Ex...	By Ion Storm Inc. Ion Storm Inc. Ion Storm Inc. was a Texas based developer of computer games founded by John Romero, Tom Hall , Todd Porter, and Jerry O'Flaherty, under the slogan "Design is Law"...  (developer)Eidos Interactive Eidos Interactive Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton.... (publisher). After total global economic collapse (an event known simply as "The Collapse", all religion is collected into one, which is in conflict with the new world order. Throughout the game, the player can choose to be on either side, affecting the game's outcome.
Novel	2003–2007	Aliens	Legacy Trilogy Legacy Trilogy Legacy Trilogy is a series of military science fiction books written by Ian Douglas that focus on the United States Marine Corps. The trilogy is the sequel to the Heritage Trilogy and is followed by the Inheritance Trilogy....	Ian Douglas William H. Keith, Jr. William H. Keith is an American author. He served during the Vietnam War in the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman. He became a professional artist, working in the game industry with his brother Andrew, before becoming a full-time author...
Television	2003–2009	Technology	Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) Battlestar Galactica is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson...
Film	2004	War	Appleseed
Film	2004	War	Casshern Casshern is a 2004 Japanese tokusatsu film adaptation of the anime series of the same name. It was written and directed by Kazuaki Kiriya. It stars Yusuke Iseya as Tetsuya Azuma/Casshern, Kumiko Aso as Luna Kozuki, Toshiaki Karasawa as Burai, Mayumi Sada as Saguree, and Jun Kaname as Barashin.-Plot:A...
Novel	2004	War	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell David Mitchell (author) David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written five novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.- Biography :... , one of the six novellas is set in a post-apocalyptic future.
Novel	2004	War	Cowl Cowl (novel) Cowl is a 2004 science fiction novel by Neal Asher. It tells of an epic time war between two factions from the 43rd century.- Setting :Time travel is a reality with the exception to more common theories that there is only one main time line. Whenever a time line is distorted a parallel universe is...	Asher, Neal Neal Asher Neal Asher is an English science fiction writer. Both his parents are educators and science fiction fans. Although he began writing Science Fiction and Fantasy in secondary school, Asher did not turn seriously to writing till he was 25...
Novel	2004	War	Fitzpatrick's War Fitzpatrick's War Fitzpatrick's War is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction by Theodore Judson. It was first published by Daw Books in 2004.-Plot introduction:...	Judson, Theodore Theodore Judson Theodore Judson is an American science fiction writer and highschool teacher. He began writing after the death of his wife and he is the author of Tom Wedderburn's Life , Fitzpatrick's War , The Martian General's Daughter , The Sultan's Emissary and Hell Can...
Game	2004	Aliens	Half Life 2	Game from Valve Valve A valve is a device that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves are technically pipe fittings, but are usually discussed as a separate category...
Novel	2004	Disease	A Planet for the President A Planet for the President A Planet for the President is a novel by Alistair Beaton. Set in the not-too-distant future, it satirically ponders the question of what action the President of the United States might take if he finally realized that global climate change is converting the earth into an increasingly uninhabitable...	Beaton, Alistair Alistair Beaton Alistair Beaton is a Scottish left wing political satirist, journalist, radio presenter, novelist and television writer. At one point in his career he was also a speechwriter for Gordon Brown....
Novel	2004	Disease	White Devils	McAuley, Paul Paul McAuley Paul J. McAuley , a British botanist and award-winning author.A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel.McAuley began with far-future space opera...
Film	2004	Impact Event	Post Impact Post Impact Post Impact is a 2004 disaster film, written and directed by Christoph Schrewe and stars Dean Cain, Joanna Taylor, Nigel Bennett, and Hanns Zischler.-Synopsis:...	The asteroid Bay-Leder 7 was found to be powerful enough to wipe out the whole civilization. Although a top-secret experimental satellite weapon was able to cut it in two, the smaller piece impacted in West Russia, turning Europe into an ice-covered "death zone".
Novel	2004	Impact Event	Earth, the New Frontier	Adam Celaya. Presumed meteor that struck the earth is in fact a microscopic black hole that entered the Earth's crust, and never exited.
Film	2004	Eco	The Day After Tomorrow The Day After Tomorrow The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction disaster film that depicts the catastrophic effects of global warming in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling which leads to a new ice age. The film did well at the box office, grossing $542,771,772 internationally...	Based in part on the novel The Coming Global Superstorm The Coming Global Superstorm The Coming Global Superstorm is a 1999 book by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber which predicts that global warming might produce sudden and catastrophic climatic effects.The book posits the following theory:... by Art Bell Art Bell Arthur W. "Art" Bell, III is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as one of the founders and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its companion show, Dreamland...  & Whitley Strieber Whitley Strieber Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a non-fiction account of his perceived experiences with non-human entities. Strieber also co-authored The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, which inspired the film about... .
Novel	2004	Eco	Crache	Mark Budz Mark Budz Mark Budz is an American science fiction writer. Budz was born on November 1, 1960 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey into a family that traveled prodigiously. In the late 1980s, Mark moved to Oregon to become a full-time writer...
Novel	2004	Eco	The Snow	Adam Roberts. The world is buried under kilometres of unnatural snow.
Television	2004	Eco	Category 6: Day of Destruction Category 6: Day of Destruction Category 6: Day of Destruction is a 2004 four-hour miniseries that was broadcast in the United States on CBS in two parts, with the first part aired on November 14 and the second on November 17. It was later released to DVD on February 15, 2005...	Tornado disaster. The 2004 television movie Category 6: Day of Destruction Category 6: Day of Destruction Category 6: Day of Destruction is a 2004 four-hour miniseries that was broadcast in the United States on CBS in two parts, with the first part aired on November 14 and the second on November 17. It was later released to DVD on February 15, 2005... where Chicago is suffering from a series of tornadoes from numerous changes occurring in the climate. This series was followed in 2005 by Category 7: The End of the World Category 7: The End of the World Category 7: The End of the World is a 2005 four-hour television film miniseries that was broadcast in the United States on CBS in two parts, the first part aired on November 6 and the second on November 13. A sequel to the 2004 miniseries Category 6: Day of Destruction, this film starts directly...
Television	2004	Eco	10.5	Earthquake disaster. The 2004 mini series 10.5 and its 2006 follow up 10.5: Apocalypse 10.5: Apocalypse 10.5: Apocalypse is a 2006 television miniseries written and directed by John Lafia. A sequel to 2004's 10.5, the film follows a series of catastrophic seismic disasters .-Plot:...  In which a series of Earthquakes tears America apart, separating the West Coast from the rest of the USA.
Game	2004	Eco	The Fall: Last Days of Gaia The Fall: Last Days of Gaia The Fall: Last Days Of Gaia is a role-playing game that takes place in a post apocalyptic world. The game was developed by Silver Style Entertainment and published by Deep Silver in 2004.-External links:* * *...	PC A German 3D RPG situated in a post apocalyptic future where humanity is facing its possible end.The focus of the game is the deep story and the unique characters, with living environment offering many well thought sidequests. Gameplay similar to the Fallout series, although with a more traditional RPG approach in which the player can assemble a whole party in order to improve chances in battles and include specialists with complementary skills.
Film	2004	Technology	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 American pulp adventure science-fiction film written and directed by Kerry Conran in his directorial debut. The film is set in an alternative 1939 and follows the adventures of Polly Perkins , a newspaper reporter, and Harry Joseph "Joe" Sullivan ,...
Novel	2004	Technology	The Battle of Corrin	Part of the Dune universe Dune universe Dune is a science fiction franchise which originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Considered by many to be the greatest science fiction novel of all time, Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history...  by Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels... .
Comic	2004	Technology	Deus Vitae Deus Vitae Deus Vitae, or is a manga series created by .-Plot:In 2068, Leave, a powerful android, is created by the Brain Computer and raised by the human scientist Fenrir to be the new root of mankind; the "Goddess", deciding that the previous human beings are no longer useful, wipes them out and creates...	A manga series created by Takuya Fujima.
Television	2004	Technology	Zentrix Zentrix Zentrix is a 3D-CG Chinese animated TV series directed by Tony Tong and Felix Ip under the Hong Kong based company Imagi Animation Studios. The original story was written by Tony Tang, Benny Chow, Felix Ip and Francis Kao.-Synopsis:...
Game	2004	Technology	Splicers Splicers Splicers is a role-playing game using the Palladium Books Megaversal gaming system. The game is set in the midst of a war between humans and a world-wide computer intelligence alternately referred to as the N.E.X.U.S. or the Machine...	A role-playing game set in the midst of a war between humans and a worldwide computer intelligence.
Game	2004	Technology	Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume	MultiIs a Japanese post-apocalyptic visual novel and video game.
Film	2004	Human Decline	Idiocracy	Takes the premise that with no natural predators to thin the population of the world, evolution simply rewards whoever can pass on their genes the fastest, who are depicted as sexually promiscuous drunken brutes. The average IQ is 80 by 2100, 60 by 2200, and 40 by 2505.
Other	2004	Monsters	Day by Day Armageddon	J. L. Bourne. A zombie apocalypse Zombie apocalypse A zombie apocalypse is a particular scenario of apocalyptic literature that customarily has a science fiction/horror rationale. In a zombie apocalypse, a widespread rise of zombies hostile to human life engages in a general assault on civilization....  novel.
Film	2004	Unspecified	Salad Fingers	A flash movie "Salad Fingers" (although a 'great war' is mentioned, it may not be the cause of Salad Fingers' dwelling being in a dilapidated, post-apocalyptic state).
Television	2004–2005	War	Desert Punk Desert Punk is a post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Usune Masatoshi, serialized in Enterbrain's Comic Beam since 1997. The published chapters have been collected in 13 volumes....	Anime series.
Novel	2004–2007	Disease	The Uglies Trilogy	By Westerfeld, Scott Scott Westerfeld Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:... . Uglies Uglies Uglies is a 2005 science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. It is set in a future post-scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16. It tells the story of teenager Tally Youngblood who rebels against society's enforced conformity,... , Pretties Pretties Pretties is the second book of the Uglies Trilogy written by Scott Westerfeld.-See also:*The Uglies series*Scott Westerfeld*Dystopian fiction... , Specials Specials (novel) Specials is the third novel in the Uglies series of novels, written by the American author Scott Westerfeld. It continues the story of the protagonist, Tally Youngblood.-Plot introduction:... and the companion novel, Extras Extras (novel) Extras is a young adult science fiction novel written by Scott Westerfeld. The novel was published and released by Simon & Schuster on October 2, 2007, and is a companion book to the Uglies series. However, Extras differs from its predecessors in that its protagonist is fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse,... , take place in a future civilization that arose after our current civilization collapsed because of an engineered bacterium that attacked not people, but oil, changing its chemical composition so that it exploded on contact with oxygen (first explained on p. 345 of Uglies).
Television	2005	War	Dance Of The Dead Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror episode) Dance of the Dead is the third episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on November 11, 2005. Richard Christian Matheson adapted the episode from a short story of the same name by his father, Richard Matheson...	An episode of Masters of Horror Masters of Horror Masters of Horror is an informal social group of international film writers and directors specializing in horror movies and an American television series created by director Mick Garris for the Showtime cable network.- Origin :... directed by Tobe Hooper Tobe Hooper Tobe Hooper is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre. His works include the cult classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , along with its first sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ; the three-time Emmy-nominated Stephen King film adaptation... . It has a triple apocalyptic theme as it features a man made virus causing a zombie outbreak after World War 3.
Novel	2005	War	The Goodness Gene	Levitin, Sonia Sonia Levitin Sonia Levitin is an award-winning novelist and author of over forty novels and picture books for young adults and children, as well as published essays on various topics for adults... , children's book
Novel	2005	War	Metro 2033	Series by Glukhovsky, Dmitry Dmitry Glukhovsky Dmitry A. Glukhovsky is a professional Russian author and journalist. Glukhovsky started in 2002 by publishing his first novel, Metro 2033, on his own website to be viewed for free. The novel has later become an interactive experiment, drawing in many readers, and has since been made into a video... , Set in the metro tunnels of post apocalyptic Moscow. A man named Artyom journey's to the central city of the metro, Polis, to find answers about a possible threat called the Dark Ones.
Novel	2005	War	Uglies	Series by Westerfeld, Scott Scott Westerfeld Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction. He was born in Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.-Books:... , first book Uglies. Sequels: Pretties Pretties Pretties is the second book of the Uglies Trilogy written by Scott Westerfeld.-See also:*The Uglies series*Scott Westerfeld*Dystopian fiction... , Specials Specials (novel) Specials is the third novel in the Uglies series of novels, written by the American author Scott Westerfeld. It continues the story of the protagonist, Tally Youngblood.-Plot introduction:... , and Extras.
Film	2005	Disease	Æon Flux Æon Flux (film) New Zealander Graeme Revell composed the score for Æon Flux; the soundtrack is available via Varèse Sarabande as advertised on the film's official website -Comic book prequel:...	Based on MTV's animated series Æon Flux Æon Flux Æon Flux was originally an avant-garde science fiction animated television series that aired on MTV in various forms throughout the 1990s, with film, comic book, and video game adaptations following thereafter. It premiered in 1991 on MTV's Liquid Television experimental animation show as a...
Television	2005	Disease	Dance Of The Dead Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror episode) Dance of the Dead is the third episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on November 11, 2005. Richard Christian Matheson adapted the episode from a short story of the same name by his father, Richard Matheson...	Masters of Horror Masters of Horror Masters of Horror is an informal social group of international film writers and directors specializing in horror movies and an American television series created by director Mick Garris for the Showtime cable network.- Origin :...  episode directed by Tobe Hooper Tobe Hooper Tobe Hooper is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the horror film genre. His works include the cult classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre , along with its first sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ; the three-time Emmy-nominated Stephen King film adaptation... . It has a triple apocalyptic theme as it features a man made virus causing a zombie outbreak after World War 3.
Novel	2005	Disease	Burning Stones	Mills, Steven
Novel	2005	Disease	The Empire of Texas	Olsen, Rodger
Novel	2005	Impact Event	It's Only Temporary	Eric Shapiro Eric Shapiro Eric Shapiro is an American author of novels, short stories, and essays, as well as a feature filmmaker.-Biography:Eric Shapiro was born in Freehold Borough, New Jersey...
Game	2005	Impact Event	Guild Wars Guild Wars Guild Wars is an episodic series of online 3D fantasy role-playing games developed by ArenaNet and published by NCsoft. Although often defined as an MMORPG the developers define it as a CORPG due to significant differences from the MMORPG genre. It provides two main modes of gameplay—a cooperative...	PCA game in which, after a tutorial area set in a "pre-Searing" time, a race of beasts called the Charr summon meteors down upon the humans, destroying nearly all of the cities and all of the life (trees, animals, etc.)
Film	2005	Aliens	Alien Apocalypse Alien Apocalypse Alien Apocalypse is a 2005 Sci Fi channel original movie, directed and written by Josh Becker, and starring Bruce Campbell, Renee O'Connor, Remington Franklin, Michael Cory Davis and Peter Jason. It was released on DVD on March 26, 2005.-Plot:...	Produced by Sci Fi Channel.
Film	2005	Aliens	War of the Worlds War of the Worlds (2005 film) War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction film adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. It is one of three film adaptations of War of the Worlds released that year, alongside The Asylum's version and...	Directed by Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an... , along with the independent 2005 productions H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005 film) H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of three film adaptations of H. G. Wells' classic novel released in 2005, about a Martian invasion of Earth... and H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, all based on the H. G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...  novel.
Novel	2005	Aliens	War of the Worlds: New Millennium War of the Worlds: New Millennium War of the Worlds: New Millennium is a science fiction novel by Douglas Niles, released in 2005 by Tor Books.After the most recent unmanned mission to Mars inexplicably fails, interest in the Red Planet is still high. The whole world watches as a bright spot of light appears daily on the Martian...	Douglas Niles Douglas Niles Douglas Niles is a fantasy author and game designer. Niles was one of the creators of the Dragonlance world and the author of the first three Forgotten Realms novels, and the Top Secret S/I espionage role-playing game.-Early life:Niles was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, and... . Is a retelling of the original The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.The War of the Worlds may also refer to:- Radio broadcasts :* The War of the Worlds , the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles... story, but displaces the events to 2005. It is not a sequel, rather it is an update.
Novel	2005	Aliens	Eight Worlds Eight Worlds Eight Worlds refers to a series of novels and short stories by John Varley, in which the solar system has been colonized by human refugees fleeing an alien invasion of the Earth. Earth and Jupiter are off-limits to humanity, but Earth's moon and the other worlds and moons of the solar system have...	John Varley John Varley (author) John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...
Other	2005	Aliens	Destroy All Humans! Destroy All Humans! Destroy All Humans! is a video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It was released for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 on June 21, 2005. The game is set in the late 1950s in the U.S. and parodies the lifestyles, pop culture, and politics of this time period...	The 2005 console game, in which the player controls a Furon alien in an attempt to overthrow mankind.
Film	2005	Eco	Serenity Serenity (film) Serenity is a 2005 space western film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is a continuation of the short-lived 2002 Fox science fiction television series Firefly, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set in 2518, Serenity is the story of the captain and crew of a cargo ship...	The Earth's resources and biosphere get used up prompting mass exodus for the stars.
Film	2005	Eco	A Sound of Thunder A Sound of Thunder (film) A Sound of Thunder is a 2005 science fiction film directed by Peter Hyams. The film was planned originally for a 2002 release. However, flooding in Prague and other financial difficulties—including the bankruptcy of the original production company during post-production—resulted in a delayed...	By Peter Hyams Peter Hyams Peter Hyams is an American screenwriter, director and cinematographer, probably best known for directing the 1984 science fiction adventure 2010 , Capricorn One, the comic book adaptation Timecop and the Arnold Schwarzenegger horror/action film End of Days.-Family:Hyams was born in New York... . A group of travelers returned back in the time and made changes in the past which lead to colossal alterations in the future, where they came from, and less than in a week everything in the world started changing chaotically, putting in danger the life of every living thing.
Novel	2005	Eco	First Ark to Alpha Centauri	Abdul Ahad. World governments in the 23rd century build and launch a 12-mile long generation starship Generation ship A generation ship is a hypothetical type of interstellar ark starship that travels across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than the speed of light...  to Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus...  to escape a global Ice Age Ice age An ice age or, more precisely, glacial age, is a generic geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers...  threatening the future of humanity.
Story	2005	Eco	The Garden Where My Rains Grows	Post-apocalypse. Short story by Brian Keene Brian Keene Brian Keene is an American author, primarily of horror, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won two Bram Stoker Awards.- Background :Keene was born in 1967. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and many of his books take place in these locales. After graduating high school, he... , set in a post-apocalyptic world where it started raining one day and never stopped.
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Novel	2005	Technology	How to Survive a Robot Uprising How to Survive a Robot Uprising How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion is a semi-satirical book by Daniel Wilson published in November 2005....	A semi-satirical book by Daniel H. Wilson Daniel H. Wilson Daniel H. Wilson is a New York Times best selling author, television host and robotics engineer. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. His most recent novel, published on June 7, 2011, is Robopocalypse.... .
Other	2005	Monsters	Trinity Blood Trinity Blood is a series of Japanese light novels written by Sunao Yoshida with illustrations by Thores Shibamoto and originally serialized in The Sneaker. Set 900 years after an apocalyptic war between humans and vampires, the series focuses on the on-going cold war between the Vatican, the human government,...	Light novel Light novel A is a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting junior high and high school students . The term "light novel" is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese term formed from words in the English language. Light novels are often called or for short... . Involving a war between humans and vampires.
Other	2005–2006	Aliens	Eureka Seven Eureka Seven Eureka Seven, known in Japan as , is a mecha anime TV series by Bones. Eureka Seven tells the story of Renton Thurston and the outlaw group Gekkostate, his relationship with the enigmatic mecha pilot Eureka, and the mystery of the Coralians....	Anime series and its video games are set 10,000 years after humans had to leave the earth due to a Coralian appearing in Africa. In the current timeline, the remnants of humanity are now settled on a planet they refer to as the "Promised Land".
Other	2005–2006	Eco	Zoids: Genesis Zoids: Genesis is the fourth anime installment of the Zoids franchise. It tells the story of Ruuji Familon, a young boy who finds a Liger-type Zoid during a salvage mission. Initially, the village is attacked by Bio-Raptor Bio-Zoids, and later a Bio-Megaraptor...	Environment disaster. Anime series where an earthquake triggers a series of worldwide natural disasters that devastate Planet Zi.
Comic	2005–2007	Technology	Lego Exo-Force Lego Exo-Force LEGO Exo-Force is a LEGO toy line based on the popular mecha genre from Japanese manga and anime. Mecha fans have long used LEGO bricks to build both imaginative new designs and their interpretations of classic mecha, but Exo-Force is the first time LEGO has dedicated a whole toy line to this...	Comics and books.
Other	2005–present	Eco	Nebulous Nebulous Nebulous is a post apocalyptic science fiction comedy radio show written by Graham Duff and produced by Ted Dowd from Baby Cow Productions; it is directed by Nicholas Briggs. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4...	Radio sitcom by Graham Duff Graham Duff -Life and Work:Graham Duff is an English writer, actor and producer. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire and currently resides in Brighton on the south coast of England. He attended and graduated from the University of Brighton. His work for TV and radio is typified by intricate plotting, large... , in which much of the world was destroyed by an event known as "the Withering".
Film	2006	War	The Dark Hour	The eight years boy Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptic war.
Television	2006	War	Jericho Jericho (TV series) Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States...	CBS CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of... , about the residents of a small Kansas Kansas Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...  town which remains isolated in the aftermath of a series of nuclear attacks on America.
Novel	2006	War	The Book of Dave The Book of Dave - Content :The Book of Dave tells the story of an angry and mentally-ill London taxi driver named Dave Rudman, who writes and has printed on metal a book of his rantings against women and thoughts on custody rights for fathers. These stem from his anger with his ex-wife, Michelle, who he believes...	Self, Will Will Self William Woodard "Will" Self is an English novelist and short story writer. His fictional style is known for being satirical, grotesque, and fantastical. He is a prolific commentator on contemporary British life, with regular appearances on Newsnight and Question Time... , split between modern London and post-apocalyptic London where a new society and religion is based on the legacy of a cab driver.
Novel	2006	War	Deadlands Deadlands Deadlands is a genre-mixing alternate history roleplaying game which combines the Western and horror genres, with some Steampunk elements. It was written by Shane Lacy Hensley and published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group....	Johnson, Scott A. Scott A. Johnson Scott A. Johnson is an American author in the genre of horror.His first novel, An American Haunting, was released in 2004 by Harbor House Books. He currently serves as the Literary and Paranormal Studies Editor for Dread Central, where he pens "Cold Spots", an article series about real haunted...
Game	2006	War	Auto Assault Auto Assault Auto Assault was a massively multiplayer online game , developed by NetDevil and published by NCsoft. It combined vehicular combat with role-playing elements, allowing the player to explore a post-apocalyptic future in customizable cars, motorcycles, semis, and tanks...	Game While seemingly caused by aliens, it is in fact human mistakes, breakdown and war that forges Auto Assault's apocalyptic world. Similar to the Command & Conquer series Command & Conquer series Command & Conquer is a video game franchise, mostly of the real-time strategy style as well as a first-person shooter game based on the former...  where an alien event is the catalyst needed to start decline.
Film	2006	Disease	Children of Men Children of Men Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction film loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel The Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. In 2027, two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Illegal immigrants seek sanctuary in England, where the last...	After all of the world's women are infertile, one refugee woman is found to be pregnant.
Film	2006	Disease	The Zombie Diaries The Zombie Diaries The Zombie Diaries is a 2006 British independent horror film written, produced and directed by Kevin Gates and first-time feature film maker Michael Bartlett.The film was shot in a hand-held documentary format on DV and split into three separate parts....	British made movie in which a virus creates a plague of zombies, viewed entirely from the POV Point of view shot A point of view shot is a short film scene that shows what a character is looking at . It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction...  of a character's video camera. This film was made and completed before George A. Romero George A. Romero George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:... 's Diary of the Dead Diary of the Dead Diary of the Dead is a 2007 American/Canadian horror film by George A. Romero...  which was shot in a similar POV perspective.
Novel	2006	Disease	Pandemia	By Rand, Johnathan Christopher Wright (author) Christopher Wright in Pontiac, Michigan, is the author of dozens of horror fiction books for children and young adults. He writes under the pseudonyms Johnathan Rand and Christopher Knight...  and Knight, Christopher Christopher Wright (author) Christopher Wright in Pontiac, Michigan, is the author of dozens of horror fiction books for children and young adults. He writes under the pseudonyms Johnathan Rand and Christopher Knight... . A mutated bird flu virus wipes out everyone except the young. Set in Michigan.
Novel	2006	Disease	World War Z World War Z World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. It is a follow-up to his 2003 book The Zombie Survival Guide. Rather than a grand overview or narrative, World War Z is a collection of individual accounts in the form of first-person anecdote...	Brooks, Max Max Brooks Maximillian Michael "Max" Brooks is an American author and screenwriter, with a particular interest in zombies. Brooks is also a television and voice-over actor.- Early life and education :...
Novel	2006	Disease	Quarantine	Poetry by Brian Henry Brian Henry Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.-Education:Henry completed a BA at the College of William and Mary and an MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.... .
Television	2006	Impact Event	Three Moons Over Milford Three Moons Over Milford Three Moons Over Milford is an American science fiction dramedy set in a picturesque small town in southern Vermont. Shortly before the series begins, an asteroid hits the Moon, shattering it into three fragments, threatening to eventually fall to Earth and end life...
Novel	2006	Impact Event	Life As We Knew It Life As We Knew It Life As We Knew It is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Susan Beth Pfeffer, first published in 2006 by Harcourt Books. It is the first book in the "Moon Crash Trilogy", followed by The Dead and the Gone....	Susan Beth Pfeffer Susan Beth Pfeffer Susan Beth Pfeffer is a New York Times bestselling author best known for young adult science fiction. She is also known for writing "About David" and the series often called "The Last Survivors," consisting of Life as we Knew it, The Dead and the Gone, This World we Live in, and the forthcoming ... . Asteroid striking the Moon and knocking it into an orbit closer to Earth, concentrating on how a family in Western Pennsylvania is affected.
Other	2006	Aliens	Gears of War Gears of War Gears of War is a military science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios...	The video game, which takes place on the fictional planet of Sera, humans are shown fighting a war against alien monsters that have emerged from underground.
Other	2006	Aliens	Mother 3 Mother 3 Mother 3 is a role-playing video game developed by Nintendo, Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory, and published for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console. It has only been released in Japan, alongside a limited supply bundle. It is the third video game in the Mother series, following EarthBound...	The Game Boy Advance game, where in the final chapter, the protagonists find out the island they live on is a post-apocalyptic utopia that is being contaminated by Porky Minch (From the previous game).
Film	2006	Eco	The World Sinks Except Japan	A parody of Japan Sinks Japan Sinks is a 2006 Tokusatsu film directed by Shinji Higuchi, and a remake of the 1973 screenplay based on the Komatsu novel. It stars Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kou Shibasaki, Etsushi Toyokawa, and Mao Daichi, and was released on July 15, 2006.... . All the land on earth sinks into the ocean, with Japan being the last to go. The sinking has something to do with tectonic plates Tectonic Plates Tectonic Plates is a 1992 independent Canadian film directed by Peter Mettler. Mettler also wrote the screenplay based on the play by Robert Lepage. The film stars Marie Gignac, Céline Bonnier and Robert Lepage.-Plot summary:... .
Novel	2006	Eco	Small-Minded Giants	Oisín McGann Oisín McGann Oisín McGann is an Irish author and illustrator. He writes in a range of genres for children and teenagers, mainly science fiction and fantasy, and has illustrated many of his own short story books for younger readers....
Novel	2006	Eco	Return (novel)	Clayton J Elliott. Ecological and social unrest leave a world fighting to find a new relationship to the earth. An anti-technology novel
Television	2006	Eco	Innocent Venus Innocent Venus is a post-apocalyptic science fiction anime TV series which began broadcasting on the WOWOW network in Japan on July 26, 2006 at midnight. The series makes use of some 3D cel-shaded animation, which achieves a more "hand drawn" look than traditional 3D animation. At Anime Boston 2007, ADV Films had...	Hyper-hurricanes disaster. Set after the world population and economy is devastated by simultaneous hyper-hurricanes.
Game	2006	Eco	Battlefield 2142 Battlefield 2142 Battlefield 2142 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Illusions CE and produced by Electronic Arts . It is the fourth game in the Battlefield series...	PC A new ice age renders most of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable. Wars are fought over the remaining habitable land.
Other	2006	Eco	Ergo Proxy Ergo Proxy is a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy has been described as dark science fiction mystery with...	Environment disaster. Anime series by the Japanese production company Manglobe Manglobe is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise. It was formed on February 7, 2002 by Sunrise producers Shinichirō Kobayashi and Takashi Kochiyama.-Works:*Trip Trek *Samurai Champloo... , in which an undefined global ecological disaster has decimated the surface of the Earth, and the small remaining human population lives in isolated, city-state dome complexes.
Television	2006	Technology	Android Apocalypse Android Apocalypse Android Apocalypse, also known as Facing Extinction, is a 2006 science fiction film starring Scott Bairstow and Joseph Lawrence. The film was written by Karl Schiffman and directed by Paul Ziller for Sci Fi Channel as a television film...
Television	2006	Technology	Lego Exo-Force Lego Exo-Force LEGO Exo-Force is a LEGO toy line based on the popular mecha genre from Japanese manga and anime. Mecha fans have long used LEGO bricks to build both imaginative new designs and their interpretations of classic mecha, but Exo-Force is the first time LEGO has dedicated a whole toy line to this...
Film	2006	Human Decline	Children of Men Children of Men Children of Men is a 2006 science fiction film loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel The Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. In 2027, two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Illegal immigrants seek sanctuary in England, where the last...	The human race has become infertile.
Novel	2006	Human Decline	Return	By Clayton J Elliott in which ecological and social unrest leave a world fighting to find a new relationship to the earth. An anti-technology novel.
Other	2006	Monsters	Cell Cell (novel) Cell is an apocalyptic horror novel published by American author Stephen King in 2006. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious...	Novel by Stephen King. A strange cell phone signal turns ordinary humans into killer zombies.
Other	2006	Monsters	The Quick and the Undead The Quick and the Undead The Quick and the Undead is a 2006 zombie horror film written, directed, and produced by Gerald Nott.-Plot:In the present, a plague breaks out and the infected have been transformed into zombies. The action starts 80 years after the initial outbreak...	Film
Film	2006	Supernatural	Pulse	And its 2009 sequel Pulse 2: Afterlife.
Film	2006	Social Collapse	Puzzlehead Puzzlehead Puzzlehead is a Sci fi drama starring Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro, and Mark Janis. It was written and directed by James Bai and the film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2005 before opening in limited release in New York City on March 23, 2006.- Plot :Walter, a scientist living...	Bai, James(writer/director). Set in what looks like Brooklyn, "after the decline", the streets are empty and there seems to be constant random killings.
Film	2006	Unspecified	Android Apocalypse Android Apocalypse Android Apocalypse, also known as Facing Extinction, is a 2006 science fiction film starring Scott Bairstow and Joseph Lawrence. The film was written by Karl Schiffman and directed by Paul Ziller for Sci Fi Channel as a television film...
Novel	2006	Unspecified	Guardando la fine del mondo	By Riccardo Deias, set in alternative world and time.
Novel	2006	Unspecified	Night Work	A novel by Thomas Glavinic Thomas Glavinic Thomas Glavinic is an Austrian writer. With Kathrin Röggla and Daniel Kehlmann, he is among other young Austrian authors being perceived as significantly shaping the literary discussion in Austria.-Life:... , in which a man wakes up to find that everyone else has disappeared.
Game	2006	Unspecified	Mother 3 Mother 3 Mother 3 is a role-playing video game developed by Nintendo, Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory, and published for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console. It has only been released in Japan, alongside a limited supply bundle. It is the third video game in the Mother series, following EarthBound...	Game BoyIn which a small group of humans escape to a post-apocalyptic utopia after the "old world" is destroyed. While the game never explains what happened to the "old world", they say that the humans were the ones that caused its destruction.
Film	2007	War	The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell is an independently made dark comedy directed by Jonny Gillette, written and co-directed by Kevin Wheatley and produced by Jamie Bullock and Ryan Turi. The film stars Kevin Wheatley and Jamie Bullock, amongst others....	Indie comedy.
Television	2007	War	Masters of Science Fiction Masters of Science Fiction Masters of Science Fiction is an American television anthology series by the same creators as Masters of Horror. The show debuted on ABC on August 4, 2007 at 10PM for a run of four episodes...	Episode, A Clean Escape A Clean Escape A Clean Escape is a 1985 short story by John Kessel, later adapted into a play by Kessel in 1986. It features a psychiatrist attempting to cure the President of the United States of his amnesia so that he can be held accountable for precipitating a nuclear holocaust.The story was adapted by Sam...
Novel	2007	War	Last Light	Scarrow, Alex Alex Scarrow Alex Scarrow is a British author, whose books include A Thousand Suns, Last Light, Afterlight, October Skies, and the young adult science fiction series TimeRiders.-Early life:... , sudden end of oil availability leads to worldwide social collapse.
Novel	2007	War	The Oblivion Society The Oblivion Society The Oblivion Society, a gold medalist of the Independent Publisher Book Award, is a post-apocalypse horror-comedy by Marcus Alexander Hart...	Hart, Marcus Alexander
Novel	2007	War	The Pesthouse	Crace, Jim Jim Crace James "Jim" Crace is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife...
Novel	2007	War	The Slynx	Tolstaya, Tatyana Tatyana Tolstaya Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.- Family :She was born into a family of rich literary tradition. Her paternal grandfather was Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, an important Russian-Soviet writer known as 'the Red... , 2007 is the English translation first publication date.
Novel	2007	War	The World Ends in Hickory Hollow	Mayhar, Ardath Ardath Mayhar Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar began her writing career as a poet when she was nineteen. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I...
Film	2007	Disease	28 Weeks Later 28 Weeks Later 28 Weeks Later is a 2007 British/Spanish film sequel to the 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later. 28 Weeks Later was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and released in the United Kingdom and United States on 11 May 2007...	Sequel to 28 Days Later. During the efforts to repopulate Britain, the discovery of a possible cure to the "Rage" virus may also begin the apocalypse all over again
Film	2007	Disease	I Am Legend I Am Legend (film) I Am Legend is a 2007 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It is the third feature film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name, following 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's The Omega Man. Smith plays virologist Robert...	In an abandoned New York City, military virologist Robert Neville tries to find a cure to a man-made virus that killed almost everyone on earth, while at the same time trying to survive against the vampiric zombies it left behind.
Film	2007	Disease	I Am Omega I Am Omega I Am Ωmega is a 2007 direct-to-DVD American doomsday film produced by The Asylum and starring Mark Dacascos of Iron Chef America.The film is an unofficial adaptation of the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, the title being a portmanteau of The Omega Man and 2007's I Am Legend with Will Smith,...
Film	2007	Disease	Resident Evil: Extinction Resident Evil: Extinction Resident Evil: Extinction is a Canadian-British 2007 science fiction action horror film also categorized as a doomsday and zombie film, and is the third installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the Capcom survival horror series Resident Evil...
Novel	2007	Disease	Plague Year	By Carlson, Jeff Jeff Carlson (author) Jeff G. Carlson is an American science fiction and thriller writer whose novels are international bestsellers.Son of a former division head at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Carlson was born in Sunnyvale, California and has since lived in several cities up and down the Californian coast... . Slated to be a trilogy
Novel	2007	Disease	Quentel	Budendorf, Deric R.
Film	2007	Impact Event	Super Comet: After The Impact Super Comet: After The Impact Super Comet: After The Impact is a 2007 speculative documentary produced by the Discovery Channel. It was directed by Stefan Schneider.The two-hour production hypothesizes the effects on modern-day earth of a large comet impacting in Mexico near the same location of the K/T extinction event, the...	A speculative documentary produced by the Discovery Channel Discovery Channel Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...  which hypothesizes the effects on modern-day earth of a large comet impact.
Film	2007	Aliens	The Invasion The Invasion (film) The Invasion is a 2007 science fiction thriller film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, with additional scenes written by the Wachowski brothers and directed by James McTeigue....	Yet another film based on the novel The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes the fictional town of Santa Mira, California being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space...  by Jack Finney Jack Finney Jack Finney was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.-Biography:Finney was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and given the... .
Film	2007	Aliens	Invasion of the Pod People Invasion of the Pod People Invasion of the Pod People is a 2007 science-fiction film produced by The Asylum....	A low-budget remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers made by The Asylum The Asylum The Asylum is an American film studio and distributor which focuses on producing low-budget, usually direct-to-video productions. The studio has produced titles that capitalize on productions by major studios; these titles have been dubbed "mockbusters" by the press.-History:The Asylum was founded...  to capitalise on the release of The Invasion The Invasion (film) The Invasion is a 2007 science fiction thriller film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, with additional scenes written by the Wachowski brothers and directed by James McTeigue.... .
Film	2007	Aliens	Transformers	A race of both robotic aliens battle for mankind.
Other	2007	Aliens	Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts for the Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox 360 platforms, and released internationally in March 2007...	The computer game . In the midst of the Third Tiberium War, an alien faction known as the Scrin lands on Earth seeking the alien mineral Tiberium Tiberium Tiberium or Ichor is a fictional substance that is central to the plot of much of the Command & Conquer series of real-time strategy video games...  for themselves. The prequels suggest the apocalypse was actually caused by humans, though.
Game	2007	Eco	Darkwind: War on Wheels Darkwind: War on Wheels Darkwind: War on Wheels is an independently developed 3D turn based racing and vehicle combat massively multiplayer online game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux...	PC-MMOGA disastrous solar event in 2019 and 2020 leaves the world devastated, with only small pockets of human survivors scratching out a living in a bleak, irradiated world. Largely fuelled by the stockpiles of hardware left behind by a dead civilization combined with the desperation of a new world order, the gladiatorial deathsports begin, around 2035. The vast expanses of wilderness between the towns are menaced by gangs of road pirates armed with heavily armed cars and trucks, and travelled by equally well armed trade groups, making a living by carrying food, fuel, and other specialist equipment between the towns.
Film	2007	Technology	Meet the Robinsons Meet the Robinsons Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American computer-animated family film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 30, 2007. The forty-seventh animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film was released in both the United States and the...
Film	2007	Human Decline	Tooth and Nail Tooth and Nail (film) Tooth & Nail is a 2007 horror film about a group of people in a post-apocalyptic world who must fight to survive against a band of vicious cannibals.- Plot :...	A group of survivors, called Foragers, take cover in an old abandoned hospital where the group attempt to re build society. All we know of the apocalypse is that man "Ran out of gas", but not in the sense of oil, just that our time was up.
Other	2007	Monsters	Gurren Lagann	AnimatedTV series. In which cloned "Beastmen" fight an apocalyptic battle with humanity.
Other	2007	Monsters	REC REC (film) REC is a 2007 Spanish horror film co-written and co-directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza.The film was released in Spain in November 2007. Balaguero and Plaza previously directed the 2002 documentary OT, The Movie. REC was filmed using shaky camerawork...	Film by Jaume Balagueró Jaume Balagueró Jaume Balagueró i Bernat , is a Spanish film director widely known for his horror films.- Life :Jaume Balagueró was born in Lleida, and grew up in Barcelona. He studied communications and photography at the University of Barcelona, graduating in 1991 with a degree in Communication Sciences...  and Paco Plaza Paco Plaza Paco Plaza is a Spanish film director best known for writing and directing REC and REC 2 with Jaume Balagueró. He then went on to direct the REC series prequel REC:Genesis by himself while Jaume Balagueró directed the sequel REC Apocalypse.... . Spanish horror film about altered humans by a Demon.
Game	2007	Future Collapse	Supreme Commander	PC, XboxSet at the end of a thousand year long war, called the infinite war, between three separate factions; the UEF (United Earth Federation), the Aeon and the Cybrans.
Film	2007	Sun	Sunshine Sunshine (2007 film) Sunshine is a 2007 British science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland about the crew of a spacecraft on a dangerous mission to the Sun. In 2057, with the Earth in peril from the dying Sun, the crew is sent to reignite the Sun with a massive stellar bomb with the mass...	Directed by Danny Boyle Danny Boyle Daniel "Danny" Boyle is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting. For Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle won numerous awards in 2008, including the Academy Award for Best Director... . The film follows a spaceship crew in the year 2057 who are tasked with reigniting Earth's dying sun.
Game	2007	Supernatural	Hellgate: London Hellgate: London Hellgate: London is a dark fantasy themed action role-playing game originally developed by Flagship Studios, released on October 31, 2007. It was developed by a team headed by former Blizzard Entertainment employees, some of whom had overseen the creation of the Diablo series...	PCDemons and humans are in constant struggle on earth.
Television	2007	Unspecified	Afterworld (TV series)	American series about a man living in a post-apocalyptic United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  after an unspecified cataclysm.
Game	2007–2011	Technology	Mass Effect Mass Effect (series) Mass Effect is an award-winning, bestselling series of science fiction RPG third-person shooter video games developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and, from the second installment, for the PlayStation 3...	Canadian made Sci-Fi video game series. Third Person shooter science fiction shooter, including a race of nomadic, space traversing humanoids known as 'Quarians', who created a race (the Geth) of networked artificial intelligences. Soon, the Geth revolted against the Quarians and forced them into the vastness of space aboard a fleet of star ships without a safe refuge in the galaxy.
Television	2007–present	Supernatural	Rebuild of Evangelion Rebuild of Evangelion Rebuild of Evangelion, known in Japan as , is a Japanese animated film series and a remake of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series. It is being produced by Studio Khara and KlockWorx in partnership with Gainax...	remake of the Neon Genesis Evangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion , commonly referred to as Evangelion, is a commercially and critically successful Japanese anime series that began airing in October 1995. The series was highly influential, and launched the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. It garnered several major animation awards...  anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....  series. The first of the four films, Evangelion: 1.0- You are [Not] Alone Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone is a 2007 Japanese animated film written and chief directed by Hideaki Anno. It is the first of four films released in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy based on the original anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was produced and co-distributed by Anno's Studio Khara in partnership with Gainax... , debuted in 2007, with the second part, 2.0- You Shall (Not) Advance, debuting in 2009.
Film	2008	War	20 Years After 20 Years After 20 Years After is a 2008 American post-apocalyptic film.-Plot:The events take place 20 years after a nuclear war which was followed by plagues. No children have been born in 15 years, and people want to gain control of the first pregnant woman - Sara...	20 years after wars, plague, and natural disasters, a young woman follows the voice of a lone radio broadcaster and delivers the first child born in 15 years.
Film	2008	War	City of Ember City of Ember City of Ember is a 2008 science fiction-fantasy film based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Jeanne DuPrau. It was directed by Gil Kenan from a screenplay by Caroline Thompson, and stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau and Tim Robbins.-Plot:In the...	Based on the book by Jeanne Duprau
Film	2008	War	Mutant Chronicles Mutant Chronicles (film) Mutant Chronicles is a 2009 independent science fiction horror film, loosely based on the role-playing game of the same name. The film was directed by Simon Hunter, and stars Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman. The film was released throughout Europe in an unfinished form. The film premiered on VOD on...	Based on the Mutant Chronicles Mutant Chronicles Mutant Chronicles is a pen-and-paper role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world, originally published in 1993. It has spawned a franchise of collectible card games, miniature wargames, video games, novels, comic books, and a film of the same title based on the game world.Mutant Chronicles...  RPG
Novel	2008	War	Flood Flood (Baxter novel) Published in 2008, Flood is the work of hard science fiction by English author Stephen Baxter. It describes a near future world where deep submarine seismic activity leads to seabed fragmentation, and the opening of deep subterranean reservoirs of water. Human civilization is almost destroyed by...	Baxter, Stephen Stephen Baxter Stephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.- Writing style :... , with two sequels projected, Huge underground oceans start leaking to the surface, lifting sea levels by thousands of metres over several decades.
Novel	2008	War	The Hunger Games The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is a first person young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic. It is the first book of the Hunger Games trilogy. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world...	Young adult series by Collins, Suzanne Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and novelist.-Early life:Suzanne Collins is the daughter of an Air Force officer. She graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts and earned her M.F.A. from New York University in Dramatic Writing....
Novel	2008	War	The Valley-Westside War The Valley-Westside War The Valley-Westside War is a 2008 young adult, alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. It is the latest in the Crosstime Traffic series.-Background:...	Turtledove, Harry Harry Turtledove Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
Game	2008	War	Exodus (role-playing game) Exodus (role-playing game) Exodus is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game published by Glutton Creeper Games using the d20/OGL system. Originally the game was licensed in the Fallout universe, but due to legal complications with Interplay and Bethesda Softworks, Fallout's current copyright holder, the publisher decided to...	Game A post-apocalyptic role-playing game from Glutton Creeper Games set after the War on Terror destroy 99% of the world's population.
Film	2008	Disease	Doomsday Doomsday (film) Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future. Scotland has been quarantined because of a deadly virus. When the virus is found in London, political leaders send a team led by Major Eden Sinclair to Scotland to find a...
Film	2008	Disease	Repo! The Genetic Opera Repo! The Genetic Opera Repo! The Genetic Opera is a 2008 horror-rock opera musical film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. The film is based on a play written and composed by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich....
Film	2008	Disease	The Last Man The Last Man (film) Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a 2008 science fiction film directed by James Arnett and starring Santiago Craig. The film was released in the USA on February 23, 2008.-Overview:...	Based upon Mary Shelley Mary Shelley Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley... 's 1826 novel The Last Man The Last Man The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s...
Television	2008	Disease	Survivors Survivors (2008 TV Series) Survivors is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent strain of heretofore unknown influenza which has wiped out most of the human race...	BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...  television series a remake of the 70's series of the same name Survivors Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977...
Novel	2008	Disease	The Martian General's Daughter The Martian General's Daughter The Martian General's Daughter is a 2008 science fiction novel by Theodore Judson. The novel takes the form of memoirs written by Justa Black, the illegitimate daughter of Peter Justice Black, a general of the fictional Pan-Polarian Empire.-Plot:...	Collapse of global civilization caused by virus-like nanotechnology Nanotechnology Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
Game	2008	Disease	Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve Corporation during development. The game uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X...	MultiFeaturing people transformed into crazed zombie-like mutants by an infection.
Novel	2008	Impact Event	Dead and the Gone The Dead and the Gone The Dead and the Gone is a young adult science fiction novel by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Released in hardcover in May 2008, it is the second book in The Last Survivors, following Life As We Knew It and preceding This World We Live In.-Background:...	Susan Beth Pfeffer Susan Beth Pfeffer Susan Beth Pfeffer is a New York Times bestselling author best known for young adult science fiction. She is also known for writing "About David" and the series often called "The Last Survivors," consisting of Life as we Knew it, The Dead and the Gone, This World we Live in, and the forthcoming ... . How the same event as in Life As We Knew It Life As We Knew It Life As We Knew It is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Susan Beth Pfeffer, first published in 2006 by Harcourt Books. It is the first book in the "Moon Crash Trilogy", followed by The Dead and the Gone....  affects a family in New York City.
Novel	2008	Aliens	The Host The Host (novel) The Host is a science fiction/romance novel by Stephenie Meyer. The novel introduces an alien race, called Souls, which takes over the Earth and its inhabitants. The book describes one Soul's predicament when the mind of its human host refuses to cooperate with her takeover. The Host was released...	Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer is an American author known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages... . An alien race, called Souls, take over Earth and its inhabitants. The novel follows one Soul's predicament when the mind of its human host refuses to cooperate with her takeover.
Film	2008	Eco	The Happening The Happening (2008 film) The Happening is a 2008 science fiction thriller film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan that follows a woman, her husband, the husband's best friend, and the friend's daughter as they try to escape from an inexplicable natural disaster. The plot revolves around a mysterious...	The movie depicts an unknown deadly neurotoxin.
Film	2008	Eco	Lost City Raiders
Film	2008	Eco	WALL-E WALL-E WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...	Earth is abandoned after becoming too polluted to sustain life. A robot stays behind and cleans Earth.
Novel	2008	Eco	Flood Flood (Baxter novel) Published in 2008, Flood is the work of hard science fiction by English author Stephen Baxter. It describes a near future world where deep submarine seismic activity leads to seabed fragmentation, and the opening of deep subterranean reservoirs of water. Human civilization is almost destroyed by...	Stephen Baxter Stephen Baxter Stephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.- Writing style :... . Huge underground oceans start leaking to the surface, lifting sea levels by thousands of metres over several decades.
Novel	2008	Eco	Mai Shangri-La	Robert J. Rubis. In 2030 climate has "flipped", world sea-levels have risen 7 meters, and the survivors struggle to fashion new lives from the remnants of industrialized society.
Television	2008	Eco	The Poison Sky The Poison Sky "The Poison Sky" is the fifth episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 3 May 2008. The episode features both former companion Martha Jones and the alien Sontarans...	Environment disaster. The Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... episode "The Poison Sky The Poison Sky "The Poison Sky" is the fifth episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 3 May 2008. The episode features both former companion Martha Jones and the alien Sontarans... ". The poisonous Sontaran gases (creating the titular "poison sky") above Sylvia and Wilfred's street ignite as the flames from the Doctor's atmospheric converter spread globally.
Game	2008	Technology	Too Human Too Human Too Human is an action-RPG video game developed by Canadian developer Silicon Knights and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 console...	XboxBy Canadian developer Silicon Knights.
Other	2008	Monsters	Quarantine Quarantine (film) Quarantine is a 2008 American horror film, directed by John Erick Dowdle and starring Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short, Steve Harris, Rade Šerbedžija, Greg Germann, Bernard White, and Johnathon Schaech. The film is a remake of the Spanish horror film REC with a few exceptions such...	Film by John Erick Dowdle John Erick Dowdle John Erick Dowdle is a U.S. director, producer, screenwriter, and editor.-Early life:Dowdle grew up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. After graduating from the St. Thomas Academy, an all-boys, military, Catholic high school, Dowdle moved to Iowa City, Iowa to attend the University of Iowa. There he... . American horror film which is a remake of the Spanish horror film REC REC (film) REC is a 2007 Spanish horror film co-written and co-directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza.The film was released in Spain in November 2007. Balaguero and Plaza previously directed the 2002 documentary OT, The Movie. REC was filmed using shaky camerawork... .
Other	2008	Monsters	Dead Set Dead Set (TV series) Dead Set is a critically acclaimed BAFTA-nominated horror drama created by English writer Charlie Brooker.The series takes place primarily on the set of a fictional season of the real television show Big Brother...	A UK television series which chronicles a zombie outbreak.
Novel	2008	Supernatural	Therefore Repent! Therefore Repent! Therefore Repent! is a bestselling Canadian graphic novel written by anarchist freelance writer Jim Munroe and illustrated by Salgood Sam. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago neighbourhood after the predictions of Christian fundamentalists concerning the Rapture have come true, the righteous...	By Jim Munroe Jim Munroe Jim Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, who publishes his works independently under the imprint No Media Kings.Munroe was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999...  art by Salgood Sam, a post-Rapture graphic novel.
Television	2008	Social Collapse	Turn Left Turn Left (Doctor Who) "Turn Left" is the eleventh episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written by showrunner Russell T Davies and broadcast on BBC One on 21 June 2008.... (Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...  episode #197)	Davies, Russell T(writer). Explores an apocalyptic alternative future in which British society has collapsed due to the death of Doctor Doctor (Doctor Who) The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films, a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series.... .
Novel	2008	Social Collapse	World Made By Hand World Made By Hand World Made by Hand is a dystopian novel by James Howard Kunstler published in 2008. Set in the fictional town of Union Grove, New York, the novel follows a cast of characters as they navigate a world stripped of its modern comforts, ravaged by terrorism, epidemics, and the economic upheaval of peak...	By Kunstler, James. Explores life in an agrarian village in upstate New York after America collapses under the combined trauma of plague, peak oil Peak oil Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. This concept is based on the observed production rates of individual oil wells, projected reserves and the combined production rate of a field... , global warming Global warming Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades... , and nuclear terrorism Nuclear terrorism Nuclear terrorism denotes the use, or threat of the use, of nuclear weapons or radiological weapons in acts of terrorism, includingattacks against facilities where radioactive materials are present... .
Film	2008	Unspecified	Life After People Life After People Life After People is a television documentary series where scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth might be like if humanity no longer existed, as well as the impact humanity's disappearance might have on the environment and the artificial aspects of civilization...	A TV documentary film Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record... , and the spin-off, Life After People: The Series, document life on earth after all humans have instantly disappeared. The shows does not mention a cause of their disappearance.
Television	2008–2009	Technology	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Film	2009	Disease	Carriers Carriers (film) Carriers is a 2009 American horror film about four people fleeing a viral pandemic. It was written and directed by Àlex Pastor and David Pastor and stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp.- Plot :...	A group of 4 on the road trying to find a safe haven while plague rages across the USA.
Film	2009	Disease	Daybreakers Daybreakers Daybreakers is a 2009 science-fiction horror film written and directed by Australian filmmakers Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in 2019, where a plague has turned most of the planet's human population into vampires. A vampiric corporation sets out to capture and farm the remaining...	A virus changes most of the populace into vampires sometime around 2019. At the point where vampirism is considered "normal", the remaining humans attempt to escape being farmed for their blood, while also attempting to find a cure.
Film	2009	Disease	La Horde La horde La Horde or The Horde is a French horror film directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, it stars Jean-Pierre Martins, Eriq Ebouaney and Doudou Masta.-Plot:...	French Zombie-Apocalypse film. Directed by Benjamin Rocher. The film is set in one of French tower blocks, wherein a small group of people trying to make their way out of it thrusting through hordes of zombies.
Novel	2009	Disease	The Jetty Journals	By Ian Buchanan. Four teenagers try to survive a world falling apart after a virus outbreak.
Novel	2009	Disease	The Killing Moon	By Glenn, Rod Rod Glenn Rod Glenn is an author of fiction from the north east of England.The King of America is a futuristic thriller set five hundred years into the future with the Americas all ruled by a European-style monarchy.... . Five friends struggle to survive 20 years after the collapse of civilisation. Set in northern England.
Novel	2009	Disease	Two Journeys Two Journeys Two Journeys is a apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction adventure novel by Clemens P. Suter, which describes the aftermath of a global pandemic that has eradicated all of humankind...	By Clemens P. Suter. A business man travels home through a deserted, post-pandemic Pandemic A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic...  Eurasia
Game	2009	Disease	Left 4 Dead 2 Left 4 Dead 2 Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It is the sequel to Valve Corporation's award-winning Left 4 Dead. The game launched on November 17, 2009, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in the United States and November 20 in Europe; in 2010, Left 4 Dead 2 was made available to...	MultiFeaturing the same as Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game. It was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve Corporation during development. The game uses Valve's proprietary Source engine, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and Mac OS X...  but expanded.
Game	2009	Disease	Killing Floor Killing Floor (2009 video game) Killing Floor is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed and published by Tripwire Interactive. It was first released on May 14, 2009, for Microsoft Windows, and for Mac OS X on May 5, 2010.-Gameplay:...	PCCooperative first-person shooter video game.
Film	2009	Eco	The Third Garden
Film	2009	Eco	2012 2012 (film) 2012 is a 2009 American disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. It stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson. It was produced by Emmerich's production company, Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by Columbia Pictures...
Novel	2009	Eco	The Windup Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi Paolo Bacigalupi Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and was nominated for the National Book Award... . In future Thailand, where calories are the most needed energy source, an unexpected girl struggles to live like as she wants.
Television	2009	Eco	Earth 2100 Earth 2100 Earth 2100 is a television program that was presented by the American Broadcasting Company network on June 2, 2009 and was aired on the History channel in January 2010 and will continue to be shown through 2010...	Time travel fiction. The 2009 ABC Special Earth 2100 Earth 2100 Earth 2100 is a television program that was presented by the American Broadcasting Company network on June 2, 2009 and was aired on the History channel in January 2010 and will continue to be shown through 2010... explore the future if humans do not take actions to help the eco-system that can prove to be disastrous. Lucy, the speaker, explains about this world and wonders how she was one of the lucky humans to have survived.
Film	2009	Technology	9	Adaptation of 2005 year's film 9.
Television	2009	Technology	Power Rangers: RPM Power Rangers: RPM Power Rangers RPM is the seventeenth installment in the American children's television series Power Rangers. As with all previous Power Rangers series, RPM uses footage, costumes, and other props from the Super Sentai Series, in this case, from Engine Sentai Go-onger...	The Power Rangers protect the last remnants of humanity, who are now settled in the domed city of Corinth, after the accidental release of a government created computer virus known as "Venjix". Malicious and self-aware, it leaves most of the planet in nuclear fallout, constructs an army of attack bots and begins cybernetic experiments on human prisoners.
Other	2009	Monsters	The Forest of Hands and Teeth The Forest of Hands and Teeth The Forest of Hands and Teeth is a New York Times best-selling post-apocalyptic zombie novel by first-time author Carrie Ryan that is marketed to young-adults. It was published in 2009 by Random House Delacorte Press in the United States, and by Hachette Gollancz in Australia and the United Kingdom...	Novel by Ryan, Carrie. Set generations after the zombie apocalypse, a girl struggles against the religious order in her village hoping for life beyond the fences protecting them from the Unconsecrated (zombies) in the surrounding forest.
Other	2009	Monsters	REC 2 REC 2 REC 2 or [●REC]² is the 2009 Spanish horror film sequel to 2007's REC. Written and directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, both of whom returned from the previous film, the story takes place immediately after the events of the first film, with producing company Filmax International describing...	Film by Jaume Balagueró Jaume Balagueró Jaume Balagueró i Bernat , is a Spanish film director widely known for his horror films.- Life :Jaume Balagueró was born in Lleida, and grew up in Barcelona. He studied communications and photography at the University of Barcelona, graduating in 1991 with a degree in Communication Sciences...  and Paco Plaza Paco Plaza Paco Plaza is a Spanish film director best known for writing and directing REC and REC 2 with Jaume Balagueró. He then went on to direct the REC series prequel REC:Genesis by himself while Jaume Balagueró directed the sequel REC Apocalypse.... . The sequel to 2007's REC REC (film) REC is a 2007 Spanish horror film co-written and co-directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza.The film was released in Spain in November 2007. Balaguero and Plaza previously directed the 2002 documentary OT, The Movie. REC was filmed using shaky camerawork... .
Film	2009	Sun	Knowing Knowing (film) Knowing is a 2009 American-British science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The project was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially...	Tells of a story where the end of the world, caused by a solar flare erupting onto the solar system, is accurately predicted.
Novel	2009	Supernatural	Dominion	The apocalyptic fiction series by Compasse, a supernatural thriller with religious and geopolitical themes. Through seven books, 'the secret language of music has been discovered', and becomes a powerful force in this end-times scenario. Published by Sacrata Dei Press.
Novel	2009	Social Collapse	Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse is a survivalist novel written by James Wesley Rawles, first distributed as shareware in 1995 and first published in paperback in 1998. It was most recently updated and re-published in 2009. In one week of April 2009, shortly after its release,...	By Rawles, James W. James Wesley Rawles James Wesley, Rawles is a New York Times best-selling survivalist-fiction author, blogger, and survival retreat consultant. Rawles is a Christian conservative. He is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com, a blog on survival and preparedness topics... . An apocalyptic survivalist novel about a total socio-economic collapse.
Film	2009	Unspecified	Les derniers jours du monde Les derniers jours du monde Happy End is a 2009 French apocalyptic film that depicts the story of a man, Robinson, who travels across France and Spain during the end of the world.-Cast:* Mathieu Amalric as Robinson* Catherine Frot as Ombeline* Sergi Lopez as Théo...	A French film. Depicts the story of a man, Robinson, who travels across France and Spain during the end of the world.
Film	2009	Unspecified	The Road The Road The Road is a 2006 novel by the American author Cormac McCarthy.The Road may also refer to:* The Road , a 2001 Kazakhstani film* The Road , a 2009 film adaptation of the McCarthy novel...	A film based upon the novel "The Road", by Cormac McCarthy.
Other	2009	Unspecified	Songs From The Floodplain	An album by Jon Boden Jon Boden Jon Boden is an multi-instrumental musician and English folk singer.-Career:Boden plays fiddle as part of the duo Spiers and Boden, the band Bellowhead and up until 2007, Eliza Carthy's band The Ratcatchers. In 2009 he toured with his new backing band The Remnant Kings. He has also written a... .
Comic	2009 to present	Disease	Sweet Tooth Sweet Tooth (Vertigo) Sweet Tooth is an American comic book ongoing series written and drawn by Canadian Jeff Lemire and published by DC comics' Vertigo imprint. Dubbed by some as "Mad Max meets Bambi", it takes place in a mostly rural post-apocalyptic setting where some creatures are human/animal hybrids...	Series written and drawn by Jeff Lemire Jeff Lemire Jeff Lemire is a Canadian comics artist and writer. He is the author of the Essex County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth and The Nobody. Lemire is known for a his moody, humanistic stories and sketchy, cinematic, black-and-white art....  and published by Vertigo Comics about a young hybrid human/deer, who has survived an apocalyptic plague.
Comic	2009-	Impact Event	Circa ATA	Webcomic by Markus Rajala. A Post-apocalyptic tale set in a world recovering from a second dark age.
Television	2009–	Aliens	V	Remake of the 80s Television Series.
Television	2009–2010	Disease	The Colony	Reality television style drama about a group of survivors forced to live in a warehouse in the virus ravaged city of Los Angeles, California.
Game	2009–present	War	Fallen Earth Fallen Earth Fallen Earth is a free-to-play MMO developed by Reloaded Productions . The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland located around the American Grand Canyon...	Game A post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online roleplaying game from Icarus Studios and Fallen Earth LLC set in the 22nd Century after the Shiva Virus has spread all over the world.
Game	2009–present	Disease	Fallen Earth Fallen Earth Fallen Earth is a free-to-play MMO developed by Reloaded Productions . The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland located around the American Grand Canyon...	MultiMassively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game
Film	2010	War	The Book of Eli The Book of Eli The Book of Eli is a 2010 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by the Hughes brothers, written by Gary Whitta, and starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson and Jennifer Beals....	Although never directly stated, enormous craters can be seen throughout the film and characters mention an event called "the Flash". The writer, Gary Whitta Gary Whitta Gary Whitta is an English screenwriter, author, game designer, and video games journalist. He is known as the former editor-in-chief of both the UK and US editions of PC Gamer magazine and contributor to gaming magazine, ACE.... , stated he wanted the audience to figure out the nuclear event slowly.
Novel	2010	War	Life After War	Angela White, also author of On The Road On the Road On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of...
Novel	2010	War	The Mountaineers	Angela White, also author of Life After War
Game	2010	War	Metro 2033	Game by 4A Games and THQ for the PC and Xbox 360
Film	2010	Disease	Resident Evil: Afterlife Resident Evil: Afterlife Resident Evil: Afterlife is a 2010 Canadian-German 3D science-fiction horror action film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, and Wentworth Miller. The film marks Anderson's second time to direct in...
Film	2010	Disease	Survival of the Dead	Low-budget film. On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state. Directed by George A. Romero George A. Romero George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:... .
Television	2010	Disease	After Armageddon	TV Film about a family trying to survive after a global outbreak.
Novel	2010	Disease	Dog Eat Dog	Rodger, David J. David J. Rodger David J. Rodger is a British author and game designer best known for his novels set in a near-future world of corporate and political intrigue. So far he has published four novels set in the same milieu: God Seed; Dante’s Fool; Iron Man Project; and Edge...  Ten years after a devastating global pandemic, the lives of two survivors collide in a sequence of events that threaten both their sanity and their lives.
Novel	2010	Disease	The Passage	By Justin Cronin. A virus turns humanity into vampire-esque creatures, leading to the collapse of civilization, while survivors eke out a bleak existence.
Film	2010	Impact Event	Meteor Apocalypse	A gigantic meteor enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Film	2010	Impact Event	Quantum Apocalypse Quantum Apocalypse Quantum Apocalypse is a 2010 science fiction film directed by Justin Jones.-Plot:During routine administration at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Dr. Rhodes discovers that a comet has suddenly veered off its orbit and smashed into Mars. The explosion causes debris to travel towards Earth with...	A comet makes an unexpected turn towards the earth where all life may cease to exist within days if small town heroes fail to find a solution.
Film	2010	Aliens	Skyline	Aliens invade Earth and attempt to steal the brains of its citizens.
Novel	2010	Eco	Drain	Davis Schneiderman Davis Schneiderman Davis Schneiderman is an American innovative writer and academic.-Biography:Schneiderman earned a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University , an M.A. and Ph.D. from Binghamton University... . Lake Michigan mysteriously empties of water, and an end-of-time cult occupies the lakebed, waiting for a reflooding of the zone by the power of giant Worm.
Novel	2010	Technology	Mechanical Jihad	Part of the Supernova universe by Lee Emerick.
Other	2010	Monsters	Denizen (2010 film)	Film by J.A. Steel. “To catch a monster you must become a monster.”
Novel	2010	Supernatural	Sword of My Mouth	By Jim Munroe Jim Munroe Jim Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, who publishes his works independently under the imprint No Media Kings.Munroe was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999...  art by Shannon Gerard, a follow-up to Therefore Repent!.
Novel	2010	Supernatural	Static Mayhem	By Edward Aubry. Almost everyone in the world disappears leaving destruction, advanced technology from sometime in the future, as well as demons and faeries. The survivors work to figure out what happened and how to reverse it. Published by WorldMaker Media.
Novel	2010	Social Collapse	Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America	Decline of world civilization caused by the depletion of oil reserves.
Novel	2010	Unspecified	Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down: A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse	A comedy survivalist book by Forrest Griffin Forrest Griffin Forrest Griffin is an American mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he is a former UFC light heavyweight champion.... .
Novel	2010	Unspecified	Cygnis	A novel by Vincent Gessler Vincent Gessler Vincent Gessler, in Sierre is a Swiss science fiction author based in Geneva, Switzerland.- Biography :Vincent Gessler divides his time among writing, comics, online games, sciences, history and story telling. He caught the science fiction virus very early and became passionately interesed in comics... , in which Syn the trapper and Ack, his cybernetic wolf, survive in a world covered with forests, facing robots and humans.
Game	2010	Eco	A New Beginning A New Beginning (video game) A New Beginning is a point-and-click adventure game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Daedalic Entertainment, and is published by Lace Mamba The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic scenario, where earth has been destroyed by forces of nature. The graphics are 2D.It received independent...	A video game by Daedalic Entertainment, in which climate change has made the Earth uninhabitable.
Television	2010-	Monsters	The Walking Dead The Walking Dead (TV series) The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed for television by Frank Darabont and based on the ongoing comic book series, The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard...	A US-television series featuring the world overrun by zombies. By Frank Darabont Frank Darabont Frank Darabont is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He has directed the films The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist, all based on stories by Stephen King... .
Game	2011	Eco	Brink Brink (video game) Brink is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...	MultiA floating self-sustaining city contains what may be the final remnants of humanity, after global warming causes sea levels to rise.
Film	2011	Eco	Melancholia	An apocalyptic film by director Lars Von Trier Lars von Trier Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....  describing the final days in the lives of two sisters and their family after astronomers discover a rogue planet called Melancholia headed directly toward the Earth.
Novel	2011	Plague/War	Beyond Aukfontein	Post-apocalyptic adventure involving a South African military biker nearly a century after global collapse, by John Szczepaniak.
Novel	2011	Technology	Robopocalypse: A Novel	A apocalyptic robot/machine uprising novel by Daniel H. Wilson Daniel H. Wilson Daniel H. Wilson is a New York Times best selling author, television host and robotics engineer. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. His most recent novel, published on June 7, 2011, is Robopocalypse.... .
Novel	2011	Social Collapse	Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse is a best-selling survivalist novel written by James Wesley Rawles. It is a contemporaneous sequel to Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse....	By Rawles, James W. James Wesley Rawles James Wesley, Rawles is a New York Times best-selling survivalist-fiction author, blogger, and survival retreat consultant. Rawles is a Christian conservative. He is the editor of SurvivalBlog.com, a blog on survival and preparedness topics... . An apocalyptic survivalist novel about a total socio-economic collapse.
Story	2011	War	For a Song	Set in a post apocalyptic American South-West, where much has been lost and something as precious and beautiful as music can hold great power.
Movie	2011	Monsters	Vanishing on 7th Street
Game	1997	Impact Event	Dark Earth Dark Earth (video game) Dark Earth is a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for the PC.-Story:Dark Earth takes place several centuries in the future, when a meteor collision with Earth tossed up great clouds of dust that blocked out the sun. Earth's remaining survivors began to seek refuge beneath small openings in the...	Set in an unspecified post-apocalyptic region on an Earth shrouded by an impact winter and plagued by a dangerous mutagenic substance called "Archessence" - the game centres on a technologically regressed medieval-like society.

Causes of apocalypse in apocalyptic fiction

Category	Description
Aliens	Alien invasion War with alien species
Impact Event Impact event An impact event is the collision of a large meteorite, asteroid, comet, or other celestial object with the Earth or another planet. Throughout recorded history, hundreds of minor impact events have been reported, with some occurrences causing deaths, injuries, property damage or other significant...	Impact with celestial bodies (meteorites, asteroids, planets, etc.) Near-impact knocks earth out of orbit
Disease	Pandemic (plague)
Eco	Ecological catastrophe Global climate change (causing a new ice age) Global warming (melting of icecaps, global flooding) Global pollution
Future Collapse	After the fall or collapse of some future space-based civilization
Human Decline	The decline and fall of the human race
Monsters	Monsters Zombies Biologically altered humans
Sun	Expanding or dying sun
Social Collapse	Social collapse Economic collapse Over-population
Supernatural	Religious and supernatural apocalypse Demons Eschatological fiction
Technology	Apocalyptic wars between humans and technology Cybernetic revolt—war with, or revolution, by robots, computers, etc.
War	World war III Global nuclear holocaust Other apocalyptic wars between humans
Unspecified	After some apocalypse whose nature is not specified

Publication formats listed in this article

• Comic (comic book, manga, illustrated novel, etc.)
• Film (i.e. a movie)
• Game (card or board game, fantasy or role-playing game, PC or video game, etc.)
• Novel
• Play
• Poem
• Song
• Story (i.e. short story)
• Television (TV series or program episode)
• Other

See also

• List of nuclear holocaust fiction
• List of time travel science fiction
• Nuclear holocaust
  Nuclear holocaust
  Nuclear holocaust refers to the possibility of the near complete annihilation of human civilization by nuclear warfare. Under such a scenario, all or most of the Earth is made uninhabitable by nuclear weapons in future world wars....
  
  
• Nuclear weapons in popular culture
  Nuclear weapons in popular culture
  Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age."-Images of nuclear weapons:...
  
  
• Survivalism
  Survivalism
  Survivalism is a movement of individuals or groups who are actively preparing for future possible disruptions in local, regional, national, or international social or political order...
  
  
• Survivalism in fiction
  Survivalism in fiction
  Portrayals of survivalism, and survivalist themes and elements such as survival retreats have been fictionalised in print, film, and electronic media. This genre was especially influenced by the advent of nuclear weapons, and the potential for societal collapse in light of a Cold War nuclear...
  
  
• World War III
  World War III
  World War III denotes a successor to World War II that would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would be likely nuclear and devastating in nature....
  
  
• World War III in popular culture
  World War III in popular culture
  World War III is a common theme in popular culture. Since the 1940s, countless books, films, and television programmes have used the theme of nuclear weapons and a third global war. The presence of the Soviet Union as an international rival armed with nuclear weapons created a persistent fear in...
  
  
• Zombie apocalypse
  Zombie apocalypse
  A zombie apocalypse is a particular scenario of apocalyptic literature that customarily has a science fiction/horror rationale. In a zombie apocalypse, a widespread rise of zombies hostile to human life engages in a general assault on civilization....
  
  

External links

• Quiet Earth - A website dedicated to post apocalyptic media
• Empty World: Apocalyptic and End of the World Fiction, Film and TV
• Surviving Armageddon: Beyond the Imagination of Disaster - article by Mick Broderick in Science Fiction Studies
  Science Fiction Studies
  Science Fiction Studies is an academic journal founded in 1973 by R.D. Mullen. The journal is published three times per year by DePauw University. As the name implies, the journal publishes articles and book reviews on science fiction, but also occasionally on fantasy and horror when the topic...
  
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• Post Apocalyptic Media - Lists of P.A. games / movies / etc.
• List of songs related to World War III and nuclear war
• Post-Apocalyptic Audio Dramas - Archive.org compilation of post-apocalyptic radio shows and audio dramas in the public domain or released under a Creative Commons license