List of nuclear holocaust fiction

Films

Television programs

• A Carol for Another Christmas, Rod Serling TV film
• A Day Called 'X'
• Adventure Time
• American Horror Story: Apocalypse
• Battlestar Galactica
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• By Dawn's Early Light
• Countdown to Looking Glass
• Dark Angel
• Der Dritte Weltkrieg
• Fail Safe
• Fallout
• Genesis II
• Jericho
• Level Seven, adapted by J. B. Priestley for Out of the Unknown
• On the Beach
• Planet Earth
• Special Bulletin
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• Testament
• The 100
• The Day After
• The Martian Chronicles miniseries
• The War Game
• Threads
• Whoops Apocalypse
• Woops!
• World War III miniseries

  Television episodes

• The Motorola Television Hour: "Atomic Attack" – A family living 50 miles away try to flee from the fallout of a hydrogen bomb that fell on New York City. Based on the novel Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merrill.
• The Twilight Zone: "Time Enough at Last"
• Playhouse 90: "Alas, Babylon"
• The Twilight Zone: "The Old Man in the Cave"
• Doctor Who: "The Daleks"
• Star Trek: "Space Seed". References a third world war taking place in the 1990s. The later series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds would retcon this to taking place in the mid-21st century, concurrent with the nuclear war established by the film Star Trek: First Contact and other Star Trek series.
• Star Trek: "Assignment: Earth" – The crew goes back in time to find out how the human race was able to survive the Cold War.
• The Twilight Zone: "A Little Peace and Quiet"
• The Twilight Zone: "Quarantine"
• The Twilight Zone: "Shelter Skelter"
• The Outer Limits: "Bits of Love"
• The Outer Limits: "The Human Factor"
• The Twilight Zone: "Chosen"
• Masters of Science Fiction: "A Clean Escape"
• What If...?: What If... Ultron Won?"
• A few episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise depict both humans and Vulcans as being close to extermination caused by nuclear war.

  Novels

• After The Bomb by Gloria D. Miklowitz
• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
• Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
• Arc Light by Eric Harry
• Armageddon's Children By Terry Brooks
• The Ashes Series by William W. Johnstone
• The Beast of Heaven by Victor Kelleher
• Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
• Commander-1 by Peter George
• Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny
• Dark December by Alfred Coppel
• Dark Mirrors ''Schwarze Spiegel by Arno Schmidt
• Davy and other works by Edgar Pangborn
• The Day They H-Bombed Los Angeles by Robert Moore Williams
• Deathlands series by a variety of authors writing under the pen name James Axler
• Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• Domain by James Herbert
• Doomday Wing by George H. Smith
• Doomsday Plus Twelve by James D. Forman
• Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
• Earthwreck! by Thomas N. Scortia
• The Eclipse Trilogy by John Shirley
• The Egghead Republic by Arno Schmidt
• Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
• End of the World by Dean Owen
• Ende: A Diary of the Third World War by Anton-Andreas Guha
• Endworld series by David Robbins
• Eon by Greg Bear
• The Erthing Cycle by Wayland Drew
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
• Fire Brats by Scott Siegel and Barbara Siegel
• First Angel by Ed Mann, published by Soldier of Fortune magazine
• Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
• Free Flight by Douglas Terman
• The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
• A Gift Upon the Shore by M. K. Wren
• God's Grace by Bernard Malamud
• The Guardians series by Richard Austin
• The Hot War series by Harry Turtledove
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
• Jenny, My Diary by Yorick Blumenfeld
• Domain by James Herbert
• The Last Children of Schewenborn by Gudrun Pausewang
• The Last Ship by William Brinkley
• The Last War, a 1986 novel by Martyn Godfrey
• Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
• The Long Loud Silence by Wilson Tucker
• The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
• Long Voyage Back by George Cockcroft, under the pen name Luke Rhinehart, 1983
• Malevil by Robert Merle
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
• The Metrozone Series by Simon Morden
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Not This August by C.M. Kornbluth
• Obernewtyn and subsequent novels in the series by Isobelle Carmody
• On the Beach by Nevil Shute
• One Second After by William R. Forstchen
• The Outward Urge, by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes
• The Pelbar Cycle Book One by Paul O. Williams
• Plan of Attack, a 2004 thriller by Dale Brown
• The Postman, a 1985 post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin
• Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno
• Prime Directive, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens; a Star Trek novel where an alien civilization is apparently destroyed by a sudden, unexpected nuclear war among its own people
• Pulling Through, by Dean Ing; first half of the book is a novel on a family surviving a nuclear blast, the second half is a non-fiction survival guide
• Red Alert, by Peter George
• Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
• The School for Atheists by Arno Schmidt
• Second Ending, by James White
• The Seventh Day by Hans Hellmut Kirst
• Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril – a novel about a traditional housewife's ordeals in the aftermath of nuclear attack
• The Shannara Series, by Terry Brooks
• The Silo Series by Hugh Howey – A nuclear exchange is used to cover up a nano-bot attack.
• Single Combat by Dean Ing
• A Small Armageddon by Mordecai Roshwald
• Star Man's Son by Andre Norton – a post-apocalyptic novel that takes place about two centuries after the Great-Blowup. It is titled Daybreak – 2250 AD in reprint editions.
• The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun by Christopher Anvil
• The Survivalist by Jerry Ahern
• Swan Song by Robert McCammon
• Systemic Shock by Dean Ing
• Tengu by Graham Masterton
• Test of Fire by Ben Bova
• There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson
• This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
• This Time Tomorrow by Lauran Paine
• Time Capsule by Mitch Berman
• Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie
• Trinity's Child by William Prochnau
• Triumph by Philip Wylie
• The Valley-Westside War by Harry Turtledove
• Vaneglory by George Turner
• Viper Three by Walter Wager
• Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
• When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
• Wild Country by Dean Ing
• The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Without Warning by John Birmingham
• The World Next Door by Brad Ferguson
• The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
• Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove – alternate history: World War II turns nuclear in 1943; another nuclear war in the 1960s
• Z for Zachariah'' by Robert C. O'Brien

  Short stories

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

  Short story collections

• Countdown To Midnight, 1984, edited by H. Bruce Franklin
• Beyond Armageddon, 1985, edited by Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin Harry Greenberg
• Nuclear War, 1988, edited by Gregory Benford and Martin Harry Greenberg
• The Folk of the Fringe, 1989, Orson Scott Card