List of nuclear holocaust fiction

Television programs

Television episodes

• 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. MiklowitzAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankAmnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem Ape and Essence by Aldous HuxleyArc Light by Eric HarryArmageddon's Children By Terry Brooks The Ashes Series by William W. JohnstoneThe Beast of Heaven by Victor KelleherBrother in the Land by Robert SwindellsA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Children of the Dust by Louise LawrenceThe Chrysalids by John WyndhamCommander-1 by Peter GeorgeDamnation Alley by Roger ZelaznyDark December by Alfred CoppelDark Mirrors ''Schwarze Spiegel by Arno SchmidtDavy and other works by Edgar PangbornThe Day They H-Bombed Los Angeles by Robert Moore WilliamsDeathlands series by a variety of authors writing under the pen name James AxlerDr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickDomain by James HerbertDoomday Wing by George H. SmithDoomsday Plus Twelve by James D. FormanDown to a Sunless Sea by David GrahamEarthwreck! by Thomas N. Scortia
• The Eclipse Trilogy by John ShirleyThe Egghead Republic by Arno SchmidtEinstein's Monsters by Martin AmisEnd of the World by Dean Owen Ende: A Diary of the Third World War by Anton-Andreas GuhaEndworld series by David RobbinsEon by Greg BearThe Erthing Cycle by Wayland DrewFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyFarnham's Freehold by Robert A. HeinleinFire Brats by Scott Siegel and Barbara SiegelFirst Angel by Ed Mann, published by Soldier of Fortune magazineFiskadoro by Denis JohnsonFree Flight by Douglas TermanThe Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. TepperA Gift Upon the Shore by M. K. WrenGod's Grace by Bernard MalamudThe Guardians series by Richard AustinThe Hot War series by Harry TurtledoveThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Iron Dream by Norman SpinradJenny, My Diary by Yorick BlumenfeldDomain by James HerbertThe Last Children of Schewenborn by Gudrun PausewangThe Last Ship by William BrinkleyThe Last War, a 1986 novel by Martyn GodfreyLevel 7 by Mordecai RoshwaldThe Long Loud Silence by Wilson TuckerThe Long Tomorrow by Leigh BrackettLong Voyage Back by George Cockcroft, under the pen name Luke Rhinehart, 1983Malevil by Robert MerleThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyMetro 2033 by Dmitry GlukhovskyThe Metrozone Series by Simon MordenNineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Not This August by C.M. KornbluthObernewtyn and subsequent novels in the series by Isobelle CarmodyOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteOne Second After by William R. ForstchenThe Outward Urge, by John Wyndham and Lucas ParkesThe Pelbar Cycle Book One by Paul O. WilliamsPlan of Attack, a 2004 thriller by Dale BrownThe Postman, a 1985 post-apocalyptic novel by David BrinPrayers for the Assassin, by Robert FerrignoPrime 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 peoplePulling 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 guideRed Alert, by Peter GeorgeResurrection Day by Brendan DuBoisRiddley Walker by Russell HobanThe School for Atheists by Arno SchmidtSecond Ending, by James WhiteThe 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 BrooksThe 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 RoshwaldStar 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 AnvilThe Survivalist by Jerry AhernSwan Song by Robert McCammonSystemic Shock by Dean Ing Tengu (Novel) by Graham MastertonTest of Fire by Ben BovaThere Will Be Time by Poul AndersonThis Is the Way the World Ends by James MorrowThis Time Tomorrow by Lauran PaineTime Capsule by Mitch BermanTomorrow! by Philip WylieTrinity's Child by William Prochnau Triumph by Philip WylieThe Valley-Westside War by Harry TurtledoveVaneglory by George TurnerViper Three by Walter WagerWarday by Whitley Strieber and James KunetkaWhen the Wind Blows by Raymond BriggsWild Country by Dean Ing The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley RobinsonWithout Warning by John BirminghamThe World Next Door by Brad FergusonThe World Set Free by H. G. WellsWorldwar series by Harry Turtledove – alternate history: World War II turns nuclear in 1943; another nuclear war in the 1960sZ 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

Comics

• 2000AD/Judge Dredd, set in a post-war Earth where the majority of the United States is called the "Cursed Earth"Akira features Tokyo after a nuclear conflict.AXA, set in the aftermath of a nuclear- and biological war with heroine AXA fighting against evilBarefoot Gen, Japanese manga about life after the Hiroshima bombing
• Cobalt 60 by Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodē and Larry Todd, set in a post-apocalyptic worldFist of the North Star, a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear EarthNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a Japanese graphic novel, later partly adapted in film, set in a far, post-apocalyptic future, rife with themes of bioethics, environmentalism, genetics and psionicsThe Punisher: The End, a one-shot issue of Marvel Comic's Punisher by Garth Ennis and Richard CorbenStrontium Dog, set in a post-nuclear war earth where many humans have been deformed by the radiation and are branded as "mutants"V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is set in an England which has survived through a nuclear war which devastated the majority of the rest of the world.

Animation shorts

• ''Picadon''