Post-apocalyptic
Also known as: apocalyptic fiction
A genre set after a civilization-ending catastrophe, concerned with survival, scarcity, and rebuilding.
Post-apocalyptic in fiction: 12 works
It is a foundational post-apocalyptic tale of survival after a species-ending plague.
Monks preserve knowledge across centuries following a nuclear apocalypse.
A depopulated Earth after nuclear fallout sets the decaying stage.
The world is revealed as post-nuclear Earth after humanity's fall.
A collapsing, fuel-starved society on desert highways typifies the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The city is rebuilt over the crater of an earlier psychic apocalypse it courts anew.
A near-future America collapsing under climate and economic ruin frames the journey.
A father and son cross a scorched, dead world after an unnamed catastrophe.
A trash-buried, abandoned Earth left behind by humanity frames the story.
A traveling troupe crossing a depopulated world after the plague grounds the story.
A family survives amid a collapsed world overrun by sound-hunting creatures.
Survivors cross a ruined, quarantine-zoned America decades after the outbreak.