List of nuclear holocaust fiction

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This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, or crash of civilization due to a nuclear electromagnetic pulse.

Films[]

Title Year Author and notes
Five 1951
Unknown World 1951
Invasion U.S.A. 1952
Captive Women 1952
Day the World Ended 1955
Teenage Caveman 1958
On the Beach 1959 Nevil Shute (novel); John Paxton (screenplay)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil 1959
Alas, Babylon 1960 Pat Frank (novel)
The Time Machine 1960 H. G. Wells (novel); David Duncan (screenplay)
The Last War 1961
The Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961
The Creation of the Humanoids 1962
La jetée 1962
Panic in Year Zero! 1962
This is Not a Test 1962
Ladybug Ladybug 1963
Fail-Safe 1964 Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (novel); Walter Bernstein (screenplay)
Dr. Strangelove 1964 Peter George (novel); Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, and Terry Southern (screenplay)
The War Game 1965
Late August at the Hotel Ozone 1966 Written by Pavel Juráček
In the Year 2889 1967
Planet of the Apes 1968 Pierre Boulle (novel); Michael Wilson and Rod Serling (screenplay)
The Bed Sitting Room 1969
Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970
Glen and Randa 1971
Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973
Zardoz 1974
A Boy and His Dog 1975 Harlan Ellison (short story); L.Q. Jones, Alvy Moore and Wayne Cruseturner (screenplay)
Barefoot Gen 1976 Tengo Yamada (screenplay), Keiji Nakazawa (manga) The story of Gen Nakaoka and his family, who lived in Hiroshima at the time it was atom-bombed, and their struggles and trials amidst the nuclear holocaust.
Damnation Alley 1977 Roger Zelazny (novel)
Wizards 1977
Virus 1980
Malevil 1981
Mad Max 2 1981 Also known as The Road Warrior.
The New Barbarians 1982
Future War 198X 1982 Anime movie produced by Toei Animation about World War III breaking out in the 1980s that triggers a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
2019, After the Fall of New York 1983
Special Bulletin 1983
Testament 1983
The Day After 1983
The Terminator franchise 1984, 1991, 2003, 2009, 2015, 2019 Based on characters created by James Cameron (with acknowledgement to the works of Harlan Ellison)
Countdown to Looking Glass 1984
Threads 1984
One Night Stand 1984
Def-Con 4 1985
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization 1985
Radioactive Dreams 1985
Dead Man's Letters 1986
The Sacrifice 1986
When the Wind Blows 1986 Based on the 1982 graphic novel
Whoops Apocalypse 1988 Based on the ITV series
Akira 1988
Miracle Mile 1988
By Dawn's Early Light 1990
Hardware 1990
Judge Dredd 1995
Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Most of the film takes place in the mid-21st century as civilization rebuilds after nuclear war. Continuation of Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series.
The Postman 1997
Der 3. Weltkrieg, a.k.a. World War III 1998
Six-String Samurai 1998
Blast from the Past 1999
Deterrence 1999
The Matrix (franchise) 1999, 2003
On the Beach 2000
Equilibrium 2002
The Dark Hour 2007
City of Ember 2009
The Book of Eli[1] 2010
The Divide 2012
Cloud Atlas 2012
Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl 2014
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
Z for Zachariah 2015
Friend of the World 2020 Brian Patrick Butler (screenplay); takes place in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Based on Dr. Strangelove and La Jetée.

Television programs[]

Television episodes[]

Novels[]

Short stories[]

Short story collections[]

  • , 1984, edited by H. Bruce Franklin
  • , 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

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 evil
  • Barefoot Gen, Japanese manga about life after the Hiroshima bombing
  • Cobalt 60 by Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodē and Larry Todd, set in a post-apocalyptic world
  • Fist of the North Star, a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear Earth
  • Nausicaä 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 psionics
  • The Punisher – The End, a one-shot issue of Marvel Comic's Punisher by Garth Ennis and Richard Corben
  • Strontium 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[]

Music[]

  • "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" by Jimi Hendrix
  • "1999" by Prince, from the album 1999
  • "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden, on the subject of the Cold War
  • "540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit" by Fear Factory
  • "99 Luftballons" by Nena
  • "" by Armored Saint
  • "Aftershock" by Anthrax
  • "" by Warrant[disambiguation needed]
  • "Arise" by Sepultura
  • "Beneath the Remains" by Sepultura
  • "Bomb" by Gang Green
  • "Boom!" by System of a Down on the album Steal This Album!
  • "Breathing" by Kate Bush, the final track off her third album, Never For Ever
  • "Christmas at Ground Zero" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" by Ultravox
  • "" by Sonata Arctica
  • "Distant Early Warning" by Rush
  • "Downer" by Nirvana
  • "Domino" by Genesis, from Invisible Touch, about the effect of dropping the bomb
  • "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
  • "Fabulous Disaster" by Exodus
  • "" by Metallica, the first song off their second album, Ride the Lightning
  • "" by Carnivore
  • "" by Armored Saint
  • "Killer of Giants" by Ozzy Osbourne
  • "" by Steely Dan, from the album Countdown to Ecstasy
  • "London Calling" by The Clash
  • "M.A.D." by Hadouken!; lyrics and title refer to nuclear war; the whole album's and lyrics refer to atomic war
  • "Morning Dew" by Bonnie Dobson; also recorded by Jeff Beck, Blackfoot, Einstürzende Neubauten, Tim Rose, and The Grateful Dead
  • "One of the Living" by Tina Turner, from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
  • Pink World by Planet P Project
  • "Pronto viviremos en la Luna" (Soon we will be living at the Moon), by Spanish singer-songwriter Víctor Manuel.
  • "Put Down That Weapon" by Midnight Oil
  • "Rust in Peace... Polaris" by Megadeth
  • "Seconds" by U2
  • "Set the World Afire" by Megadeth
  • "Shattered" by Pantera
  • "" by Slayer
  • "Talkin' World War III Blues" by Bob Dylan
  • "Thank God for the Bomb" by Ozzy Osbourne
  • "Survive" by Nuclear Assault
  • "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd from the album The Final Cut
  • "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • "Warhead" by Tarot
  • "We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer
  • "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service
  • "" by Dokken
  • "Wooden Ships" recorded by both Crosby, Stills & Nash and Jefferson Airplane
  • "World War III" recorded by D.O.A.
  • "" by Carnivore

Games[]

Name Year Notes
2300 A.D. 1986 Role-playing game
Aftermath! 1981 Role-playing game
Balance of Power 1985 A computer strategy game of geopolitics during the Cold War
Blast Corps 1997 Nintendo 64 video game
Burntime 1993 A role-playing video game for DOS and Amiga
DEFCON 2007 A real-time strategy game for Windows, Mac and Linux
Fallout series 1997 (1st)

2018 (latest)

A post-apocalyptic role-playing video game for several platforms; early games were top down 2D while the last three are 3D; spiritual successor to Wasteland
Far Cry 5 2018 An action-adventure first-person shooter game set in the fictional Hope County, Montana that has been taken over by a cult who believe the end of the world is about to occur. Towards the end of the game, radio broadcasts begin hinting that the world outside is in chaos and a nuclear war is imminent. If the resist ending is chosen, nuclear explosions appear around the player suggesting a nuclear holocaust has occurred.
Far Cry New Dawn 2019 An action-adventure first-person shooter game standalone sequel of Far Cry 5, set 17 years after the events of Far Cry 5, where the nuclear exchange known as "the Collapse" devastated the world, survivors attempt to rebuild the community in Hope County. Their efforts are however threatened by the Highwaymen, a roving band of organized bandits led by twin sisters Mickey and Lou.
Gamma World 1978 A post-apocalyptic role-playing game
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number 2015 A top-down shooter game which is a sequel to Hotline Miami; features a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States at the end of the game
2001 PC Strategic simulation game released by Small Rockets
Metro 2033 2010 A survival horror first-person shooter set in post-apocalyptic Moscow
Metro Last Light 2013 A survival horror first-person shooter which is a sequel to Metro 2033
Missile Command 1980 An action video game which was wildly popular in the 1980s, widely recognized in popular culture
The Morrow Project 1980 Role-playing game
Neocron 2002 A post-apocalyptic cyberpunk MMORPG for Windows
1981 An action strategy game for the Apple II, where the player defends the United States against a nuclear attack.[6][7]
Nuclear War 1989 A turn-based strategy game for Amiga and DOS
NukeWar 1980 A turn-based strategy game for Apple II, Commodore 64, and other early home computer systems
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet 2004 A post-apocalyptic visual novel
Star Ocean: The Last Hope 2009 An action role-playing video game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
Superpower 2 2004 A real-time strategy wargame
Supremacy: The Game of the Superpowers 1984 A board wargame
Theatre Europe 1985 A turn-based strategy video game about a fictional war in Europe between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, in which both sides use nuclear and chemical weapons against each other
Trinity 1986 An interactive fiction game examining the futile nature of nuclear war
Trojan 1986 Arcade game and platformer set shortly after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, which is now overrun by occultists who are bent on terrorizing the surviving population with psychological and biochemical warfare
Twilight: 2000 1984 A role-playing game
WarGames 1984 A video game based on the game in the hit movie
Warzone 2100 1999 An open-source real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game
Wasteland 1988 A post-apocalyptic role-playing video game
Wasteland 2 2014 A post-apocalyptic role-playing game; a sequel to Wasteland

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Mel Valentin (15 January 2010). "Book of Eli, The (2010)". Should I See It. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  2. ^ Dark December at Fantastic Fiction
  3. ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction".
  4. ^ The Edge of the Knife at Project Gutenberg
  5. ^ "Flash Boom: Experiencing the Atomic Bombing of Japan Through the Film "Pikadon"". The Airship.
  6. ^ Edwards, Benj (22 September 2016). "7 Forgotten Apple II Gaming Classics". PCMAG. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  7. ^ InfoWorld. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. 27 May 1991. p. 64. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

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