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The nature of this list will polarize and divide nerds everywhere. Alternate history (or alternative history, for the grammar geeks reading this), is a genre of stories where history has...

"It's The End Of The World As We Know It (and I feel fine)" (REM, "Document", 1987). That's what 'apocalypse' is all about. Except that people usually end up not...

Science Fiction and Dystopias go together like Lindsay Lohan and court appearances, but the terms don’t necessarily have to co-exist. Both genres exist independently and are popular on their own. ...

This has to be one of the darkest, most impressively nihilistic visions of the future in recent years. An anomaly, Heaven's Gate, opens in South America, and it's counterpoint, Hell's...

Like China, Japan has one of the liveliest science fiction scenes in the world, and one of the least known in the West. Very few Japanese science fiction writers have...

During the 1950s and 60s, as the Cold War constantly threatened to heat up into nuclear exchanges, science fiction writers more and more turned to imagining a post-apocalyptic world. This...

Also known as No Blade of Grass, this was one of John Christopher's classic cosy catastrophes, although there is very little that is cosy in this post-apocalyptic tale.In Asia, a...

Sense of place is, to be honest, not particularly strong in a lot of science fiction. We get identikit urban futures, or rural redoubts that could be anywhere, or other...

One of Mary Shelley's late novels, The Last Man, envisaged a world ravaged by plague in which humanity is wiped out. Although not well received at the time, the romantic...

Another childhood favorite; I felt slightly ripped off that I didn't have any telepathic abilities, despite how hard I tried to communicate to my sister solely using our minds. The...

What was then called Japanamation in the US, now known worldwide as Anime, exploded onto the mainstream with Akira. It was the first feature length anime to gain a massive...

How could any anime using the Dead Sea Scrolls as a major plot point not be on this list? The story behind Neon Genesis Evangelion isn't simple, it's a twisted,...

Inevitably, there is a continuity between past and future. The present is not a cut-off point between one and the other, but simply a sliding scale in the process of...

Set in a post-Nuclear War society, the future is pretty bleak. People are being encouraged to leave the planet for parts unknown and are being given an incentive, their own...

Is there anything new to be done with a post-apocalypse scenario? Well, read Station Eleven and find out.In a performance of King Lear, one snowy night in Toronto, the leading...

Remember the fist apocalypse? You don't? I guess you're not all that old then. It's the one with the flood. Heard of it? Noah and the animals and the ship...

Ten thousand years after civilisation collapsed, humans altered with animal genes live in farming villages. Plague birds are enforcers with AIs in their blood who can kill anyone judged guilty....

Set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, Legend, the first book in the Legend trilogy, tells the story of June, one of the Republic's brightest stars and Day, one its most devious...

S.M. Sterling’s Steampunk/Alternate History/Post-Apocalyptic novel The Peshawar Lancers has a lot of work to do! It tells a story of an Earth devastated by a massive meteor shower during the...

Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.The...

This story is set in Ireland, which doesn't happen in most post-apocalyptic tales. Doesn't happen in most of SF, if the truth be told. Molecular biologist becomes bi-polar as a...

"A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film...

Divergent is a teen dystopia that is now a major motion picture. It's an action-packed thrill ride through a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago where society has split up into five...