Speculative Fiction > Post Apocalypse
Gather, Darkness!
by Fritz Leiber
Three-hundred and sixty years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. Endowed with scientific knowledge lost to the rest of humanity, Techno-priests of the Great God now rule.
Genre: Post Apocalypse
Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
First published in 1949 and a winner of the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951, Earth Abides went on to become one of the most influential science-fiction novels of the twentieth century. It remains a fresh, provocative story of apocalyptic pandemic, societal collapse, and rebirth.
Year: 1949
Genre: Post Apocalypse, Science Fiction
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself--for meaning, for truth, for love--that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.
Year: 1959
Genre: Post Apocalypse
The Stand
by Stephen King
Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.
Year: 1978
Genre: Post Apocalypse
