Classic books like The Stand, I Am Legend, and Lucifer's Hammer are all up there among the very best works of post-apocalyptic fiction ever written.
Post-apocalyptic fiction is nothing new: The genre has a history stretching back at least 200 years. Research has linked spikes in perceived threats to humanity to surges in the popularity of ...
Actor Lorne Greene in a production of "1984," from the book by George Orwell, on the CBS anthology series Studio One, circa 1953. For decades, writers have conjured nightmare worlds to terrify ...
Collider recently ranked World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War as one of the “Best Post-Apocalyptic Books of All Time.” The novel, which was released by Max Brooks in 2006, was turned into a ...
When the world they know crumbles to dust, how do the characters we’re reading about react? Do they live haunted by the ghosts of everything they’ve lost or form new connections that help them make ...
A lot of military veterans talk about preparing for a post-apocalyptic world, but author Cormac McCarthy, whose work was shaped by his time in the U.S. Air Force, wrote one of the most vivid books on ...
More than 50 years into the future, the human race is headed toward extinction, and humanity ends in Upstate New York. That’s the future chronicled in “After World,” a new science fiction novel from ...