Skip to content

THE SCIENCE FICTION ARCHIVEExplore by theme ↗

After the apocalypse

What survives when the world changes forever.

All books Space opera Time travel Artificial intelligence Alien life Cyberpunk Space exploration Dystopian worlds More themes +

328 books in after the apocalypse

Clear filters ×

Balanced rating combines the average and the number of ratings; small samples carry less weight. How ranking works ↗

After the apocalypse1777

The Folk of the Fringe

Orson Scott Card

4.0(3)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2008

Wastelands

Stories of the Apocalypse

John Joseph Adams; Stephen King; Orson Scott Card; Paolo Bacigalupi; M. Rickert; Jonathan Lethem; George R. R. Martin; Tobias S. Buckell; Cory Doctorow; James Van Pelt; Richard Kadrey; Catherine Wells; Jerry Oltion; Gene Wolfe; Nancy Kress; Octavia E. Butler; Carol Emshwiller; Neal Barrett Jr.; Dale Bailey; David Grigg; John Langan

4.0(3)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2012

Wool Omnibus

The Collected Works of Wool 1 – 5

Hugh Howey

4.0(3)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse1977

Dissipatio H. G.

The Vanishing

Guido Morselli

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Remnants

Destination Unknown

Katherine Applegate

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2000

There Will Come Soft Rains

Ray Bradbury

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2009

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim

W. Bill Czolgosz; Mark Twain

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds1886

After London Or Wild England

Richard Jefferies

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2023

After World

A Novel

Debbie Urbanski

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2020

Agnes at the End of the World

Kelly McWilliams

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Annex

Rich Larson

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2017

Bad Moon Rising

Jonathan Maberry

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2018

Blackfish City

Sam J. Miller

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2023

Camp Zero

A Novel

Michelle Min Sterling

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2015

Claimed

Outlaws

Elle Kennedy

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2016

Crisped + Sere

T. J. Klune

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2020

Disaster Tourist

Yun Ko-eun; Lizzie Buehler

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2012

Dollhouse Volume 1: Epitaphs

Andrew Chambliss; Jed Whedon; Maurissa Tancharoen

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2020

Elysium Girls

Kate Pentecost

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2021

Feral Creatures

Kira Jane Buxton

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse2020

Goddess in the Machine

Lora Beth Johnson

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2022

Goliath

A Novel

Tochi Onyebuchi

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Dystopian worlds2019

Hero

Michael Grant

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

After the apocalypse1997

Last Guardian (The Stones of Power, Book Four)

David A. Gemmell

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Theme matches come from explicit source subjects on a work or its selected edition. They are provisional and may need correction.