3.88 avg rating — 30,449 ratings

""The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad.""

3.79 avg rating — 3,549 ratings

""An inexplicable energy wave hits North America, causing the disappearance of most of the U.S. population and leaving the rest of the world to deal with the fallout." During Iraq War in 2003."

4.09 avg rating — 49,036 ratings

""...small Florida community navigating the immediate aftermath of a nuclear strike, with local reserve officers playing a crucial role in survival.""

3.85 avg rating — 28,516 ratings

""...ravaged by extreme drought and climate change, where water is more valuable than gold, leading to violent conflicts between states like Arizona, Nevada, and California...""

3.98 avg rating — 77,605 ratings

""...one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...""

3.65 avg rating — 248 ratings

""The story follows a teen, Philip, who attempts to survive in the aftermath of a nuclear missile accidentally launched at Los Angeles by the Soviet Union,""

3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings

""...describes a planet beset by world war---a war involving super-weapons of almost inconceivable power...While millions of people are dying, the Kaiser, the Tsar, the Kings of Holland & Belgium, and the President of France celebrate the war's continued victory in Canterbury, laughing as their submersible airships rain death on innocent Britons.""

3.65 avg rating — 485 ratings

""...this universe's lore is defined by a global war fought over the world's last remaining petroleum and uranium reserves, culminating in nuclear devastation.""

4.14 avg rating — 3,104 ratings

""...depicting intense space-based power struggles and conflicts over control of orbital resources in a highly polarized, resource-scarce solar system.""

3.80 avg rating — 17,895 ratings

""Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid.""

3.42 avg rating — 3,333 ratings

""It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order.""

3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings

""By the year 2084, the world is divided into the equatorial countries that bear the brunt of the climate crisis—led by Nigeria, Brazil, and Indonesia—and wealthier countries like China and the US, beset by their own problems after a series of civil wars.""

3.22 avg rating — 244 ratings

"follows the invasion and subsequent defeat of the British army by an unnamed enemy, believed to be Germany.The novella is divided into two parts, with the first part describing the events leading up to the "

4.14 avg rating — 182,891 ratings

""... prolonged and enigmatic conflict between humans and the alien Taurans. The narrative delves into how miscommunication, cultural misunderstandings, and the vast distances involved in interstellar warfare amplify the uncertainties inherent in military engagements.""

3.81 avg rating — 2,291 ratings

""A dramatic account of the coming global conflict written by top NATO generals and advisors...""

3.76 avg rating — 12,150 ratings

""...a near-future World War III between the US and an alliance of China and Russia. The conflict is defined by cyber-warfare, drone swarms, and the severe vulnerabilities of hyper-connected military technology...""

4.10 avg rating — 11,862 ratings

""...this rogue group initiates a long-planned operation called the Trident Deception. They'll transmit false orders and use a U.S. nuclear submarine to launch the attack.""

4.23 avg rating — 3,311 ratings

""After receiving that launch order, it is cut off from all counter-orders and disappears into the Pacific while it makes the eight-day transit to the launch site. What the Kentucky's crew doesn't know is that those launch orders haven't actually come from the U.S. government.""

4.44 avg rating — 130 ratings

""Barely settled into the White House, the new American President is faced with a choice. With the smartest military advisers by his side, and the Joint Chiefs prepared for war, he must give the order.""

4.32 avg rating — 308 ratings

""When the People's Republic of China unleashes a devastating attack on the United States, newly appointed Navy Commander Bill Wilkins and his crew are suddenly alone, deep in the enemy's backyard, and unable to communicate with naval or national leadership.""

3.90 avg rating — 1,186 ratings

""...After decades of poising on the brink, the United States and China finally go to war when China invades the island of Taiwan... the stakes could not be higher. Not only the future of the Taiwanese people but the fate of the world lies in the balance.""

4.08 avg rating — 515,746 ratings

3.49 avg rating — 280 ratings

""...an American corporal who wakes up after a binge to find the eastern U.S. devastated by a biological and nuclear attack, quarantined by the Mississippi River, and he must survive in the lawless, plague-ridden wasteland.""

3.81 avg rating — 5,632 ratings

""...set centuries after a nuclear disaster, following a scribe named Benedikt in a degraded Moscow where mutated humans live under a tyrannical leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, who plagiarizes old literature.""

3.99 avg rating — 121,758 ratings

""After civilization has been mostly wiped out by nuclear war, the few survivors become dedicated Luddites, purging themselves of all knowledge and eliminating any who would share or spread it.""

3.93 avg rating — 28,684 ratings

""...set in a future, war-torn Sudan where genocide is occurring between the light-skinned Nuru and dark-skinned Okeke.""

3.53 avg rating — 24,006 ratings

""...about a group of survivors trapped in a Swiss hotel after a nuclear war, where they must find a murderer among them after a young girl's body is discovered in a water tank.""

3.24 avg rating — 27,758 ratings

""...story unfolds over three surreal days, blending the mundane task of zombie removal with flashbacks to the apocalypse and the psychological toll of "Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder" (PASD).""

3.98 avg rating — 50,715 ratings

""World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path.""

3.56 avg rating — 4,406 ratings

""The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim...""

4.02 avg rating — 8,822 ratings

""...set in a future England thousands of years after a nuclear holocaust, where humanity has regressed to an Iron Age-like society... the past's technology is misunderstood as magic, and a quest to rediscover the atomic bomb threatens to repeat history.""

3.01 avg rating — 6,388 ratings

""...in a near-future 2049 where Earth is ravaged by war and environmental collapse... a young girl named Joan, who has mysterious powers to commune with the Earth... leads a rebellion against a tyrannical elite living in a space station who exploit the planet's resources.""

4.09 avg rating — 14,534 ratings

""A team of troubleshooters, including Gonzo and the narrator, must fix a fire on the Jorgmund Pipe, a structure that protects the world from the "Stuff"—matter that has "gone away" from the war and can manifest people's thoughts.""

4.09 avg rating — 74,420 ratings

""...a near-future scenario where the United States and China are pushed to the brink of nuclear war through a series of escalating global crises, including a stolen drone, a shrinking oasis in the Sahara, and a secret stash of chemical weapons...""

3.92 avg rating — 63 ratings

""...they uncover is a decades-long planned assault on America by China and a database filled with files on everyone, which gives foreign enemies the ability to track and kill a target at any time.""

4.28 avg rating — 5,258 ratings

""The plan involves manipulating an artificial intelligence defense system and destabilizing the government. If that succeeds, Taiwan will be pulled into a global war.""

3.83 avg rating — 1,999 ratings

""...diverging with the failed assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Instead of concentrating on the Space Race, technological advancements in robotics, animal intelligence, and telepathy take place... A more heated Cold War takes place, culminating in a conventional World War III.""

3.57 avg rating — 47,318 ratings

""...Daisy is sent from the United States to stay with her aunt Penn and her children, Daisy's cousins, on a remote farm in the United Kingdom during the outbreak of a fictional third world war of the 21st century.""

3.86 avg rating — 317 ratings

""China accuses India of attacking Chinese soil and declares war. It's Pakistan and China vs India now, 3 nuclear powers. Nuclear arsenals are being mobilized. Later Pakistan is devastated while India and China are threatening nuclear war.""

3.89 avg rating — 990 ratings

""...Captain Jonah Scott as his flight from New York to London becomes a "supersonic ark" carrying the last hope for humanity, navigating a world plunged into nuclear winter and societal collapse.""

3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings

""In the year 2000, twelve years after the world nuclear holocaust known as Doomsday, a group of Oregon teenagers, accustomed to a new, simple, peaceful way of life, take matters into their own hands to combat militarists and assure the peace of the future.""

3.57 avg rating — 54 ratings

""Major Kenneth Gavin -- one of the few anguished souls left to contemplate the end of biological existence, the silent spring, the dying of love, desire, and hope -- was one who had pushed the button that ended everything.""

3.42 avg rating — 138 ratings

""...an American family thrust into the middle of a nuclear war.""

3.72 avg rating — 6,391 ratings

""...set in a post-apocalyptic California in 2108, where humanity has devolved into a primitive, Satan-worshipping society after a nuclear war.""

3.36 avg rating — 33 ratings

"Anthology. "After becoming Pope, he calls for a world-wide holy war against Israel at the Second Vatican Council that ultimately leads to World War III.""

4.13 avg rating — 1,462 ratings

""As China and Russia clash in Siberia, and war brews between the United States and North Korea, a series of accidents and misunderstandings lead to a Russian nuclear strike against the United States. The US retaliates against Russia, and World War III begins.""

3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings

""...Phil Calland is a brilliant scientist working in a bleak dystopian 24th Century Britain. In a recent nuclear war, London was left largely in radioactive ruins, survivors living huddled in miserable huts... Resumption of nuclear warfare seems just a matter of time, and humanity might not survive the second round.""

3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings

""...follows the survivors of a devastating nuclear war as a power-hungry submarine crew and civilian survivors attempt to rebuild society on a remote island.""

3.83 avg rating — 1,740 ratings

""...the United States remained isolationist and so did not participate in the Second World War, thus allowing a victory to the Axis powers, which divided the world. However, some years after the war, the Third World War occurred and featured the Axis powers defeating the United States and Canada.""

3.72 avg rating — 459 ratings

""...concerns a hypothetical World War III between the USSR and the United States, and graphically depicts the ensuing carnage. One family and some friends try to run away in a sailboat, and the story describes their battles with nuclear winter and fallout, and with the ensuing collapse of civilization.""

3.77 avg rating — 224 ratings

""Marius;" "...takes place in 1964, six years after the initial nuclear exchanges of World War III.""

3.33 avg rating — 24 ratings

""...set at a time after a devastating World War III in 1958, with the world gradually recovering from the devastation. (Chicago is mentioned as having been totally destroyed and there is no intention of rebuilding it)...""

3.90 avg rating — 3,157 ratings

""Missile Gap;" "...shifts the U.S.–U.S.S.R. Cold War conflict to a massive artificial disk in another galaxy.""

4.15 avg rating — 1,566 ratings

""...following former soldier Ben Raines as he navigates a nuclear-devastated America, searching for his family while leading a resistance movement against marauders and a tyrannical government to rebuild the nation.""

3.48 avg rating — 206 ratings

""...In 1965, the United States and Canada have been at war with the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic for three years. Both sides' atomic weapons are ineffective as surface-to-air missiles shoot down any bombers or guided missiles, so ground forces have done most of the fighting.""

3.88 avg rating — 1,286 ratings

""In a paranoid delusion, moribund U.S. Air Force general Quinten unilaterally launches an airborne preventive nuclear attack upon the Soviet Union from his command...""

4.17 avg rating — 6,075 ratings

"" It follows a group of American nuclear bombers that mistakenly fly past their "fail-safe" point, heading straight for Moscow... explores the terrifying consequences of mechanical failure and the moral dilemmas of modern nuclear warfare.""

3.97 avg rating — 2,833 ratings

""...explores a Cold War scenario based on a Soviet attack on West Germany across the North German Plain, with defense provided by NATO army corps...""

4.21 avg rating — 85,536 ratings

""...depicts a fictional World War III between NATO and the Soviet Union, triggered by a Soviet plan to seize Persian Gulf oil after a terrorist attack cripples their economy.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 169 ratings

""...depicts a fictional nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, focusing on the first 15 hours of the conflict and the breakdown of command and control. The story follows the U.S. President, a B-52 crew, and military commanders as they navigate a surprise Soviet attack...""

3.93 avg rating — 1,371 ratings

""...the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated into a full-scale war, the Soviet Union is devastated, and the United States has been reduced to a third-rate power that relies on the United Kingdom for aid.""

4.23 avg rating — 10,508 ratings

""...about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm.""

3.80 avg rating — 495 ratings

""...follows various world leaders from across the globe, as they try to act in their national and personal interests. Focusing mainly on the Indian, Pakistani, North Korean, American, Russian and Chinese leaderships, it also focuses on various military and civilian characters...""

3.81 avg rating — 43,694 ratings

""...a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself...""

4.29 avg rating — 4,271 ratings

""...depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way.""

3.78 avg rating — 1,088 ratings

""The alternate-history adventure follows two British heroes as they develop a super-weapon to fight a megalomaniacal eastern empire.""

3.55 avg rating — 410 ratings

""Set against a prolonged, nuclear World War III, it tells the tragic story of a mother who perceives her heavily mutated infant as a brilliant, normal child.""

3.17 avg rating — 201 ratings

""The Commonwealth backed the UK in the emerging World War III, and the United States joined the British side after Chinese missiles, targeting the Canadian Great Plains, struck inside the US.""

3.57 avg rating — 402 ratings

""In The Valley-Westside War, a global nuclear war broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1967, leading to the collapse of civilization.""

3.82 avg rating — 3,099 ratings

""...fictional account of the authors travelling across the U.S. five years after a limited nuclear attack in order to assess how the nation has changed after the war.""

3.59 avg rating — 770 ratings

""Moresby goes first and travels to July 4, 1999 only to emerge in the middle of a racial civil war in which Chicago had recently been attacked with a nuclear bomb launched from China on behalf of black guerrillas...""

3.44 avg rating — 603 ratings

""The global war finally erupts, and his dream life ends in worldwide catastrophe and personal tragedy: the dreamer sees his love killed and experiences his death.""

3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings

""Sixteen-year-olds Matt and Dani are deep underground in a theater storage room when nuclear missiles hit, and when they emerge one month later, they struggle to survive in the radioactive wasteland...""

3.49 avg rating — 3,882 ratings

""The protagonist is a survivalist named Chaos, who lives in an abandoned megaplex in Wyoming after an apparent nuclear strike.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,273 ratings

""The story begins with a nuclear attack and follows the survivors as they build a new, harsh world, with the narrative divided into sections named Sarah, Ophelia, and Simon, representing the different generations.""

3.93 avg rating — 63,143 ratings

""The inhabitants of post-apocalypse Labrador have vague knowledge of the "Old People", a technologically advanced civilization they believe was destroyed when God sent "Tribulation" to the world to punish their forebears' sins. The inhabitants practise a form of fundamentalist Christianity; they believe that to follow God's word and prevent another Tribulation...""