3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings

""As one of the "lucky" ones who survived a nuclear bomb, Brad believes that someday all will be well again until he meets Angel who shows him the bitter reality of being a survivor of the last war.""

3.93 avg rating — 1,150 ratings

""...depicts the devastating aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural German town, following a family's struggle for survival as they face radiation sickness, starvation, and societal collapse, serving as a stark cautionary tale about nuclear conflict.""

3.57 avg rating — 1,824 ratings

""...In this timeline, Hitler emigrates to the U.S., becomes a successful sci-fi illustrator and author, and writes a Hugo Award-winning novel called Lord of the Swastika, a post-apocalyptic tale of genetic purity... after the "Time of Fire," a global nuclear war that brought about the end of the civilization of the technologically advanced "Ancients.""

3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings

""The disturbing and awesome Beast of Heaven wanders a ruined Earth, destroyed long before by an atomic holocaust. He shares the land with the Gatherers, a gentle nomadic tribe, sensitive to the spirits of those long dead.""

3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings

"Anthology. "Compiled here for the first time are 13 stories of nuclear destruction from such science fiction masters as Joe Haldeman, David Drake, Ben Bova and others.""

3.96 avg rating — 1,570 ratings

""... from the perspective of a teenage boy named Danny Lodge in the fictional town of Skipley, England, after a nuclear war. The story follows Danny's struggle to survive, protect his younger brother Ben, and cope with the breakdown of society, lawlessness, and gang warfare, offering a bleak but powerful look at the aftermath of nuclear devastation...""

3.69 avg rating — 308 ratings

"Anthology. "...collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war. These richly imagined stories offer glimpses into a future no reader will soon forget.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings

"Anthology. "Stories deal with a military conspiracy, postnuclear societies, the arms race, and the horror of nuclear war...""

3.33 avg rating — 4,279 ratings

"Collection. "These stories are set sometime in the near future, when World War III has left America in ruins. The stories are about how a few groups of Mormons struggle to survive.""

3.91 avg rating — 171 ratings

""...follows the solitary, unnamed narrator as he navigates a devastated, nuclear-ravaged landscape in the year 1960,""

3.20 avg rating — 51 ratings

""A nuclear attack on Los Angeles is a cover story for a plague that turns people into monstrous, cannibalistic creatures, forcing survivors to fight for their lives against both the infected and the elements...""

3.80 avg rating — 229 ratings

""The world is in a nuclear war, and most of the population has been wiped out. His only comfort is his bond with a stray dog which helps him cope with the loss of his family.

His only joy is one final ride on his Fat Bob motorcycle (with a sound like Summer Thunder).""

3.57 avg rating — 87 ratings

""...an astronomer who is at an airport when a nuclear war begins. Recognized by a fan, he is offered a seat on a plane escaping to Iceland. Though Reykjavík is destroyed by a thermonuclear warhead, the rest of the island is unharmed. The survivors take advantage of Iceland's geology and experience with cold weather to prepare for the nuclear winter that follows.""

3.75 avg rating — 1,207 ratings

""[On] Presidential inauguration day, a one-megaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands, a world that conspired against survival.""

3.85 avg rating — 918 ratings

""...John, a young priest who journeys to the forbidden "Place of the Gods"—revealed to be the ruins of post-nuclear New York City—where he discovers the advanced civilization destroyed itself.""

3.34 avg rating — 147 ratings

""...Marvin, a 10-year-old born on the Moon, is taken by his father to a vantage point to see Earth, which is now a radioactive wasteland. His father explains the history of the nuclear war and the importance of remembering their lost home so that future generations can one day reclaim it.""

3.99 avg rating — 7,381 ratings

""...the rats have not only survived but begin to take over London from humanity in the aftermath of a nuclear strike.""

2.93 avg rating — 29 ratings

""A harrowing tale of a world gone mad and on the brink of total atomic destruction...""

3.04 avg rating — 47 ratings

""The Americans watched from space as the earth erupted in flashes of incredible brilliance. Their probes told them all they had to know. The earth was buried under a blanket of radioactivity. No life remained. Except for them—and their Russian counterparts.""

3.75 avg rating — 303 ratings

""...set in a world fifty years into the future (2008), marked by a nuclear world war that has turned much [to rubble]... ""

2.83 avg rating — 12 ratings

""When the H-bombs struck America, they wiped out not only the cities but law and order and inhibitions. The few who survived were faced with a fierce fight for SURVIVAL... And for too many others, survival meant the beginning of an open season on plunder, murder, and assault – as civilization had ceased to exist!""

3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings

""...provides, as its title indicates, a Near Future vision of the terminal horrors of World War Three as the End of the World approaches Germany; the tale is told from an intensely convinced pacifist perspective.""

3.70 avg rating — 350 ratings

""...set 100 years after World War III, following a survivalist group called "The Family" and their elite warriors, led by the protagonist Blade, as they venture out from their compound into a dangerous, ruined America." "Chemical clouds poison the air. Mutations abound. Barbarism runs rampant.""

3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings

""[After the Final War] Two primitive tribes, the Alcheringians and the Kaniks, struggle against each other unaware that a technologically superior tribe of "gods" is controlling their affairs.""

3.54 avg rating — 2,105 ratings

""...set in the Florida Keys decades after a nuclear holocaust, following survivors in "Twicetown" as they try to rebuild a culture from the remnants of the old world, focusing on characters like the Christ-like boy Fiskadoro, his mentor Mr. Cheung, and the memory-keeper Grandmother Wright as they grapple with lost history, identity, and the search for meaning.""

3.63 avg rating — 59 ratings

""An American Air Force officer, Greg Mallen, is on leave in Vermont when a nuclear war breaks out. A year later, he is a fugitive from a new, oppressive regime and tries to fly to safety in Canada.""

3.91 avg rating — 1,444 ratings

""In the Pacific Northwest of the near future, the golden age has ended in apocalypse. Nuclear war has unleased firestorms and the killing cold of nuclear winter..." "...two women, writer Mary Hope and painter Rachel Morrow, who survive a nuclear war and pandemic on the Oregon coast, dedicating themselves to preserving books and human culture against a backdrop of societal collapse and conflict with a fundamentalist group that believes books are blasphemous.""

3.98 avg rating — 108 ratings

""...follows a highly trained, elite four-man military squad tasked with protecting the President and carrying out a secret "Blueprint for Renewal" following World War III.""

3.58 avg rating — 1,746 ratings

""...posits the Korean War spiraling into World War III in 1951, with the United States and the Soviet Union trading atomic bombs.""

3.96 avg rating — 12,562 ratings

""Obernewtyn is set in a world recently ravaged by a nuclear holocaust, known to the survivors as "the Great White", later said by the Herders (leaders of the new religious order) to have been sent by Lud (God) to punish humanity. The surviving remote communities attempted to rebuild society, which over time developed into a totalitarian Council, and a religious order, the Herder Faction...""

3.83 avg rating — 183 ratings

""Not with a Bang;" "After nuclear war wipes out humanity, the last two survivors—Rolf and Louise...who meet in a Salt Lake City restaurant. The grim tale ends abruptly when Rolf suffers a fatal paralytic attack.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings

""An international incident leads [the man] to deploy an experimental defense technology his company had developed, which proves far stronger than intended... that destroys the majority of humanity. The patient and the psychiatrist are in fact in a government bunker deep beneath the ruins of the United States...""

3.91 avg rating — 701 ratings

""In the near future, Russia invades Western Europe, crisis envelops the United States—and a mercenary army overseen by power-hungry theocrats and authoritarians takes advantage of the chaos.""

4.41 avg rating — 40,361 ratings

""Set in a post-apocalyptic and futuristic "Neo-Tokyo", more than three decades after a mysterious explosion destroyed the city, the story centers on teenage biker gang leader Shotaro Kaneda...who attempt to prevent Tetsuo Shima, Kaneda's mentally unbalanced childhood friend, from using his...destructive telekinetic abilities to...awaken a mysterious entity with powerful psychic abilities named "Akira". "