Post-apocalypse

Post-apocalyptic settings are a staple of SF. These might include:

• gradual decline
• post-nuclear
• plague and virus
• some other natural, human-caused, alien-caused, or fantasy-caused disaster

In any case much of human civilization is wiped out, or greatly transformed.

List of works

• Emma Bull, Bone Dance (1991)
• Octavia Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis 1) (nuclear war)
• Octavia Butler, Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis 2) (nuclear war)
• Octavia Butler, Imago (Xenogenesis 3) (nuclear war)
• Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (gradual decline)
• Suzy McKee Charnas, Walk to the End of the World (nuclear war)
• Suzy McKee Charnas, Motherlines (sequel to Walk to the End of the World) (nuclear war)
• Suzy McKee Charnas, The Furies (sequel to Motherlines) (nuclear war)
• Jennifer DiMarco, Escape to the Wind
• Esther Friesner, The Psalms of Herod
• Leona Gom, The Y Chromosome (plague)
• Jonathan Lerner, Caught in a Still Place (1989: serpent's tail; print-on-demand: xlibris) (gradual Decline, mysterious plagues)
• Pat Murphy, The City, Not Long After (plague)
• Pamela Sargent, The Shore of Women (nuclear war)
• Rochelle Singer, The Demeter Flower
• Joan Slonczewski, The Wall Around Eden (1989) (nuclear; alien intervention)
• Stephanie A. Smith, Other Nature (1997)
• Sheri Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country (nuclear war)
• Elisabeth Vonarburg, The Silent City (nuclear war)
• Elisabeth Vonarburg, In the Mother's Country (sequel to The Silent City) (nuclear war)
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, False Dawn (gradual decline)
• Molleen Zanger, The Year Seven (1993)