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

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