Post-apocalypse
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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)
- Suzy McKee Charnas, Conqueror's Child (sequel to The Furies)
- 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)
- M. K. Wren, A Gift Upon the Shore
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, False Dawn (gradual decline)
- Molleen Zanger, The Year Seven (1993)