The Apocalyptic 20th Century
Explore the most gripping apocalyptic books of the 20th century. Dive into dystopian worlds, catastrophic events, and survival tales that defined a century of fear and imagination.
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The Purple Cloud
by Matthew Phipps Shiel
"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the …
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War with the Newts
by Karel ÄŚapek
An inspiration to writers such as Orwell and Vonnegut, this is one of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century and is now regarded …
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Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, …
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The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham
Explores the timeless tale of Earth's survival against alien forces (man-eating plants) and blinding meteor showers.
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The Long Tomorrow
by Leigh Brackett
In the aftermath of a nuclear war, Americans have come to blame technology for the disaster. The population is scattered into small towns. Cities are …
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On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
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Twilight World
by Poul Anderson
Mutant births caused by the war's residual radiation convince the remaining normal humans that they must flee to another world in order to survive
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The Stand
by Stephen King
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form …
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The Wild Shore
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a …
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Emergence
by David R. Palmer
After a bionuclear war destroys most of humanity, a young women seeks other survivors.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York …
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The Children of Men
by P. D. James
In 2021, with the human race becoming extinct because of the infertility of all males, Oxford historian Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of …
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Arc Light
by Eric L. Harry
A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear holocaust that erupts between Russia and …
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The Third Pandemic
by Pierre Ouellette
On discovering a deadly virus, a woman scientist is told to keep quiet and to give her company time to prepare an antidote, so when …