Catastrophe in Science Fiction
From dKosopedia
Catastrophes are common themes for science fiction novels, short stories, films and television.
science fiction set during or after alien invasion
- Films Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1955; Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
- Film The Arrival 1996
- Film John Carpenter's The Thing
- Film Mars Attacks 1996
- Films The Blob 1958; The Blob 1988
- Film Beware the Blob 1972, a.k.a. "Son of the Blob"
- Robert A. Heinlein The Puppet Masters, also a Film, The Puppet Masters 1994
- "Black Leather Jackets," The Twilight Zone, original air date January 31, 1964 (script by Earl Hamner)
- John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids, also a film
- H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds, also a film, 2005 remake
science fiction set during asteroid or comet strike
- Film Armageddon 1998
- Film Asteroid 1979
- Film Deep Impact 1998
- Film Meteor 1979
science fiction set during or after climatic change
- J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World 1962
- Kim Stanley Robinson's Fifty Degress Below 2005
- Film The Day After Tomorrow 2004
science fiction set during or after fascism
- Katharine Burdekin's Swatika Night
science fiction set during general cultural collapse
science fiction set during general pollution disaster
science fiction set during or after nuclear war
- Stephen Vincent Binet's short story By the Waters of Babylon
- Pierre Boulle's 1963 Planet of the Apes, also a series of annoying films
- Harlan Ellison's short story "A Boy and His Dog," in New Worlds 1969 and World's Best Science Fiction 1970, also A Boy and His Dog 1975 film
- Walter M. Miller's 1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz
- George Orwell's 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four, also a film
- Mordecai Roshwald's 1959 Level 7
- Nevil Shute's 1959 novel On the Beach, also a On the Beach 1959 film and a On the Beach 2000 made for television movie
- John Wyndham's Rebirth
science fiction about overpopulation crisis
- James Blish's 1969 novella We All Die Naked
- Film Soylent Greene
science fiction about gray goo
- Greg Bear's Blood Music
- Damien Broderick's short story "The Meek," in Synergy SF: New Science Fiction
- Wil McCarthy's Bloom, ought to be a film
- Adam Warren's manga Dirty Pair
- Walter Jon Williams's Aristoi
science fiction set during or after global pandemic
- Film Twelve Monkeys 1995
- Film 28 Days Later 2002
- J.G. Ballard's The Crystal World 1966 (potential alien virus pandemic)
science fiction pertaining to global ecological change
- Frank Herbert's Dune. (Two films, the second somewhat better than the first, manage to ignore the ecological message.)
science fiction set during or after Earth's core stops rotating
- Film The Core 2003
