| title ►◄ | author ►◄ | year ►◄ | catastrophe ►◄ | type ▲ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Past Magic | Ian R. MacLeod | 2006 | various | various | |
| '48 | James Herbert | 1996 | pestilence | realistic | |
| 2011, The Evacuation of Planet Earth | G. Cope Schellhorn | 1997 | war | realistic | |
| 2012: The War for Souls | Whitley Strieber | 2007 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Adrift in a Boneyard | Robert Lewis Taylor | 1962 | unknown | realistic | |
| After London Wild England | Richard Jefferies | 1885 | ecological | realistic | |
| After the Bomb | Gloria D. Miklowitz | 1984 | war | realistic | |
| After the Rain | John Bowen | 1958 | deluge | realistic | |
| Aftermath | LeVar Burton | 1996 | social | realistic | |
| Aftermath, The | Samuel Florman | 2001 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Agviq | Michael Armstrong | 1990 | war | realistic | |
| Alas, Babylon | Pat Frank | 1959 | war | realistic | |
| Alone | Jennifer Reynolds | 2014 | pestilence | realistic | |
| American Messiah | James Hall | 2007 | war | realistic | |
| Among Madmen | Jim Starlin Daina Graziunas | 1990 | war | realistic | |
| Anthem | Ayn Rand | 1946 | unknown | realistic | |
| Ape and Essence | Aldous Huxley | 1948 | war | realistic | |
| Apple | Herbert L. Levine | 2000 | extraterrestrial | realistic | |
| Armageddon at Defcon 1 | Teretha G. Houston | 1999 | war | realistic | |
| Ashes, Ashes | Jo Treggiari | 2011 | ecological | realistic | |
| Ballad of the Blue Denim Gang, The | Bryan W. Alaspa | 1999 | unknown | realistic | |
| Barefoot in the Head | Brian Aldiss | 1969 | war | realistic | |
| Beginning of Sorrows | Gilbert Morris | 1999 | technology | realistic | |
| Breaking Earth | Keith Laumer | 1981 | ecological | realistic | |
| Bright Angel | Carol Hedges | 2003 | unknown | realistic | |
| Broken World | Rev. J. L. Byers | 2002 | geological | realistic | |
| Brother in the Land | Robert Swindells | 1984 | war | realistic | |
| Bubbas of the Apocalypse | Selina Rosen | 2001 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Burning Books on Fenwick Street | Lee Dravis | 2003 | social | realistic | |
| Burnt Lands | Richard Elliott Richard E Geis | 1985 | war | realistic | |
| Califia's Daughters | Leigh Richards | 2004 | diease | realistic | |
| Cannibal Reign | Thomas Koloniar | 2012 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Caravan | Stephen Goldin | 1975 | social | realistic | |
| Carriers | Patrick Lynch | 1995 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 1960 | war | realistic | |
| Cataclysm | Donald Steinberg | 1999 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Cataclysm: The Day the World Died | Don Pendleton | 1969 | ecological | realistic | |
| Catastrophe Planet | Keith Laumer | 1966 | earthquake | realistic | |
| Cell | Stephen King | 2006 | technology | realistic | |
| Chernobyl Syndrome | Dean Ing | 1988 | war | realistic | |
| Children of the Shroud | Garfield Reeves-Stevens | 1987 | technology | realistic | |
| Children's Hospital, The | Chris Adrian | 2006 | deludge | realistic | |
| City in the Sea, The | Wilson Tucker | 1951 | war | realistic | |
| City, Not Long After, The | Pat Murphy | 1989 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Cold Creek Cash Store | Russell Hill | 1986 | social | realistic | |
| Cold Sea Rising | Richard Moran | 1986 | war | realistic | |
| Collision Course | David Crawford | 2012 | various | realistic | |
| Comet Dis'Aster | L. Eduardo Vega | 1999 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Comet, The | Robert Charles | 1985 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Coming Global Superstorm | Art Bell | 1987 | ecological | realistic | |
| Coming of the Rats, The Virgin Mistress | George Henry Smith | 1961 | war | realistic | |
| Commander-1 | Peter George | 1965 | war | realistic | |
| Committed Men, The | M. John Harrison | 1971 | ecological | realistic | |
| Core | Paul Preuss | 1993 | ecological | realistic | |
| Crazy Horse in Heaven | Robert P. Arthur | 2000 | war | realistic | |
| Creed for the Third Millennium, The | Colleen McCullough | 1985 | ecological | realistic | |
| Crimson Witch, The | Dean R. Koontz | 1971 | war | realistic | |
| Dallas Down | Richard Moran | 1988 | drought | realistic | |
| Dark December | Alfred Coppel | 1960 | war | realistic | |
| Darkest of Nights, The Survival Margin | Charles Eric Maine | 1964 | war | realistic | |
| Darkness After, The | Scott B Williams | 2013 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Davy | Edgar Pangborn | 1964 | war | realistic | |
| Dawn | S. Fowler Wright | 1929 | deluge | realistic | |
| Day New York Went Dry, The | Charles Einstein | 1964 | drought | realistic | |
| Day the Oceans Overflowed, The | Charles L. Fontenay | 1964 | deludge | realistic | |
| Deadline Y2K | Mark Joseph | 1999 | technology | realistic | |
| Deadly Messiah, The | David Campbell Hill | 1976 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Deep Fathom | James Rollins | 2001 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Deluge | S. Fowler Wright | 1928 | deluge | realistic | |
| Deus Irae | Roger Zelazny Philip K. Dick | 1976 | war | realistic | |
| Devil Delivered and Other Tales, The | Steven Erikson | 2005 | ecological | realistic | |
| Don't Pick the Flowers Denver is Missing | D.F. Jones | 1971 | ecological | realistic | |
| Doomsday Deposit, The | Stanley Johnson | 1980 | technology | realistic | |
| Doomsday Effect, The | Thomas Wren | 1986 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Doomsday Story, The | Elleston Trevor | 1952 | war | realistic | |
| Dr. Bloodmoney | Philip K. Dick | 1965 | war | realistic | |
| Dreamsnake | Vonda N. McIntyre | 1978 | war | realistic | |
| Drought, The Burning World, The | J.G. Ballard | 1964 | drought | realistic | |
| Dry | Max Marlow | 1997 | drought | realistic | |
| Earth Abides | George R. Stewart | 1949 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Earth King | Michael Youssef | 1988 | war | realistic | |
| Earth Winter | Richard Moran | 1995 | ecological | realistic | |
| Earthwreck! | Thomas N. Scortia | 1974 | war | realistic | |
| Eater | Gregory Benford | 2000 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Eleventh Plague, The | Jeff Hirsch | 2011 | war | realistic | |
| Emergence | David R. Palmer | 1984 | war | realistic | |
| Empire of Ice, The | Richard Moran | 1994 | ecological | realistic | |
| Empty World | John Christopher | 1978 | pestilence | realistic | |
| End of the Age, The | Pat Robertson | 1996 | cosmic | realistic | |
| End Time | George A. Matiasz | 1996 | war | realistic | |
| Epicenter | Basil Jackson | 1971 | war | realistic | |
| Epidemic 9 | Richard A. Lerner | 1980 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Etiquette for an Apocalypse | Anne Mendel | 2012 | ecological | realistic | |
| Evan's Voice | Sallie Lowenstein | 1999 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Evil Star | Logan Robinson | 1987 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Exit Earth | Martin Caidin | 1987 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Exos | Michael T. Ammann | 2003 | unknown | realistic | |
| Exterminance Cometh | Robert Segarra | 2000 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Extinction | Ray Hammond | 2005 | ecological | realistic | |
| Fallen Sky, The | Peter Crowcroft | 1954 | war | realistic | |
| Fallen Stars, Bitter Waters | Gilbert Morris | 2000 | technology | realistic | |
| False Dawn | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | 1978 | war | realistic | |
| False Night | Algis Budrys | 1954 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Fatal Climate | David Hood | 2000 | deludge | realistic | |
| Fight for Life | Murray Leinster | 1949 | war | realistic | |
| Final Impact | Yvonne Navarro | 1998 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Fire | Alan Rodgers | 1990 | war | realistic | |
| Fireball | Vic Mayhew | 1977 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Fireball | Paul Davies | 1987 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Flood | Philip McCutchan | 1991 | deludge | realistic | |
| Floodland | Marcus Sedgwick | 2000 | deludge | realistic | |
| Fond Farewell to Dying, A | Syd Logsdon | 1981 | deludge | realistic | |
| Fourth Horseman, The | Alan E. Nourse | 1982 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Freak's Amour | Tom De Haven | 1979 | war | realistic | |
| Free Flight | Douglas Terman | 1980 | war | realistic | |
| Freefall | Garfield Reeves-Stevens Judith Reeves-Stevens | 2005 | war | realistic | |
| Friend of the Earth, a | T.C. Boyle | 2000 | ecological | realistic | |
| Froomb! | John Lymington | 1964 | war | realistic | |
| Fugue For a Darkening Island | Christopher Priest | 1972 | war | realistic | |
| Fungus, The | Harry Adam Knight | 1985 | ecological | realistic | |
| Gaia Weeps | Kevin E. Ready | 1998 | ecological | realistic | |
| Galileo's Children [The World Is a Sphere] | Arthur C. Clarke | 2005 | war | realistic | |
| Gauss Factor, The | Stephen R. Tasker | 1997 | ecological | realistic | |
| God's Grace | Bernard Malamud | 1982 | war | realistic | |
| Gone | Gerald Otten | 2006 | unknown | realistic | |
| Greenhouse: It Will Happen in 1997 | Dakota James | 1984 | ecological | realistic | |
| Greybeard | Brian Aldiss | 1964 | war | realistic | |
| Growth | Max Marlow | 1993 | ecological | realistic | |
| Heat | Arthur Herzog | 1977 | ecological | realistic | |
| Heavy Weather | Bruce Sterling | 1991 | ecological | realistic | |
| Heirs of Babylon, The | Glen Cook | 1972 | war | realistic | |
| Henry's Quest | Graham Oakley | 1988 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Heritage of Stars, A | Clifford D. Simak | 1977 | social | realistic | |
| Hero's Walk | Robert Crane | 1954 | extraterrestrial | realistic | |
| Heroes and Villains | Angela Carter | 1969 | war | realistic | |
| History of Our World Beyond the Wave, The | R. E. Klein | 1998 | deludge | realistic | |
| Hole in the Sky | Pete Hautman | 2001 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Hopkin's Manuscript, The | R.C. Sherriff | 1939 | cosmic | realistic | |
| House in November, The | Keith Laumer | 1970 | extraterrestrial | realistic | |
| Hunter's Fire, A | Floyd D. Dale | 1989 | war | realistic | |
| I Spied a Pale Horse | Mark Timlin | 1999 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Ice | Anna Kavan | 1967 | war | realistic | |
| Ice | James Follett | 1978 | ecological | realistic | |
| Ice and Iron | Wilson Tucker | 1974 | ecological | realistic | |
| Ice! | Arnold Federbush | 1978 | ecological | realistic | |
| Icefire | Garfield Reeves-Stevens Judith Reeves-Stevens | 1998 | war | realistic | |
| Icequake | Crawford Kilian | 1978 | ecological | realistic | |
| Impact! | R. V. Fodor | 1979 | cosmic | realistic | |
| In Iron Years | Gordon R. Dickson | 1980 | economic | realistic | |
| In Mortal Fear | Jeanne Lucchesi | 2000 | extraterrestrial | realistic | |
| Incomer, The | Margaret Elphinstone | 1987 | war | realistic | |
| Inferno, The | Fred Hoyle Geoffrey Hoyle | 1973 | cosmic | realistic | |
| IQ83 | Arthur Herzog | 1978 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Jesus Factor | Edwin Corley | 1970 | war | realistic | |
| Jitterbug | Mike McQuay | 1984 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Judgment Day | Jane Jensen | 2000 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Kairos | Gwyneth Jones | 1988 | war | realistic | |
| Kalki | Gore Vidal | 1978 | pestilence | realistic | |
| King of the Storeroom, The | Antonio Porta | 1978 | social | realistic | |
| Kiteworld | Keith Roberts | 1985 | war | realistic | |
| Land's End | Frederik Pohl Jack Williamson | 1988 | extraterrestrial | realistic | |
| Last Children of Schevenborn, The | Gudrun Pausewang | 1988 | war | realistic | |
| Last Day, The | Helen Clarkson | 1959 | war | realistic | |
| Last Day, The | Glenn Kleier | 1997 | war | realistic | |
| Last Gallon, The | William Belanger | 2013 | economic | realistic | |
| Last Hope of Earth, The Creeping Shroud, The | Lan Wright | 1965 | ecological | realistic | |
| Last Man, The | Mary Shelley | 1826 | pestilence | realistic | |
| Last Oasis, The | Sue Pace | 1993 | ecological | realistic | |
| Last Ship, The | William Brinkley | 1987 | war | realistic | |
| Last War, The | Martyn Godfrey | 1989 | war | realistic | |
| Last Whales, The | Lloyd Abbey | 1990 | ecological | realistic | |
| Legend | Barry Maher | 2005 | unknown | realistic | |
| Level 7 | Mordecai Roshwald | 1959 | war | realistic | |
| Lift Off | J. Hall Stephens | 1989 | ecological | realistic | |
| Lights Out | David Crawford | 2010 | technology | realistic | |
| Long Loud Silence, The | Wilson Tucker | 1952 | war | realistic | |
| Long Tomorrow, The | Leigh Bracket | 1955 | war | realistic | |
| Long Voyage Back | Luke Rhinehart | 1983 | war | realistic | |
| Lord's Pink Ocean, The | David Walker | 1972 | ecological | realistic | |
| Los Angeles: A.D.2017 | Philip Wylie | 1971 | ecological | realistic | |
| Lost Traveller, The | Steve Wilson | 1977 | war | realistic | |
| Lot and Lot's Daughter | Ward Moore | 1996 | war | realistic | |
| Lucifer's Hammer | Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle | 1977 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Magazine Beach | Lewis Gannett | 1996 | war | realistic | |
| Mask for the General, The | Lisa Goldstein | 1987 | social | realistic | |
| Masters of the Fist | Edward P. Hughes | 1989 | war | realistic | |
| Meltdown | Max Marlow | 1991 | ecological | realistic | |
| Memory Boy | Will Weaver | 2001 | geological | realistic | |
| Mercury | Anna Kavan | 1994 | ecological | realistic | |
| Meridian 144 | Meg Files | 1991 | war | realistic | |
| Meteor | Edmund H. North | 1979 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Minutes to Burn | Gregg Andrew Hurwitz | 2001 | geological | realistic | |
| Moonseed | Stephen Baxter | 1998 | cosmic | realistic | |
| Mother of Storms | John Barnes | 1994 | technology | realistic | |
| Moving Snow, The | Ian Weekley | 1974 | ecological | realistic | |
| Nature of Balance, The | Tim Lebbon | 2001 | ecological | realistic | |
| Nature's End | Whitley Strieber James Kunetka | 1986 | ecological | realistic | |
| Neena Gathering | Valerie Nieman Colander | 1988 | war | realistic | |
| Negative Ones, The | John E. Muller | 1965 | war | realistic | |
| New Madrid Run, The | Michael Reisig | 1998 | geological | realistic |