Ozymandias by Horace Smith
“Ozymandias” is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.
Continue readingFiction
Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman
You’re all alone in a deserted city. You walk down an empty street, yearning for the sight of one living face—one moving figure. Then you see a man on a corner and you know your terror has only begun. Published in 1953.
Continue readingCity at World's End by Edmond Moore Hamilton
From 1951. The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war – but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map – to somewhere else!
Continue readingThe Star by H. G. Wells
The people of Earth awaken to the notion that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after much disturbing the normal orbit of the planet Neptune. Published in 1897.
Continue readingThe People of the Ruins by Edward Shanks
General strike in 1924 marks the beginning of the collapse of civilization. 150 years later England is reduced to neolithical barbarism. Published in 1920.
Continue readingA Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber
“A Pail of Air” is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber which appeared in the December 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and was dramatized on the radio show X Minus One in March 1956.
Continue readingChildren of Tomorrow by Arthur Leo Zagat
They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America. Published in 1939.
Continue readingYour Blinded Hand by Tennessee Williams
Suppose that
everything that greens and grows
should blacken in one moment, flower and branch.
I think that I would find your blinded hand.
A Tale by Edward Thomas
There once the walls
Of the ruined cottage stood.
The periwinkle crawls
With flowers in its hair into the wood.
Finis by Frank L. Pollack
Finis is the story of a new star that is discovered which turns out to be a new, hotter sun. It is a short, but hard hitting story which shows a man and woman, who stay up the night to watch the expected new star arise.
Continue readingThe Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago — in our time, more or less — Eurasia fought a war to end all wars, a war that meant, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Old World. Published in 1916.
Continue readingHalf Novel / Half Survival Guide – Pulling Through by Dean Ing
Pulling Through by Dean Ing is a classic nuclear war survival story from 1983, but also a practical “how to survive” guide.
Continue reading