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 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 readingGeneral strike in 1924 marks the beginning of the collapse of civilization. 150 years later England is reduced to neolithical barbarism. Published in 1920.
Continue reading“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 readingThey roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America. Published in 1939.
Continue readingSuppose that
everything that greens and grows
should blacken in one moment, flower and branch.
I think that I would find your blinded hand.
There once the walls
Of the ruined cottage stood.
The periwinkle crawls
With flowers in its hair into the wood.
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 readingPulling Through by Dean Ing is a classic nuclear war survival story from 1983, but also a practical “how to survive” guide.
Continue readingTime Enough At Last by Lynn Venable – The short story from 1953 that served as the basis for the classic Twilight Zone episode.
Continue readingThe “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.
Continue readingThundarr the Barbarian – How to Catch a Vampire is the first of two fan-fiction stories by Sheila Shillingburg.
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