Location Codes:
MN=Main Library
DR=Dobson Ranch Branch
RM=Red Mountain Branch

Baxter, Stephen. Moonseed. 1998. Science Fiction (MN, DR, RM)
Days after Venus inexplicably explodes, the same rock-liquefying nanovirus that destroyed her sister planet reaches the Earth, catapulting the planet into a devastating extinction event.

Brin, David. The Postman. 1985. Science Fiction (MN, RM)
In the aftermath of a war that has devastated the nation, a traveling storyteller borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker and is transformed unwittingly into a symbol of hope for America's future.

Burgess, Melvin. Bloodtide. 2001. Science Fiction (DR)
In a London wracked by war, famine, economic collapse, and chaos, two warring families vie for control, until a proposed agreement is threatened by new treachery that may unleash a bloodbath on the city.

Carmody, Isobelle. Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles Series). 1987. Science Fiction (MN)
Born with enhanced mental powers, Elspeth Gordie faces persecution by her own post-holocaust world, but she must resist dark forces who hope to use her powers to resurrect the apocalypse.

Danvers, Dennis. Circuit of Heaven. 1998. Science Fiction (MN)
Visiting the parents who abandoned him to enter a utopia in cyberspace, Nemo meets a beautiful pop singer who cannot return with him to the world outside, challenging his resolve never to abandon his body and his past.

DuBois, Brendan. Resurrection Day. 1999. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)
In 1972, ten years after a nuclear war decimated both the United States and Soviet Union, Carl Landry searches for the killer of a veteran of the 1962 war and begins to suspect that the victim may have held the key to a terrifying conspiracy.

Frank, Pat. Alas, Babylon. 1959. Science Fiction (MN, DR, RM)
The survivors of a nuclear holocaust are forced to rely on their own resources as they join together in the struggle for survival amidst the ruins of Fort Repose, a small town in Florida.

Goonan, Kathleen. Queen City Jazz (Nanotech Quartet Science Fiction Series). 1994. Science Fiction (MN, RM)
Journeying to the enlivened city of Cincinnati after her world is decimated by the nanotech plagues, Verity learns that the residents must endlessly relive a dark creator's fantasies, and vows to take over.

Hendrix, Howard. Empty Cities of the Full Moon. 2001. Science Fiction (MN, DR)
When the latest technology of the world revives a plague of apparent global madness that annihilates urban civilization, a new world is spawned under the sway of the moon and the human race is forever altered.

Kerr, Philip. The Second Angel. 1999. Fiction (MN, RM)
In the year 2069, plagues and climatic changes wreak havoc on the world, and a new virus that can only be cured by an infusion of uninfected blood runs rampant, with the moon housing America's federal reserve of the priceless commodity.

McDevitt, Jack. Eternity Road. 1997. Science Fiction (MN, DR)
A post-apocalyptic novel follows a small band of survivors--a scholar, a soldier, and a healer--led by a young woman as they journey through the fantastic, ruined America of the Roadmakers, a land both prehistoric and computerized.

Miller, Walter. A Canticle for Leibowitz. 1959. Science Fiction (MN, DR, RM)
A monk struggles to preserve spiritual life and wisdom in the years following a nuclear holocaust.

Sheffield, Charles. Starfire. 1999. Science Fiction (MN, DR)
In 2053, after the Earth has barely recovered from the supernova that has destroyed much of the planet's infrastructure, a new threat emerges when a storm of high-energy particles is racing to destroy the planet and it is revealed that the original supernova may have been deliberately sent to destroy the Earth.

Shute, Nevil. On the Beach. 1957. Fiction (MN, RM)
Following a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere, the inhabitants of a small Australian community await the inevitable after-effects of the bombs to reach them.

Stewart, George. Earth Abides. 1949. Science Fiction (MN, RM)
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race except for one survivor who is strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic and ventures forward to experience a world without man.

Tepper, Sheri. The Visitor. 2002. Science Fiction (MN, DR, RM)
Civilization has survived--barely--in the wake of a twenty-first century collision with an asteroid, but when Disme, an orphan, begins to read a fascinating book by one of her ancestors from before the dark times, she is compelled to search out a mystery.

Updike, John. Toward the End of Time. 1997. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)
Ben Turnbull, a retired investment counselor living north of Boston in the year 2020, in a country decimated by a U.S.-China war, chronicles his life in his journals over the course of a year, finding his personal history merging into alternative identities throughout history and the future.

Williamson, Jack. Terraforming Earth. 2001. Science Fiction (MN, DR, RM)
Clones of survivors of a catastrophic asteroid collision that had decimated Earth and made it uninhabitable for humans join forces with alien travelers to rebuild the planet's ecosphere so that humans and aliens alike can build new lives on Earth.

KG, 8/03; Updated JB, 8/05; Holdings checked 7/06 KRL