Short Stories
- "The Blast" by Stuart Cloete (1947), published in 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, 1954
- "Not with a Bang" (1949) by Damon Knight
- "The Last Word" (1956) by Damon Knight
- "A Clean Escape" (1985) by John Kessel
- "The 16th October 1985" (2009) by James Plumridge
- "The Edge of the Knife" (1957) by H. Beam Piper
- "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) by Ward Moore (inspiration for the film Panic in Year Zero!)
- "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1951)
- "Preview of the War We Do Not Want", published in Collier's Magazine (1951)
- "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke a short story featuring a boy living in a colony on the moon, left isolated by the destruction of the Earth.
- "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison (1969)
- "Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man's Back" by Joe R. Lansdale (1986)
- "The Custodians" by Richard Cowper
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