Post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror fiction literature in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

This Golden Deer Classics anthology contains the following classic post-apocalyptic works:

- The Last Man by Mary Shelley
- After London by John Richard Jefferies
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- The Scarlet Plague by Jack London