Theory
- David Harvey, Spaces of Hope
- Eric D. Smith, Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope
- Lyman Tower Sargent and Gregory Claeys, The Utopia Reader
- Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini, Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
- Tom Moylan, Scraps of the Untainted Sky
- Robert J. Tally, Utopia in the Age of Globalization
- Fredric Jameson, “Future City”
- Patrick Parrinder, Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia
- Ruth Levitas, “The Archive of Feet: Memory, Place, and Utopia.” Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice.
- Ralph Pordzik, Futurescapes Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses
- Louis Marin, Utopics: Spatial Play
- Roger Luckhurt, A Cultural History of Corridors
- Roger Luckhurst, Zombies: A Cultural History
- Rob Kitchin and James Kneale, Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction
- Peter Yoonsuk Paik, From Utopia to Apocalypse : Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
- William H. Katerberg, Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction
- Marlene Goldman, Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction
- Christopher Palmer, “Ordinary Catastrophes” from Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction
- Richard Dellamora, Post-Modern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice
- Elizabeth K. Rosen, Apocalyptic Transformation : Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination
- Patricia Viera, Existential Utopia
- Sarah Juliet Lauro, Zombie Theory: A Reader
- Stacy C. Kozakavich, The Archaeology of Utopian and Intentional Communities
Literary Fiction
- Stephen King, The Stand
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
- Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
- Meg Ellison, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
- Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
- D. James, Children of Men
- Richard Matheson, I am Legend
- George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- William R. Forstchen, One Second After
- Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
- A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
- Gébé, Letters to Survivors
- Anne Corlette, The Space Between the Stars
- Douglass Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma
- Carson Whitehead, Zone One
Films
- The Ravenous
- Here Alone
- Resident Evil
- Zombieland
- Io Last on Earth
- Children of Men