The Blood Artists (1998) novel

Chuck Hogan's 1998 novel The Blood Artists is about a virus that takes on human form and has the capability of destroying humanity. In 2009 co-authored the first volume of The Strain Trilogy with Mexican motion picture director Guillermo del Toro, the subject matter of which is very similar to his earlier novel.

The Strain (2009) novel, Book 1 of the Strain Trilogy

Mexican superstar motion picture director Guillermo del Toro, who lives in Los Angeles, California, USA, and novelist Chuck Hogan, who published a similar work in 1998, The Blood Artists, have teamed up to kill off the world with a vampirism virus in their Strain Trilogy:

• Book 1, The Strain (2009)



• Book 2, The Fall (2010)



• Book 3, The Night Eternal (2011)

In Book 1 that favorite target of doomsday scenarios, New York City, is ground zero for this virus, the likes of which have been seen before.

Category 7 (2007) novel

Bill Evans, a real-life meteorologist (weatherman, not an expert in meteors), and collaborator Marianna Jameson, bring their combined expertise to the novel Cateogry 7 (2007), in which a killer hurricane destroys New York City.

Life After People (2008) documentary

The History Channel documentary Life After People (2008) may be based on Alan Weisman's 2007 book The World Without Us. The computer graphics in this TV account, imagining how ecosystems will recover and weather and lifeforms will break down humanity's greatest and strongest structures, are excellent.

The World Without Us (2007) book

Alan Weisman's non-fiction book The World Without Us (2007) either spawned a mini-industry of imagining Earth without humans or it tapped into a meme that's probably been floating around for a while, taking the popular science fiction theme of the last person on Earth to its ultimate conclusion. Weisman does not impose a doomsday scenario, rather his work is based on a thought experiment, examining how ecosystems would recover should humanity suddenly and totally disappear. He is not concerned with how or why this might happen, just that it does and how the world would move on and over the remains of a human-populated globe.

Kim Stanley Robinson doomsday ecothrillers (2004-2007)

Kim Stanley Robinson published this triology of doomsday ecothrillers between 2004 and 2007:

1. Forty Signs of Rain (Bantam Books, 2004)


2. Fifty Degrees Below (Bantam Books, 2005)


3. Sixty Days and Counting (Bantam Books, 2007)

Have a Nice Doomsday (2007) book

Former Simon Fraser University history professor Nicholas Guyatt, published Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World in 2007. He examines the Christian obsession with The Rapture and an apocalyptic viewpoint inspired by a literal interpretation of the last book of the Bible's New Testament, the Revelation of St. John.