Nice Cover

A great cover illustration for the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (1960) by the artist Bob Eggleton.

After a War

Cover of Astounding from april 1940.

Once More New York

A cover illustration of IF Science Fiction from July 1965. There's New York under water, maybe caused by Aliens.

Beautiful Disaster

Sure that the post-apocalyptic science fiction film Oblivion isn't the best of the genre, but there are some really beautiful views of destroyed Americans icons: the Empire State Building, the Pentagon, the Superdome, the Washington obelisk with the Capitol in the back and last not least New York as a landscape.

Sole Survivor

Cover of the famous science fiction novel City (1952) by Clifford D. Simak.

Back to the Roots

This ist one of my absolute favorite covers. The colors are great, and the ghoulish survivors...

Flowers of Destruction

Two more covers of the post-apocalyptic series Deathlands published under the name of James Axler.

Amazing Cover

Cover of the SF-Magazine Amazing in 1960. The ruins indicate here a long forgotten but once powerfull civilization.

The Windup Girl

The Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi and published in 2009. It's about Emiko, the "Windup Girl" an engineered human used as a sex slave in a dystopian future, where global warming has raised the levels of the world's oceans, carbon fuel sources have run out and mankind is harassed by deadly  plagues and pests, caused by genetically modified modified plants and animals.
Probably the best post apocalyptic or dystopian novel I read this year.

Deus Irae

Deus Irae (Wrath of God) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1976. It's much about religious fanatism after a nuclear war. Anyway, the cover is impressing

Battle Circle

Here some cover versions of the science fiction trilogy "Battle Circle" by Piers Anthony. The covers are by the British artist Patrick Woodroffe.

In an post-apocalyptic world people settle their conflicts with highly ritualized combat in a so called "battle circle". Each warrior wears as second name the weapon he wields. And so the books are name after their protagonists:

Sos the Rope (1968)

Var the Stick (1972)

Neq the Sword (1975)

It’s good old thrilling action stuff, like those novels were in these times paving the way for the Road Warrior and others to come.

Remaining Signs

Two sience fiction cover illustrations of the 1960s. Both are using the ruins of human monuments to indicate that there happened a great disaster. The first looks like if thare where too much water, which has flloded great parts of the world. On the second there’s no water at all and sand is covering the the impressive monuments of mankind

2019 - After the Fall of New York

2019 - After the Fall of New York (1983) is one of the cheap copycat films that followed the great success of the Road Warrior.

Like many of this genre it’s an Italian production where producers had a long experience with the peculiar Sword-and-Sandal films. Like the Road Warrior films their Italian sucessors preferred desert sceneries which resulted much cheaper than that filmed in cities.

Therefore a lot of these films look like Hercules meets Star Trek in the desert.

All Fools’ Day

"All Fools' Day" is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by the English writer Edmund Cooper. It was already published in 1966, meaning in the good old days of post-apocalyptic fiction. There was no atomic blast and Cooper is really enjoying the scenery when great parts of humanity have vanished.
It has happened in a nearly comfortable manner. Because of the strange radiation from sun-spots suicide became endemic. Nearly all normal people decided happily to end their lives, only the psychopaths and eccentrics were imune and left.
So it’s a kind of Road Warrior in Great Britain, nice to read at least for all, who are interested in the roots of the genre.