Spoiler alert: planet Earth isn’t gonna make it out of this one. Alien invasions, malevolent AI, nuclear warfare – there’s no shortage of ways that our world will meet its maker. While sci-fi stories offer scientific solutions to save our doomed blue marble, these authors know that Earth’s fate was sealed from the jump. Here are 10 sci-fi books where the Earth is destroyed – for when you’re feeling hopeless, curious, existential, or just plain sick of the place.
