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The root cause of environment degradation is the widening gap between human and nature. Man has efficiently committed ecocide making the planet inhospitable for any kind of life. The technological progress has made man blind, destructive and dehumanizing. Human beings have become blinded by the advancement of civilization and hence have stopped thinking themselves as part of the natural world. This paper focuses on writers who have foregrounded the aftermath of a disaster through their works. It is probable that the cultural and ecological climate have inspired these writers to focus on future which is unpleasant but sure to come to reality if man continues to move through the current trajectory. McCarthy'sThe Road(2006)John Christopher's A wrinkle in the skin(1965) and David Brin's The postman (1985)falls into the genre of post-apocalyptic fiction. In the novels under study we find that the catastrophic event caused by man or a natural disaster has left the landscape barren. The barren landscape is a reflection of the mind of people under distress. There is also trauma of pain within oneself and within society. In such a bleak situation we find that there is an attempt to rebuild civilization and reconstruction of humanity.