Soon after the book was published it was serialised in the UK in the teenage magazine Jackie (magazine).
In February 1984, the BBC presented a film adaptation for its Play for Today series in which the setting was changed from America to Wales.
Z for Zachariah, a 2015 film adaptation of the novel premiered in January 2015 with financing from Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and Material Pictures. Eschewing the central Adam/Eve theme and its deconstruction of abusive and controlling relationships, it adds a third character and involves a love triangle. It stars Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Chris Pine. Craig Zobel directs from an adapted script by Nissar Modi.[16][17][18] Filming took place on New Zealand's Banks Peninsula[19] and in the small former coal mining town of Welch, West Virginia.[20]
