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Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Cobalt 60 by Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodē and Larry Todd, set in a post-apocalyptic world Fist of the North Star , a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear Earth Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind , a Japanese graphic novel, later partly adapted in film, set in a far, post-apocalyptic future, rife with themes of bioethics, environmentalism ...
Children's literature portal; Taronga (1986) is a young adult science fiction post-apocalyptic novel written by Australian author Victor Kelleher.The story revolves around the catastrophic disaster that destroys the Earth as we know it and its impact on Australia in the Southern Hemisphere.
Orson Scott Card's post-apocalyptic anthology The Folk of the Fringe (1989) deals with American Mormons after a nuclear war. Jeanne DuPrau's children's novel The City of Ember (2003) was the first of four books in a post-apocalyptic series for young adults. A film adaptation, City of Ember (2008), stars Bill Murray and Saoirse Ronan.
Silo is a dystopian series of post-apocalyptic science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey.The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name.
The story of The Tripods is a variation on post-apocalyptic literature, wherein humanity has been enslaved by "Tripods" — gigantic three-legged walking machines, piloted by unseen alien entities (later identified as "Masters"). Human society is largely pastoral, with few habitations larger than villages, and what little industry exists is ...
The young adult animated series [1] follows a teenage girl named Kipo Oak, who is searching for her father after being forced to flee from her burrow, and must explore the post-apocalyptic surface world ruled by mutated animals to find him. Along the way, she befriends human survivors Wolf and Benson, and the mutant animals Dave and Mandu.
In 2017, the United States has fragmented into post-apocalyptic wastelands. There are also sexbots. [21] [33] Childhood's End: Novel 1953 c. 2000 Set in the late 20th century, [34] in which the United States and the Soviet Union are competing to launch the first orbital weapons platform. Aliens arrive and put a stop to it. The Children of Men ...