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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.
Harlan Ellison (short story); L.Q. Jones, Alvy Moore and Wayne Cruseturner (screenplay) Barefoot Gen: 1976 Tengo Yamada (screenplay), Keiji Nakazawa (manga) The story of Gen Nakaoka and his family, who lived in Hiroshima at the time it was atom-bombed, and their struggles and trials amidst the nuclear holocaust. Damnation Alley: 1977 Roger ...
This is a category listing animated television-related post-apocalyptic fiction which includes television series, television films and pilots. This is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy, dystopia or horror in which the Earth's civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.
The setup for the story is a direct hit by a nuclear weapon, catapulting a nuclear shelter containing Farnham, his wife, son, daughter, daughter's friend, and employee into the future. While writing the story, Heinlein drew on his experience of building a fallout shelter under his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado in the 1960s.
The story, narrated by Howard Fornoy in the form of a personal journal, recounts the life of his younger brother, Robert "Bobby" Fornoy. Bobby, a child prodigy whose adult interests led him to study a variety of scientific disciplines, discovered a chemical that reduces the aggressive tendencies of humans and other organisms.
In the story of this post-apocalyptic song by Billy Joel, a man moves to Miami after New York City is devastated by a disaster in 2017. "Millennium" (from My Life and Times) TV series episode 1991 1999–2000 In 1999, there are numerous doomsday conspiracy theories that the world will end in 2000. "Millennium" (from The X-Files) TV series episode
Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man (1826) is a continuation of the apocalyptic theme in fiction and is generally recognized as the first major fictional post-apocalyptic story. [1] [23] The plot follows a group of people as they struggle to survive in a plague-infected world. The story's male protagonist struggles to keep his family safe but is ...
Alas, Babylon is a 1959 novel by American writer Pat Frank. [1] It is an early example of post-nuclear apocalyptic fiction and has an entry in David Pringle's book Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels.