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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.
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An interactive fiction game examining the futile nature of nuclear war: Trojan: 1986 Arcade game and platformer set shortly after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, which is now overrun by occultists who are bent on terrorizing the surviving population with psychological and biochemical warfare Twilight: 2000: 1984 A role-playing game ...
Baum set numerous other novels and short stories explicitly in the same universe, including The Magical Monarch of Mo, Dot and Tot of Merryland, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Queen Zixi of Ix, John Dough and the Cherub, The Sea Fairies, Sky Island, "The Enchanted Types," "The Dummy that Lived," "A Kidnapped Santa Claus", "The Runaway ...
Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler
12 Monkeys (1995) is a science fiction film which depicts the remains of human civilization after an uncontrollable pandemic wipes out 99% of the human population. It is a semi-remake of La Jetée (1962), and both films focus on the theme of fate by introducing the ability to travel through time and make contact with pre-apocalyptic society.
The Twilight fandom is the community of fans of the Twilight series of novels, films and other related media. The fans are known as Twihards, [1] some of the most dedicated fans are known as Rats or Ratties. [2] There has been conflict between the fans of Twilight and the fans of other series.
Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron is a 5-volume, 1,800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs. An early science-fiction work called Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a "Captain Adam Seaborn" appeared in print in 1820. In ...