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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.
The Pelbar Cycle Book One (Beyond Armageddon) by Paul O. Williams; Plan of Attack, a 2004 thriller by Dale Brown; The Postman, a 1985 post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin; Prayers for the Assassin, by Robert Ferrigno
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.
Novels in the genre of apocalyptic fiction, a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy, dystopia or horror in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. Subcategories
The Last Book in the Universe; The Last Centurion; The Last Jihad; The Last Ship (novel) The Lathe of Heaven; Left Behind; Left Behind (novel) Level 7 (novel) Liege-Killer; The Living Dead (novel) Logan's Run; The Long Loud Silence; The Long Tomorrow (novel) Long Voyage Back; Lords of the Psychon; Lost Everything; Lucifer's Hammer
Apocalyptic elements can be detected in the prophetic books of Joel and Zechariah, while Isaiah chapters 24–27 and 33 present well-developed apocalypses. The second half of the Book of Daniel (chs. 7–12) offers a fully matured and classic example of this genre of literature.
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is an anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction published by Night Shade Books in January 2008, edited by John Joseph Adams. [1]The anthology includes 22 stories, [2] plus an introduction by the editor.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself.
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