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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.
Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians. Apocalypse ( Ancient Greek : ἀποκάλυψις , romanized : apokálupsis ) is a Greek word meaning " revelation ", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which ...
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.
The latter portion of the story's title refers to the sci-fi anthology Dangerous Visions (1967), edited by Harlan Ellison, in which "Faith of Our Fathers" first appeared. Dangerous Visions has been credited as a milestone of sex and sexuality in speculative fiction ; [ 2 ] sex is a major motif in "Stories", especially the non-mainstream varieties.
This short story, part of the weird fiction book The King in Yellow, is set in a future New York City where suicide has been legalized and facilitated by the American government, with 'lethal chambers' that provide a painless death readily available to the public. While the United States is a prosperous and militarily strong nation, much of ...
As Earth is being ravaged by a series of apocalyptic events known as the Disaster, a coalition of architects, scientists, and doctors (called the Builders) create an underground city named Ember, with an initial population of 200 citizens (100 elderly adults, 100 babies), to ensure humanity survives, with the intention that future generations of the city will not know about the outside world ...
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.
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 ...