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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.
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
A shoggoth (occasionally shaggoth [1]) is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings were mentioned in passing in H. P. Lovecraft 's sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth (1929–30), and later mentioned in other works, before being described in detail in his novella At the Mountains of Madness (1931).
The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a section of prose pieces, which could have been studied in schools ...
Fictional history may refer to: Alternate history, a subgenre of speculative fiction; Counterfactual history, a form of historiography; Backstory, events preceding the plot of a story Origin story, the backstory of how a character became a protagonist or antagonist; Historical fiction, a literary genre; Pseudohistory, a form of pseudoscholarship
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.
Mlokhim-Bukh (Old Yiddish epic poem based on the Biblical Books of Kings) Book of Dede Korkut (Oghuz Turks) Le Morte d'Arthur (Middle English) Morgante (Italian) by Luigi Pulci (1485), with elements typical of the mock-heroic genre; The Wallace by Blind Harry (Scots chivalric poem) Troy Book by John Lydgate, about the Trojan war (Middle English)
The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces.