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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.
Definition: The post-apocalyptic fiction genre includes short stories and novels that take place after some kind of catastrophic event. These stories often depict characters struggling to survive in a dangerous new world without electricity, running water, law and order, or societal structure.
Sep 29, 2021 · Will we be ill from a mass pandemic, parched by climate change, ruled by sci-fi robots, or locked in a thousand year battle against an alien invasion? The popular genres of apocalyptic fiction and post-apocalyptic fiction seek to answer these questions.
Apocalyptic fiction is a broad genre or category of fiction that includes stories taking place before, during, or after some kind of apocalypse. Post-apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of the above, in which the story’s main events take place after or later than the catastrophic event (s).
Aug 19, 2024 · Dystopian fiction is the polar opposite of utopian fiction, which centres on beautiful, perfect societies, and differs from apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios because in a dystopia, society still exists.
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Oct 23, 2024 · A product of the Judeo-Christian tradition, apocalyptic literature is characteristically pseudonymous; it takes narrative form, employs esoteric language, expresses a pessimistic view of the present, and treats the final events as imminent. See also eschatology.
Oct 27, 2020 · Humans have been pondering the end of existence for as long as we’ve been aware of it (probably, I mean, I wasn’t there), and as a result we have a rich collection of apocalypse and post-apocalypse literature to read during our planet’s senescence.