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Fist of the North Star. Buronson, Tetsuo Hara. Influential shonen manga series featuring a warrior trained in a powerful martial arts style rights wrongs and battles evil warlords in a post-apocalyptic world. Inspired the landmark anime series, a live-action film, and many games.
- Definition and History
- Characteristics
- Jewish Apocalypses
- Christian and Gnostic Apocalypses
"Apocalypse" has come to be used popularly as a synonym for catastrophe, but the Greek word apokálypsis, from which it is derived, means a revelation. It has been defined by John J Collins as "a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a tr...
Apocalyptic revelations are typically mediated through such means as dreams and visions (the ancient world did not distinguish between these), angels, and heavenly journeys. These serve to connect two sets of axes, the spatial axis which has God and the heavenly realm above and the human world below, and the temporal axis of the present and the fut...
Canonical
1. Isaiah24–27; 33; 34–35 2. Jeremiah33:14–26 3. Ezekiel38–39 4. Joel3:9–17 5. Zechariah12–14 6. Daniel7–12
Non-canonical
1. 3 Enoch 2. Apocalypse of Abraham 3. Apocalypse of Adam 4. Apocalypse of Moses 5. Apocalypse of Sedrach 6. Apocalypse of Zephaniah 7. Apocalypse of Zerubbabel 8. Aramaic Apocalypse 9. Gabriel's Revelation 10. Genesis Apocryphon 11. Greek Apocalypse of Baruch 12. Greek Apocalypse of Daniel 13. Greek Apocalypse of Ezra 14. Sefer Elijah 15. Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
Canonical
1. Matthew 24 2. The Sheep and the Goats 3. Mark 13 4. 2 Thessalonians 2 5. 1 Timothy 4 6. 2 Peter 3 7. Jude 14–15 8. Book of Revelation
Non-canonical
1. Apocalypse of Golias 2. Apocalypse of Paul 3. Apocalypse of Peter 4. Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius 5. Apocalypse of Samuel of Kalamoun 6. Apocalypse of Stephen 7. Apocalypse of Thomas 8. Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah
Gnostic
1. Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter 2. First Apocalypse of James 3. Second Apocalypse of James 4. Coptic Apocalypse of Paul
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.
- John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (1951) It feels mildly ridiculous now—or maybe just mild—but Wyndham’s killer-plant-cum-blindness-inducing-meteor-strike apocalypse is a classic for a reason: it’s terrific fun.
- Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954) At this point, Matheson’s pandemic/vampire/zombie novel is more famous for being source material than for being actual material, probably because it is overflowing with ideas.
- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (2014) Your favorite novel in which a flu pandemic wipes out civilization in a matter of weeks (yikes) and a band of entertainers wander the decimated land, putting on Shakespeare plays for the survivors.
- Wilson Tucker, The Long Loud Silence (1952) Everything east of the Mississippi has been destroyed by a nuclear attack; the scant survivors have been dosed with a bioweapon that has infected them with the plague (just to be safe, I suppose).
Post-apocalyptic novels. The main article for this category is Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Dec 1, 2023 · Introduction. After exploring the complex world of dystopian fiction, we now shift our focus to post-apocalyptic fiction, a genre defined not by oppressive societies, but by the aftermath of catastrophic events.
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