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  1. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. The apocalypse is also depicted in visual art, for example in Albert Goodwin 's painting Apocalypse (1903). Joseph Pennell 's 1918 prophetic Liberty bond poster calls up the pictorial image of a bombed New York City, totally engulfed in a firestorm. At the time, the armaments available to the world's ...

  2. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the Earth's civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; astronomical, such as an impact event; destructive, such as nuclear holocaust or resource depletion; medical, such as a pandemic, whether natural or human-caused; end time, such as the ...

  3. Oct 12, 2022 · The prefix “post” means after, later, subsequent, or following. Apocalyptic means “showing or describing the total destruction and end of the world, or extremely bad future events.” (Cambridge Dictionary) Combine the two, and we have a genre of fiction where the main events occur after some kind of devastating and destructive event.

  4. Dec 19, 2019 · Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories tend to follow characters trying to survive a devastated landscape. If the disaster or catastrophe occurs during the course of the story, then the novel is termed apocalyptic. If the event has already happened, it is post-apocalyptic.

  5. 4. The Stand by Stephen King. Stephen King’s novel The Stand was an ambitious play by an author who, up until that point, had largely written supernatural horror. The Stand is another post-apocalyptic tale that stems from a deadly virus, but King’s development of it is singular.

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