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Apocalyptic fiction focuses on the end of civilization either through nuclear war, plague, or other global catastrophic risk. Apocalyptic literature is a genre of religious writing centered on visions of the end of time. Many apocalyptic stories focus on stories that are on the brink of the end of the world of the civilization.
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- 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).
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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. The Book of Daniel is one of the earliest instances of apocalyptic literature within the Abrahamic traditions. Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post- Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians.
6. Religious Rapture Apocalypse. The religious rapture apocalypse is a popular motif in fiction, often used to explore themes of faith, morality, and human nature. In these stories, the world comes to an end not through natural disaster or nuclear war, but through the intervention of a higher power.
Apocalyptic literature is a literary genre that foretells supernaturally inspired cataclysmic events that will transpire at the end of the world. A product of the Judeo-Christian tradition, apocalyptic literature characteristically takes narrative form, employs esoteric language, expresses a pessimistic view of the present, and treats the final events as imminent.
