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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.
Post-apocalyptic television series. This is a category listing television-related post-apocalyptic fiction which includes television series, television films and pilots. This is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy, dystopia or horror in which the Earth 's civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television limited series created by Scott M. Gimple and Matthew Negrete that premiered on AMC on October 4, 2020. It is a spin-off series to The Walking Dead , which is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman , Tony Moore , and Charlie Adlard ...
August 28, 2015. ( 2015-08-28) Defiance is an American science fiction Western drama television series [1] developed by Rockne S. O'Bannon, Kevin Murphy and Michael Taylor; the series is produced by Universal Cable Productions . The show takes place in a post-apocalyptic future on a radically transformed Earth containing new species, some ...
Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization that has been ravaged by nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten or mythologized.
Orson Scott Card's post-apocalyptic anthology The Folk of the Fringe (1989) deals with American Mormons after a nuclear war. Jeanne DuPrau's children's novel The City of Ember (2003) was the first of four books in a post-apocalyptic series for young adults. A film adaptation, City of Ember (2008), stars Bill Murray and Saoirse Ronan. Video games
Falling Skies is an American science fiction television series set in a post-apocalyptic era, created by Robert Rodat and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.The series stars Noah Wyle as Tom Mason, a former history professor who becomes the second-in-command of the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment, a group of civilians and fighters fleeing Boston following an alien invasion that ...
The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Synopsis [ edit ] The story of The Tripods is a variation on post-apocalyptic literature, wherein humanity has been enslaved by "Tripods" — gigantic three-legged walking machines, piloted by unseen alien entities (later identified ...