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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.
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
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 apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change ...
This is a list of dystopian films.Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy genres. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, authoritarian governments, ruthless megacorporations, environmental disasters, or other characteristics associated with a dramatic decline in society.
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 ...
A Canticle for Leibowitz. A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself.
Setting. The Shannara series is set in a post-apocalyptic world called the Four Lands.This world is a futuristic version of our own, and not a secondary world. The Genesis of Shannara trilogy reveals the Four Lands to be located in the modern Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada.
Revolution. (TV series) Revolution is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series that ran from September 17, 2012, until May 21, 2014, when it was cancelled by NBC. [1] [2] The show takes place in the post-apocalyptic near-future of the year 2027, 15 years after the start of a worldwide, permanent electrical-power blackout ...