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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.
Its name is a portmanteau of El Salvador, the British Honduras (now Belize) and Nicaragua; Hidalgo: a Central American country in the Doc Savage novels and film; Isthmus: a fictionalized version of Panama in the James Bond film Licence to Kill; Maguadora: a tiny Central American country in the film Whoops Apocalypse
Campaign setting name Subgenre Setting location Game system(s) Publisher(s) Period(s) published Comments 2300 AD: Space opera, hard science fiction: 2300 AD (GDW House System), Mongoose Traveller GDW, QuikLink Interactive, Mongoose Publishing 1986, 1988, 2007, 2012, 2022 Originally titled "Traveller: 2300 AD" Alpha Complex: Post-apocalyptic ...
Multiple worlds sharing the same name. The main setting of the Wild Arms series. Wild Arms: 1996: A V The Four Lands: Terry Brooks: The post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest following a nuclear holocaust is the setting for the Shannara novel series: The Sword of Shannara: 1977: N V T The Four Nations: Michael Dante DiMartino Bryan Konietzko
Based loosely on a comic book of the same name, an espionage thriller set in 1899, in a steampunk world where technology advanced faster than in ours and where several fictional characters from other works of fiction such as Sherlock Holmes and Jekyll and Hyde are real. The point of divergence is not revealed. 2004 C.S.A.:
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Imagination magazine cover, depicting an atomic explosion, dated March 1954. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; natural, such as an impact event; man made, such as nuclear holocaust; medical, such as a plague or virus, whether natural or man-made; religious, such as the Rapture or Great Tribulation; or imaginative, such as zombie apocalypse or alien invasion.
Pages in category "Apocalyptic groups" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Doomsday cult; A.