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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.
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.
Silo is a dystopian series of post-apocalyptic science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey.The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name.
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.
Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart.The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools.
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is an anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction published by Night Shade Books in January 2008, edited by John Joseph Adams. [1]The anthology includes 22 stories, [2] plus an introduction by the editor.
Swan Song is a 1987 science fiction novel by American novelist Robert R. McCammon.Published June 1, 1987, [1] it is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction describing the aftermath of a nuclear war that provokes an evolution in humankind.
Print, e-book, audiobook The Apocalypse Triptych is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction , edited by John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first anthology, The End is Nigh , was self-published on March 1, 2014, [ 3 ] with the second volume, The End is Now following on September 1, 2014.