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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.
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.
Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. The first book was published in 1986. As of 2021, there have been 31 novels written in the main series, along with three prequels and a crossover novel with his "Wilderness" series. [1] David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. [2]
In 1962, upon publication of The Drowned World, the novelist Kingsley Amis said that J.G. Ballard is "one of the brightest new stars in post-war fiction", and said that the story contains "an oppressive power, reminiscent of Conrad." In 1966, the science fiction writer Algis Budrys mocked The Drowned World as "a run, hide, slither, grope and ...
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.
Surviving youngsters battle adults who have become zombies. The End: Higson, Charlie: 2012: A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the seventh book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. The Fallen: Higson, Charlie: 2013: A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the fifth book in a planned seven-book series, titled ...
Severance is a 2018 post-apocalyptic novel by Chinese American author Ling Ma.It follows Candace Chen, an unfulfilled Bible product coordinator, before and after an incurable infection slowly obliterates global civilization.
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.