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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.
Cobalt 60 by Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodē and Larry Todd, set in a post-apocalyptic world Fist of the North Star , a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear Earth Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind , a Japanese graphic novel, later partly adapted in film, set in a far, post-apocalyptic future, rife with themes of bioethics, environmentalism ...
American post-apocalyptic novels (9 C, 201 P) Australian post-apocalyptic novels (7 P) B. British post-apocalyptic novels (68 P) C. Canadian post-apocalyptic novels ...
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 ...
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.