Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films by Michael R. Pitts

Sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic named the Red Death has depopulated the planet, James Howard Smith tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons Where a second Sun's light incinerates EarthĪ short story emphasizing machinery instead of computers Towards the end of the book the Time Traveler witnesses the Sun's expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth.Ī volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas. The nature of the catastrophe is never stated, except that apparently most of the human race quickly dies out, leaving England to revert to nature The novel Erewhon 's section ' The Book of Machines' Regarded as the first story of modern speculative fiction to depict the end of the world ĭescribes the end of life on Earth after the Sun's extinction

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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. Works of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, for example, is dystopian fiction, not apocalyptic fiction. Apocalyptic fiction is not the same as fiction that provides visions of a dystopian future. For example, Armageddon and Deep Impact are considered disaster films and not apocalyptic fiction because, although Earth or humankind are terribly threatened, in the end they manage to avoid destruction.

A threat of an apocalypse does not make a piece of fiction apocalyptic. Īpocalyptic fiction does not portray catastrophes, or disasters, or near-disasters that do not result in apocalypse. Apocalypticism is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end very soon, even within one's own lifetime. 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).Īpocalypse is a Greek word referring to the end of the world. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. JSTOR ( November 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īpocalyptic 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.

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Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films by Michael R. Pitts