post-apocalyptic fiction
Sign in to saveAlso known as post-holocaust fiction, doomsday fiction, post-disaster fiction, postapocalyptic fiction, end-of-the-world fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
genre of fiction
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- Subclass of
- speculative fiction
- Part of
- apocalyptic fiction
- Follows
- apocalyptic fiction
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- inspired by
- apocalyptic literature
- topic's main category
- Category:Post-apocalyptic fiction
- Commons category
- Post-apocalyptic fiction
- different from
- apocalyptic fiction
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Encyclopedic overview
Albert Goodwin's painting Apocalypse (1903)
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are subgenres of science fiction in which the Earth's (or another place's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; astronomical, an impact event; destructive, nuclear holocaust or resource depletion; medical, a pandemic, whether natural or human-caused; end time, such as the Last Judgment, Second Coming or Ragnarök; or any other scenario in which the outcome is apocalyptic, such as a zombie apocalypse, AI takeover, technological singularity, dysgenics/eugenics, natural disasters, or alien invasions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “post-apocalyptic fiction” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.