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Apocalyptic fiction. (Genre/Form Term)

Momo manako: Apocalyptic fiction.
Ka whakamahia mō/tirohia mai:
  • Doomsday fiction
  • End-of-the-world fiction
  • Post-apocalyptic fiction
  • Post-disaster fiction
  • Post-holocaust fiction
  • Postapocalyptic fiction
Tirohia hoki:

Booker, M. The science fiction handbook, 2009: p. 53 (Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction; Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826)--in which a deadly plague gradually wipes out humanity while the immune protagonist looks on--is quite often identified as the first postapocalyptic science fiction tale; many of the most important science fiction works in the twenty or so years after World War II dealt in one way or another with the possibility of nuclear holocaust and its aftermath) p. 60 (from the 1960s forward, post-disaster fiction began to focus less on nuclear holocaust and more on the possible disastrous consequences of phenomena such as pollution and overpopulation)

Curtis, C. Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract, 2010: p. 5 (I define postapocalyptic fiction as any account that takes up how humans start over after the end of life on earth as we understand it; the end may occur either through natural or human made causes, but divinely sanctioned ends are not discussed here) p. 7 (Postapocalyptic fiction has taken up the "what if" question by imagining ends based on nuclear war, meteors, earthquakes, environmental degradation, plague, electromagnetic pulse, some of each and more nameless abstract collapses. Postapocalyptic fiction exists at a genre crossroads between science fiction, horror and utopia/dystopia)

Wolfe, G. Critical terms for science fiction and fantasy, 1986 (Post-holocaust: Commonly applied to a variety of works set in the aftermath of a major cataclysm, usually a nuclear war, and often identified as a major subgenre of science fiction works that gained prominence after 1945 and have remained a staple of the field)

LCGFT, Oct. 24, 2014 (Apocalyptic films. This heading is used as a genre/form heading for films set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. Films set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., are entered under Dystopian films. UF Doomsday films; End-of-the-world films; Post-apocalyptic films; Post-apocalyptic science fiction films; Postapocalyptic films; Postapocalyptic science fiction films)

Fiction set in a world or civilization after a catastrophic event (e.g., nuclear war, an alien invasion), sometimes also including the period immediately preceding the event. For fiction set in an uncertain future, in a society ruled by an ineffectual, corrupt, or oppressive regime or by aliens, robots, etc., see Dystopian fiction.

Note under Dystopian fiction

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