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Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster.Post-apocalyptic science fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a 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. The fall of civilization may also be the fall of a space based civilization. This plot device allows writers to write Soft science fiction while accounting for the lack of technological advancement and thus remain relevant to the present day no matter how far in the future the events are set.
The use of post-apocalyptic contexts in movies and the typical accompanying imagery—such as endless deserts or damaged cityscapes, clothing made of leather and animal skins , and marauding gangs of bandits—is now so common as to be trite and the subject of frequent parody. Their use to convey the director's opinion that nuclear war or environmental devastation are inevitable if trends continue of if humans do not "mend their ways" can seem particularly patronizing, paternalistic and pretentiously "caring".
There is a considerable degree of blurring between this form of science fiction and that which deals with false utopias or dystopic societies.
1 Examples (listed by nature of the catastrophe)
- Alas Babylon - Pat Frank's novel
- Akira - anime movie
- The Amtrak Wars epic novel series by Patrick Tilley
- Ape and Essence , a screenplay-novel by Aldous Huxley
- Apokalipsa wedlug Pana Jana - Robert J. Szmidt 's novel
- Autobahn nach Poznan - Andrzej ZiemianskiAndrzej Ziemianski ( January 17, 1960 in Wroclaw, Poland) is a Polish science fiction writer. Winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 2002 for his short story Autobahn nach Poznan and in 2003 for his short story Zapach szkla The Smell of Glass . Bibliogra's short story
- A Boy and His DogA Boy and His Dog is a science fiction film based on the Harlan Ellison short story of the same title, which appeared around 1976. In the film, the earth's surface was devastated by nuclear war, and the few survivors which stayed above ground must scroung - Harlan EllisonThis stub was created in response to some concerns voiced about the original article, and will be replaced by a longer article shortly. For more information, please see the. Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934, Cleveland, Ohio) is a prolific speculative's short story and 1975 film
- A Canticle for LeibowitzA Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr. first published in 1959. It is set in an abbey in Utah after a devastating nuclear war, and takes place at intervals of hundreds of years apart as civilization r, Walter M. Miller, Jr's novel
- The novel Children of The Dust by Louise Lawerence
- Damnation Alley - Roger ZelaznyRoger Joseph Zelazny ( May 13, 1937 June 14, 1995) was a United States writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times, including twice for novels: Lord of Light (1968) and .'s novel, and the film made of it
- Dark Universe - Daniel F. GalouyeDaniel F. Galouye ( 1920- 1976) was an American science fiction writer. He wrote several stories for pulp magazines in the 1940's and 1950's. He mostly wrote for the lower quality magazines but did have a loyal following for a brief period. He also wrote's novel from 19611961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year i. one that looked the same upside down since 1881, and the last until 6009. Events January January 1 The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, cease
- The Day After, a 1983 film about the effects of nuclear war on a Kansas town
- Delicatessen - Marc Caro's black comedy
- Deathlands - by James Axler -A series of books set a hundred years after a nuclear exchange between the US and USSR in 2001 destroys most of the world
- Deus Irae - Philip K. Dick (in collaboration with Roger Zelazny).
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
- Down to a Sunless Sea - David Graham's novel of the last plane out of a fall-of-Saigon-like New York City
- Dr Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick
- Fallout series - The computer role-playing game
- Gamma World- The Role-playing game from TSR, Inc., the makers of Dungeons & Dragons.
- The short film La Jetée ( 1962) by Chris Marker
- Level 7 - Mordecai Roshwald 's novel
- Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, and the film based on it.
- The Mad Max trilogy
- The Morrow Project - The Role-playing game from Timeline Ltd.
- Neuroshima - The Polish Role-playing game from Portal Publishing
- On The Beach - Nevil Shute's novel, and the films based on it.
- Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov. (A later book, Robots and Empire, gave a different explanation.)
- The Penultimate Truth - Philip K. Dick
- The Planet Of The Apes film series
- The Postman - David Brin's novel
- Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban's novel
- Sexmisja - The Polish movie
- the Shanarra Series by Terry Brooks, a fantasy book set after WWIII destroys all technology and warps the human race into other species.
- The Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern (first novel Total War from 1981)
- The film Testament
- - The Role-playing game from Game Designer's Workshop
- The Vampire Hunter D novels and anime films, set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in 1999.
- Wasteland - The computer role-playing game
- The World Jones Made - Philip K. Dick
- Yellow Peril, a Chinese novel by activist Wang Lixiong under the pseudonym Bao Mi, about a nuclear civil war in the People's Republic of China.
