Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction in which the Earth's civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway cl
Albert Goodwin's painting Apocalypse (1903)
Imagination magazine cover, depicting an atomic explosion, dated March 1954
An artist's 1922 vision of a futuristic war
A cosplayer at a Comic Con in a Fallout-themed area
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Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, f
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
…Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are subgenres of speculative 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…
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Robert Heinlein c. 1953