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
A dystopia is an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. It is an imagined place in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or envi
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
…Dying Earth genre – Subgenre of science fiction, sometimes with elements of science fantasy Dystopia End of the universe in fiction…
Life in Kowloon Walled City in British Hong Kong has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works.
People Leaving the Cities, photo art by Zbigniew Libera, which imagines a dystopian future in which people have to leave dying metropolises