What happens when the world ends and only a handful of survivors remain? Post-apocalyptic books attempt to answer that question, examining how life can go on under the most extreme conditions and ...

A dystopian future is best defined as one that’s bad for most people, or one with a great deal of general suffering, and so dystopian movies, by extension, tend to explore such worlds, usually at some ...

More than 50 years into the future, the human race is headed toward extinction, and humanity ends in Upstate New York. That’s the future chronicled in “After World,” a new science fiction novel from ...

In the past month, there has been a resurgence in the consumption of plague stories and apocalyptic fiction. Pandemic films like “Contagion” and Netflix’s “Outbreak” have risen to particular ...

pt. 1. New worlds for old: The apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature: Science fiction ; A prophecy of America, the moon, and Mars -- pt. 2. Other worlds: Other worlds out ...

A helicopter glides through smoke rising from the exploded Lincoln Memorial. Atom bombs flash and mushroom clouds bloom over the Los Angeles skyline. These images—from, respectively, the climax of ...