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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Post-apocalyptic fiction is nothing new: The genre has a history stretching back at least 200 years. Research has linked spikes in perceived threats to humanity to surges in the popularity of ...

We’ve all admittedly refreshed our social media feeds during a power outage, desperately hoping the Wi-Fi will magically resurrect itself. These minor inconvenience gets thinking: what happens when ...

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 ...

Penguin Michael Joseph celebrated its crime authors with its annual drinks reception, as apocalyptic themes dominate submissions. Around 100 guests attended the event at Browns Covent Garden, in the ...