Apocalyptic

Apocalyptic is from the word apocalypse, referring to the end of the world.

Apocalyptic fiction focuses on the end of civilization either through nuclear war, plague, or other global catastrophic risk.

Apocalyptic literature is a genre of religious writing centered on visions of the end of time.

Many apocalyptic stories focus on stories that are on the brink of the end of the world of the civilization. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. Also called 'Holocaust'

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Hooded (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #3)
How High We Go in the Dark
Edge of Valor (Edge of Collapse, #7)
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The Light Pirate
Hearing Red
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One Yellow Eye
I Think We've Been Here Before
Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
Jake's Magical Market (Jake's Magical Market #1)
Yol
Station Eleven
The Stand
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Swan Song
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
One Second After (After, #1)
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)

Craig Keen
And yet a dream of God--THIS God--is no ordinary dream, nor night terror... It is an apocalyptic vision. As such it makes manifest what good people do not want to see, perhaps cannot see. It manifests above all that there is a tomorrow that no yesterday can dictate. But it does so with the ambiguity that accompanies every call to revolution. "The Reign of God is coming," it says, "and it is coming for you! ...more
Craig Keen, After Crucifixion: The Promise of Theology

William F. Nolan
The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength. By the early 1970s over 75 percent of the people living on Earth were under 21 years of age. The population continued to climb—and with it the youth percentage. In the 1980s the figure was 79.7 percent. In the 1990s, 82.4 percent. In the year 2000—critical mass.
William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson; David Kraft; George Perez [Illustrator], Logan's Run

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