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| Themes: After the Apocalypse - Post-holocaust - Apocalypse | |||
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| 1845 books in this theme | ||||
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The atomic bomb was the inspiration for a lot of science fiction books and movies. Even the general public began to think about the world being destroyed completely, or most of civilization being turned to ruble. However, the end of the world is an old theme and we know it has been a popular idea since biblical times. After the Apocalypse is a broad theme which contains many specialized themes like Last Man on Earth where writers like to imagine the last man, and sometimes a handful of others, surviving the apocalypse. Or After the Bomb books which were very popular in the 1950's where the plot involves trying to rebuild the world after leaving the old bomb shelter. Those stories loved to pit the intelligent people against the strong makes right kind of people. Strangely enough, we see this theme performed live on the news whenever some country looses the rule of law and order. Reading books from this theme makes those news stories all the more horrifying. Another popular subtheme is major catastrophes. I guess this is a theme for paranoid writers, because they have to come up with endless ways for mankind to be wiped out. Comets, plagues, biological weapons, terrorists, weather, geology, alien invasion have all been used to destroy the Earth. H. G. Well's The Time Machine is really more about the end of mankind and Earth than travelling in time. Wells used his machine to talk about the collapse of civilization and the splitting of the human species into variants as well as visiting the earth during its last days. After the Apocalypse is a major SF&F theme. Even The War of The Worlds is a variation of this theme. By Jim Harris, 2000. | ||||
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