The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change astronomical, such as an impact event destructive, such as nuclear holocaust or resource depletion medical, such as a pandemic, whether natural or human-caused end time, such as the Last Judgment, Second Coming or Ragnarök or any other scenario in which the outcome is apocalyptic, such as a zombie apocalypse, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics or alien invasion. At the time, the armaments available to the world's various air forces were not powerful enough to produce such a result.Īpocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. Joseph Pennell's 1918 prophetic Liberty bond poster calls up the pictorial image of a bombed New York City, totally engulfed in a firestorm. The apocalypse is also depicted in visual art, for example in Albert Goodwin's painting Apocalypse (1903). For the genre of religious writings dealing with revelation, see Apocalyptic literature. This article is about the genre of fiction dealing with cataclysm.
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