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It's the End of the
World as We Know It:
Disaster, Catastrophe, Apocalypse, and Eschatology in Science and SF
I. SF and Religion
- Prophetic Literature
- Cautionary Tales
- Transcendent Vision: The Sublime Revisited
- Destiny
II. Time in Science and SF
- Linear and Circular Time
- Redemption and Evolution
- The End and Meaning
III. Disaster and the Apocalypse
- Early Texts: The Book of Revelation
- The Apocalyptic Imagination: Is SF Apocalyptic?
- Apocalyptic Science Fiction
- The Tropes
- Visions of the End
- Post-Holocaust SF
I. Apocalyptic Visions: The End
(or Nearly So)
Natural (and Supernatural) Disasters:
- Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)
- H. G. Wells, "The Star" (1897)
- George Stewart, Earth Abides (1949)
- Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
(1953)
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer
(1977)
Artificial Disasters (Mainly Atomic):
- Nevil Shute, On the Beach (1957)
- Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon (1959)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle (1963)
- Stanley Kubrick, dir., Dr. Strangelove (1963)
- John Brunner,
- Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
- The Sheep Look Up (1972)
- James Morrow, This Is the Way the World Ends (1986)
Aliens:
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
(1897; 1898)
- John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids (1951)
The End of the World as We Know It:
- E. M. Forster, "The Machine Stops" (1909)
- Isaac Asimov, "Nightfall" (1941)
- J. G. Ballard,
- The Drowned World (1962)
- The Crystal World (1966)
- Doris Lessing, The Memoirs of a Survivor
(1974)
- Robert Charles Wilson, The Harvest
(1992)
II. Post-Holocaust Fiction
- Stephen Vincent Benét, "By the Waters of
Babylon " (1937)
- Judith Merril, Shadow on the Hearth (1950)
- John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (1955)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for
Leibowitz (1959)
- Carol Emshwiller, "Day at the Beach" (1959)
- Harlan Ellison, "A Boy and His Dog" (1969)
- Roger Zelazny, Damnation Alley (1969)
- Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
(1980)
- David Brin, The Postman (1985)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
(1985)
Some Sources:
David Ketterer, New Worlds for Old (1974)
Frederick A. Kreuziger, Apocalypse and Science Fiction
(1982)
Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg, ed., Beyond
Armageddon (1985)
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