Netflix's Sweet Tooth rewrites post-apocalyptic sci-fi with a hopeful, family-friendly tone, offering an optimistic take on a ...

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 ...

Penguin Michael Joseph celebrated its crime authors with its annual drinks reception, as apocalyptic themes dominate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller. Credit...Anuj Shrestha Supported by By Hari Kunzru Hari Kunzru’s next ...

In a recent early-release article published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers review our current knowledge of fungal pathology and use it to discuss the plausibility of an ...

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