Post-Apocalyptic
- Takes place in a world/place that recently suffered an apocalypse of some sort - ecological, disease, total war, alien invasion, etc.
- Can involve the destruction of Earth - no one can live there any more.
- Society might have broke down completely, be in disarray, or just profoundly changed. Circumstances for living have changed drastically.
- Can involve the destruction of most of the human race, savagery, slow death for everyone who survived the initial blast.
- Explores humanity’s relationship with and reaction to certain death, society building, grief.
- A story where the apocalypse happened long ago and society recovered would still technically be post-apocalyptic, but it doesn’t usually have a direct bearing on the story - only part of the explanation for why the society is the way it is.
- Tend to be dark/depressing.
- If the apocalyptic society is space-faring, it almost always results in a spurt of moving off-world, maybe resulting in colonization.
Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (also Classic)
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (also Classic)
Feed by Mira Grant (also Horror)
This Time of Darkness by H.M. Hoover
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
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