What is the Appeal of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

People have been writing about the end of the world almost as long as we've been writing. Recently as our technology has reached the point where we can consider how our weapons or wastes might end the world we know a variation has been spawned. Post apocalyptic fiction considers the end of the world and what comes after. Interest in the genre may have peaked during the height of the cold war. At that time memories of WW2 and international tensions feed fear that the future the genre portrayed might become horrifyingly real. Although one might have expected it to have died out or dwindled in the wake of the end of that period, the popularity of games like the Fallout series or novels and films like the The Hunger Games show there is still a fair amount of interest. So what is it about the genre that attracts such interest? The interest in the averted apocalypse sub-genre is probably obvious. Overcoming the odds and cheating the reaper are always popular. The lure of true post apocalyptic fiction is less so.
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