Apocalyptic

Apocalyptic is from the word apocalypse, referring to the end of the world.

Apocalyptic fiction focuses on the end of civilization either through nuclear war, plague, or other global catastrophic risk.

Apocalyptic literature is a genre of religious writing centered on visions of the end of time.

Many apocalyptic stories focus on stories that are on the brink of the end of the world of the civilization. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. Also called 'Holocaust'

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Ray Bradbury
-Are you afraid? -No. Not even for the children. I always thought I would be frightened to death, but I'm not. -Where's that spirit of self-preservation the scientists talk about so much? -I don't know. You don't get too excited when you feel things are logical. This is logical. Nothing else but this could have happened from the way we've lived. -We haven't been too bad, have we? -No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble. We haven't been very much of anything except us, while a big ...more
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The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth.
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