Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Entertainment and Recreation in Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake is a fiction novel written around the split narrative between a future dystopian society and a post-apocalyptic world. The narrative follows the thoughts and flashbacks of Snowman, one of the lone survivors of the apocalyptic plague, as he dreams of memories with whom he deems as the most important figures in his life, Oryx and Crake. Within these flashbacks, Snowman reminisces the days of going to school with Crake…

The Insurgent film is a definite improvement over its predecessor, with an incredible action sequence and real visual effects. The film is a science fiction thriller with mind-blowing action scenes and great flow of events. The high character and incredible casting of the movie make it something worth watching and sets it aside from being yet another dystopian nightmare. The heroine of the film, Tris is meant to lead and save the world from evil. After getting an amnesty from Factionless, Four,…

A novel by Larissa Lai, published in 2002, Salt Fish Girl melds elements of Chinese myth and culture with science fiction to make commentary on current issues such as gender and sexuality, biotechnology, and the dangers of capitalism. Born in the United States of Chinese descent, Lai was raised in Canada, and graduated from a Canadian university with her PhD in Sociology. She is currently a writer, poet, and professor of literature at the University of British Columbia (“Larissa Lai”). Lai’s…

The United States was changed forever on the morning of September 11, 2001; the day that foreign Iranian terrorists planned and executed the first major domestic attack on the United States homeland. The planes that attacked New York City, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania (that was possibly en route to the White House or U.S. Capitol building) did more than just demolish infrastructure across the United States, kill nearly 3,000 Americans, and injure 6,000 more; it damaged the entire nation by…

The Unknown In 1951, John Wyndham created The day of the Triffids that not only introduced a new plague of horror but also a new perspective on the human race. As one of the first few science fiction novels out John Wyndham used many literary tools that brought together a post-apocalyptic timeline with some moving moments. In the novel he uses his ominous setting and his distinct take on characters to his advantage. The outrageous and descriptive setting throughout the novel jolts the readers…

differential treatment of a very common set of dystopian themes by the authors, but also the political, sociological and economic milieu that makes these dystopian utterances a possibility. Thus, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) showcases a post-apocalyptic world devoid of vegetation (environment) and human values that may be more immediately located in a world where global warming and ecological destruction seem to be the only logically predictable end to human civilization. Similarly, Suzanne…

first novel of the series was Steelheart that Sanderson first published in 2013 to much critical acclaim. Brian announced that the series will be a trilogy with the 2016 published Calamity the last novel in the series. The series is about a post-apocalyptic world that has a mysterious object start to orbit the planet. Out of nowhere random people start attaining super natural powers that make them immune to laws of physics. Some of the people imbued with these powers have taken it upon…

The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of human testing, psychological testing, and depression. The focus will be on what each topic is about and their influence on humans. The Maze Runner is the first book in a series of post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction trilogy by James Dashner. The Maze Runner is about a boy who wakes up in a box with no memory of his past, except his name, Thomas. When the elevator doors opened, he is pulled into a glade by a group of teenage boys who also…

"Two years we've tried to solve this thing, no luck. Shuckin' walls move out there at night just as much as these here doors. Mappin' it out ain't easy, ain't easy nohow." (Dashner 28). In the post-apocalyptic fiction novel The Maze Runner by James Dashner, the author shows that a character can fight and change the parameters established by his society to a great extent. . Thomas, the main protagonist of the story, arrives in the Glade with all his memories of previous live erased. The Glade is…

The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a really good book. The genre is young adult/science fiction/post-apocalyptic fiction. The point of view is limited third person and the main idea is that a bunch of kids as well as teenagers are stuck in an ever changing Maze with monsters, also they need to find a way to escape it. The people who put them all in the Maze are the Creators. They are part of an organization called W.I.C.K.E.D. It stands for World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department.…