This document discusses the post-apocalyptic genre of science fiction. It is set in a future time after a major disaster or catastrophe has caused the end of civilization, with settings that are abandoned or deteriorating places featuring remnants of high technology from before the event. Themes often involve struggles to survive in the aftermath and the psychology of those living through such an apocalyptic scenario, or depictions of a world long after where pre-catastrophe civilization is no longer remembered.

1. Genre:
Post- Apocalyptic
Set in the
future.
General Disaster
Science
fiction
Supernatural
Phenomena
End of
civilization
Impact event
Usually include
Famine,
Death, War
and
Pestilence.
Setting: abandoned
or rundown place
with high technology.
The time frame may
be immediately after
the catastrophe,
focusing on the
travails or psychology
of survivors, or
considerably later.
Often including the
theme that the
existence of pre-catastrophe
civilization
has been forgotten.
Refers to belief
that the world
will come to an
end very soon,
even within
one's own
lifetime.
The audience are
made to see how
the world has
changed.