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'


New Releases Tagged "Apocalyptic"

The Space Between the Stars
The Boy on the Bridge
Spill Zone
The Hunted (Trackers #2)
Dawn (Final Awakening, #1)
Station Eleven
Pandemic (The Extinction Files #1)
The Girl with All the Gifts
All the Birds in the Sky
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave, #2)
American War
Bird Box
Borne
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Last Star (The 5th Wave, #3)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
The Boy on the Bridge
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days, #3)
The Road
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The Stand
Station Eleven
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1)
The Girl with All the Gifts
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)
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The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
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إن غيرت رأيك فأنت مرتد وان لم تغيره فأنت رجعي وان جاريت الرأيين فأنت منافق.
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