Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.

The manga's occult horror elements, extreme violence, and complex apocalyptic story made it an instant hit.

The film will not feature a post apocalyptic New York like the original did, rather the New York in the new film will have been built after the bomb.

The movie is described as " the definitive, apocalyptic, nihilistic, science-fiction film noir of all time – at the close of the classic noir period.

The Alan Parker film adaptation of Pink Floyd The Wall transformed the group's 1979 concept double-LP of the same title into a confrontational and apocalyptic audio-visual labyrinth of stylized, expressionistic images, sounds, melodies and lyrics.

Norman's 1969 apocalyptic song, I Wish We'd All Been Ready ”, was also featured in the 1972 Christian end times film A Thief in the Night, which was watched by an estimated 50, 000, 000 people, but sung by an obscure group known as The Fishmarket Combo.

* The Second Renaissance-a prequel set generations before the original film, The Matrix, relating how humans built artificially intelligent Machines, the apocalyptic war between the two, ending with the Machines enslaving the human race and the initial creation of The Matrix virtual reality.

I announce the destruction of the cinema, the first apocalyptic sign of disjunction, of rupture, of this corpulent and bloated organization which calls itself film.

** Deluge ( film ), a 1933 apocalyptic science fiction film loosely based on the novel

Frees subsequently provided the apocalyptic voice for the ' talking rings '" in Pal's later film The Time Machine ( 1960 ), in which he explains the ultimate fate of humanity from which the time-traveller realises the origin of the Morlocks and Eloi.

The Los Angeles Times end of year review for 1992 recognised the film as " the year's most memorable documentary ", describing it as " Herzog's apocalyptic, ultimately ironic view of the Gulf War ".

The theme of the film is notable in that Princess Nausicaä studies and takes samples from the Toxic Jungle, a lethal forest contaminated and mutated after the apocalyptic " Seven Days of Fire.

Occasionally, DVD releases have included faux newscasts as special features to illustrate the apocalyptic events featured in the film as if the viewer were seeing the actual news reports.

As of 2008, Dragon * Con is a 4-day event comprising approximately 3500 hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, and workshops, with over 30 specialized programming tracks that include writing, alternate history, art, anime, gaming, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, comic books, costuming, space science, online media, independent film, podcasting, Asian cinema and culture, robotics, filk, scientific skepticism, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, X-Files, Joss Whedon creations, apocalyptic themes, Anne McCaffrey's Pern, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, J. R. R.

In 2009 he directed 2012, an apocalyptic disaster film inspired by the theory that the ancient Mayans prophesied the world's ending on December 21, 2012.

The Seventh Sign is a 1988 apocalyptic drama film starring Demi Moore.

* Miracle Mile ( film ), a 1988 apocalyptic thriller cult film

Miracle Mile is a 1988 apocalyptic thriller cult film written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham that takes place mostly in real time.

Ashmore will also star in an upcoming apocalyptic siege warfare film The Day with Dominic Monaghan and Michael Eklund as well as television drama series The Following, starring Kevin Bacon.

Historian Franco Cardini of the University of Florence, alleged ' the film formed part of a " concerted attack on Catholicism, the Holy See and Papism " by an alliance of atheists and " apocalyptic Christians "'.

* Krippin Virus, the apocalyptic virus in the film I am Legend

* 2012 ( 2009 ), a science fiction apocalyptic disaster film based loosely on the 2012 phenomenon.

( all James Cameron films from 1986 through 1994 deal with nuclear explosions ); Red Dawn ( film, directed by John Milius ) a Soviet / Cuban invasion follows a surprise limited nuclear strike on the US ( 1984 ), Mad Max ( 3 films, 1979 – 1985 ), a loner Australian highway patrolman wanders a bleak violent post apocalyptic wasteland.

The traditional ascription of the whole book to the prophet Joel was challenged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a theory of a three stage process of composition: 1: 1 – 2: 27 were from the hand of Joel, and dealt with a contemporary issue ; 2: 28 – 3: 21 were ascribed to a continuator with an apocalyptic outlook.

Kraus ' masterpiece is generally considered to be the massive satirical play about the First World War, Die letzten Tage der Menschheit ( The Last Days of Mankind ), which combines dialogue from contemporary documents with apocalyptic fantasy and commentary from two characters called " the Grumbler " and " the Optimist ".

* The apocalyptic " Seven Days of Fire " in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind apparently takes place during this century within the 2750s in the 28th century, based on its description as occurring 1000 years after the Industrial Revolution.

Michael D. O ' Brien's Catholic apocalyptic series, Children of the Last Days follows a very similar theme as well.

Later works found Tibet mostly casting off such trappings in favor of a more organic sound, labeled by some as " apocalyptic folk " music, occasionally featuring his sinister nursery rhyme-influenced singing and primarily acoustic folk-styled music.

In 2002, Kroski published his major work, The Absolution of Evil, a gloomy, apocalyptic novel based on Dante's The Divine Comedy.

Originally an earthly king ruling by divine appointment (" the anointed one ", as the title Messiah had it ), the " son of David " became in the last two pre-Christian centuries the apocalyptic and heavenly one who would deliver Israel and usher in a new kingdom.

* The Brethren ( Jim Roberts group ), an apocalyptic Jesus people movement from the 1970s.

* Rome ( band ), an apocalyptic martial folk band

The Gospel of Thomas proclaims that the Kingdom of God is already present for those who understand the secret message of Jesus ( Saying 113 ), and lacks apocalyptic themes.

A female survivor of an apocalyptic war ( Elizabeth Montgomery ), her face dirty and wearing a tattered army uniform, stumbles into a deserted, war-ravaged town.

The Hudson Institute sought to refute popular apocalyptic essays such as Paul Ehrlich's " The Population Bomb " ( 1968 ), Garrett Hardin's similarly reasoned " The Tragedy of the Commons ", published in the same year, and the Club of Rome's " Limits to Growth " ( 1972 ).

Pius, initially a liberal, by the end of his reign saw the world in apocalyptic terms ; the attack on the symbols of God ( thrones, the papacy, the Church ), the triumph of godless ideas Pius by the end was a believer in the world of throne and altar that had been undermined through the French Revolution.

* The Japanese manga and anime series Trinity Blood takes place in an indeterminate time in the future, 900 years after an apocalyptic war between all of Earth's nations destroyed civilization, when humanity has reestablished itself ( armageddon ), in the half of the 31st century.

Of special importance for understanding his messianology are his “ prophetic books ” written between 1279 ( in Patras ) and 1288 ( in Messina ), in which revelations including apocalyptic imagery and scenes are interpreted as pointing to spiritual processes of inner redemption.

David Graham was the pen name of Evan ( or Wilbur ) Wright ( 1919 – 1994 ), a British crime fiction author who is mainly remembered for his post apocalyptic novel, Down to a Sunless Sea.

Uriel also appears in the Second Book of Esdras ( found in the Apocrypha section of many bibles, and sometimes called Esdras IV in Catholic versions, which makes up part of the apocalyptic literature of Esdras ), in which the prophet Ezra asks God a series of questions, and Uriel is sent by God to instruct him.

His book, The Late Great Planet Earth ( 1970 ), became Dylan's second Bible and added an apocalyptic edge to his worldview ...

Ballard previously used the theme of apocalyptic crystallisation in the 1964 short story " The Illuminated Man " ( included in The Terminal Beach ), which is also set in the same locations.

Divided into seven books, a number symbolic of the author's ultimate, apocalyptic intent, the Tragiques incorporates literary influence from classical sources, such as tragedy and satire, palpable in the first three books (" Les Misères ," " Les Princes " and " La Chambre Dorée " respectively ), before resorting to influence from genres like ecclesiastical history, martyrology and apocalypse in the creation of the remaining books ("," "" "" and "").

Berger ( 2000: 388 ), cited in Keyword: Apocalypse, outlines two additional areas of post war apocalyptic representation after ( 1 ) nuclear war, and ( 2 ) the Holocaust.

In her November 1973 review in Rolling Stone, Janet Maslin wrote that " for inwardly panoramic songwriting of an apocalyptic bent, Jackson Browne's second album is rivaled only by his first ( the second one wins ), and Jackson himself is rivaled by nobody ," adding that " his work is a unique fusion of West Coast casualness and East Coast paranoia, easygoing slang and painstaking precision, child's-eye romanticizing and adult's-eye acceptance.

Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction ( 2007 ) – An apocalyptic, first-person shooter ( FPS ), built around the AGEIA PhysX processor with Unreal Engine 3.

In the next twelve months or so, Helwys wrote three more important works: an argument for Arminianism ( A short and plain proof, by the word and works of God, that God ’ s decree is not the cause of any man ’ s sin or condemnation: and that all men are redeemed by Christ ; as also that no infants are condemned ), a polemic explaining his differences with the Mennonites, and, most importantly, A Short Declaration on the Mystery of Iniquity, a critique and apocalyptic interpretation of the Papacy as well as criticisms of Brownism and Puritanism, and possibly the first ever English book defending the principle of religious liberty.

He and Jakoby also scripted Lifeforce ( 1985 ), a tale directed by Tobe Hooper that veers from alien visitation to vampirism and an apocalyptic ending.