Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Dreams of the 'Ruined' Future 2. 'God Rains Over Everything': Two Floods 3. 'Sudden Departure': Rapture Writing 4. 'In the Beginning, There Was Chaos': Atwood, Apocalypse, Art 5. Empty Roads: Walking After Catastrophe 6. Keep Watching: Spectacle, Rebellion and Apocalyptic Rites of Passage Conclusion: Survival is Inefficient Notes Primary Bibliography Annotated Secondary Bibliography Index

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A critical introduction to apocalyptic and dystopian literature in the 21st-century, from Cormac McCarthy and Margaret Atwood to The Hunger Games.

About the Author

Andrew Tate is Reader in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics in the Department of English & Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. His previous books include Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (2008) and, co-authored with Arthur Bradley, The New Atheist Novel (2010) and, as co-editor, Literature and the Bible: A Reader (2013).

Reviews

Tate traces a diverse array of tropes as they surface in this century's most indelible doomsday fantasies ... Fluent and perceptive.
*Times Literary Supplement*

This is a consistently suggestive, scholarly and readable study of the literature of apocalypse both inside and outside science fiction.
*Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction*

A stimulating, lucid and compact study and guide to further research on twenty-first century British, US, and Canadian writing about the end times.
*The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society*