Well at least according to some.
So it makes sense that if we are going to go out with a big bang or some other cataclysmic event to get update to with as much apocalyptic fiction that you can find so that you can be ready to face whatever may come.
It's kind of handy that apocalyptic fiction is so in vogue right now. The end of the world has never been so popular which probably says something about the human psyche, I'm just not sure what.
Are we all doomsayer's or is it a more hopeful notion that it could never happen to us so reading about it is some kind of life affirming thing.
Maybe it's just all just a guilty pleasure.
Whatever it might be there's plenty of scenarios to choice from; exploding volcanoes, virus's ravaging the population, asteroids and meteors hurtling towards the earth, there is something for everyone.
When a slow acting virus has a disastrous affect on petrol no-one could foresee exactly how bad it could get and family man Dave never knew how far he would go to protect his wife and daughter during the coming apocalypse.
Sometimes the world ends in a big bang and sometimes it goes out with a quiet whimper. Either way life will never be quite the same again.
The pulse : a novel about surviving the collapse of the grid / Scott B. WilliamsWhen massive solar flames take out all the power, student Casey Drager finds herself fighting for survival in a world torn by chaos. With stakes this high the rules of civilization no longer matter and it's every man and woman fighting for themselves and their love ones.
What would you be willing to do if the lights went out... permanently.
America Pacifica / Anna NorthThe second ice age has come and on the island of America Pacifica education, food and the most basic needs are the province of a chosen few while the rest struggle to stay alive.
When 18 year Darcy's mother disappears one night she embarks on a quest to find her mother, discovering along the way the islands secrets, the secrets of the past... and the secrets of her mother.
Ashfall / Mike MullinAfter Yellowstone erupts Alex undertakes a journey to find his parents and his sister.
Surviving the journey though is the real battle as he struggles through a world that is completely transformed.
The elements though aren't the only things he has to worry about in a world that has gone to hell...
Then / Julie MyersonFirst came the heat, then the darkness and fire and finally the frost.
In a frozen, barren London a woman with no memory fights to stay alive. As flashes of memories resurface the woman (and us the reader) finds herself wondering which world is worse; the world of the past or the world of the future. A haunting tale of lost memories, lost love and lost hope...
Everyone thought that the arrival of a meteor was just another cool event to watch and marvel at in the night sky.
Only thing was no-one counted on it hitting the moon, changing it's position and the effect it will have on one small planet.
Monument 14 / Emmy LaybourneFourteen kids are stranded in a huge store when a series of disasters strikes.
There's food and water and even a few luxuries, so what's not to like. Then again who wants to spend the rest of their lives trapped in a shopping mall. But how safe is it to leave? And what exactly is waiting for them on the outside?
Civilizations come and go. Now it's our turn.
Aries, Clementine, Mason and Michael have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world’s population, and turned the rest into murderous killers. Now, they’re hiding out in an abandoned house in Vancouver with a ragtag group of survivors and trying to figure out their next move all the while wondering if their going to be next to turn into a killer...
Horizon / Sophie LittlefieldThe zombie apocalypse has come and gone... or at the very least been beaten back The world though is still only clinging on but hope comes in a tale of a safe haven.
Journeying with others to this fabled safety Cass Dollar has seen the worse there is and survived it all but now she must confront something even darker and more terrifying... her own past and the memories of what she once was.
Seeking a friend for the end of the world
An asteroid named "Matilda" is on a collision course towards Earth and in three weeks the world will come to an absolute end.
What would you do if your life and the world were doomed?
One man decides to spend his time searching for his long lost love from high school during the coming catastrophe.
Life though has other plans and the end of the world might just mean that love is waiting for you right where you least expect it...
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