Talk:List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

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1 Maintenance
2 Proposed Merge
3 Some more items
4 I tagged this page cleanup

[edit] Maintenance

This page needs a standardized format, categorization of unsorted list items, verification of list items, and annotation of list items that are currently without any context.

It also needs stringent criteria:

What about works that take place in apocalyptic settings, but limited to a part of the world? (e.g. Jericho (TV series))
What about works where the apocalypse took place so long ago that civilization has entirely been rebuilt (e.g. The Wheel of Time), or where civilization simultaneously continues elsewhere (Titan A.E., Firefly (TV series))?
Does Tetris Worlds belong? The Future Is Wild? Not even fiction, and apocalyptic scenarios are merely incidental.
Does Armageddon (film) belong? Deep Impact (film)? The world is saved, though apocalyptic events do seem to occur and affect people on some scale. –Unint 22:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, there needs to be some organization to the article beyond "method of destruction". Apocalyptic and Post-A should probably be separated as well. Jericho and the like are basically cozy catastrophe stories, which have their own article. Stories in which the destruction of the world or humanity is threatened but averted probably do not belong (Near-Apocalyptic fiction?) Noclevername 00:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Merge

I largely duplicated the work of this article in List of Nuclear Holocaust fiction, and proposed a merge into this article. However, another, possibly superior solution would be to break this article out into multiple articles for different genres, to make it easier to reference from the main articles, ie Nuclear Holocaust, World War III, etc. However, both of those examples have considerable overlap. Merging might be preferable.

Please note that there are at least ten works present in the aforelinked that are not linked here, so whoever implements the merge, if ever it is implemented, please really merge the articles, rather than simply axing the one or the other. Thanks! MrZaius^talk 01:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some more items

These items appeared in post-holocaust, which was merged into the main article on this genre. Consider them for inclusion in the list, although many are redundant:

Other writers who have written post-holocaust books include: