Interstellar (movie, 2014. Dir. Christopher Nolan)
A strange blight has wiped out all crops except corn, leading to the near-collapse of civilization and jeopardizing the future of the human race.
Dark Souls (video game series, 2011-2016. Creator. Hidetaka Miyazaki)
The universe is extended long past its natural lifespan via continuous rekindling of a flame that holds everything together.
Nier (video game, 2010. Creator. Yoko Taro)
Humanity severs its very souls from their physical bodies as a last-ditch plan to eradicate a supernatural plague.
depictions of the apocalypse in religious scriptures and mythologies)
Stories about the far future of humanity
All Tomorrows (book, 2006. Auth. C.M. Kosemen)
After colonizing the solar system, humankind is transformed into various nonsapient species by a more advanced alien race, with some slowly regaining their intelligence over millions of years.
Man After Man (book, 1990. Auth. Dougal Dixon)
Follows animals genetically engineered from humans over millions of years after baseline humanity abandons Earth.
References & Bibliography
Lindley, David. The End of Physics. Basic Books, 11 Aug. 1994.
Paley, Morton D, and Northrop Frye. The Apocalyptic Sublime. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1986.
LAWRENCE, D.H. APOCALYPSE and the Writings on Revelation;and the Writings on Revelation. [S.l.], ROSETTABOOKS, 2019.
Kenneth, Richard, et al. The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages; 出版商: Ithaca & London, Cornell U.P, 1992.
Oppo, Andrea. Shapes of Apocalypse: Arts and Philosophy in Slavic Thought. Brighton, Ma, Academic Studies Press, 2018.