Suddenly, you're running away from robotic vacuum cleaners and the deadly praying mantis whose partner you accidentally stepped on just a few seconds ago. Imagine yourself casually strolling by the aisle of your local supermarket, looking for your sister's favorite cookies, when, out of the blue, you shrink to the size of an ant. No one has ever survived longer than eight days.MicroHUNTER, or how I refer to it, 'Antman but make it apocalypse,' is a special take on the genre where the end of civilization as we know it is brought upon by a common shrinkage of the human population. It means a billion dollars in prize money if he can live for the next month. With no job, no money, no way out, and a young daughter in need of proper medical attention, he must turn to the only possibility of striking it rich in this near-future dystopian America: participating in the ultra-violent TV programming of the government-sanctioned Games Network.īen soon finds himself selected as a contestant on the biggest and best the Games Network has to offer: "The Running Man," a no-holds-barred 30-day struggle to stay alive as public enemy number one, relentlessly hunted by an elite strike force bent on killing him as quickly as possible in front of an audience all-too eager to see that happen. Remember his face!"īen Richards is a desperate man. The Running Man by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore’s The Walking Dead comic book series is one example of a post-apocalyptic tale, as it follows a group of survivors struggling to stay alive after a zombie plague has taken over the world. If the event has already happened, it is post-apocalyptic. If the disaster or catastrophe occurs during the course of the story, then the novel is termed apocalyptic. Writers will use that framework to explore the effects of racism, classism, sexism, and resistance. In The Hunger Games, the character Katniss Everdeen lives in a dystopian society created in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war, meaning The Hunger Games is also technically a post-apocalyptic story. The narrative focuses on how Katniss is affected by her society, however, rather than the effects of the nuclear war.Īpocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories tend to follow characters trying to survive a devastated landscape. Dystopian novels typically focus on the impact of the imperfect society on the characters.
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