Chapter 1 Introduction: Aspects of Apocalypse

Chapter 2 The Tales of the Last Days, 1805–3794

Chapter 3 The End of The Ages

Chapter 4 Rewriting the Christian Apocalypse as a Science-Fictional Event

Chapter 5 Edwardian Awakenings: H. G. Wells’s Apocalyptic Romances (1898–1915)

Chapter 6 Acts of God

Chapter 7 The Dawn of the Atomic Age

Chapter 8 Silo Psychosis: Diagnosing America’s Nuclear Anxieties Through Narrative Imagery

Chapter 9 Pocket Apocalypse: American Survivalist Fictions from Walden to The Incredible Shrinking Man

Chapter 10 ‘An Unrehearsed Theatre of Technology’: Oedipalization and Vision in Ballard’s Crash

Chapter 11 Disguising Doom: A Study of the Linguistic Features of Audience Manipulation in Michael Moorcock’s The Eternal Champion

Chapter 12 Storm, Whirlwind and Earthquake: Apocalypse and the African-American Novel

Chapter 13 Imagining Apocalypse

Chapter 14 Jews and Independence Day , Women and Independence Day: Science Fiction Apocalypse Now Evokes Feminism and Nazism