Post-apocalyptic (often shortened “post-apo”) is a science fiction genre whose the stories take place after a disaster on the planetary scale: nuclear war, epidemic, climatic cataclysm, meteorite, extraterrestrial invasion…
Examples :
- The Wind from Nowhere, by J. G. Ballard
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- Mad Max, directed by George Miller
- The Walking Dead, comics by Robert Kirkman
- 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle