Survivalism - in Fiction

In Fiction

See also: Survivalism in fiction

Survivalism and survivalist themes have been fictionalized in print, film, and electronic media. The survivalist genre was especially influenced by the advent of nuclear weapons and the potential for societal collapse in wake of a Cold War nuclear conflagration.

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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:

    “For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    “Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)