Dying Earth (genre)

Inner artwork depicting cities in flaming ruins, by an uncredited artist, for the short story "Regeneration" by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean from Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, September 1951.

Dying Earth is a subgenre of science fantasy or science fiction which takes place in the far future at either the end of life on Earth or the end of time, when the laws of the universe themselves fail. Dominant themes include world-weariness, innocence, idealism, entropy, heat death of the universe, exhaustion or depletion of many or all resources, and the hope of renewal. A related subgenre set in the distant future of entropic decay is called entropic romance.[1]

  1. ^ Wolfe, Gary K. (1986-08-18). Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Glossary and Guide to Scholarship. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-313-22981-7.

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