Akhmedov R.Sh.

Akhmedov Rafael Sharifovich - senior teacher, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERATURE, GULISTAN STATE UNIVERSITY, GULISTAN, REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

Abstract: the article is devoted to the theme that has always played an important role in American  science fiction and continues to grip the imagination of authors – the end of the world theme, which is treated under a cluster of sub-themes including apocalypse, disaster, post-apocalypse, and survival. The research is done in a form of an overview of those American science fiction works in which the apocalyptic theme prevails over the others.

Keywords: science fiction (SF), apocalyptic theme, catastrophe, civilization, Asimov, Shute, Brin, posthumanism.

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Akhmedov R.Sh. THE THEME OF APOCALYPSE IN AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION // Достижения науки и образования №8(49), 2019 - С.{ см. журнал}.