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   From: trminlxGARBAGE@bitstreamnet.com   
      
   In article , 3ngine <>   
   wrote:   
      
   > Frankly, I don't know any post-apoc fiction in which a world is   
   > destroyed naturally -- most of the books/ss I've read (from the 50's   
   > onward) have been about nuclear warfare, sometimes chemical warfare   
   > (by the rivers of babylon).  What are some examples of natural   
   > apocalpyse in literature?  (now i"m interested :)   
      
   The Bible (not all people consider it literature ... take that as you   
   may) Book Of Revelations .... The Apocalypse is when the world ends. The   
   seven seals are opened, the trumpets are blown, the four horsemen are   
   let loose, the seas to blood, that kind of thing.   
      
   Gods make apocalypses, humans make holocausts.   
      
   The thing they have in common is that lots of people die. Usually   
   quickly.   
      
   While, like Goobs, I don't currently have the time to research it and   
   back it up with proof you've got both kinds of fiction.. But when these   
   things hit mass media however they all tend to go under the   
   post-apocalyptic title, propbably for a combination of convenience   
   (easier to market one catchy term than two) and safety (making large   
   segments of the community that are still sensitive about the attrocities   
   of WW2 angry is a bad marketing plan).   
      
   Dictionary.Com:   
      
   a?poc?a?lypse  n.   
      
   Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc.   
      
   1.  (a) Bible. The Book of Revelation.   
       (b) Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from   
   around the second century B.C. to the second century A.D. containing   
   prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of   
   the world and the salvation of the righteous.   
      
   2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.   
      
   3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.   
   ---   
      
   So, there's apocalypse, an interesting semantic difference also brought   
   up by my fiancee is that an apocalypse has connotations of totality -   
   Everything Dies, where holocaust does not (just Lots Of People Die).   
      
      
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