Sure, Cormac McCarthy spoiled things a little with his relentlessly grim The Road, which made the apocalypse look, quite literally, as inviting as being locked in a cellar and farmed for meat. There is something fascinating, even liberating, about the death of civilisation – the idea of wandering vast emptied cities with just Will Smith for company or blasting zombies to death while living in a shopping arcade. From biblical Armageddon to Roland Emmerich's Mayan-themed disaster flick 2012, the apocalypse has proved curiously alluring to generations of doom-obsessed worriers.
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