Table of contents : Cover Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. Whither Dystopia? Why Apocalypse? 2. Dysto-Apocalyptic Hope and the Imagination 3. Pathogenic Shaped Futures, Part I: Annihilation and The Walking Dead 4. Pathogenic Shaped Futures, Part II: Reduction and Y: The Last Man 5. Post-Human Life in a Post-Nuclear Age in Snowpiercer and Sweet Tooth 6. The Massive and Life on a Warming Planet 7. Environmental Theory in an Apocalyptic Age Chapter Notes Bibliography Index