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Old 09-29-2018, 06:16 PM   #6250 (permalink)
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By "post-apocalyptic" do you mean dystopian or are they separate genres to you?
Dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

Post Apocalyptic: denoting or relating to the time following a nuclear war or other catastrophic event.

Two very different genres. Canticle for Leibowitz is 100% post-apocalytic.
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