Dominika Oramus is a full professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and holder of a PhD in literature studies (1999, University of Warsaw) and of a postdoctoral degree in liberal arts (2008, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Modern Languages). Her books include Grave New World: The Decline of the West in the Fiction of J. G. Ballard (Terminal Press, 2015).

• INTRODUCTION: Doomsday Clock NarrativesChapter I Anticipating Disasters: Anxieties and Traumas- Eco-Anxiety and Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome- Pre-Traumatic Stress: the Psychoanalytical PerspectiveChapter II Writing about Disasters: Metaphors and Parables- Geological Metaphors- Parables of Nature and Symbolic TimepiecesChapter III Disaster Fantasies: Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction- Disaster Story Tradition- Nuclear Holocaust Fiction- Climate FictionChapter IV 'Maybe it's a period of grace': Mid-Twentieth-Century Nuclear Holocaust Fiction in the Hands of Nevil Shute and Walter M. Miller- Nevil Shute On the Beach- Walter M. Miller A Canticle for LeibowitzChapter V 'Imposing fantasies on the changing landscape:' the Visions of John Christopher, J.G. Ballard and George Turner- John Christopher The World in Winter- J.G. Ballard The Drought - George Turner The Sea and SummerChapter VI 'I wonder how much longer we have:' Recent Climate Fiction from the Pens of Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada- Maggie Gee The Ice People- Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl- Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being- Yoko Tawada The Last Children of TokyoCONCLUSION: Reading Climate Anxiety Through the Lens of a Nuclear Holocaust- The Uses of Doomsday Clock Narratives- Fallout and Flood-"We," the Readers of Doomsday Clock Narratives

Dominika Oramus is a full professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and holder of a PhD in literature studies (1999, University of Warsaw) and of a postdoctoral degree in liberal arts (2008, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Modern Languages). Her books include Grave New World: The Decline of the West in the Fiction of J. G. Ballard (Terminal Press, 2015).

• INTRODUCTION: Doomsday Clock NarrativesChapter I Anticipating Disasters: Anxieties and Traumas- Eco-Anxiety and Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome- Pre-Traumatic Stress: the Psychoanalytical PerspectiveChapter II Writing about Disasters: Metaphors and Parables- Geological Metaphors- Parables of Nature and Symbolic TimepiecesChapter III Disaster Fantasies: Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction- Disaster Story Tradition- Nuclear Holocaust Fiction- Climate FictionChapter IV 'Maybe it's a period of grace': Mid-Twentieth-Century Nuclear Holocaust Fiction in the Hands of Nevil Shute and Walter M. Miller- Nevil Shute On the Beach- Walter M. Miller A Canticle for LeibowitzChapter V 'Imposing fantasies on the changing landscape:' the Visions of John Christopher, J.G. Ballard and George Turner- John Christopher The World in Winter- J.G. Ballard The Drought - George Turner The Sea and SummerChapter VI 'I wonder how much longer we have:' Recent Climate Fiction from the Pens of Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada- Maggie Gee The Ice People- Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl- Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being- Yoko Tawada The Last Children of TokyoCONCLUSION: Reading Climate Anxiety Through the Lens of a Nuclear Holocaust- The Uses of Doomsday Clock Narratives- Fallout and Flood-"We," the Readers of Doomsday Clock Narratives

Dominika Oramus is a full professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and holder of a PhD in literature studies (1999, University of Warsaw) and of a postdoctoral degree in liberal arts (2008, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Modern Languages). Her books include Grave New World: The Decline of the West in the Fiction of J. G. Ballard (Terminal Press, 2015).

• INTRODUCTION: Doomsday Clock NarrativesChapter I Anticipating Disasters: Anxieties and Traumas- Eco-Anxiety and Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome- Pre-Traumatic Stress: the Psychoanalytical PerspectiveChapter II Writing about Disasters: Metaphors and Parables- Geological Metaphors- Parables of Nature and Symbolic TimepiecesChapter III Disaster Fantasies: Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction- Disaster Story Tradition- Nuclear Holocaust Fiction- Climate FictionChapter IV 'Maybe it's a period of grace': Mid-Twentieth-Century Nuclear Holocaust Fiction in the Hands of Nevil Shute and Walter M. Miller- Nevil Shute On the Beach- Walter M. Miller A Canticle for LeibowitzChapter V 'Imposing fantasies on the changing landscape:' the Visions of John Christopher, J.G. Ballard and George Turner- John Christopher The World in Winter- J.G. Ballard The Drought - George Turner The Sea and SummerChapter VI 'I wonder how much longer we have:' Recent Climate Fiction from the Pens of Maggie Gee, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ruth Ozeki and Yoko Tawada- Maggie Gee The Ice People- Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl- Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being- Yoko Tawada The Last Children of TokyoCONCLUSION: Reading Climate Anxiety Through the Lens of a Nuclear Holocaust- The Uses of Doomsday Clock Narratives- Fallout and Flood-"We," the Readers of Doomsday Clock Narratives