ABSTRACT
The present study deals with Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society in relation to the selected pandemic literature. It aims at exploring the dangers of modern world exhibited in post-apocalyptic fiction in English. The study employed Beck’s notion of risk society which demonstrates scientific and technological advancement resulting in terrors in today world. The study is qualitative one and analyzed through content analysis technique. It concluded that there are some terrible consequences often neglected during the blind run after progress and advancement and they happen later on as uncontrollable phenomenon.
