Category talk:Noah's Ark in popular culture

Does this category also include science fiction with spaceships as arks and the like?
So a ship that preserves earthly wonders such as the variety of living beings (and/often as well as culture, science&information, technology and arts) in the face of impending doom (e.g. a flood) is an archetype that can be found in many works of fiction. An example of such a story would be Ark (novel) along with many others (the myth of Noah's Ark is a predecessor to the modern science fiction variant of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction). However those aren't really about Noah's ark and they are also not about some boat. And now I'm wondering whether this category should also include such articles or whether a new category would be due here (not sure how it should be named then though). --Fixuture (talk) 21:52, 27 August 2015 (UTC)


 * While I think the Biblical myth has had an influence on modern fiction about space arks, I doubt they should share a category. It certainly isn't a defining trait. We do not really have a category on the influence ancient mythologies have on modern fiction. Perhaps there should be an article about the science fiction sub-genre. Dimadick (talk) 08:29, 28 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Agree on that but at the same time I can't think of a name that (in a properly short manner) captures the essence of this topic. If a new category(-name) can be found I think it might be appropriate for it to be a subcategory of "Noah's Ark in popular culture". It's not necessarily about the influence of ancient mythologies on modern fiction – even though that's an aspect of what such a category might bring to surface – it's also simply about the (indexing of the) archetype of a preserving "ark" (in modern fiction typically not arks; and "preserving" being a way to vague adjective for anyone to capable of envisaging what this is about) in fiction. Basically rare information which people might find interesting (from readers of science fiction to researchers in the realm of the ancient-modern relationship of popular imagination and culture). The science fiction subgenre is already covered in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. Thanks for replying btw, not a common thing on category talkpages... --Fixuture (talk) 17:15, 28 August 2015 (UTC)