Impact events have been a recurring theme in fiction since the 1800s. The popularity has varied in waves; periods of increased interest include the 1890s fin de siècle era, the years following the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet, and the concluding part of the century following the 1980 publication of the Alvarez hypothesis about the extinction of the dinosaurs and the 1994 collision of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with Jupiter.
Impact events have been a recurring theme in fiction since the 1800s. The popularity has varied in waves; periods of increased interest include the 1890s fin de siècle era, the years following the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet, and the concluding part of the century following the 1980 publication of the Alvarez hypothesis about the extinction of the dinosaurs and the 1994 collision of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with Jupiter.
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