Apocalist Book Club

#15: This holiday season while we read a T R I L O G Y, we're bringing peace and goodwill to mankind with a recap/review of the 2019 BBC's WAR OF THE WORLDS! It made Choices! #JusticeforTheThunderchild

14: That's right, we broke from the timeline to bring you two novellas from two avowed Socialists! In the British corner we have H. G. "Bertie" Wells with THE TIME MACHINE! In the American corner we have Jack "He Sure Did Write About Wolves" London with THE SCARLET PLAGUE! Who will win in the clash of high school English class titans? Remember, only one of them told Stalin off. Come for the armchair anthropologist, stay for the greatest hits from every zombie movie ever.

#13: The Year is 1912 and William Hope Hodgson was never taught to tag his porn. It's billions of years into the future, the sun is gone and science might be responsible for the monsters that roam the land--so you better not leave the 7-mile high pyramid where the millions of surviving humans live. A reminder to those of you playing the home game, Everest is only 5.49-ish miles high. Come for the time Hope pissed off Harry Houdini, stay for 27 exasperated "uh-huh"s.

#12: The year is 1912 and if you like Roland Emmerich disaster movies do we have the apocalyptic novel for you! Come for the scientist no one listens to until it's too late, stay for the presidential B-plot! Nella STANS the gay French submarine for ever.

#11: The year is 1908 and good old Herbert (Bertie) George Wells is at it again! Come for God's Own Idiot for a main character, stay for Bertie's scathing indictment of his own Modern Times that were just coming around the bend. Nella will die mad that there wasn't a Harold Lloyd silent film based on this.

#10: The year is 1906, and someone read Jefferies' AFTER LONDON and was inspired. New York City is dead, long live Doom the Forbidden. This is what happens when only members of the Society for Creative Anachronism survive the Apocalypse. Come for our favorite villain yet, stay for me going on for TOO LONG about NYC geography.

#9: The year is 1906 and there is not a single Viking in this ENTIRE Apocalypse.This is Armageddon by GARDEN PARTY, End Times by Downton Abbey except all the Help are literal ghosts you can't see so you don't even get to their interesting hopes, dreams and aspirations. Come for the most nauseatingly gentile End of the World, stay for the conveniently obtuse rules the Dead follow. Seriously someone get them a Handbook of the Recently Deceased ASAP.

#07.2: The chaos and horror grows as the invasion expands. Hope no one is claustrophobic because we're about to be stuck in a basement for 2 weeks. Also, Martian anatomy, how does it even work?? Come for the sensible lady with a pistol, stay for the hosts learning slightly disturbing things about themselves! #RemembertheThunderChild

#16: The years are 1912 to 1914, and George Allen England gave his audience what they craved: Racism masquerading as evolutionary science. 225,000 words worth. Dang, this one was rough. Come for the authorial self-insert voted "Most Useful to be Abandoned on a Desert Island With but Honestly I'd Probably just Prefer Death Thanks", stay for "feminism!--But only if it's useful to men". WOOF.

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racist descriptions.