http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/apocalyptic http://io9.com/tag/apocalyptic Mary Anne Mohanraj has established an impressive career as a literary author, with her book Bodies in Motion, but she's also well known as a science fiction and erotica writer. And now she's combining both science fiction and erotica, in a project that needs your support. Mohanraj, who co-founded the ezine Strange Horizons, has written a new novel in stories called Demi Monde, and she's trying to raise $8000 by tomorrow morning. You can get a nice paperback edition, or a deluxe hardcover. More »
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Hidden away deep beneath the bustling city of Antwerp is a shadowy, quiet, and forgotten world. Unused for over thirty years, a vast web of interconnected and abandoned metro stations has ceased to exist in its capacity as a means for public transportation, transforming instead into a desolate extension of Antwerp's underground infrastructure of sewage canals and access tunnels that's as haunting as it is beautiful. More »
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Hayden Christensen huddles in a shrinking pool of light while a mysterious darkness swallows up the entire human race. Vanishing on 7th. Street, in select theaters today, starts out spooky, but fails to make you care about its characters. More »
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Previously, it was only the Russians who were saying that the asteroid Apophis could smash into the Earth in 2036, but now a NASA spokesperson is admitting it's a possibility... albeit a slim one. More »
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This is the most fiery moment the Kirishima volcano group has experienced since 1959 — the eruption, starting yesterday, sent a plume of ash 1,500 feet into the air. More insane volcano footage below. More »
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Basil Wolverton is best known for his grotesquely comic illustrations in Mad Magazine, Timely and Marvel Comics. But he also produced some disturbing images of the apocalypse for evangelical preacher Herbert W. Armstrong. Are you read for the Mad apocalypse? More »
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The remake of Red Dawn may or may not be coming out this fall, but Australians are already getting something better: the film adaptation of the classic invasion novel Tomorrow When The War Began. And the first review is out. More »
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Bad news: NBC's apocalyptic series Day One, which was already downgraded from an ongoing series to a miniseries, has apparently been downgraded again — to a two-hour movie. More »
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Three great moments from 1985's post-apocalyptic Def-Con 4: Three astronauts watch a nuclear holocaust claim the entire world. A post-apocalyptic survivalist demands to know, in great detail, about the female astronauts nipples. And a teenager whips slaves dragging a space-capsule. More »
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Lex Machina's steampunk portraits have a touch of otherworldly drama, hinting at the strange, and possibly catastrophic, world its subjects occupy, even while showing off their lovely clothes. More »
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Sure, your cult has a charismatic leader, a crackpot ideology and a 401k for long-term members. But can you match the psychotic Lunar orbiter mania of this apocalyptic cult's meeting, from Japan's 20th Century Boys? We doubt it. [IMDB] More »
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With North Korea reportedly moving forward with its uranium-enrichment program, South Korea is bracing itself for World War III. South Korea's Coast Guard staged a training exercise in Incheon with this somewhat cartoony "mock ship." More training-for-apocalypse photos below. More »
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As the world ends, who'll provide the soundtrack for the final moments? In all likelihood, apocalyptic British folk band We'll Write, whose music video includes a giant robot taking over the world. More »
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Click to viewSome of the most gorgeous, evocative, and strange science fiction art you've ever seen comes from the covers of novels written between 1904-33, in SF's "pre-Golden Age." More »
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With Wall-E director Andrew Stanton working on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1917 novel A Princess of Mars, you need a crash course in books from this seminal era in science fiction. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5098861&view=rss&microfeed=true Roland Emmerich has written a spec script with Harald Kloser called 2012 which is "apocalyptic." It was read around Hollywood yesterday and it could start a bidding war among studios today. It's a sure sign of the coming apocalypse if people are falling over themselves to give the man who butchered Godzilla another project before we find out what he does to Fantastic Voyage. I must admit, however, that I actually enjoyed Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow — I hope I don't have to turn in my io9 ID for that. [Variety] More »
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Director Richard Kelly brought us the cult hit Donnie Darko, and he's been hard at work on Southland Tales, a weird mix of science fiction, music, comedy, and drama set against a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Sounds like the perfect backdrop for a light-hearted romp, right? More »
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