Uncle Ned deserved to be eaten. My ass is not big.

The Day After (which I watched with everyone else, but it has aged horribly when I watch it now) has nothing on an English version called Threads, which was unrelentingly depressing, and ended up with mutant babies being born to illiterate sub-normal IQ 13 year old mothers.

It's a laff riot. Not.

Sorry, Pittsburgh--bad typing and a 5 yr old chattering too early in the morning.

I'm with you on that. I will sit and watch movies about the Earth having 150+ temperatures due to solar flares (thereby causing much havoc and destruction in a california city) or ice descending upon the whole world. Siegfried doesn;t get it. They're corny and predictable, but that's there charm. I do not go for monster horror though. "28 Days Later" is my edge, and I only watched it partly because of the actors and partly because at the time it came out I was reading a particular series of post-apocalyptic books and much of what we were discussing ont he email lists came out in that movie. But I do not have a desire to see "28 weeks Later", the sequel. The first is only periphally a zombie movie in my eye -- the 2nd is nothing but (or so I hear).

Hmm. I might add it to my netflix list and see it. The first has honor of being the only movie I have ever watched the commentary on. And that because I really wanted to hear about a scene at the end (which they didn't comment on at all -- go figure). Since I am not a watcher of zombie flicks I did not catch any of the references they were making, but it was neat to hear them talk about how they got permission to do certain shoots so that it looked like London was completely devoid of people.

Ok, the author is SM Stirling, who does alternative history/sci-fi stuff. In 1998 he began writing a trilogy of books about the island of Nantucket being sent back to 1250 BC. Some stupid parts, some really good parts. It predates the Eric Flint 1632 (or whatever year) stuff, and is far better than that anyway. So, after those 3 books, he wrote some others, including 2 stand alones -- Peshawar Lancers and Conquistador. Peshawar is interesting if you like the idea of the British Empire/Raj never falling but continuing on in India. Conquistador is a homage to Stargate, being a movie that Stirling loves. It is about a gate to an alternate Earth where Coloumbus never found America.

After he did those, he returned to his Island-verse books (the name given to his books on Nantucket) and posited about what happened to the rest of the world when Nantucket left, and why/how did it happen. It was a much darker thought than the Island-verse books. The first book was Dies the Fire, and it posits the end of civilization as we know it (due to outside influences) that reults in the death of maybe 90-95% of the people. The survivors are left in a pre-industrial state (with the knowledge of industrial stuff but not the ability to ever do them). It took me several times to read the first book -- some of the scenes are disturbing in their realism. The books are based in the Portland, Oregon area, and feature a bunch of SCAdians and Wiccans, and others. I actually had email conversations with him a few years ago, as he got some background info on the SCA (he is very interactive on his mailing list), as we pointed out that the SCA is not a homogonous blob and has disting personalities based on locale and such.

He has started a 2nd trilogy in this world (known as Ember-verse to some) set 25 years after the 1st.

A lot of people (like my husband) cannot get past his "junk science", of the artificial constraints that says no electricity/gunpowder/other stuff. I have seen his write up on the email list after a lengthy discussion with a physicist. Yes, it is not possible for us to do this -- but could someone else control the laws of physics in a certain area? Maybe. That is his point.

Movie/TV rights have evidently been discussed on these books. It would be weird to see them made -- especially the darker Dies the Fire. Much of the turmoil of 28 Days Later parallels alot of what he was writing (no zombies, but cannibals).

I love wild "Weather-that-can't-truly-be-happening" movies.. and other disaster flicks.

Which is why Mom now refuses to watch those types of movies and 24 with me anymore.... I point out "Oh, that can't really happen because of such and such" and she hates it. :-) I actually get very frustrated with 24 but I watch it just to laugh and the nonsense...

The one actually halfway decent disaster flick in terms of science to back is up is Volcano; the one with Tommy Lee Jones? Although I doubt that using the drains would work but everything up to that point is pretty spot on...

But ..... I saw a Discovery(?) special on linked earthquakes, in which they were tracking earthquakes along a major fault line. Seems that they can go off in chains -- but not as quickly as that miniseries would indicate. Like decades apart. The fault line they were studying basically ends at Istanbul, so they are thinking a major one will hit there again soonish (at least geologically speaking).

I have a jones for the outfit Milla Jovovich was wearing in Resident Evil: Extinction. Tasty.

Here you go.

I re-read The Stand about once every five years... full length, 1700 page version. Something about the eerie end of humanity that just draws my interet.

Can't bring myself to watch the mini-series. I have pictures in my head of how this stuff is s'posed to look, dammit!

And if you liked The Stand, check out the Gunslinger books. Also eerie.

It is gankable, as are any of my icons that don't have a restriction on them (which is none at the moment). :) Have a zombie rabbit of your own!

I love the "Perfect Disaster" series. :)