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After contact with an ancient space probe, Picard becomes one of the settlers of Kataan. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 10, 2021 - 25 comments

Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth’s past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five extinctions. Using the visible clues these devastations have left behind in the fossil record, The Ends of the World takes us inside “scenes of the crime,” from South Africa to the New York Palisades, to tell the story of each extinction. Brannen examines the fossil record—which is rife with creatures like dragonflies the size of sea gulls and guillotine-mouthed fish—and introduces us to the researchers on the front lines who, using the forensic tools of modern science, are piecing together what really happened at the crime scenes of the Earth’s biggest whodunits. Part road trip, part history, and part cautionary tale, The Ends of the World takes us on a tour of the ways that our planet has clawed itself back from the grave, and casts our future in a completely new light.
posted by Homo neanderthalensis on Feb 17, 2020 - 1 comment

A chief mechanic at a factory is haunted by apocalyptic nightmares. His wife and boss insist that he get psychiatric help, but his visions of an apocalypse may be more than bad dreams.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 23, 2019 - 6 comments

Sam and Dean must stop Rowena, who is on a deadly mission. Meanwhile, Castiel reaches out to the heaven for help and gets a surprise. [more inside]
posted by numaner on Apr 20, 2018 - 11 comments