Welcome to the Apocalist Book Club! Your hosts Nella and Raven are reading all apocalyptic fiction in chronological order. Join the club--you have time now. Updated every 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Welcome to the Apocalist Book Club. I'm Nella, and I know it's been a while. Before we get back to it with season 2, I have some other work to wrap up on our sister podcast. See, in 2007 a supernatural horror book by Dan Simmons was published and by 2016 the story was adapted by AMC for a 10 episode season called THE TERROR. Now, I'll grant you, it's not an apocalypse. But it is a fictionalized version of what might have happened to the Franklin Expedition. And listeners, you know how this podcast feels about Doomed Polar Exploration. I have joined my wife Joy and our friend Danielle on Binge O'Clock as guest historical enthusiast and resident Franklin Expedition obsessive. You can follow along over at Binge O'Clock on Spotify starting May 22, and new episodes will be released every 2 weeks. Enjoy this early access to the introduction episode--fter all, it was on May 19th, 178 years ago, THAT 129 officers and crewmen under the leadership of Sir John Franklin left England. Their mission was to bridge the gap on British maps, and complete the Northwest passage. Spoilers: they all died. So I hope you'll pick up a copy of the book, give the series a watch, play that Stan Rogers song on repeat, and join us as we unpack the rats nest of book vs show vs historical record.
If you got up to use the restroom, don't worry you didn't miss anything! Nella continues her Zombie Triple Feature Picture Show with Danielle Ngo and Joy Seldin from the podcast Binge O'Clock! We unpack DAY OF THE DEAD, then touched on RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, the schlocky other "sequel" to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD that stole DAY's thunder. Rude. And that wraps up our Zombie Movie Night!...or...DOES IT??? Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. You can find Binge O'Clock on twitter @BingeOClockPod. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
Hope you visited Concessions at intermission, because here's part 2! Nella continues her Zombie Triple Feature Picture Show with Danielle Ngo and Joy Seldin from the podcast Binge O'Clock with DAWN OF THE DEAD! Send help, one actor looks so much like Jeeves and Wooster era Hugh Laurie I'm dying. And remember kids, if you go through all the trouble of cleverly disguising the entrance to your tricked out living quarters, DON'T. LEAVE THEM. WHEN. THE BIKER GANG. COMES. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. You can find Binge O'Clock on twitter @BingeOClockPod. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
While Raven and Nella are still prepping for Season 2: The Atomic Age for the Apocalist, Danielle Ngo and Joy Seldin from the podcast Binge O'Clock joined Nella to watch zombie movies...and not just any zombie movies, the ones that started it all! This first episode explores the history of the zombie movie, and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Part 2 will continue with DAWN OF THE DEAD, and we'll end Part 3 with DAY OF THE DEAD (and a touch of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD for that 80s spicy brain flavor). Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. You can find Binge O'Clock on twitter @BingeOClockPod. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#41: Thank you to everyone that sent in questions for our Q&A! We currently don't have a hard start date for season 2 though Nella is planning a limited Zombie Movie Night series for the interim. Stay tuned as we prepare for the Atomic Age! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#40: The year is...well it's a little timey wimey, but we're calling it 1939. Tom Conner was just a normal dude who was sent to the electric chair for murder...and wakes up to find himself in the FUTURE! In a world ruled by Immortals, Tom truly is the 2nd love interest of a YA dystopian novel heroine, he just doesn't know it yet. I straight up lose it over slide rulers in this one. Come for a rebellion that just really hates paying taxes, stay for the one immortal cat left alive. And yes, Olga Romanov was a better Black Flame that Margaret of Urbs could ever DREAM of. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#39: We're still in 1936 but we've moved out to the Scottish Highlands and taken up cave-living in the face of war! If you liked THE HATCHET or other wilderness survival books as a kid, you're probably going to like this one. This book could have been insufferable with moralizing, but MacPherson weaves a deceptively simple narrative that got under our ribs. We just wish he had ended it 2 chapters earlier... Remember kids, the real Apocalypse is when you walk away from society. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#38: The year is 1936 and we're back to our beloved Czech author Karel Čapek. This is a much grimmer end of the world when compared to his 1922 novel THE ABSOLUTE AT LARGE. While both novels address the danger of voracious human consumption, this one digs much deeper into the horrors of colonialism, and the exploitation of "the Other". There are no good guys here, but there are no mustache twirling villains either, and Čapek gets to the heart of so many of the current dangers that threaten humanity. Although, who was Bondy in real life and what axe did Čapek have to grind with him??? Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
The year is a little of '34, a little of '35, and who gave T.H. White the right to delight us so much?! We 100% were not expecting all these hunting puns, but we are here for it. Come for Mr. Marx's sporting tour (who is a POC and NOT a villain, actually), stay for a very British farce of a Decameron. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
We're back in 1934 with THE STRANGE INVADERS by Alun Llewellyn! If you can here on the promise of dinosaurs, I regret to inform you, so did we. New t-shirt idea: I survived the Apocalypse and all I got was this lousy herd of big man-eating lizards. Come for Alun's dislike of Stalin's communism, stay for the sexiest of lamps. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
Raven went back in time to 1909 to read the novella THE MACHINE STOPS with friend of the Apoc-pod, writer and virologist John Skylar! E. M. Forster was very queer (he wrote MAURICE, after all) and we suspect he had a looking glass into the future because he nailed Zoom Fatigue. Come for a society that has forgotten how to repair the Machine that does EVERYTHING for them, stay for trying to avert an apocalypse with a Strongly Worded Complaint. You can check out John Skylar's writing at Covid Transmissions. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
The year is 1934 and James Leslie Mitchell co-wrote a book with his own pseudonym, which LBH feels like a very Scottish thing to do. Come for our bisexual, nudist female protagonist who is here to bash the Fash, stay for this one neat trick to help you fall asleep...with the small side effect that you end up in the F U T U R E! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
The year is 1934 and we spent more time talking about our Tiffany instead of the book but TBH the book didn't have a declassified FBI file or a sick burn courtesy of Dorothy Parker. This book asks 'what would happen if no one could die?' and no one's the good guy here, not even the secretary. ESPECIALLY the secretary. Come for the zombie apocalypse no one asked for (including the author!), stay for the straights being at it again. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
The year is STILL 1933 with THE LORD OF LIFE by pseudonym of a pseudonym Neil Bell. 19 men and 1 woman are the only known survivors after a mad Bond villain scientist ends the world and it only gets worse from there because we're pretty sure this author thought he was being DROLL. Come for how fish are NOT pollinators, actually, stay for the Victory of the Incel. Where's a puke emoji when you need one... CW: We talk about rape and coercion but we try to keep from being graphic. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
We continue our exploration of THE WOMAN ON THE BEAST! We haven't had a biblical Apocalypse since our first book and we really enjoyed this one. Come for the eve of the French Revolution, stay for Helen's OPINIONS about Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
Raven and Nella are back with your regularly scheduled Apocalist Book Club! We're still in 1933 but the exciting news is that your hosts are fully vaccinated and recorded this episode face-to-face! That, and the fact they adored this book is probably why this episode is split into two parts. Come for Nella giving the briefest of histories about Goa and the Inquisition, stay for our new favorite Australian Hedge Witch. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
Our heroes take to the skies to give the Allens what for! Will they save the Earth from oncoming utopia? Will they ever return home? And how DO the Benevolents get their whites so white?! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com
Last time, on the Battle of the Allens! Our heroes join forces with the Evel Terrarists, and leapt to Manhattan’s defense by repairing the artillery battery on Randall’s Island! But just as the shots were fired, the airship disappeared from the skies! Will our heroes get some answers back at the Evel Terrarists’ headquarters at the Central Park Arsenal? Who is the Evel Terrarists’ head scientist? Why did no one think twice about calling themselves the ‘Evel Terrarists’? And a huge thank you to LindsayPB on Twitter for lending her voice for Olga Romanoff! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com
Last time, on the Battle of the Allens! Berties Smallways, Claire Webster, and Quinton Edge are ripped from their own broken worlds to find themselves in a hot air balloon hovering over a Manhattan under attack from the skies! Can they repair the battery on Randall’s Island and save the besieged city from the Benevolents' bombardment? Who does Cerulean Blunt work for? And where IS Claire Webster keeping all those walnuts? Content Warning: Violence; Foley of gunfire, and a body falling from a great height. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com
It was asked for, and by Jove, it begins! THE BATTLE OF THE ALLENS: A Savage Worlds RPG (Ep. 1) Who will win after the end of their world? Dramatis Personae Bertie Smallways from WAR IN THE AIR . . . as played by Nella Quinton Edge from THE DOOMSMEN . . . as played by Raven Claire Webster from DELUGE . . . as played by Angelina Meehan and presenting . . . Jeff Liu-Leyco as our GM! 4 episodes total released on Wednesdays! Regular Apocalist episodes will return in May. A thank you again to the patrons that participated in the casting call! I hope you will be amused by your named NCPs. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#30: We're back at it by backtracking to 1933! This book is a post-apocalyptic gang thinking they could be Camelot but then Shakespearean tragedy smacks them all down. AS IT SHOULD, because our good guys are DEFINITELY the baddies. Nella was waiting in the wings like Fortinbras, 15 minutes late with Starbucks ready for everyone to die-- You could have been trading, but instead you were pillaging and raping. CW: If you read the book one character is a pedophile. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#29: Nella and Raven needed a break from the world, so they hopped a ride to Bronson Beta and read the truly pulpy AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE! The Earth may be gone, but there sure are Soviets. We also watched the 1952 movie adaptation of WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, which, hey, at least it was short and had some good NYC destruction. Come for a planet that conveniently isn't trying to kill you despite your best efforts, stay for Marian Jackson, the real MVP. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#28: The year is 1933 and get in, losers, we're going to SPACE! We've entered the Pulp Age, and Nella is VERY here for this screwball apocalypse. Come for the inspiration for Flash Gordon and maybe even Superman (???), stay for some gosh darn good pulp. And remember kids: Bring the Botanist to the moss, NOT the moss to the Botanist! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#27: The year is 1930 and it's Apocalypse by Sterility, y'all! Won't somebody think of the CHILDREN! Come for a woman of color just trying to live her damn life, stay for the classic blunder of getting involved in a land war in Asia. CW: this novel contains racism, Anti-Semitism, homophobia, violence again religious minorities, sexual violence against men and women. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#26: The year is 1930 and if you wanted a college text book version of all your favorite sci-fi tropes, this book has everything! Fission! Air ships! Biological warfare! Martians! Hive minds! Eugenics! Telepathy! Genocide via Terraforming! Not-Gallifreyans! No homo polyamory :( So many apocalypses, my god, why did it take so much time??? Come for a major inspiration of some classic modern sci-fi, stay for the beef with C.S. Lewis. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#25: The year is 1927, and we should have seen the eugenics coming. Pierrepont was one of Oneida's little 'experiments', after all. Come for our biggest frame story yet, come for Chekov's double agent spy friend. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#24: The year is 1928 and this book is fine. It's fine. It's Fine. Come for one of our best lady characters, stay for the author's earnest opinions about M O D E R N W O M E N. Also, pretty sure this counts for one of our racier Apocalypses so far! Well, what do you expect, the author had 10 kids. Content warning: discussion of assault, abortion plot in second book Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#23: We have 7 out-of-print books from the 1920s to cover, so pull up a chair and prepare to hate how timely this nonsense is. I know I do! Content warning: discussion of racism, the history of antisemitism and fictional abuse of minors. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#22: The year is 1923, which means we are deep in proto-Fascism territory. Raven started this read and warned that it was as if Ayn Rand wrote Caesar's Column. Never let an Organic Chemist run wild with Science Fiction, always bring a back-up Biologist. Come for Nella's total saltiness, stay for this villain's POV version of a YA dystopian novel. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
The year is STILL 1922 but hold the presses, we really enjoyed this one! Nella feels like Karel Čapek was the mirror-verse version of G.K. Chesterton. She completely 100% friend-ship them. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the debates they would have had! Come for the writer that popularized the word "robot" being declared "public enemy number 2" by the Nazis, stay for one of Raven's favorite awful protagonists. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
Satan-worshipping? On MY Jupiter??? It's more likely than you think! The year is 1922 and our cup runneth over with our 3rd lady writer. However, now there's plot all over the floor and there's no mop on hand. This novel is like two novellas in a trench coat. This is like a 7-part Doctor Who arc, but if no one was at the helm. Come for the deeply uncomfortable anti-Semitism in the center of the Earth, stay for SPAAAAAACE. And remember— There is no Death in Keemar. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
The year is 1922 and it's our second lady author of the Apocalist! Like Mary Shelley, Cicely Hamilton lived an absolutely fascinating life and wrote an absolute downer of a book. It's almost like The Great War made her even more of a pessimist or something. Come for the Feminism, stay for the Murder Amish. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#18: The Year is 1920 and we're live with PEOPLE OF THE RUINS by Edward Shanks! This book's apocalypse is not a plague, PHEW!...just the fault of the Bolsheviks? IDK I'm pretty sure it was Capitalism that was wrong. Come for the evil Canadian, stay for the Shakespearian tragic end. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#17: The Year is 1913 & we were pleasantly surprised by this plague that kills men! Come for JD's opinions about the uselessness of suburban life & religious fervor, stay for Aunt May & her cigarettes. Remember friends: ALWAYS take the potato. #TeamPotato Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#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. Support us at patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#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 Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
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. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#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. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#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. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#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. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#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. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#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. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#8: The year is 1901, and H.P. Lovecraft had OPINIONS about THE PURPLE CLOUD, so you know it's going to be a doozy. Come for the Decadent movement and the birth of the Yellow Peril novel (YIKES), stay for the unfortunate last minute Pygmalion swerve. [CONTENT WARNING] Starting at 1:21:36, there is discussion about the sexual assault of a minor.
#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 Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#07.1: Our last book of the 19th century and it's a WINNER! Dear Bertie came through in the 11th Hour with his thrilling tale of alien invasion and survival. Come for Wells' sexy, sexy personal life, stay for sitting around like a bunch of dodos. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#06: The year is 1894, and Olga Romanoff is the dystopian heroine you want to root for...except she's a terrible person. There's also the Aerians and they had the GALL to found White Wakanda. Whatever, they are terrible. Everyone's terrible.Come for #TeamComet finally winning the day, stay for Griffith’s staggeringly mixed political messages. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#05: It's 1894, and rockstar Astronomy is BIG. Is it possible for the world to not end fast enough? Will we ever stop being surprised by potential Doctor Who Christmas specials? Why did Camille feel it was ok to write a novel when he didn't even READ novels? And is this even a novel? IS IT?????? Anyway, come for the Attack of the Maths, stay for the g-g-g-g-ghost Pharaoh! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#04.2: The year is 1890, and Ignatius "Iggy" Donnelly doesn't want a violent revolution to destroy society as we know it, but so it goes. This book is anti-semitic, racist, and is grossly obsessed with female "purity". Listener discretion is advised. Come for a discussion about the history of the labor movement, stay for the violence inherent in the system! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#04.1: Before we scale Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly, we need to talk about Edward Bellamy's utopian fiction and Ignatius Donnelly's hottest takes about Atlantis. Come for big government solving all of society's problems, stay for the creation of the credit card. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
#03: Welcome to the year 1885 and our very first POST-Apocalypse! Come for the world-building thought exercise, stay for the nightmare landscape that's actively trying to kill you. Oh, have we mentioned canoes? Have you thought about palisades? You should really give engineering a chance. Support us on Patreon Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
The year is 1826, and Mary Shelley publishes a depressing fanfic about her own life because therapy isn't a Thing. Come for our wistful longings for her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, stay for that guy we HATE dying in a fire. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow the progress of the Apocalist here Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at ApocalistBookClub@gmail.com CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound editing by Crutch Phrase Studio.
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