This post is the fourth in the series Impending Doom, nightmarish visions of the coming apocalypse.
This is the way the world ends: crushing waves, rising tide and nobody is getting on any arks. Drowned cities beneath endless blue, their ruins slowly crumbling, washing away to sand and silt.
Urban fantasy favorite Francesca Lia Block brings her magic to Love in the Time of Global Warming and its companion, The Island of Excess Love. After a tidal wave wipes Los Angeles off the map, Pen searches for her family across a flooded landscape haunted by witches and monsters. Instead, she encounters Hex, a heartless boy on a quest of his own. Will the two of them find what they're seeking, or will they discover something more?
In The Wake, marine biologist Lee Archer has been ordered to investigate a strange aquatic creature found beneath the Arctic Circle, but soon enough she discovers that humanity has gotten out of its depth. Two hundred years later, the waterlogged earth has been overrun by deadly mermen and it's up to feisty pirate Leeward to find the truth and fight for the future.
Beasts of the Southern Wild tells the story of 6-year-old Hushpuppy and her father Wink, who live in the impoverished Bathtub on the Louisiana bayou. As storms rage and waters rise, can Hushpuppy and her ragtag family find a way to save their homes and stay alive?
Bonus flick: 1995 box office bomb Waterworld is so bad it's good. It's like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, but replace desert with water and Gibson with Costner.
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