From: bogus@mail.com   
      
   On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 18:21:38 -0600, 3ngine <> wrote:   
      
   >What are some examples of natural   
   >apocalpyse in literature?  (now i"m interested :)   
      
   Niven and Pournelle -- Lucifer's Hammer -(mid 80s)   
   --- An asteroid strike aimed at earth. I've heard this was the best of   
   the "hard SF" killer asteroid stories. Most of the killer asteroid   
   books / movies of the last 20 years were ripped whole cloth from this.   
      
   Wylie and Balmer -- _When Worlds Collide_ and _After Worlds Collide_   
   -- (1930s) ---   
   An extrasolar planet takes out earth but brings along it's little   
   sister to save mankind (this was made into a movie in the late   
   fifties).   
      
   David Bergameni (SP?) took the central idea of Wylie and Balmer   
   (Colonizing another planet by human ingenuity) mixed it with plausible   
   "corporate conspiracies and wrote _Venus Development_ (1980?) While it   
   is not really about natural apocalypse except the human entropic kind   
   it is a very entertaining read and gives one cause to wonder about   
   corporations and government... I've re-read this enough time that the   
   first copy I had fell apart and I had to find a second copy. I believe   
   its out of print.   
      
   Of course Wylie and Balmer is one source where Zecharia Sitchin got   
   the idea for his "factual" books about how the Sumerian gods and the   
   deluge were actually all about an encounter with a comet (Sitchin is a   
   crank... but now a rich one). Velikovsky's _Worlds in Collision_ is   
   probably Sitchin's other source.   
      
   Blood Music -- Greg Bear (this is a human made bio-geddon) Humanity   
   becomes something else... from a genetic expirment out of control   
      
   The War Against the CHTORR series: _A Matter for men_, _A Day for   
   Damnation_ _A Rage for Revenge_  -- David Gerrold (Late 80s)   
      
    -- Aliens from Space arrive and use their bio-system as a weapon   
   against man and Gaia's eco-system-- and man is loosing because Gaia's   
   eco-system has nothing to compete with the alien eco-system.   
      
   There are only three books in the series and the story is not   
   complete... either no one would publish the rest of the stories or   
   Gerrold never wrote the rest, not sure which.   
      
   What there is of this series is damned good-- one of those painfully   
   intelligent series of books you probably won't re-read but make you   
   think about things you had never really considered and do it such a   
   way that you'll remember them vividly. I don't think they are in   
   print-- try a used book store.   
      
      
   David Brin -- Earth   
   A "micro-black hole" experiment goes bad and it takes up residence in   
   the Earth's core and begins eating the planet from the inside out.   
      
   or  Walter Jon Williams -- _The Rift_ the mother of all killer   
   earthquakes.   
      
   Yet another theme I've seen was a movie about a Earth's Core "tap"   
   science experiment gone arwy (I don't remember the name of the movie   
   but someone pulled the cork and earth explodes)   
      
   This is just a sampling of what I've read or seen in the last 30 years   
   (I turned 50 yesterday) or so (damn there's been so much of this stuff   
   its all running together)   
      
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