Posthuman Blues

Bad news - we are way past our 'extinct by' date

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice, wrote Robert Frost. But whatever is to be our fate, it is now overdue."

I'll be very honest: Stories like this cheer me up.

On a not entirely unrelated note, Christian End Times guru Tim LaHaye has embarked on -- get this -- a series of prequels to the disturbingly popular "Left Behind" series. But really, can you blame him? You write a lengthy series about the end of the world and sooner or later you reach a narrative dead-end. So you're left with a planet yet to be graced by anything even resembling the Second Coming and a legion of slavering fans who want more disasterbation tall-tales to keep them busy until the Antichrist makes his appearance. What else are you going to do but pull a George Lucas and write voluminous "prequel" shit?