The year is 1930 & if you like text books you'll love this book! So many apocalypses, my god, why did it take so much time? Come for an inspiration of some classic sci-fi tropes, stay for the beef with C.S. Lewis. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC

#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 us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

#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 Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

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! CW: discussion of racism, antisemitism, fictional abuse of minors.  Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

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 us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

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. 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 us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

#20: 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. 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 us on twitter @ApocalistC

#19: 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 us on twitter @ApocalistC

#18: The Year is 1920 and we are pretty sure Eddie Shanks was trying to unpack the trauma of World War I. On that note, everyone always blames socialism for the failures of capitalism. Come for our hero waking up with a hangover, stay for the Shakespearian tragic end. Scientific rays, evil Canadians, and anti-Semitism--Shanks has got it all! Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC

#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 us on twitter @ApocalistC

#16: The Years are 1912-1914, and George Allen England gave his hungry audience what they craved—racism masquerading as evolutionary science.  All 225,000 words of it. 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...

#15: This holiday season while we read a T R I L O G Y, we're bringing peace, goodwill to mankind with a recap/review of the 2019 BBC's WAR OF THE WORLDS! #JusticeforTheThunderchild

#14: 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? Come for the armchair anthropologist, stay for the greatest hits from every zombie movie ever. Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

#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 don't leave the 7-mile high pyramid where the millions of surviving humans live! 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 us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at...

#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 [email protected]

#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 us on twitter @ApocalistC

#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 patreon.com/nellachronism Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

#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. 

#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. 

Part 2 of War of the Worlds - 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 disturbing things about themselves! #RemembertheThunderChild  Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

#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 [email protected] CREDITS: Art by Michael Vincent Bramley. Music by Robare Pruyn. Sound...

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 us on twitter @ApocalistC

It is 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 us on twitter @ApocalistC

Part 2: 1890, Caesar's Column by Ignatius "Iggy" Donnelly. Come for a discussion about the history of the labor movement, stay for the violence inherent in the system! [CONTENT WARNING] This book is anti-semitic, racist, & obsessed with female "purity". Support us at https://www.patreon.com/nellachronism Follow us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]

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 us on twitter @ApocalistC, Email us at [email protected]