H.G. Wells
publication date: Thursday, December 20, 2012 (part of Winter 2013)
category: 
Literature
clue: Survival will be hard if Martians attack, but according to this author, it won't be much easier 800,000 years in the future.
explanation: Wells wrote The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Justin Woods, Samir Mehta, LaVonne Lemler, Chris Lemler, Joanna Woods, Matthew Preston, Richard Slominsky, Denise Sawicki, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, and Aaron Shurtleff
It's the End of the World as We Know It: Some people have interpreted the Mayan calendar to foretell of the end of the world on Friday. What would life be like after an apocalyptic event? The works created by these five entertainers may show us.Similar Goos
Mel Gibson
Mad Max himself made a movie about the end of civilization according to the Mayans, appropriately titled Apocalypto. Go »
Nick McDonell
Publishing a novel at age 17 is enough to earn praise even from Hunter S. Thompson. Go »
Edgar Allan Poe
One can only imagine the tintinnabulation of the bells that announced his 1835 marriage to his 13-year-old cousin. Go »
H.G. Wells
This author, who wrote classic novels about time travel, genetic horrors, an invisible person, and alien attacks, created a deep well of science-fiction concepts to inspire later authors. Go »
Will Smith
The star of I Am Legend and Independence Day will soon take his son into the post-apocalyptic future with him in After Earth. Go »
