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, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, Denise Sawicki, Joanna Woods, 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.

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