Downsizing (2017)

Downsizing (2017)

Becca has watched Downsizing, a science fiction comedy drama in which Paul Safrânek decides to undergo a recently-invented procedure to shrink his body so he can start a new life in an experimental community, which he ends up doing alone when his wife backs out at the last minute. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Parable of the Sower (1993)

Carl has read a near-future which feels a little close to home. It's 2024 and Lauren Olamina is a young woman who can feel the pain of others and becomes displaced from her home. Several characters from various walks of life join her on her journey north through a troubled USA. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Don't Look Up (2021)

Becca has watched Don't Look Up, in which two astronomers go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Wool (2011)

Becca has read Wool by Hugh Howey. A community lives in a silo beneath the surface of a ruined Earth. But something isn't right about life in the silo. What happens to those who venture outside? ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Way The End of Days Should Be (2014)

Carl has read The Way The End of Days Should Be by Diane Cook. In the short story collection Man v. Nature, we find a narrator whose house has been surrounded by water. He was prepared for the flood.... but his neighbours were not. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.