Episode 116: Water Disasters

In Mad Max: Fury Road, a water despot dispenses his most valuable resource to his subjects, letting it flow onto their heads from a skull.

Floods. Sea level rise. Superstorms. Droughts. All over the planet, people are being hit by disasters caused by too much water or not enough, and it's only going to get worse. We talk about why science fiction has been focused on water disasters for over a century, from Princess of Mars to Dune and Mad Max: Fury Road. We're also joined by flood geologist Kyle House, who tells us about ancient floods -- and the recent one that inundated his neighborhood in Arizona.

Notes, citations, & etc.

Kyle House (website, Instagram)

Nileometer (via National Geographic)

A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Ice Pirates

Dune

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Meg

The Abyss

A Door into Ocean, by Joan Slonczewski

Waterworld