More NOLA

[karohemd]

I just had a horrible thought.
The scenes described on interdictor (someone holed up in a highrise office building in the CBD powered by diesel generators, who's keeping a blog and various live feeds - at least while his ISP is still runing) have something very apocalyptic about them. First I thought like scenes from a disaster film but its much darker, they remind me of films like 28 Days Later or many zombie films. Very scary. Good thing that film zombies are just fiction, even if this is New Orleans...

ETA: neworleans also has some interesting bits now and then.

Comments

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been playing Urban Dead a lot lately, and had mentally noted the similarity already. :(

The whole situation is also very similar to Ballard's _The Drowned World_, only even less civilised....

[angusabranson.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed The Drowned World. It was the first Ballard book I read :p

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

It does sound like disaster contingency is well fucked.

[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

*horror*

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Can I also nominate The Kraken Wakes? -- seem to remember there's a good scene in that where they gaze mournfully out from the top of a half-submerged tower block wondering if anyone is alive in the others they can see.