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THE CATASTROPHES ISSUE

This month's disaster-themed issue was put together under the exhaustive direction of writing dynamo

Jim Shepard

. Rather than listen to us bullshit out a bunch of sentences trying to approximate his ideas for the issue, you should read them verbatim from the

man himself

. Once you think you've got your mind around that, you may dive into the catastrophic things that made his cut. They are below.

A Ugandan prison for kids.

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The mass extinction which ended the Permian geological period

A German lady who was the sole survivor of a horrific Peruvian plane crash

Our five favorite depictions of heart-rending calamities throughout history

Ten incidents in which exponentially more people died

A cultural theorist who lived through the French occupation in WWII and the bombing of Nantes, and believes that every human innovation contains within its very essence its own critical flaw

Men of science delicately explaining five uncontrollable forces of nature/physics that could kablooie our entire species out of existence at a moment's notice

An excerpt from Clancy Martin's new book, Lisa

And as always, if you prefer the warm, faintly sticky feel of glossy paper to the warm, faintly sticky texture of your keyboard,

head here

and use the little map-y deal to find the nearest place to pick up a physical copy of the mag.