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It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?
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It’s the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of?

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Are we doomed? Is an Almighty Power or an earth-shattering meteor waiting for us just around the corner? Probably not. So why are we so obsessed with imagining our own demise? And what does that say about us as a species?
In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed critic Adam Roberts explores our many different visions of the apocalypse - both likely and unlikely, mundane and bizarre - and what they say about how we see the world, how we respond to the changes and upheavals in our societies, and what it is we’re really afraid of. An uncaring Universe? An uncontrollable environment? The human capacity for destruction? Or just our own, very personal, apocalypse: our mortality?
From our ancient fears of angry gods calling time, to scientific speculations about the full extent of the climate crisis, via creeping disease, last men, arriving aliens, rising robots, falling bombs and insect Armageddon, buckle in for the end of the world. Where an ending may really be a new beginning…

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Elliott & Thompson Limited
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 December 2020
Pages
288
ISBN
9781783964741

Are we doomed? Is an Almighty Power or an earth-shattering meteor waiting for us just around the corner? Probably not. So why are we so obsessed with imagining our own demise? And what does that say about us as a species?
In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed critic Adam Roberts explores our many different visions of the apocalypse - both likely and unlikely, mundane and bizarre - and what they say about how we see the world, how we respond to the changes and upheavals in our societies, and what it is we’re really afraid of. An uncaring Universe? An uncontrollable environment? The human capacity for destruction? Or just our own, very personal, apocalypse: our mortality?
From our ancient fears of angry gods calling time, to scientific speculations about the full extent of the climate crisis, via creeping disease, last men, arriving aliens, rising robots, falling bombs and insect Armageddon, buckle in for the end of the world. Where an ending may really be a new beginning…

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Elliott & Thompson Limited
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 December 2020
Pages
288
ISBN
9781783964741