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

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 288 pages, height x width: 216x138 mm
  • Izdošanas datums: 05-Nov-2020
  • Izdevniecība: Elliott & Thompson Limited
  • ISBN-10: 178396474X
  • ISBN-13: 9781783964741
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 288 pages, height x width: 216x138 mm
  • Izdošanas datums: 05-Nov-2020
  • Izdevniecība: Elliott & Thompson Limited
  • ISBN-10: 178396474X
  • ISBN-13: 9781783964741
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Shortlisted for The British Science Fiction Association Best Non-Fiction 2020



Are we doomed? Is an almighty power or an earth-shattering meteor waiting for us just around the corner?





In this thought-provoking book, Professor Adam Roberts explores our many different cultural visions of the end of the world - likely and unlikely, mundane and bizarre - and what they say about how we see ourselves and our societies. What is it is that we are really afraid of? An uncaring universe; an uncontrollable environment; the human capacity for destruction; or just our own, personal apocalypse - our mortality?





From last man and dying earth fiction to zombies swarming on screen and the ruined landscapes of immersive gaming, via sweeping contagions, invading aliens, falling bombs and rising robots, buckle up for the end of the world.

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Short-listed for The British Science Fiction Association Best Non-Fiction 2020 (UK).* The first non-fiction book to look at all the ways we've envisioned the end of the world - from Gods to atomic bombs and from the climate crisis to rogue AI; * Explores why this is such a perennially popular fascination and an endlessly repeated trope in popular culture; * The right book at the right time... Puts our fears into context as anxiety about the future of the planet increases (seemingly daily); * An erudite and incisive book from an author known for his ground-breaking criticism
Introduction: The End is Nigh 1(22)
1 Escaping the Wrath of the Gods: Religious Doomsday
23(32)
2 A Swarm of Undead: The Zombie Apocalypse
55(24)
3 Bring Out Your Dead: World-ending Plagues
79(28)
4 The Age of the Machine: Technology Unleashed
107(24)
5 Heat Deaths and Eternal Returns: The End of the Universe
131(24)
6 The World on Fire: Climate Armageddon
155(26)
Epilogue: The End is Never 181(14)
Index 195
Professor Adam Roberts is a writer, critic and Professor of Nineteenth Century Literature at Royal Holloway University. Among his many academic works are studies of Browning and Coleridge.

He is also the author of more than twenty science fiction novels, including Jack Glass, which won the BSFA Award for Best Novel. He is the author of the Palgrave History of Science Fiction and reviews regularly for the Guardian. He lives to the West of London with his wife and two children.