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It's the end of the world : but what are we really afraid of?
- Title
- It's the end of the world : but what are we really afraid of? / Adam Roberts.
- Author
- Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
- Publication
- London : Elliott & Thompson, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- 202 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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...
- Alternative Title
- It is the end of the world
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the end is nigh -- Escaping the wrath of the Gods : religious doomsday -- A swarm of undead : the zombie apocalypse -- Bring out your dead : world-ending plagues -- The age of the machine : technology unleashed -- Heat deaths and eternal returns : the end of the Universe -- The world on fire : climate armageddon -- Epilogue: the end is never.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-961
- ISBN
- 9781783964741 (hardback)
- 178396474X (hardback)
- OCLC
- 1233239394
- Author
- Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles), author.
- Title
- It's the end of the world : but what are we really afraid of? / Adam Roberts.
- Publisher
- London : Elliott & Thompson, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-961