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Author |
: Lee Konstantinou |
Publisher |
: Ecco |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2009-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015080874061 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pop Apocalypse by : Lee Konstantinou
A fresh and intelligent debut that imagines the world of 2029, where many of the crises faced today--from celebrity mania to reckless foreign policy and ubiquitous government surveillance--have escalated to ridiculous new heights.
Author |
: Lee Konstantinou |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2009-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061868481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061868485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pop Apocalypse by : Lee Konstantinou
The United States and its Freedom Coalition allies are conducting serial invasions across the globe, including an attack on the anti-capitalist rebels of Northern California. The Middle East—now a single consumerist Caliphate led by Lebanese pop singer Caliph Fred—is in an uproar after an attack on the al-Aqsa Mosque gets televised on the Holy Land Channel. The world is on the brink of a total radioactive, no-survivors war, and humankind's last hope is Eliot R. Vanderthorpe, Jr., celebrity heir, debauched party animal, and Elvis impersonation scholar. But Eliot's got his own problems. His evangelical dad is breeding red heifers in anticipation of the Rapture. Eliot's dissertation is in the toilet. And he has a doppelgänger. An evil doppelgänger.
Author |
: Diletta De Cristofaro |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2019-12-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350085794 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350085790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel by : Diletta De Cristofaro
Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before. But what is at stake in the contemporary shift to apocalyptic narratives in which the utopian end of time is removed? The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel offers an innovative critical model for our cultural obsession with 'the end' by focussing on the significance of time in the 21st-century post-apocalyptic novel and challenging traditional apocalyptic logic. Once confined to the genre of science fiction, the increasing popularity of end-of-the-world narratives has caused apocalyptic writing to feature in the work of some of contemporary literature's most well-known fiction writers. Considering novels by Will Self, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Emily St. John Mandel, Jeanette Winterson and others, Diletta De Cristofaro frames the contemporary apocalyptic imagination as a critique of modernity's apocalyptic conception of time and history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book historicises apocalyptic beliefs by exploring how relentlessly they have shaped the modern world.
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Total Pages |
: 2 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:77702935 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis POP APOCALYPSE. by :
Author |
: David Dark |
Publisher |
: Brazos Press |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2002-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781587430558 |
ISBN-13 |
: 158743055X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Apocalypse by : David Dark
Mining popular media, Dark redefines the term apocalypse as a more honest, watchful way of being in the world and higlights how the imagination can expose our moral condition.
Author |
: Laura Barcella |
Publisher |
: Zest Books ™ |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2019-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541582088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 154158208X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The End by : Laura Barcella
People have been making predictions about how and when the world is going to end for ages. The End is a fun pop culture read about the top 50 movies, books, songs, and artworks—from the movie Shaun of the Dead to the song It's the End of the World as We Know It—about the apocalypse. Each item includes: - A synopsis of the apocalyptic work - Information about the apocalyptic theory behind it (from alien invasion to meteors, nuclear war, and natural disasters) - An explanation about why this work is important in pop culture Love doomsday talk and the art made about it? Check out this fun and entertaining read!
Author |
: Robert McCammon |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 928 |
Release |
: 2016-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501131424 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501131427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Swan Song by : Robert McCammon
In a nightmarish, post-holocaust world, an ancient evil roams a devastated America, gathering the forces of human greed and madness, searching for a child named Swan who possesses the gift of life.
Author |
: Katherine E. Sugg |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2022-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476667850 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476667853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture by : Katherine E. Sugg
Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, global pandemics and dystopian world orders fill our screens--typically with a singular figure or tenacious group tasked with saving or salvaging the world. Why are stories of End Times crisis so popular with audiences? And why is the hero so often a white man who overcomes personal struggles and major obstacles to lead humanity toward a restored future? This book examines the familiar trope of the hero and the recasting of contemporary anxieties in films like The Walking Dead, Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road. Some have familiar roots in Western cultural traditions yet many question popular assumptions about heroes and heroism to tell new and fascinating stories about race, gender and society and the power of individuals to change the world.
Author |
: Shawn Sheehy |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780763687885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 076368788X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Sixth Extinction by : Shawn Sheehy
Elaborate pop-ups feature some wonderfully creepy creatures that just might dominate the ecosystem and be essential to our planet’s survival in an eerily realistic future world. Whether or not we know it, the sixth global extinction is already under way, propelled not by a meteor but by human activity on Earth. Take a long step forward into the year 4847 with the help of stunning pop-ups portraying eight fantastical creatures, along with spreads and flaps presenting details about each one. Paper engineer Shawn Sheehy envisions the aftermath of extinction as a flourishing ecosystem centered around fictional creatures that could evolve from existing organisms. Promising high appeal for science-fiction fans of all ages — and plenty of food for discussion — this evolutionary extravaganza offers a time line of the six extinction events in Earth’s history, a “field guide” to each creature, a diagram of species relationships, a habitat map of the (imagined) ruins of Chicago, and an illuminating author’s note.
Author |
: Willard Wells |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2010-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780387098371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0387098372 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Apocalypse When? by : Willard Wells
This book will be a key trailblazer in a new and upcoming field. The author’s predictive approach relies on simple and intuitive probability formulations that will appeal to readers with a modest knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, and statistics. Wells’ carefully erected theory stands on a sure footing and thus should serve as the basis of many rational predictions of survival in the face of not only natural disasters such as hits by asteroids or comets, but perhaps more surprisingly from man-made hazards arising from genetic engineering or robotics. Any formula for predicting human survival will invite controversy. Dr Wells counters anticipated criticism with a thorough approach in which four lines of reasoning are used to arrive at the same survival formula. One uses empirical survival statistics for business firms and stage shows. Another is based on uncertainty of risk rates. The third, more abstract, invokes Laplace’s principle of insufficient reason and involves an observer’s random arrival in the lifetime of the entity (the human race) in question. The fourth uses Bayesian theory. The author carefully explains and gives examples of the conditions under which his principle is valid and provides evidence that can counteract the arguments of critics who would reject it entirely. His deflection of possible criticisms results from two major premises: selecting the proper random variable and “reference class” to make predictions, and the recognition that if one does not know the law that governs a process, then the best prediction that can be made is his own formula.