Notes From An Apocalypse

Author : Mark O'Connell
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385543018
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes from an Apocalypse written by Mark O'Connell and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with the future, by the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine. “Deeply funny and life-affirming, with a warm, generous outlook even on the most challenging of subjects.” —Esquire We’re alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt. Everywhere you look there’s an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on earth is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O’Connell is consumed by these questions—and, as the father of two young children, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization’s collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited—real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. What emerges is an absorbing, funny, and deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with what’s ahead.

Author : Mark O'Connell
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783784083
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes from an Apocalypse written by Mark O'Connell and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Book of Revelation with a Bill Bryson touch... At least you'll die laughing' Sunday Telegraph **NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE LATEST APOCALYPSE** Of late, Mark O'Connell has found himself particularly anxious about the end of the world. As things fall apart around him, he sets out to meet the people preparing to survive: environmentalists meditating in remote Scottish forests, billionaires dreaming of life on Mars or a villa in New Zealand, and conspiracy theorists yearning for a lost American idyll. Journeying with him through this landscape of anxiety, we learn just what it takes to make it to the other side.

Author : Wayne Gladstone
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250045029
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes from the Internet Apocalypse written by Wayne Gladstone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the world suddenly loses all Internet access, one man, aided by a host of web addicts forced to live offline, chases down rumors that someone in New York still has the Net.

Author : Nathan Schneider
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520276795
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thank You, Anarchy written by Nathan Schneider and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Occupy Wall Street Movement in its first year in New York City, discussing its origins, organizers, beliefs that inspired its formation, and its impact on the media and the political status quo.

Author : David Steele
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Apocalypse written by David Steele and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Notes on the Apocalypse" by David Steele. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Mark O'Connell
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 110191159X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Be a Machine written by Mark O'Connell and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley techno-utopians’ pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy romp full of colorful characters.” —New York Times Book Review (editor's choice) Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our biology—of our senses, intelligence, and lifespans—with technology. Its supporters have reached a critical mass and now include some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley and beyond, among them Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Ray Kurzweil. In this provocative and eye-opening account, journalist Mark O’Connell explores the staggering (and terrifying) possibilities that present themselves when you think of your body as an outmoded device. He visits the world’s foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death, discovers an underground collective of biohackers boosting their senses by implanting electronics under their skin, and meets with members of a team urgently investigating how to protect mankind from rogue artificial superintelligence. In investigating what it means to be a machine, O’Connell shines a light on our ancient desire to transcend the animal condition—and offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human.

Author : Ben Tallon
Publisher : Wrong'un Press
ISBN 13 : 1838135413
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories for the Apocalypse #1 written by Ben Tallon and published by Wrong'un Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the apocalypse. It’s quieter than we were led to believe it would be. Every day as the world burns, we get out of bed, go to work, take our medicine, ache to smile just that little bit harder for the camera, ‘share’ our children, and cram more items into our carts. But with every bleak headline that goes by, we each suffer our own private collapse. Stories for the Apocalypse #1: Notes on the New Normal is a collection of visceral, suburban horror stories by Ben Tallon, about coping in the midst of the mania of modern society. “Ben Tallon really captures a certain ‘did I just see that?’ British griminess. This is the kind of in-the-shadows suburban horror I love. Always in danger of getting out of control.” - Charlie Adlard, The Walking Dead. "Ben's mundane world is our world. His skill is pulling back the veil, and showing us the depravity that lurks closer than we allow ourselves to realise." - Susan Earlam, Author of Earthly Bodies. “Tallon's Notes are written in a spare, pummelling fashion like conkers dropping from big trees onto expensive cars. He's telling us that the world is underpinned with a disturbed hilarity. This is a book that smells like my old socks. But the sort of old socks you like; because they're yours; that smell, that stink, it's yours.” - Austin Collings, author of God’s Fox and The Myth of Brilliant Summers

Author : Lost Zombies
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452110131
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Inside: Do Not Enter written by Lost Zombies and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post Secret meets World War Z in this chilling vision of the fallout following a global zombie pandemic. A gradual mutation of a virulent strain of super flu gives rise to millions of the undead, who quickly overwhelm treatment facilities and swarm cities around the world, leaving survivors on their own against a legion of the infected. This chilling story is told through the scraps of paper, scrawled signs, and cryptic markers left by survivors as they struggle to stay alive and find those they ve lost in a world overrun by zombies. Through these found notes and messages letters to loved ones, journal fragments, confessions, and warnings readers can uncover the story of what went wrong, and come to know the individual voices of those affected by the zombie crisis.

Author : Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145296159X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory for the World to Come written by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future? The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond nihilistic conceptions of the capitalism-caused Anthropocene and toward generative bodies of thought that provoke creative ways of thinking about the world ahead. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and ’80s to help think differently about the future and its possibilities. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

Author : James Proimos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619634430
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse Bow Wow written by James Proimos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end has come. The world is in shambles. Everyone is gone . . . except for the dogs! Brownie and Apollo are two dogs living in bliss with a big, comfy couch to laze on. But unbeknownst to them and seemingly overnight, the world has turned to utter chaos. What they do know is their owners are MIA, they are starting to get on each other's nerves, and it's dinner time. What has happened? Who will feed them? What if their people are gone for good?! With bellies rumbling, Brownie and Apollo decide to set out into the wide world, where they discover other pets and stray animals who have been left behind. But not everyone is man's best friend. It's a dog-eat-dog world now! With the help of a friendly neighborhood police dog and a small but mighty side-kick tick, Apollo and Brownie must figure out how to survive these dark times and locate their ultimate goal: dinner!