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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?
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors.
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Publisher
Viking Penguin
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
326 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
It's only a matter of time before a cosmic disaster spells the end of the Earth. But how concerned should we about about any of these catastrophic scenarios? And if they do post a danger, can anything be done to stop them?
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Series
End series volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Set in the near future, describes the events that lead up to the Apocalypse which were prophesized in the book of Revelation.
7) End of days
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
490 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Constructing a ranch-fortress in the Southwest to prepare for an apocalypse about which she has seen visions since childhood, Lydia, the descendant of an Apache war-shaman, desperately seeks her daughter's gonzo journalist ex, who went missing after discovering plans for a catastrophic attack.
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
362 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Corruption in high government offices threatens to block the election of a worthy presidential candidate as Joshua Jordan and his family fight seemingly impossible odds to clear his name and protect the autonomy of the nation of Israel.
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Publisher
W. Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Global Reset will open readers' eyes and alert them to how world leaders are using the "Great Reset" agenda to seize pandemics, natural disasters and catastrophes, civil disorder, political unrest, and other current events to reshape every facet of life--all pointing toward the universal economy and godless global government of the Antichrist.
13) Red hill
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When a deadly outbreak threatens everyone, Scarlet, Nathan, and Miranda seek shelter at the Red Hill ranch, as their relationships and instincts for survival are tested in an apocalyptic world.
14) Cthulhu
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When Russell, a college professor, returns to rectify his late mother's estate, he discovers the town embroiled in a sinister plot to take over the world and his own destiny entwined with their plans."--Container.
15) Pacific Rim
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (131 min.) : Blu-ray sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee, who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
16) This is the end
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six friends are trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events that devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world, Hadrian Boone, a fallen founder of the colony of Carthage, joins forces with a policewoman to investigate the camps of outcasts in the hopes of discovering who murdered the colony's leading scientist.
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Series
Moon apocalyptic novels volume 1
Description
"With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take...
20) The maze cutter
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Maze cutter trilogy volume 1
Description
Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the mainland--everything changes. The group and their islander friends are forced to embark back to civilization where they find Cranks have evolved into a more violent, intelligent version of themselves. The islanders are hunted by the Godhead,...
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