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Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Maybe someday
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19/100Critics
52/100Scholars
Author:
Mark O'Connell
Publisher:
Doubleday Books
Date:
April 14, 2020
Seeking to assuage his existential dread in the face of climate change and the global disintegration of democracy, Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell tours survival bunkers in South Dakota, ventures to New Zealand to a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization's collapse, engages with would-be Mars colonists, and conspiracists all while offering readers a unique window into our contemporary imagination.
What The Reviewers Say
O’Connell has a gift for channelling the 'sense of looming crisis' that characterises our times, but is able to step outside it, to bring it into focus.
Some of the stops on this travelogue are so spectacularly scenic that I found myself envious, and not a little bit suspicious: Here was someone who had figured out a way to tour the world by writing about the end of it.
Mr. O’Connell’s investigation into end-times paranoia, prognostication and 'prepping' (stockpiling tins, dusting down that bunker) could hardly be more timely—and yet in some ways his new book has already dated beyond anything he could have predicted.
... brilliant.
