Notes from an Apocalypse

De: Mark O’Connell

Narrado por: Mark O'Connell

By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, a deeply felt book about our anxious present tense - and coming to grips with the future.

We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Our old postwar alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How do we live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does the world hold for our children? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what is anybody doing about it?

Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell is possessed by these questions. 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 favoured retreat of billionaires banking on civilisation's collapse. And he bears witness to those places the future has already visited - real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he offers a unique window into our apocalyptic imagination.

Part tour, part pilgrimage, Notes from an Apocalypse is an affecting and hopeful meditation on our alarming present moment. With insight, humanity and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of the world?

©2020 Mark O’Connell (P)2020 Audible, Ltd

this book only serves the author

I feel anyone who gravitates towards this book is already acutely aware of the state of the planet and the mega rich building bunkers etc. I, like the author, have anxieties of how the future looks for my newborn child but I felt this book serves little purpose other than to offer the author some relief. Through voicing his anxieties to the point of exhaustion he can then exhale at the realization that no one knows what will happen, we cannot control the future through worry and to enjoy today. it's well written but perhaps should have stayed a personal therapeutic essay as it is extremely depressing and offers no new information, perspective or direction

by Nick Roberts NOT Sophie Annan