<p><b>A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s <i>The Last Man</i> to the Manic Street Preachers’ <i>Everything Must Go.</i></b><br><br><b>'Brilliant, scholarly, sharp and witty’ – Adam Rutherford, author of <i>A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived</i></b><br><br><b>'Will make you happy to be alive and reading – until the lights go out . . . Brilliant' – <i>The Spectator</i></b><br><br>For two millennia, Christians have anticipated the end of the world, haunted by the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Revelation. But over the past two centuries, these dark fantasies have given way to secular stories of how the world, our planet, or our species (or all of the above) might be annihilated.<br><br>In <i>Everything
