A Is for Armageddon - Softcover

Horne, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0062005936 ISBN 13: 9780062005939

Publisher: Perennial, 2010

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Pub Date: 2010-12-21 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Harper Perennial Doomsday Judgment Day Day of Reckoning The Apocalypse As the man with the sandwich board might say. The end............ of the world is nigh. Nobody knows for sure whether it will be an act of God. a natural event. or a man-made disaster that causes the final bell to toll for humankind. but it is surely primed and ready to clang. A Is for Armageddon is your ruthlessly clever and gorgeously hopeless guide to the possible-if not imminent-ultimate destruction of our civilization and planet. From animal flatulence to economic collapse to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse-from lethal genetic modification to runaway obesity. super volcanoes. and World War III-the seeds of our doom have been sown... and our most dire possible fates have been stunningly illustrated in this edifying and uniquely entertain...

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"A catalog of potentially life-on-earth-ending catastrophes that will warm a pessimist's heart...Horne takes a decidedly tongue-in-cheek approach to the end of days, reveling, like any good pessimist, in the sheer misery of it all. His compendium is colorfully illustrated and quite exhaustive."--The New Yorker

"Horne gives us an Armageddon that's vivid and flashy with hip characterizations and humor that's the equivalent of the comic relief in a Shakespearean tragedy....Don't let the jokes and splashy colors fool you, though. He's as thoughtful as he is comprehensive."--Los Angeles Times

"Richard Horne's beautifully illustrated new book 'A Is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Catalogue of Disasters' is the perfect last-minute gift for the end of days alarmist on your holiday list."--Flavorpill

"For real calamity, Richard Horne is your man, and "A Is for Armageddon" is his illustrated catalog of all the ways you and the world might bite it. In his hands the means to the End become wonders to behold...[A] Technicolor parade of visual metaphors."--New York Times

"A beautifully illustrated, delightfully dystopian guide to the apocalypse."--BrainPickings.org

A catalog of potentially life-on-earth-ending catastrophes that will warm a pessimist s heart Horne takes a decidedly tongue-in-cheek approach to the end of days, reveling, like any good pessimist, in the sheer misery of it all. His compendium is colorfully illustrated and quite exhaustive. --The New Yorker"

Richard Horne s beautifully illustrated new book A Is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Catalogue of Disasters is the perfect last-minute gift for the end of days alarmist on your holiday list. --Flavorpill"

For real calamity, Richard Horne is your man, and A Is for Armageddon is his illustrated catalog of all the ways you and the world might bite it. In his hands the means to the End become wonders to behold...[A] Technicolor parade of visual metaphors. --New York Times"

Horne gives us an Armageddon that s vivid and flashy with hip characterizations and humor that s the equivalent of the comic relief in a Shakespearean tragedy .Don t let the jokes and splashy colors fool you, though. He s as thoughtful as he is comprehensive. --Los Angeles Times"

A beautifully illustrated, delightfully dystopian guide to the apocalypse. --BrainPickings.org"

From the Back Cover:

Doomsday . . . Judgment Day . . .

Day of Reckoning . . . The Apocalypse . . .

As the man with the sandwich board might say, "The end of the world is nigh." Nobody knows for sure whether it will be an act of God, a natural event, or a man-made disaster that causes the final bell to toll for humankind, but it is surely primed and ready to clang.

A Is for Armageddon is your ruthlessly clever and gorgeously hopeless guide to the possible--if not imminent--ultimate destruction of our civilization and planet. From animal flatulence to economic collapse to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--from lethal genetic modification to runaway obesity, super volcanoes, and World War III--the seeds of our doom have been sown . . . and our most dire possible fates have been stunningly illustrated in this edifying and uniquely entertaining volume of inescapable horrors, fatal missteps, and the end of everything.

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