The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes (British Library Science Fiction Classics): 8

Mike Ashley,Helen Sutherland,C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne,Herbert C. Ridout,Owen Oliver,Robert Barr,John Ames Mitchell,Simon Newcomb,George Griffith,John Brunner,Frank Lillie Pollock,Warwick Deeping,Alice Eleanor Jones,Ray Bradbury,Mike Ashley

ISBN 10: 0712352732 / ISBN 13: 9780712352734

Editore: British Library Publishing 2019-05-16, 2019

Codice articolo 6666-GRD-9780712352734

Riassunto:

Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic short stories from the classic age of science fiction. Join humanity on the brink of destruction in 13 doom-laden visions from the 1890s to the 1960s, featuring rare tales from the Library’s vaults. Tales of plague seizing an over-polluted capital, a world engulfed in absolute darkness by some cosmic disaster, and of poignant dreams of a silent planet after the last echoes of humanity have died away. Extreme climate change, nuclear annihilation, comet strike; calamities self-inflicted and from beyond the steer of humankind vie to deal the last blow in this countdown from the first whisper of possible extinction to the Earth’s final sunrise.

Informazioni sull'autore: Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than a hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World, and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950. His multi-volume history of science fiction magazines is published by Liverpool University Press.

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Titolo: The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes...
Casa editrice: British Library Publishing 2019-05-16
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New