Way The World Ends

Down to a Sunless Sea
By David Graham
Pan MacMillan, 1979
ISBN 0 330 26184 3
Re-released Simon & Schuster 2007
ISBN 1416567666

This is an excellent book and I am pleased to see it re-released by Simon & Schuster as it is as timely as it was when originally released in the late 1970’s. The book is a first person narrative by the pilot of a trans-Atlantic flight. It starts on the flight into New York, spends an interesting scene setting time in New York and then gets into the main topic of the book, nuclear war and how one group deals with it.

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Portent
James Herbert
New English Library, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992
ISBN 0 450 58885 8

In Portent, Herbert explores the end of the world and the Gaia theory of Lovelock, with a twist. The twist is a supernatural dimension to the story, from Voodoo-like practitioners to identical twins.

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Black Monday
By R. Scott Reiss
Simon & Schuster, 2007
ISBN 9780731813483
This highly entertaining book follows what happens when a genetically engineered bacterium that can destroy petroleum and machines that use it is released into the world’s oil supply. It tracks the chaos that is produced.

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City of the Dead
By Brian Keene
Leisure Books, 2005
ISBN 0-8439-5415-9

Although this book is the sequel to Keene’s book The Rising, I have not read the earlier book. Thankfully this book stands quite well by itself. There is enough back-story covered within City of the Dead to allow you to go straight into this book, whilst there is not so much that it would be repetitive if you have read The Rising. Continue reading →

Domain
By James Herbert
Pan Books, 2000
ISBN 0 330 37623 3

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This 2004 movie focuses on the climate effects of global warming. It postulates that global warming will cause the North Atlantic current to stop, pushing the Northern Hemisphere into severe freezing weather and triggering a new ice age.

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