That"s all. Why do we scare ourselves to the end of the world?

The world on the edge of the abyss: the plague takes the life of millions, the sun burns crops, here and there the wars begin, and people seem to have lost the remnants of the mind. Are you ready by the end of the world ??
We are being prepared for it throughout history and all this has already been in books and films, says Adam Roberts, a teacher of literature of the college of Royal Holloway, a writer, who is called the best modern science fiction writer, and concurrently the historian of the genre. "That"s all."? - This is a brilliant analysis of our ideas about the death of mankind, which reflect the state of society, the psychology of the individual and the masses, their cherished aspirations and fears. Why zombies are we? What can "matrix" can say about epidemics? Who was the first "last person" on earth? Roberts extremely wittily shows how science fiction and reality affect each other, analyzes possible scripts of Armageddon and selects convincing arguments in favor of the fact that it is worth a little to be awarded