Lights Out: How It All Ends

by Scientific American

The Book of Revelation, the Maya, Nostradamus - humans have speculated about the end since, well, the beginning. In this book, we look at several “end of the world” scenarios - or at least, things that could make human life really difficult.

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Genres: Science

235 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 17, 2012

About the author

Scientific American , as an institutional author, is a popular science magazine founded by Rufus M. Porter and controlled by Nature Publishing Group since autumn, 2008. Mariette DiChristina has been editor-in-chief since December, 2009.

Reviews

[Nick B · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing (pardon the pun) earth shattering here. Nuclear war, a comet, earthquake volcano, all described in hard to read, detailed, pretty dull context. A lot of the information is old, 15 years or more, and irrelevant to modern scientific discoveries. The book had a few interesting parts in relation to comets and asteroids, but otherwise it was a difficult read that 3/4 of the way I gave up on.

[BethK · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection of sobering articles from Scientific American published in recent years. As always for Scientific American, the articles are well researched and published by renowned scientists and researchers, with known affiliations, and are well-edited so they are quite readable. Each article stands on its own, so it can be read in spurts when one has only a few minutes to read.

[Stephie Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book provided some interesting senarios about how it will all end from a scientific perspective by a variety of scientists. Definitely worth reading if you are interested in this sort of thing.