This is especially true of Egyptian apocalyptic literature. As a matter of scholarship, however, the ‘apocalyptic’ is a distinctly modern category, applied at different times by different scholars to a range of ancient Jewish, Christian, Babylonian and Egyptian texts.ĭaniel and Revelation have their place in the Bible, but apocalypse has rarely been canonical. In Daniel, the dead will be resurrected to eternal life or eternal disgrace Revelation foretells the Last Judgment and the creation of a new earth and a new heaven, without suffering and death. The end of times was often viewed positively, as a defeat of evil and a reward for the righteous. Our modern, colloquial notion of apocalypse takes its name from ancient Jewish and Christian traditions, in particular the books of Daniel and Revelation, which predict a fundamental transformation of the world, including an end of time and of death. In ancient Greek, ‘apocalypse’ simply meant ‘revelation’. Yet humanity’s concern for the end of the world is nothing new. These predictions reveal not only the fragility of our existence, but also our capacity to bring about potentially catastrophic changes to life on earth. Enjoy.T he year 2000 has come and gone we survived the Maya apocalypse of 2012. Portents of our demise now come most often in the form of UN climate reports, the Doomsday Clock or the pronouncements of epidemiologists.
So what I'm saying is, the tech is really cool, the characters are irresistible and you will probably end up reading this into the wee hours of the morning with your family checking on you concernedly to make sure you remember to eat.
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The prose is engaging, written with a touch of modern slang that is pleasant and an enjoyable creole original to the series (so cool!). The plot is well paced, keeping momentum throughout. They're characters who are impossible not to grow attached to. The protagonists are painfully and amusingly human, neither too heroic, nor unrealistically flawed, but honorable in a refreshing way (especially when much fiction today seeks to make us love despicable protagonists). You are offered a world which can reasonably be derived from our own both politically and technologically.
A playfully written, deeply serious and even philosophical space opera. Lewis, Tolkien, Dunsany-you get the idea. A lot of sci-fi and fantasy-I'm a big fan of Lovecraft, C.S. In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way.
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Illus, the first human colony on this vast new frontier.īook 5 of the Expanse A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun.īook Six of the Expanse The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus.īook 4 of the Expanse The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise has begun. The outer planets and the Belt are uncertain in their new - possibly temporary - autonomy.įor generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. Humanity has colonised the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. Corey Expanse Series 7 Books Collection Set (Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate, Cibola Burn, Nemesis Games, Babylon's Ashes & Persepolis Rising):
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