Monday, March 22, 2010

Right at Your Door (2007) movie

The 2007 movie Right at Your Door is about a series of possibly biological bomb attacks on the city of Los Angeles. The focus of the movie is one woman's fight to reunite with her husband who's trapped in their home.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

The Prophet and the Astronomer (2001) book

Marcelo Gleiser's 2001 book, The Prophet and the Astronomer: A Scientific Journey to the End of Time, examines the relation between predictions of the end of the universe by cosmographers and astrophysicists and religious and philosophical revelations of the apocalypse. This work was originally published in Portuguese under the title O fim da Terra e do Céu: O apocalipse na ciência e na religião, and was translated into English by the author.

Monday, March 1, 2010

The End of the World (1998) book

Edited by Lewis H. Lapham with Peter T. Struck, The End of the World (1998, c1997) is an anthology of essays, memoirs, and extracts from historical writings about events that were considered apocalyptic at the time of their occurrence. The first of these is the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh from around 3000 BC. The book is divided into three parts:

  1. The Ruins of Empires

  2. The Fall of Nations

  3. The Twentieth Century: The End in a Void


The last part includes reference to and information from the Rapture Index.

There is also an "End Times" table with predicted dates for the end of the world. This table does not include the supposed Mayan calendar prediction of the world's end in 2012 AD.