The Book of End Times: Grappling with the Millenium

It's no surprize that the millennium has inspired a plethora of literature and art. It's both fascinating and frightening - a future of excitement and anticipation, change, apocalypse and redemption. The Book of End Times explores millennial thought and art through an eclectic mix of mediums. From the poetry of Yeats and Blake to the songs of Van Morrison and Bob Dylan, from photos of Mayan temples to Tibetan prayer wheels, John Clute looks at the beautiful, the mysterious and the terrifying.

Using his expertise as a science fiction writer and evidence from pop culture, literature, art, religion and philosophy, Clute theorizes that the destruction as the world as we know it is real and is happening right now because of Western society's uneasiness with rapid change. The text is almost illegibly imposed upon color images. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)