“Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse” is an anthology of post-apocalyptic stories due out on January 8th. It includes stories by Stephen King, Gene Wolfe, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Octavia Butler, Cory Doctorow and others… and while it’s post-apocalyptic it apparently is grounded well enough to not include zombies or aliens.

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Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel “The Road” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was also chosen for Oprah Winfrey’s book club.

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Phil Plait, author of “Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing “Hoax”" is now working on his second book, “Death from the Skies”, due out in spring of 2008. “Death from the Skies” concerns all the ways that the universe can kill you - in an astronomical sense, rather than personal. Gamma ray bursts, asteroids, comets; I’m pulling for the earth being ripped apart by a black hole, myself. Or being invaded by aliens who die when they come in contact with water.

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First, you should know that Whitley Strieber has a book coming out in September 2007, a book so new, so … so secret! … that it doesn’t even have a cover up on Amazon yet. The book is 2012: The War for Souls.

The basic premise of the book is that a scientist finds that there are Earths in multiple dimensions and that in 2012, they’ll all be destroyed - Mayan prophecy style.

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It’s the folks who take it all so seriously that make it all worthwhile.

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Reason Magazine runs a review of new-fangled psychedelic guru-wannabe Daniel Pinchbeck’s new book “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl” in which he discusses that modern excesses deserve an apocalypse in 2012, surveys various phenomena like crop circles, and channels Quetzalcoatl under the influence of the psychedelic drug ayahuasca, concluding that we’re due for a shift in consciousness on a planetary scale in 2012.

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I present this musing on Peak Oil not because it uses the word ‘apocalypse’ so frequently, but because it introduced me to my new word for the day:

doomerism

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Apparently people, or at least newspaper reviewers, in Kansas aren’t fond of Cormac McCarthy’s recent apocalyptic novel “The Road”. While acknowledging McCarthy’s past success as a writer, they take issue with the world ravaged by nuclear war and yet allowing people to survive, and McCarthy’s swollen purple prose.

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World War Z has hit The Onion AV Club, including a description of the chapter I just read an hour ago.

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I know Bill Moyers mostly from “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth”. Moyers brought out the best in Campbell. In Campbell’s other videos, he was the geek professor to a tee; with Moyers he became the inspired prophet for gen-x and the 90’s.

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