{"product_id":"everything-must-go-dorian-lynskey-9781529095951","title":"Everything Must Go","description":"\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to the HBO's The Last of Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Will make you happy to be alive and reading - until the lights go out . . . Brilliant' - The Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Clever and voluminous . . . So engagingly plotted and written' - The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe have always told ourselves stories about the end of the world. Long before we watched superintelligent AI wage war on humanity in The Terminator, or read about a catastrophic deluge in J. G. Ballard's The Drowned World, art, literature and politics were all haunted by recurring visions of apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Everything Must Go - a colourful, witty and stirring cultural history of the modern world that weaves in politics, history and science - Dorian Lynskey explores the endings that we have read, listened to, or watched with morbid fascination, from the sci-fi terrors of H. G. Wells and John Wyndham to the apocalyptic ballads of Bob Dylan and planet-shattering movie blockbusters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether we're fantasizing about nuclear holocaust or a collision with an asteroid, a devastating pandemic or a robot revolution, why do we like to scare ourselves, and why do we keep coming back for more? And how do fictional premonitions of the end play into real-life responses to existential threats?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeeply illuminating about our past and our present, and surprisingly hopeful about our future, Everything Must Go will grip you from beginning to, well, end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I was blown away by this book' - Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Impossibly epic, brain-expanding, life-affirming and profound' - Ian Dunt, author of How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dorian Lynskey","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47594949443827,"sku":"9781529095951","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781529095951.jpg?v=1753819155","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/everything-must-go-dorian-lynskey-9781529095951","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}