The Book of End Times: Grappling With the Millennium

Author of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, John Clute has been writing about millennial themes for more than 30 years -- subjects that have fascinated people throughout history and now have reached fever pitch with the coming of the new millennium. A rich and heady mix of the thoughtful, the beautiful, and the bizarre, The Book of End Times draws on a phenomenal variety of sources -- Yeats and Blake jostle with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, Durer woodcuts sit alongside Tibetan prayer wheels and aerial photos of Mayan temples -- to assemble a gorgeous and terrifying portrait of the coming epoch. Exquisitely illustrated, it makes a perfect gift for lovers of art and literature, as well as for those enraptured by the growing millennial culture.