
Doomsday State of Fear™
A Brief History of Power and Navigating the End of the WorldBy Chris A. Piazza | Antherra™Length2h 44m
About this audiobook
A room without windows holds every way the world has already ended, while clocks argue over which catastrophe deserves to be called final. An archivist walks a visitor past ten walls—decadence, inequality, holy fire, failing land, sickness, invasion, complexity, cities, and the moment stories themselves lose traction—until the familiar thrill of doom starts to feel like another kind of trap. Each mirror throws back a different century’s certainty that this time is the edge, this time is the last, even as the stone at the center quietly remembers how many supposed “last times” have already been survived. The present hangs as an unfinished frame on the barest patch of wall, waiting to see whether the next hand on the column presses in for spectacle or for survival.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Politics and Government
Length2 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 2, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
8Chapter 6: Barbarians at the Gate
2Foreword (Invocation)
9Chapter 7: Traps of Our Own Making
3Chapter 1: Spoiled Romans, Rotten Moderns
10Chapter 8: The City as Doom Engine
4Chapter 2: When the Top Eats the Rest
11Chapter 9: When Stories Stop Working
5Chapter 3: God’s Last Warning
12Chapter 10: Counting the Ends of the World
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6Chapter 4: The Land Gives Out
13Afterword: Leaving the Room
7Chapter 5: Invisible Reckoning