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Eternity: Our Next Billion Years: Humanity's Next Billion Years (Hardcover)

by Michael Hanlon (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (8 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0230219314
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230219311
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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'...this is a well-researched, engagingly written and thoughtfully constructed book – one that manages to be imaginative without bursting the constraints imposed by current scientific thinking.' - Dr Paul Parsons, BBC Focus
 
'an extremely stimulating read.' - GF Willmetts, SF Crowsnest
 
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'Adopting Adams' witty, punchy style, Hanlon's guide is a fun and vivid read. The science twinkles a little more than usual in such a zany setting...he tackles a wide range of cutting-edge topics with depth and authority.' Nature

'Good stuff...It's great the way Hanlon flits from one topic to another, weaving a web of scientific and technological ideas...his light style is ideally fitted to exploring the products of Douglas Adams' mind.' www.popularscience.co.uk
 
 


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It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed. Michael Hanlon believes that not only is humankind not doomed, but that we may be around for millions, if not hundreds of millions of years. Humans will survive. Our future is in many ways bizarre, surreal and sometimes depressing - but it will still be our world, populated by us.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic detailed and well-written, 9 Jan 2009
A difficult book to put down.

Combining science fact with detailed and plausible possibilities, this is a detailed and well-researched title which simultaneously praises human achievement and also puts us in our place in the grand scheme of things.

The book is set out in three different parts, each interesting and thought-provoking:
I) Possible scenarios and challenges that will face us and our planet in the next few centuries. This part is fairly grounded in reality.
II) Focuses on our evolving planet and makes educated guesses and assumptions as to what changes we can expect to see over the next few millennia.
III) A series of well-written 'future histories', each very different from the last.

This is the first book I've read by the author and I am already ordering a second.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Eternity, 2 Mar 2009
By Alan Davies (Aberdare. Wales) - See all my reviews
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A very entertaining read, setting the imagination running as to the possibilities of the human race and the Earth. We ain't going to live forever, that's for sure, but this book sets out so many possibilities of what we could achieve. We are still after all wallowing in the swamp on the scale of time we are talking about here, but this book spells out in a very readable and easy-to-grasp way, what our descendants could achieve. Worth reading if our future interests you, but view it only as a possibility.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good!, 29 Jan 2009
By Calacorm (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
Good book, informative and as the previous reviewer states it's very difficult to put down! It raised some very interesting points and theories.

However, I did get the impression that the author got a little bored (or rushed) about two thirds of the way through. Which is slightly ironic saying the book is about the next billion years or so.
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