A is for Armageddon: A Catalogue of Disasters That May Culminate in the End of the World as We Know It - Softcover

"A catalog of potentially life-on-earth-ending catastrophes that will warm a pessimist's heart...Horne takes a decidedly tongue-in-cheek approach to the end of days, reveling, like any good pessimist, in the sheer misery of it all. His compendium is colorfully illustrated and quite exhaustive."--The New Yorker

"Richard Horne's beautifully illustrated new book 'A Is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Catalogue of Disasters' is the perfect last-minute gift for the end of days alarmist on your holiday list."--Flavorpill

"For real calamity, Richard Horne is your man, and "A Is for Armageddon" is his illustrated catalog of all the ways you and the world might bite it. In his hands the means to the End become wonders to behold...[A] Technicolor parade of visual metaphors."--New York Times

"A beautifully illustrated, delightfully dystopian guide to the apocalypse."--BrainPickings.org

"Horne gives us an Armageddon that's vivid and flashy with hip characterizations and humor that's the equivalent of the comic relief in a Shakespearean tragedy....Don't let the jokes and splashy colors fool you, though. He's as thoughtful as he is comprehensive."--Los Angeles Times

For real calamity, Richard Horne is your man, and A Is for Armageddon is his illustrated catalog of all the ways you and the world might bite it. In his hands the means to the End become wonders to behold...[A] Technicolor parade of visual metaphors. --New York Times"

A catalog of potentially life-on-earth-ending catastrophes that will warm a pessimist s heart Horne takes a decidedly tongue-in-cheek approach to the end of days, reveling, like any good pessimist, in the sheer misery of it all. His compendium is colorfully illustrated and quite exhaustive. --The New Yorker"

Horne gives us an Armageddon that s vivid and flashy with hip characterizations and humor that s the equivalent of the comic relief in a Shakespearean tragedy .Don t let the jokes and splashy colors fool you, though. He s as thoughtful as he is comprehensive. --Los Angeles Times"

Richard Horne s beautifully illustrated new book A Is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Catalogue of Disasters is the perfect last-minute gift for the end of days alarmist on your holiday list. --Flavorpill"

A beautifully illustrated, delightfully dystopian guide to the apocalypse. --BrainPickings.org"

An engaging guide with full-color illustrations catalogs all the various ways the world could end--from animal flatulence and erupting volcanoes to economic collapse and World War III. By the author of 101 Things to Do Before You Die. Original. 25,000 first printing.