Omega: The Last Days of the World

About this book

A great comet is approaching Earth, and the world argues about whether civilisation has days left to live. Fear spreads, predictions multiply and the approaching object turns the future into an urgent question.

Flammarion begins with the threatened catastrophe, then follows imagined futures across the long destiny of the planet and the universe. Scientific ideas, religious hopes and speculative visions mingle in an illustrated panorama of possible endings. The comet is only the opening event in a much larger story about how worlds, and the life upon them, may disappear.