The exact opposite of light reading.

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A review of Global Catastrophic Risks by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic

 

Light reading generally requires three things: Short, easy to read, and on a light-hearted subject. This book is none of those things: it consists of over 500 pages of scientific essays on the end of the world.

Setting the tone is the first chapter by astrophysicist Fred Adams about the inevitable death and decay of the universe. The basic message is that in 100 billion years, we w...