A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World - by John Rember (Hardcover)

About the Book

Through these ten essays, each further broken into ten smaller pieces, Rember examines the practical and ethical dilemmas of climate change, population, resource depletion, and mass extinction.

Book Synopsis

Through these ten essays, each further broken into ten smaller pieces, Rember examines the practical and ethical dilemmas of climate change, population, resource depletion, and mass extinction.

Review Quotes

A brilliantly written, deeply thoughtful, and even humorous book about a very dark topic. I hope civilization will last long enough for it to be published for all to enjoy and contemplate.--Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb

John Rember's A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World is a savage attack on complacency and idleness. If you want to be grabbed by the collar and told to pay attention, be better, think harder, Rember's the guy for you.--Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews

John Rember's new book spans his upbringing in the wilderness of Idaho's Sawtooth Valley, his work as a professor of literature and ski instructor, and his return to the valley refuge where he bears witness to a world in fall with a wry wit, sharp observation, and a style that meets the urgency of our times.--The Dark Mountain Project

Most books explaining why the world is about to end are not fun to read. They tend to earnest pretension, self-righteous diatribe. John Rember has written a book that is not only entertaining and fun to read, but it matters. His observations are original and surprising. He writes with a scalpel. Buy it, read it. You'll be a better person.--Tim Sandlin, author of Skipped Parts: A Novel and Honey Don't

Rember's sometimes dark, sometimes humorous book of reflections dispenses hard-earned wisdom on a world in crisis.--Publishers Weekly

The writer's job description runs to three words: tell the truth. John Rember is a writer. He tells, unflinchingly, the truth about our looming civilizational collapse. He allows us no illusions, no evasions, no sentimentalities. Rember lives in central Idaho among survivalists who stock their bunkers with ammo and cheese. He has preferred a different form of preparation, storing his mind with logic, wisdom, humility, and compassion--provisions he offers his readers in prose of exemplary lucidity and force.--William Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Thought-provoking, reflective, and forthright.--Jeremy Garber, bookseller at Powell's, Portland, in Literary Hub

About the Author

John Rember is the author of Sudden Death, Over Time; Coyote in the Mountains and Other Stories; Cheerleaders from Gomorrah: Tales from the Lycra Archipelago; and Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley. He and his wife, Julie, live in the Sawtooth Valley of Idaho.