Review”An entertaining, maybe indispensable guide for film buffs everywhere.” — Booklist”"A grand roundup of technical movie masterpieces… praising scientific accuracy (A Beautiful Mind) and exposing turkeys (Volcano).” — Los Angeles Magazine”An engaging and fun read.” — Claude Lalumière, Locus” Hollywood Science is great fun… I give it two thumbs up!” — David Schneider, American Scientist”A fascinating read that will have you heading to your local DVD store.” — Physi (more…)

From Publishers Weekly
McCartney, a creative writing teacher at Antioch University in Los Angeles, eschews conventional structure in this debut novel, offering instead a surreal and self-referential encyclopedia for the 21st century. Arranged alphabetically, McCartney employs a short, free association style to expound on disparate topics, including Princess Diana, head lice, extinction—and everything in between. The narrator’s obsessions—pornography, razors, cholos and his mothe (more…)

The End of the World Book: A Novel (Hardcover)

An illustrated survey of how cinema has dealt with the idea of Armageddon, from WWII nuclear movies and atomic spy flicks, through 1950s monster movies to World War III, Cold War anxiety and post-Holocaust tales. It includes “Pre-Millennial Tension” epics like “Independence Day” and “Armageddon”.

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Millennium Movies: End of the World Cinema (Hardcover)