Back to the future: Mark O’Connell interview
His first two books, To Be a Machine and Notes from an Apocalypse, have set him apart as one of the foremost thinkers and writers of his time. Here, the author talks transhumanism, doomsday preppers and billionaire bunkers.
From Ragnarök to The Book of Revelation to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Mark O’Connell has always felt drawn to all things apocalyptic. The Dublin-based writer is a father to two children and when they arrived, like a lot of new parents, he found himself looking around and asking what kind of world they had been born into.
Global warming, the breakdown of post-war alliances, Brexit, Trump, QAnon and a global pandemic; there are certainly plenty ...
