conceivable that there will be no last move, and no final 'game over'". Review by The Telegraph Review by BBC News Review by Publishers Weekly Review by John Derbyshire in The National Review — Derbyshire is convinced by Rees's argument and considers that human extinction does not seem improbable. Review by The Universe Today which finds the book "makes some well-reasoned arguments about the dangers of scientific exploration" but is "short on solutions that could help guide policy". http://canadiancor.com/final-century-will-human-race-survive-twenty-first-century/ Review by Steven B Kurtz, in FUTURES, doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2004.03.016 Kurtz largely agrees with Rees, but balks at the implied Anthropic Principle. Further reading Rees does not object to the probabilistic argument for human extinction offered by the Doomsday argument (as championed by John Leslie in the 1996 book The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction (Routledge, hardcover: , paperback: )), but he does not consider it to describe the practical threats and solutions that he discusses. In The Singularity is Near, Raymond Kurzweil reaches the same conclusion as Rees on the probability of human extinction within the 21st century. In the 2004 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking Adult, ), Jared Diamond suggests that Sir Martin's hopes of worldwide cooperation in avoiding extinction scenarios may be in vain. Ronald Wright, who quotes Martin Rees with approval in A Short History of Progress (at p. 125–6), is just as pessimistic – much more so than Jared Diamond – and argues that human history reveals a disastrous series of technological progress traps. See also Apocalypse Eschatology End of civilization Extinction Fermi paradox Human extinction Millenarianism Precautionary principle Societal collapse Superconducting Super Collider Technological singularity Publication data Sir Martin Rees, Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century—On Earth and Beyond (2003), Basic Books, hardcover: , 2004 paperback: Sir Martin Rees, Our Final Century?: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? (2003) (UK) William Heinemann, hardcover: , 2004 Arrow paperback: External links Rees's bet on a major bioterrorist attack at longbet.com "Martin Rees asks: Is this our final century?" (Video of talk from 2005) Futurology books 2003 non-fiction books Books about existential risk Basic Books books