"The flame crackled as it burst through the thick steel and immediately started to trace a slow glowing path.." So begins the fast-paced sci-fi thriller that is Agencies. The discovery of a hidden chamber on the Moon starts a chain of explosive conflicts between the now-privatised security agencies on Earth several hundred years from now. Carth, on an unknown mission, must carefully thread his way through the escalating hostilities between the two most prominent Agencies.

What is confidence? If you've never had it - how can you know what it is? If you've always had it, then how do you know its value? Harry is a software salesman. He's good at what he does, and he knows it. Life for him is one opportunity after another. Mary is training to be a nurse at a local hospital. She has a close-knit circle of friends that she can rely on. But an unsettling wind of change is starting to blow through her life. A chance encounter acts as the catalyst that makes both of them start to question their place in the world.

Representations of apocalyptic themes and motifs in popular culture has a long history, and a number of books and edited collections have examined their influence on popular film and music. Small Screen Revelations shifts the attention to popular television, examining the ways in which contemporary television drama and news draw on both the language and imagery of apocalyptic texts. Essays in the collection examine topics such as the representation of apocalyptic prophecies and prophets in television news and documentaries; how news of natural disasters draws on apocalyptic language to frame...