The Coming Global Superstorm
The Coming Global Superstorm – Review
As most supporters of Art Bell and Whitley Strieber know, this is the book that partly inspired Roland Emmerich to write and direct The Day After Tomorrow. For that reason alone it is a must widely read for any disaster movie/novel fanatic. Bell and Strieber use a code of myth interpretation, amatuer and/or pseudo-science speculation and fictional production of the actual seemingly prophesied event to educate/scare the reader with their theory that a single and quite massive ’superstorm’ might bring about either a recent ice age or universal flood. Whichever it might be depends on what period of year the storm is accidentally unleashed on an innocent world. Some of the examples sited are a tad believe. I am fairly certain that Carl Sagan debunked the moon-is-a-broken-off-part-of-Earth theory way back when Cosmos was a first run television series and, while each culture may have a flood myth, this does not essentially mean that a universal flood occurred. Just about every area of the world will flood at some point or another and it is a long stretch to imply that the myths are linked to a specific event. The less said about the use of an astrological calender, the better. Nonetheless, if you are as big a supporter of Mrrs. Bell and Strieber as I am, then you will possibly find this book an highly entertaining ‘what-if’ piece of infotainment, but I remain a ‘wait and see’ skeptic in regards to whether or not reportedly said superstorm really exists.