The creator from the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at a number of the apocalyptic moments from days gone by as a way to frame the challenges of the future.

Do tough times create tougher people? Can mankind handle the energy of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology or features ever top or regress? Nobody knows the answers to such questions, but nobody asks them in a far more interesting way than Dan Carlin.

IN THE LONG RUN is Usually Near, Dan Carlin looks about THE FINISH is Constantly Near: Apocalyptic Moments, through the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses at questions and historical events that force us to think about what appears like fantasy; that people might suffer the same fate that all prior eras did. Will our world ever become a damage for potential archaeologists to dig up and explore? The queries themselves are both philosophical and like something out of The Twilight Zone.

Combining his trademark mix of storytelling, history and weirdness Dan Carlin connects the past and future in interesting and colorful ways. At the same time the questions he asks us to consider involve the main issue imaginable: human survival. In the collapse from the Bronze Age to the difficulties from the nuclear era the issue has hung over humanity like a persistent Sword of Damocles.

Motivated by his podcast, THE FINISH is Always Near challenges just how we look at the past and ourselves. Within this absorbing compendium, Carlin embarks on a whole new set of tales and major cliffhangers which will keep readers enthralled. Idiosyncratic and erudite, offbeat however profound, THE FINISH is Always Near examines conditions that are hardly ever presented, and makes days gone by immediately relevant to our very turbulent present.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.