Science Fiction Books

A global cataclysm leads to the end of the world and has survivors struggling for their lives, while a US government agency called the “Institute for Human Continuity” attempts to use ships to ensure the survival of the human race. The film explores the idea of a global doomsday event coinciding with the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar’s current cycle on or around December 21, 2012 (the northern hemisphere’s winter solstice). John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a science fiction book writer who occasionally works as a limousine driver. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Adrian Helmsley, scientific advisor to the President. Amanda Peet as Kate, Jackson’s ex-wife. Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, the President’s Chief of Staff. Thandie Newton as Laura Wilson, the First Daughter. Danny Glover as Thomas Wilson, the President of the United States Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost,a man who prophesies the end of the world and is considered crazy by others. Alex Jones has claimed Harrelson told him that Frost’s character was based on him.[citation needed] Harrelson compared his character to the mythological Greek figure Cassandra, whose predictions were dismissed Ng Chin Han as Lin Pang, a worker in Tibet Thomas McCarthy as Gordon, Kate’s current boyfriend and a plastic surgeon Liam James as Noah Curtis, Jackson and Kate’s son. Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, Jackson and Kate’s daughter Zlatko Buric as Yuri