text: But this is not the first venture into fiction for the Royal Society and its members. Its current president, Martin Rees wrote in 2004, Our Final Hour: A Scientists Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankinds Future In This Century On Earth and Beyond (sold in the UK as Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? ) This is a bleak, miserable, pointless story about how our chances of surviving the next 100 years are just 50-50.