2012: Hoax or Shock? is written by the author of another bestseller "History of The Impossible: Earth before the Pyramids" and designed for general readers who won't need a special scientific degree to understand what is coming in 2012. Year 2012 was finally revealed and fully explained from scientific, religious, historical, economical, astronomical, biological and social points of view incorporating fabulous paintings created by the same famous author. Igor Kryan is the only known author who has Doctorate degree in astrobiology and wrote not a short article but the whole book dedicated to 2012 phenomena. "Survival is the matter of choice not chance."