As the new millennium approaches, speculations about Earth's destruction abound. This collection presents twelve world-ending scenarios that are all too frightening -- and all too real -- from some of the greatest minds in science fiction...
Contents
1 • Fermi and Frost • (1985) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl
19 • A Desperate Calculus • (1995) • novelette by Gregory Benford [as by Sterling Blake ]
51 • Evolution • (1995) • novelette by Nancy Kress
75 • A Message to the King of Brobdingnag • (1984) • novelette by Richard Cowper
101 • ". . .The World As We Know't." • (1982) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop
121 • The Peacemaker • (1983) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois
139 • The Screwfly Solution • (1977) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. [as by Raccoona Sheldon ]
163 • A Pail of Air • (1951) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
179 • The Great Nebraska Sea • (1963) • shortstory by Allan Danzig
191 • Inconstant Moon • (1971) • novelette by Larry Niven
219 • The Last Sunset • (1996) • shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
223 • Down in the Dark • (1998) • novelette by William Barton
