The End Of Science Fiction

by Sam Smith

No matter how important your job . would YOU turn up for work knowing that you and every living being on the planet will be dead before pay day? A beautiful young woman is brutally murdered - just as governments around the world announce that the universe will end in five days' time. The planet Earth's 6.5 billion human beings deal with their impending extinction in 6.5 billion ways. But amid global chaos, dedicated detective Herbie Watkins stays on the case, determined to discover the killer against a merciless clock that's ticking away his own final hours. Is he insanely obsessed, or is he the last sane man in the history of the human race? Sam Smith weaves a unique cop story of a unique cop against a unique backdrop in a unique page-turner of a book. No count-down novel, no disaster book, no police saga has ever been written to thrill the reader and plumb the depths of the human soul as does The End of Science Fiction. It is the last word in SF and crime . and much more. You will read The End of Science Fiction over and over again, asking new and challenging questions of yourself and formulating new answers every time you re-open this outstanding work from the pen of an author who demands one-sitting novel reading.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Kristina Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book that just has to be read. Not horrific or dramatic in itself but the concept still managed to give me nightmares.