Tuesday, October 6th, 2020

2020/116: The Last Policeman -- Ben Winters
“It’s not ‘falling on our heads,’ okay? It’s not ‘coming for us.’ It just is. Do you understand?” [p. 135]


This novel, described as a science fiction mystery or an 'existential detective novel', was published in 2012: I'm not sure how I missed it at the time, or in the subsequent eight years. I'm very glad to have discovered it -- indeed, the whole trilogy -- now.

The premise is simple: the end of the world is nigh, courtesy of the asteroid known as Maia which is due to collide with the earth in six months' time. no spoilers for plot, plenty for scenario )

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