Mammoth Books presents When We Went to See the End of the World

Book 428: Mammoth Books

by Robert Silverberg

Genres: Science Fiction

Synopsis

A parody of the end-of-the-world theme in which time travel allows Nick, Jane and their friends to witness the final apocalypse. As a group of friends gather for Mike and Ruby's party, each couple boasts about their recent trip to the end of the world: a new holiday service available from travel agents at tremendous expense. But as the time-tourists compare their experiences, they soon realise they have not all witnessed the same end of the world.

Release date: September 27, 2012

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Print pages: 160

Sample

Robert Silverberg



We start on a fairly light-hearted note with this parody of the end-of-the-world theme where time travel allows people to witness the final apocalypse. But which one?

Created a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2004, Robert Silverberg is the dean of science fiction, having been writing prolifically for over fifty years, producing not only an immense body of work but one of remarkable quality and diversity. Amongst his major works are Nightwings (1969), A Time of Changes (1971), Dying Inside (1972), Born With the Dead (1974)¸ The Stochastic Man (1975), Lord Valentine’s Castle (1980) and The Secret Sharer (1989). Silverberg has written his own share of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic works. To Open the Sky (1967) is set in a claustrophobically overpopulated future, whilst At Winter’s End (1988) sees how humanity recovers after a new Ice Age.

NICK AND JANE were glad that they had gone to see the end of the world, becau. . .