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Has the world ended yet? : stories / Peter Darbyshire.

by Darbyshire, Peter, 1967-

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Buckrider Books, 2017.

End of the world -- Fiction.

9781928088448 (trade pbk.)

307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Has the world ended yet? -- Casual miracles -- First contacts -- We all go into the night alone -- Deja yu makes the pain go away -- The infinite shades of grief -- Beat the geeks -- The furies -- We are a rupture that cannot be contained -- The calling of Cthulhu -- We are all ghosts -- The deity salesman always rings twice -- You shall know us by our vengeance -- The last love of the infinity age -- There's a crack in everything -- The only innocent soul in hell -- A murder in hell -- We continue to pray for something to end our prayers.

"In Has the World Ended Yet? we start with retired superheroes living in a soulless suburbia where everyone gets lost trying to get home. Then the angels start to fall from the sky. Is it Armageddon? And do we want the world to end or not? In a series of linked short stories Peter Darbyshire weaves together superheroes, ghosts, the undead, a hired hitman, the Cold War, the Rapture and avenging angels in a Twilight Zone-style collection that is riveting and human. We follow characters that are identifiable through situations that are unreal, through a technicolour landscape we are all familiar with. The end of the world is not what we expect, what any of Darbyshire's characters expect and may not really be happening at all. But should it?"--From publisher.

Canadian fiction.

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