This Is the Way the World Ends, (Paperback)

from bness2

This is what I would call an avant-garde or surrealist approach to writing about the potential for a nuclear holocaust. It captures all the insanity of the cold war buildup of the nuclear arsenals of of Russia and the US during the 50s through the 80s and adds further to it by considering what a ...

from questbird

A sad and funny satire about the destruction of humanity by nuclear exchange and, surprisingly, its aftermath, especially as it pertains to everyman small-town tomb-inscriber George Paxton.

from seldombites

This is the Way the World Ends is a satire about the end of the world through nuclear war. We are not present at these events. Rather, we see them as they are being related to a young Jewish boy who has found his way into the study of Nostrodamus. This story has a surreal, dream-like quality that...

from unclebob53703

SPOILERS. A down-the-rabbit-hole farce on the end of the world and after, it consists largely of people responsible for the conflagration being put on trial for it by people who were supposed to have been born, but never got the chance to. Didn't think I'd be able to get into it, but the writing ...

from ft_ball_fn

I just couldn't get into this. It started out a promising PA book as the nukes fell. The personal protection suits, etc.. I was good with. When the book swung way out into left field--talking penguins and robots and 2 people put on trial for destroying the world (not the people who pushed the but...