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End of the world Sagas?
Plenty of those going back at least to Balmer and Wylie's WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE. Though I prefer the followup: AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE.
SF routinely destroys the world but there are some unusually clever ones:
S.M. Stirling's THE CHANGE series: DIES THE FIRE, PROTECTOR'S WAR, MEETING AT CORVALIS. High tech stops working. Not electricity, no guns or cannon, etc.
Poul Anderson's BRAIN WAVE posits a world where every living creature suddenly becomes way more intelligent. Civilization promptly collapses.
NIVEN and POURNELLE's LUCIFER'S HAMMER is very good bestseller fiction in SF trappings about a cometary impact.
And of course, Michael Crichton's classic ANDROMEDA STRAIN.
Last edited by fjtorres; 10-11-2012 at 01:12 PM.
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