[WT Sharpe]

I'll give my final nod to Death From the Skies by Phil Plait, because what can be more fun than reading of all the myriad ways the universe has of wiping us out when we least expect it. Phil Plait is an engaging author who knows his stuff, as anyone who has ever caught his Bad Astronomy podcast well knows. And besides, it's been a long time since I've read a good book about how we could all die in an instant. The last was Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson, which was also the first book I ever read on a dedicated ereader back in 2009. Tyson's book was chock full of rare but thoroughly plausibility ways in which the world could end before suppertime, and I expect Plait to offer up perhaps a few more delightful end of the world scenarios.