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Originally Posted by Fbone
Next is a library book, The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters. The description caught my interest.What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?
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Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.
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The same idea can be found in
The End of Science Fiction by Sam Smith published by BeWrite in 2004.
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No matter how important your job . would YOU turn up for work knowing that you and every living being on the planet will be dead before pay day? A beautiful young woman is brutally murdered - just as governments around the world announce that the universe will end in five days' time.
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But amid global chaos, dedicated detective Herbie Watkins stays on the case, determined to discover the killer against a merciless clock that's ticking away his own final hours.
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