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Extinction Events (Planet Scumm #14)
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.00
ISBN13: 9781970154986
Publisher: Spark and Fizz
Published: Nov 22 2022
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
The end times are here. Here in your hands, in fact. Not content with just one, the eschatologists at Planet Scumm have collected a full TEN tales of apocalypses both literal and figurative, bloody and benign, public and personal. Do you dare to turn the page, if it means the death of another world?
If so, you'll find slithering, serpentine gods rising up from the sea to dispense justice for shattered promises, while high above an intergalactic trucker-distiller clutches a one-of-a-kind vintage. Elsewhere, someone sips at coffee while a customer disappears into a jigsaw puzzle, and an emergency responder sprays an injured victim down with a cure-all concocted at too high a cost.
But not every world ends with a bang. For some, the apocalypse comes quietly, no louder than a bird's dawn chorus, or the gentle burbling of a fish tank. Then again, for those who like certitude in their cataclysms, you can't go wrong with the chthonic grinding of an unseen earth-mover, or the clang of sharpened bronze against sweaty steel.
Who do you talk to, at the end? Some may find only themselves to blame, especially if they see themselves in every shadowed corner, and behind every shattered screen.
Still turning? Good. But remember all things, even bravery, and especially books, must come to an-
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- COME THE BANSHEE by MAXINE SOPHIA WOLFF
- SINGLE MALT SPACECRAFT by MARIE VIBBERT
- ALL OUR MISSING PIECES by FRANK ORETO
- PHARINEXIN by DALE STROMBERG
- THE GARDENER by LOGAN A. MARROW
- THE PULSE OF MEMORY by BETH DAWKINS
- BURROWING MACHINES by SARA SAAB
- REPTILIAN BARBARIAN AND THE TEMPLUM SOLARIUM by ANDREW GIFFIN
- BEING EMILY WAS TOO HARD by KIERAN O'MANT
- A COLLECTION OF ENDINGS by LEO VLADIMIRSKY
- BUREAUCRACY OF WEIRD: UFO MYTHS, DEBUNKED! by PAUL C.K. SPEARS
Cover art by Kelly Williams
Spot Illustrations by Sam Rheaume and Maura McGonagle
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