Speaking of the "End of the World"...

I just finished reading Benson's The Dawn of All, which is the second of his two "apocalyptic" novels. The other is Lord of the World Note carefully: they are NOT related as part 1 and part 2, but rather as left-hand versus right-hand!

I highly recommend both of them. "Dawn" has some marvellous surprises, especially touching on science and faith - so much so that I had to comment on it on The Duhem Society.