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This Is the Way the World Ends
Published 1986 by Henry Holt and Company · 319 pages
Nebula · 1987
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4 award entries · 3 books · 0 wins · 1987–1995
Synopsis
Tombstone engraver George Paxton signs a complicity agreement to purchase a golden space suit that will protect his daughter from nuclear war, unwittingly becoming one of the last survivors of an apocalypse. Put on trial by the ghosts of the unborn — future generations who will never exist — George and other survivors must answer for humanity's role in its own destruction.
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