Do you want to know exactly how the world will soon end? Read on . . .

I generally dislike disaster movies and especially end-of-the-world narratives, be they in print or film, in no small part because they tend to be predictable and follow similar plot lines regardless of the nature of the disaster central to their themes. Ironically, two of the 13 short stories in my Echoes of the Mind’s Eye collection center on two plausible end-of-the-world scenarios. Mars: Genesis 2.0 involves a massive meteor that will strike Earth and cause an extinction event nearly two yea...