Commentary on my short story, “End of Days”

This is the only thing I ever wrote that made my wife angry. I suspect it is because the light tone of the introductory pages to this piece did not prepare her for the shock of the very specific, horrific and I fear not implausible way that we can finally destroy ourselves. That, after all, was my intention.

Although I’ve destroyed the world in another short story (Mars: Genesis 2.0), in this one it is not merely the world that is destroyed but our corner of the universe, and not through magi...