Consideration of Works Past: The Fittest

(Picture from here.)

I’d pretty much given up on this one. It was one of those stories where you remember bits and pieces but can’t recall the title or author. I’d put up phrases I remembered and got nothing.

Then I was reading an article on “cozy catastrophes” (see here. for the article and here for the wiki.) The phrase is attributed to Brian Aldiss. It means different things to different people. To some, it’s a catastrophe that ends with a whimper rather than a bang. The result may or may no...