The End Has Come (The Apocalypse Triptych, #3)

by John Joseph Adams

There was a reason Moses and his people spent forty years wandering the desert — it gave the old ones, the ones warped by an unholy life of servitude and false idols, the chance to die.

“Maybe we should walk south to Africa,” the woman said with a smile. “That’s always been where the waves of human evolution come from.”