Has the world ended yet? / stories by Peter Darbyshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darbyshire, Peter, 1967- author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hamilton, ON : Buckrider Books, [2017]

Summary:

In Has the World Ended Yet? we start with retired superheroes living in a soulless suburbia where everyone gets lost trying to get home. Then the angels start to fall from the sky. Is it Armageddon? And do we want the world to end or not? In a series of linked short stories Peter Darbyshire weaves together superheroes, ghosts, the undead, a hired hitman, the Cold War, the Rapture and avenging angels in a Twilight Zone-style collection that is riveting and human. We follow characters that are identifiable through situations that are unreal, through a technicolour landscape we are all familiar with. The end of the world is not what we expect, what any of Darbyshire's characters expect and may not really be happening at all. But should it?

Contents:

Has the World Ended Yet? 9

Casual Miracles 23

First Contacts 39

We All Go Into the Night Alone 41

Déjà Yu Makes the Pain Go Away 63

The Infinite Shades of Grief 77

Beat the Geeks 101

The Furies 109

We Are a Rupture That Cannot Be Contained 143

The Calling of Cthulhu 145

We Are All Ghosts 159

The Deity Salesmen Always Ring Twice 177

You Shall Know Us by Our Vengeance 195

The Last Love of the Infinity Age 217

There's a Crack in Everything 229

The Only Innocent Soul in Hell 265

A Murder in Hell 283

We Continue to Pray for Something to End Our Prayers 299.

Notes:

"Tales to Astonish"--Cover.

ISBN:

9781928088448

1928088449

OCLC:

1015840497